This next one especially cracks me up! Don't mess with him!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Dear Brennan,
I contemplated not doing these updates for you now that you're the big 0-3, but I just love them so much I don't think I can stop. I love having a place to document the things you are doing and it's especially nice to be able to look back at what you were doing when you were Bryce's age. So for now, I'll keep writing them. You are now 37 months old. I guess we stop telling your age in months at this point. You are wearing 3T clothes and just got some new size 7 shoes! You had a great third birthday party and you can show 3 on your fingers!
Unfortunately the day after you turned 3, you got a stomach bug. Thankfully it was short-lived, but it was so sad to see you all lethargic and pukey. You were a strange sick kind though, because you kept saying you liked puke and diarrhea. After the stomach bug, you had a cold for a while and that gave you a cough that stayed around for a long time. It made for a few restless nights of sleep for you, but now you seem healthy again! You see the doctor for your official check-up later this week, but when I took you in while you were sick you weighed right under 30lbs. Of course that was after a day of puking and not eating at all, so I'm sure you're over that mark now.
I feel like the restless nights of sleep and your brother sometimes waking up around 6:30am have caused you to start waking up earlier in the mornings. You used to sleep until 7:30 very consistently, but lately you've been waking before 7, which is too early for this Momma. You don't get out of bed when you wake up, but you start calling out, "Mommy, mommy" over and over again. I was considering buying you a Tot Clock of some sort, but since we already had a digital clock in your room I decided to try something else. One morning when you woke at 6:45, I came into your room and got in bed with you. I told you to look at the first number on the clock and that when it said '7' you could get up. You didn't fall back to sleep during those 15 minutes, but you did lay still and watch the clock and as soon as it said '7', you said "Time to get up now!". Since then you're waiting until 7:00 (on the dot) to start calling out for me. I still wish you would sleep later, but at least now you're being quiet until then. You're such a good boy!
Speaking of sleep, you are still sleeping with no pillows, no cover, and no stuffed animal or anything in your bed. I think it's totally bizarre. I guess we need to give Bryce a blanket early, so he learns to sleep with one. You seem plenty warm at night, so I guess it's not a big deal; just strange. We use the word "strange" with you a lot! :)
You have always liked our dog, Ringo, but you seem especially fond of him as you're getting older. This makes Mommy sad because Ringo is not her favorite! When we kenneled Ringo for your birthday party, you kept asking where he was. You like to wrestle with him (until he gets too rough) and occasionally ask to ride him.
You have a new game you like to play now; Trouble. You got Candyland for your birthday and since we already own it, we took it back and you picked out Trouble as your new game. You understand the directions and follow the rules most of the time when you're playing. Lala brought you a special Thomas the Train version that we've been playing recently too.
That's right, your Auntie Lala came to visit! We don't get to see her very often, but boy do you love her! You couldn't stop talking about her visiting and once she was her, you were with her during most of your waking hours. She even got to put you to bed two nights! I'm so glad you all get along so well even though we live so far apart!
We've been working on correcting your words when you speak. Some words you just don't say clearly and we've been trying to get you to work on them. We also correct your grammar sometimes. We've been working a lot on using the word "I" instead of "me" and you get so excited when you use it correctly. We hear a lot of "I did it!" now. Then you jump up and down because you said "I" correctly. It's nice to know you like correct grammar like your Mommy (and Auntie Val).
Every week when we're at church, at least one person mentions to me how much you're talking now. You talk all the time and it's so nice to know that people are able to start understanding you more. People constantly talk about how smart you are, which makes me very happy, but what I love to hear is when people say what a good boy you are. It makes me very proud when people are impressed by how obedient you are (most of the time!). We've been working on saying, "Yes ma'am" recently and I think it's so cute to hear you say that.
People are right though, you are a smart boy. You are "reading" so many words now. I guess it's really more just recognizing them, but it's cute to see you run your finger across the word from left and right and try to figure out what it says. A few weeks ago, you surprised me and read the words "go" and "happy" in a book. I had no idea you knew those. And just last week, you were playing with you magnetic calendar. You pulled out all the months and were reading them. You know your months of the year and were mainly just looking at the initial letters because you'd get May/March mixed up and January/June/July mixed up, but again I was so impressed. You are so observant and if you're told something one time, you don't forget it.
Some of the funnier things you're doing right now include saying, "I'm growing up!" You'll say that when you're too big to fit somewhere (like Bryce's playmat) or when you do something new on your own (like reach the light switches). You also like to motorboat on Mommy boobs. And sometimes other people's boobs too! Your Daddy taught you that trick awhile back, but now you come right up to me and say, "I wanna rotorboat" (you say it with an r) and I die laughing every time. I guess we should probably get you to stop doing that soon.
I know I say this every month, but you really are such a sweet boy. You give me hugs and kisses many times each day and say unsolicited I love you's! You continue to be a great big brother and love to hug and kiss on Bryce too. You love going to church and you are learning so much about Jesus in your class and I just pray that you will grow to love Him. I really think you're going to have such a big heart for loving people!
I love you so very very much!
Love,
Mommy
Unfortunately the day after you turned 3, you got a stomach bug. Thankfully it was short-lived, but it was so sad to see you all lethargic and pukey. You were a strange sick kind though, because you kept saying you liked puke and diarrhea. After the stomach bug, you had a cold for a while and that gave you a cough that stayed around for a long time. It made for a few restless nights of sleep for you, but now you seem healthy again! You see the doctor for your official check-up later this week, but when I took you in while you were sick you weighed right under 30lbs. Of course that was after a day of puking and not eating at all, so I'm sure you're over that mark now.
I feel like the restless nights of sleep and your brother sometimes waking up around 6:30am have caused you to start waking up earlier in the mornings. You used to sleep until 7:30 very consistently, but lately you've been waking before 7, which is too early for this Momma. You don't get out of bed when you wake up, but you start calling out, "Mommy, mommy" over and over again. I was considering buying you a Tot Clock of some sort, but since we already had a digital clock in your room I decided to try something else. One morning when you woke at 6:45, I came into your room and got in bed with you. I told you to look at the first number on the clock and that when it said '7' you could get up. You didn't fall back to sleep during those 15 minutes, but you did lay still and watch the clock and as soon as it said '7', you said "Time to get up now!". Since then you're waiting until 7:00 (on the dot) to start calling out for me. I still wish you would sleep later, but at least now you're being quiet until then. You're such a good boy!
Speaking of sleep, you are still sleeping with no pillows, no cover, and no stuffed animal or anything in your bed. I think it's totally bizarre. I guess we need to give Bryce a blanket early, so he learns to sleep with one. You seem plenty warm at night, so I guess it's not a big deal; just strange. We use the word "strange" with you a lot! :)
You have always liked our dog, Ringo, but you seem especially fond of him as you're getting older. This makes Mommy sad because Ringo is not her favorite! When we kenneled Ringo for your birthday party, you kept asking where he was. You like to wrestle with him (until he gets too rough) and occasionally ask to ride him.
You have a new game you like to play now; Trouble. You got Candyland for your birthday and since we already own it, we took it back and you picked out Trouble as your new game. You understand the directions and follow the rules most of the time when you're playing. Lala brought you a special Thomas the Train version that we've been playing recently too.
That's right, your Auntie Lala came to visit! We don't get to see her very often, but boy do you love her! You couldn't stop talking about her visiting and once she was her, you were with her during most of your waking hours. She even got to put you to bed two nights! I'm so glad you all get along so well even though we live so far apart!
We've been working on correcting your words when you speak. Some words you just don't say clearly and we've been trying to get you to work on them. We also correct your grammar sometimes. We've been working a lot on using the word "I" instead of "me" and you get so excited when you use it correctly. We hear a lot of "I did it!" now. Then you jump up and down because you said "I" correctly. It's nice to know you like correct grammar like your Mommy (and Auntie Val).
Every week when we're at church, at least one person mentions to me how much you're talking now. You talk all the time and it's so nice to know that people are able to start understanding you more. People constantly talk about how smart you are, which makes me very happy, but what I love to hear is when people say what a good boy you are. It makes me very proud when people are impressed by how obedient you are (most of the time!). We've been working on saying, "Yes ma'am" recently and I think it's so cute to hear you say that.
People are right though, you are a smart boy. You are "reading" so many words now. I guess it's really more just recognizing them, but it's cute to see you run your finger across the word from left and right and try to figure out what it says. A few weeks ago, you surprised me and read the words "go" and "happy" in a book. I had no idea you knew those. And just last week, you were playing with you magnetic calendar. You pulled out all the months and were reading them. You know your months of the year and were mainly just looking at the initial letters because you'd get May/March mixed up and January/June/July mixed up, but again I was so impressed. You are so observant and if you're told something one time, you don't forget it.
Some of the funnier things you're doing right now include saying, "I'm growing up!" You'll say that when you're too big to fit somewhere (like Bryce's playmat) or when you do something new on your own (like reach the light switches). You also like to motorboat on Mommy boobs. And sometimes other people's boobs too! Your Daddy taught you that trick awhile back, but now you come right up to me and say, "I wanna rotorboat" (you say it with an r) and I die laughing every time. I guess we should probably get you to stop doing that soon.
I know I say this every month, but you really are such a sweet boy. You give me hugs and kisses many times each day and say unsolicited I love you's! You continue to be a great big brother and love to hug and kiss on Bryce too. You love going to church and you are learning so much about Jesus in your class and I just pray that you will grow to love Him. I really think you're going to have such a big heart for loving people!
I love you so very very much!
Love,
Mommy
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
Snow Day!
Usually I do my Raising Rock Stars Preschool post on Friday, but this week we didn't do a new board. We have been doing RRSP for six weeks now, so instead of working on a new letter, I decided to have a little review week. I didn't really take any pictures until today when I had Brennan sort all of his words by the initial letter. He did great and remembered almost every word/picture.
And we also finger painted this morning!
Ok, now for the snow day pictures! A snowstorm in March shows we are definitely in New England. It didn't start snowing until later last night, but kept snowing until midday today. I'm not sure how much snow we got; maybe 6 inches??? I'm a bad judge of that sort of thing. Bryce was napping while Brennan was eating lunch today, so I took that time to go out and shovel the driveway. I wasn't sure Kyle would be able to get his car back in the driveway with all the snow. After I was done shoveling and Brennan had finished his lunch, the two of us went out to play in the snow. Usually I'm not a big fan of the white stuff, but I had fun playing with him out there today. Even though it was fun dear Lord, please let this be the last snow for us to play in this season!
After the snow, we came inside and Brennan laid down for a nap. I got to spend some time playing with Bryce before he went back to sleep too. Such a cutie!
And now we are ready for Spring, please!
And we also finger painted this morning!
Ok, now for the snow day pictures! A snowstorm in March shows we are definitely in New England. It didn't start snowing until later last night, but kept snowing until midday today. I'm not sure how much snow we got; maybe 6 inches??? I'm a bad judge of that sort of thing. Bryce was napping while Brennan was eating lunch today, so I took that time to go out and shovel the driveway. I wasn't sure Kyle would be able to get his car back in the driveway with all the snow. After I was done shoveling and Brennan had finished his lunch, the two of us went out to play in the snow. Usually I'm not a big fan of the white stuff, but I had fun playing with him out there today. Even though it was fun dear Lord, please let this be the last snow for us to play in this season!
After the snow, we came inside and Brennan laid down for a nap. I got to spend some time playing with Bryce before he went back to sleep too. Such a cutie!
And now we are ready for Spring, please!
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Dear Bryce,
My sweet little angel, you are 2 months old today. Time continues to fly by. Here's a little of what's been going on around here.
You have outgrown most of your newborn sleepers; they are just too short for you now. You mainly wear 0-3 month clothes. You don't see the doctor until next week, but I feel like you are long. I weighed you this morning and you were 11 pounds. You currently wear size one diapers.
You are such a happy baby. Last month I thought you might have some tummy issues, but I don't think that's the case anymore. If you start screaming (which is very rare) it usually means you just need to burp or that you're overtired.
You are more alert now during your wake time and just smile and "talk" up a storm. We definitely have a much more consistent routine going on now, which is nice. You are on a good eat, wake, sleep cycle during the day with your wake time still being only about one hour. Around the one hour mark, you'll either start yawning or get a little whiny and I'll take you back to your room, swaddle you, and lay you in your crib awake. You easily put yourself right to sleep. It's so nice! You typically nap for 1.5-2 hours each time I lay you down.
When you're awake you like your bouncy seat, but seem to prefer just lying flat on your back on a blanket. You like being on the couch so you can see outside, but your favorite is if someone is talking to you. You continue to like it when Mommy sings to you. We do tummy time sometimes and you can turn yourself around in a circle because you're so squirmy. If you're on your playmat, you like to grab at the toys hanging from it. Just today you grabbed hold of the monkey and wouldn't let go. You've ogt a nice strong grip! You still get the hiccups A TON! When you get them, I usually put you in the swing in the most upright position and that gets rid of them pretty fast.
Nighttime sleep is still definitely inconsistent. You aren't the rockstar nighttime sleeper that your brother was. You normally eat around 6pm and then you're awake for the next hour. You easily put yourself to sleep a little after 7 and then I come in and feed you around 9 or 9:30; usually before you wake up. You've given me a 6-hour stretch once and a few 5 hour stretches, but 4 hours is pretty common. At this point I'm not even hoping for sleeping through the night, but just having to get up once to feed you. The early morning hours are the hardest for you for some reason and sometimes you'll wake at 4, 5, and 6. A few times I've ended up just letting you sleep in my arms. I know I shouldn't complain because thankfully when you do wake up, you usually just eat and easily go right back to sleep.
You still love your car seat and fall asleep almost immediately anytime we are in the car. It makes it easy to run errands with you because you just sleep the whole time. We've used the double stroller a lot now and you're great in that too (again because you love your car seat). You love bath time and now I am consistently giving you a bath on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
You still don't take a binky, which is fine since you're a happy baby without. I just wonder if you took one at night if you'd sleep longer stretches. I have yet to offer you a bottle. I know I need to do that, but pumping is so inconvenient and you're still eating around the clock right now. It would be nice if you could take a bottle though so Mommy and Daddy could go a date that lasts longer than 2 hours!
You had some visitors this past weekend. Your Auntie Lala flew up from Kentucky! She brought you a ton of clothes and spoiled you rotten while she was here. On Saturday Mama Sherri, Papa Dukes, Beth, Luke, and Madeleine came to visit. You were such a good boy for them! We can't wait until you're able to meet more family!
I feel like time is moving so quickly and I get a little sad because I know there's a good chance you'll be my last baby. They certainly don't get much sweeter than you and I feel so very blessed to be your Momma!
I love you!
Love,
Momma
Bryce at 1 month
Bryce at 2 months!
And here is Bryce talking to Auntie Lala!
You have outgrown most of your newborn sleepers; they are just too short for you now. You mainly wear 0-3 month clothes. You don't see the doctor until next week, but I feel like you are long. I weighed you this morning and you were 11 pounds. You currently wear size one diapers.
You are such a happy baby. Last month I thought you might have some tummy issues, but I don't think that's the case anymore. If you start screaming (which is very rare) it usually means you just need to burp or that you're overtired.
You are more alert now during your wake time and just smile and "talk" up a storm. We definitely have a much more consistent routine going on now, which is nice. You are on a good eat, wake, sleep cycle during the day with your wake time still being only about one hour. Around the one hour mark, you'll either start yawning or get a little whiny and I'll take you back to your room, swaddle you, and lay you in your crib awake. You easily put yourself right to sleep. It's so nice! You typically nap for 1.5-2 hours each time I lay you down.
When you're awake you like your bouncy seat, but seem to prefer just lying flat on your back on a blanket. You like being on the couch so you can see outside, but your favorite is if someone is talking to you. You continue to like it when Mommy sings to you. We do tummy time sometimes and you can turn yourself around in a circle because you're so squirmy. If you're on your playmat, you like to grab at the toys hanging from it. Just today you grabbed hold of the monkey and wouldn't let go. You've ogt a nice strong grip! You still get the hiccups A TON! When you get them, I usually put you in the swing in the most upright position and that gets rid of them pretty fast.
Nighttime sleep is still definitely inconsistent. You aren't the rockstar nighttime sleeper that your brother was. You normally eat around 6pm and then you're awake for the next hour. You easily put yourself to sleep a little after 7 and then I come in and feed you around 9 or 9:30; usually before you wake up. You've given me a 6-hour stretch once and a few 5 hour stretches, but 4 hours is pretty common. At this point I'm not even hoping for sleeping through the night, but just having to get up once to feed you. The early morning hours are the hardest for you for some reason and sometimes you'll wake at 4, 5, and 6. A few times I've ended up just letting you sleep in my arms. I know I shouldn't complain because thankfully when you do wake up, you usually just eat and easily go right back to sleep.
You still love your car seat and fall asleep almost immediately anytime we are in the car. It makes it easy to run errands with you because you just sleep the whole time. We've used the double stroller a lot now and you're great in that too (again because you love your car seat). You love bath time and now I am consistently giving you a bath on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
You still don't take a binky, which is fine since you're a happy baby without. I just wonder if you took one at night if you'd sleep longer stretches. I have yet to offer you a bottle. I know I need to do that, but pumping is so inconvenient and you're still eating around the clock right now. It would be nice if you could take a bottle though so Mommy and Daddy could go a date that lasts longer than 2 hours!
You had some visitors this past weekend. Your Auntie Lala flew up from Kentucky! She brought you a ton of clothes and spoiled you rotten while she was here. On Saturday Mama Sherri, Papa Dukes, Beth, Luke, and Madeleine came to visit. You were such a good boy for them! We can't wait until you're able to meet more family!
I feel like time is moving so quickly and I get a little sad because I know there's a good chance you'll be my last baby. They certainly don't get much sweeter than you and I feel so very blessed to be your Momma!
I love you!
Love,
Momma
Bryce at 1 month
Bryce at 2 months!
And here is Bryce talking to Auntie Lala!
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Even a Child is Known By His Deeds
Here's a little peek at some of the things we did for Raising Rock Stars Preschool this week. Our letter was "E" and our word was "is". Brennan can say most of the words of his verse this week and it falls right in line with us always talking about obeying.
Speaking of obeying, I'll share a cute story that happened yesterday. After school, we drove to the airport to pick up my sister (Auntie Lala). We then went to the Warwick Mall for lunch a carousel rides! Lala was sharing her Diet Coke with Brennan and after his second sip, I told him he could have one more drink. After that, he and Lala walked down to Target while I stayed in the food court feeding Bryce. When Bryce and I made it down to Target to meet them, Lauren told me she had offered Brennan another drink of her coke before she threw it away, but he said, "No. Mommy said no more drinks." Such a sweet little guy! :)
Here's the board all set up.
Brennan wanted to paint the picture again this week.
This was a separate activity, but he loved it. I printed off a couple "Clip and Learn" wheels from Carisa's website and he had a great time clipping the clothespins to them. We did this several different times throughout the week. I printed off an Angry Birds 1-6 wheel, a rainforest 1-10 wheel, and a fruit beginning sounds wheel.
Since our letter this week was "E" and Easter is quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to pull out our plastic Easter eggs. I had Brennan place an egg on the "E" word I said aloud.
We also had fun playing basketball and sorting the eggs.
Speaking of obeying, I'll share a cute story that happened yesterday. After school, we drove to the airport to pick up my sister (Auntie Lala). We then went to the Warwick Mall for lunch a carousel rides! Lala was sharing her Diet Coke with Brennan and after his second sip, I told him he could have one more drink. After that, he and Lala walked down to Target while I stayed in the food court feeding Bryce. When Bryce and I made it down to Target to meet them, Lauren told me she had offered Brennan another drink of her coke before she threw it away, but he said, "No. Mommy said no more drinks." Such a sweet little guy! :)
Here's the board all set up.
Brennan wanted to paint the picture again this week.
This was a separate activity, but he loved it. I printed off a couple "Clip and Learn" wheels from Carisa's website and he had a great time clipping the clothespins to them. We did this several different times throughout the week. I printed off an Angry Birds 1-6 wheel, a rainforest 1-10 wheel, and a fruit beginning sounds wheel.
Since our letter this week was "E" and Easter is quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to pull out our plastic Easter eggs. I had Brennan place an egg on the "E" word I said aloud.
We also had fun playing basketball and sorting the eggs.
Sorry these next pictures are so blurry. I need for Kyle to teach me how to change the camera lens because I don't like the one that is currently on the camera. Brennan did a great job tracing his Es this week.
Here's a link to the song we learned. Mommy already knew this one, but Brennan seemed to like it too.
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