Never a dull moment

Annie is 4 weeks old now, she weighed 9 lbs 2 oz and was 21 in long at her 4 week check up, 50th percentile in both height and weight. She is growing fast and is starting to get a round little belly.

With a 3 year old potty trained little boy, poop somehow gets brought up in day to day conversation....multiple times / day. This week we've had our fair share of poop incidents including Annie pooping in the bathtub with the other kids in there with her causing a fiasco of having to get Jacob and Gwyn in the shower, draining the tub, and recleaning Annie. Gwyn and Jacob also found some dog poop out in the front yard. Now, Jacob was smart enough to know he didn't want to touch it, but he was mischevious enough to show it to Gwyn, who of course got it all over herself, and I mean ALL over herself...I think that would have been her third set of clothes for the day. Anyway, while I (the lucky one) was cleaning her all up it was so funny, she had this little frown on her face saying "OH NO" (just like she does when an episode of Dora has ended, as in the world is ending for her), and then she would say "dog poop" in this chipper little voice it had me rolling on the floor laughing. Also, Jacob was using the potty and Gwyn decided to go sit at the doorway and wait until he was finished because she wanted him to play with her, and I hear Jacob tell her to go away, that bathroom time is alone time. I thought that was hilarious because he doens't practice what he preaches! HA! Jacob also told me the other day that some people don't poop and they wear diapers...who knows where he gets this stuff!

It was Jacob's Thanksgiving lunch at school this week, Brian was able to go to his party with him, and he had alot of fun. He loves it when Brian is able to go to the school with him for things. His school brought a real turkey in this week, Jacob and Gwyn thought it was great. They also had a canned food drive, and Jacob was asking why we were taking cans of food up to school. So, I told him how some people didn't have food to eat, so we were giving them some of our food, so that they could have some food. I was trying to explain it really well about giving to others in need and such...well, when I dropped him off he walked right up to his teacher and said, "Here, this is for people who don't have dinner." I was a little embarrassed because here we had had this meaningful conversation and he goes and says that to the teacher. He also asked me if I knew the story of the chicken who ran away from the cook on Thanksgiving. I said, do you mean the turkey? He said yes, the turkey hid from the cook on thanksgiving, but they found him and put him in the oven. I think he is going to like Thanksgiving this year. Here are some pics of the kids this week:

Brian did finish this BEAUTIFUL piece of furniture for Gwyn's room, since she is moving into the old office, it doesn't have a closet...he did a REALLY good job!

Thanks to Jason, here are a few more videos...these were taken last week, I've got to buy a software to convert all the videos from my camera to upload to Youtube, so thankfully Jason did it for me again. The one of them trying to pull down the tree was hilarious!

Off to a rough start

We got off to a rough start after all of our help left...Gwyn ended up getting sick, so we had to take her to the dr and she had to get some steroids and two breathing treatments while we were there (for over 2 hrs). She was feeling pretty bad, but after two days (and getting to watch Dora during every breathing treatment every 3 hrs), she was feeling much better. Here she is at the drs office trying to hide from the nurse when she came back to the room to see if she had to get a third breathing treatment. She really thought she was hiding, it was pretty cute!

That same day I had gotten 3 1/2 hrs of sleep, not all at one time, but 2 hrs plus 1.5 hours, which is SO much worse than 3 1/2 hours of straight sleep...anyway, after we got home I got puked on 3 times, so my day was not going well for being on my own...luckily Brian was able to meet me at the dr with Gwyn and Annie. We were back at the dr again the next day to get Jacob the swine flu mist.

Here are a few pics of Annie from the last week, she is growing fast, getting some cheeks on her and is such a sweet baby! Brian says her breath smells like Lucky Charms (of course she hasn't puked on him yet!)
Brian used to carry Gwyn around in this sling every night when he got home from work...she started demanding it and would yell until he put her in it. Brian wonders if Gwyn told Annie about it, because she really likes it!
This is Annie in the stroller while the kids are playing outside...she's pretty good at playdates!

Enough already with the pictures Mommy!

One thing I love about having a new baby is how attached Jacob and Gwyn are getting to Brian...since I'm usually tied down to Annie at least every 3 hours, the kids really like their time with Brian.

Jacob got to help change the oil last weekend...

He is learning all about tools and knows the difference between alot of them. Gwyn likes to watch as long as she's got a snack or her juice!

Brian thought he was brilliant and came up with the idea to have the kids pick up all the acorns in the yard and put them in a bucket...it kept them busy outside for about 30 minutes and when they had finished scavenging the yard for every last one, Brian went over and shook the trees to make more fall to give them even more fun (in the meantime, Brian was able to organize the garage outside while I napped inside!). Here is Brian's 10 yr anniversary present from me, yes, I'm about 7 months early, but it was on sale!

Here are the kids playing with extra acorns.

Jacob is continuing to say some really funny things, he says he wants to be Batman when he grows up. We loves reading doctor and dentist books, and we were talking about eating healthy foods so you don't have to get shots in your mouth (for fillings), and he said he likes healthy food...he likes apples, and chicken, and oranges, and popsicles, and chick fil a chicken, and I thought yep, that is about what he eats!

Gwyn is also so funny, she is a little goofball who dances around and falls down and laughs all the time. She is also pretty smart, she fell and hurt her arm and we thought it might really be hurt because she held on to it for a little bit. We tested it by giving her a popscicle and seeing if she held it with her left hand (since she is left handed and it was the hand that was hurt), and of course it was fine after 5 minutes. Since then she's been faking an arm injury trying to get more popscicles, of course it always switches to the right hand or the left hand and back again...she might have pulled that over on us once, but not twice! Oh, and in the mornings while we are getting ready they each take a turn at picking a cartoon to watch, which they call kids shows, when it is Jacob's turn, Gwyn runs over to him and asks him to pick Dora, he says no, then she says Diego?, he says no, Backyards? (for Backyardigans), he says no, Super Why?, he says no...she hasn't caught on yet that he won't pick something she suggests.

What a week!

It has been a busy week for us, Rick and Sue were here all week and we got so much done at the house. We (and when I say we, I mean Rick, Brian and Sue) moved furniture from the formal dining to the breakfast area, the breakfast area to the garage, the office to the formal dining area, and now have the old office ready to go for Gwyn's room. It isn't finished yet, Brian has 4 more pieces of furniture to build and I've got some curtains and decorating to do, but within the next few weeks it should be ready for her to move in there and Annie can move into the nursery. Sue also set us up with over 20 meals in the freezer! Our house is also clean...for the next few days anyways, these kids can do some damage before you even turn around!

At her two week appointment, Annie weighed 7 lbs 8 oz, she had gained 1 lb in 10 days, so she's growing fast!

It was Jacob's turn to bring snack to school on Monday, and it was owl day, so Brian (being creative and all that) chose to make him some owl cupcakes...here they are:

Jacob is so proud of his lego castle/village/zoo...Brian is proud too to use all the pieces on one huge creation!

Jacob loves his baby sissy Annie:

I did try to take some good pics of Annie:

Gwyn can't get enough of lil' Annie:

Rick and Sue bought these Wiggle Racers for the kids and they loved them, it was cute watching them have fun on them.

We did take the kids to Jaocb's school fall fest, and Brian designed and made our family banner, he was pretty proud of himself for being so creative with our names, PBAGJ (Peanut, Phoebe; Butter, Brian; And, Annie; Grape, Gwyn; Jelly, Jacob.

Annie's first two weeks

Well, we've had a fun past couple of weeks. Annie will be 2 weeks old on Tuesday. She is so precious and sweet and completes our family of 5! We can't imagine life without her. She really is (so far) the easiest baby we've had, so I'm crossing my fingers that she stays that way!!



Jacob and Gwyn are still in love with her, Gwyn gets all giggly everytime she touches her and now constantly says that Annie likes her. Jacob is still really gentle with her and likes to hold her, help give her a bath, and hug her.



We braved a trip to the pumpkin patch (we were there less than 10 minutes), and got a few pictures of the kids before things went crazy and the rain started.

We went to our church's Fall Festival on Friday, we lasted just over an hour, but the kids had fun, they had a petting zoo, hay ride, and lots of games. Gwyn just wanted Brian to hold her until she saw that after Jacob played a game he got to get candy...then she wanted to do every game. She knows how things work!

We let Jacob and Gwyn trick or treat in our neighborhood, well, kind of...they went to one house across the street, who gave them each a few handfuls of candy, and then came back and trick or treated at our own house, and Nana gave them some candy. We figured that was enough for this year...I'm sure next year we will have to expand the trick or treating, Jacob even said he wanted to go knock on more doors.

It was SO nice having my mom here for almost 2 weeks, she left today, but reinforcements have arrived! Sue came in today, and Rick comes in tomorrow, so I've got another 9 days of being able to take a nap during the day and catch up on sleep, and having help with cooking, cleaning, laundry, and errands. We love our family!!