4 Months Old

Elizabeth turned 4 months old last week.  At her doctor's appointment she weighed 14 lbs 5 oz and was 25 inches long. 

4 things we love about her:

1. she loves blowing bubbles and consequently is often soaked in drool
2.  she constantly watches her brother Ethan and if she is sad she cheers up the moment he walks in the room
3.  she loves to be tickled
4.  she smiles a lot and has super cute dimples

May

Almost caught up.  During the month of May we mostly just spent time playing and, thankfully, getting more sleep.

We spent lots of time at the park.

And learning to play together.

For the last 6 years Rose Park has had a little community festival.  The last couple of years they have held a 5k the morning of the festival.  Sam ran in the race this year and took 3rd place!  He was awesome.  That morning his calf was hurting pretty bad but he still ran and ran fast, the guys who took 1st and 2nd ran in college.


Here he is running past our house, overtaking our home teacher.  Ethan was very excited to cheer for Daddy, but when Sam ran by, Ethan thought he was chasing him so Ethan took of running towards the back yard.

At the festival they had a fire truck, slides and bounce houses, and yummy treats.  Ethan loved it, every time we walk by the elementary school he asks if we can go to the festival.

One evening we stopped at Chick-fil-A and they had their cow out.  Ethan thought it was great and kept calling it a moose.  We thought it was great because we could get him to eat by telling him the cow wanted him to finish his chicken nuggets.

I've been making photobooks from our pictures each year and I've realized that we hardly have any pictures of me (I'm usually taking the pictures), so here you go.

April

Lots of pictures for April:

We spent lots of time at the park.

Ethan has so much energy that we have to go to a park or go on a walk every day.

 This is a park near our house.  Ethan loves the giant cats, he gives them hugs when it is time to go.

Easter weekend we went to the Gleasons' and had an Easter-egg hunt.

While we were there, we dyed eggs.  Ethan found a blue one and was sucking on it.  His mouth and hands were blue for a while.  Thank you non-toxic dyes.



Ethan got a new bike!  He loves to ride it, but he doesn't quite have the pedaling down.  One of us has to push his feet, but he's getting better.

Ethan also got a sandbox.  We didn't want anything big and this is perfect, it has dump trucks and a lid.

He loves to go outside and play with his dump trucks.

Ethan loves it when Sam does pushups.  He either does pushups next to him or helps like this:

Elizabeth is getting bigger!

She loves bathtime.  We broke down this time and bought a baby tub.  I love it, it makes things so much easier.  Ethan likes it too, he likes to help give Elizabeth a bath by using a measuring cup and dumping water on her.

Ethan has his own set of "spatulas" (wooden spoons, ladles, actual spatulas) that he plays with.  He loves to use them to make pancakes and pizza or play baseball.  One day I walked by the hall and noticed this:





March

During March we mostly just spent the month getting used to being a family of 4.  We also celebrated our 7th anniversary, Sam's 29th birthday, and my 28th birthday.

On St. Patrick's Day, Burger King was giving away free french fries and green ketsup, so we jumped all over that.

Notice the green dye in the ketsup stained Ethan's face and fingers.  They were a light green for a couple of days.

Ethan has been watching me take care of Elizabeth.  Here he is changing his Blue Fish's diaper and carrying his puppy around in the sling.  Silly boy!

Ethan is very attached to Sam, so Sam has had to learn how to play with everybody at the same time.

The poop face.  For the first couple of months Elizabeth would make this face right before she pooped.  It was cute and scary all at the same time.

Since the weather was so warm we spent lots of time at the park.