Kid pics

Some recent pictures of our smiling butterball

 Reese and Asher enjoying their homemade "Shamrock Shakes" on St. Patrick's Day

March updates

Reese loves to color and draw and she's gotten pretty good.  Here's her latest family portrait.  

 The kids and I got geared up for the Duke-UNC game.  My lucky shirt is simply fading; don't think I have crossed over to the dark side...

 And finally, CK has a (not so secret) admirer at daycare.  It's one of the owner's daughters and today she made him this declaring her love for him.   Guess I'd better start making him some chocolate chip cookies so I can compete.

Emily @ 4 Months

Our little girl is already 4 months old- how time flies!

CK took her in for her 4 month check up and immunizations.  Here are her current stats:
Height: 24.5" (60th)
Weight: 15 lbs 13 oz (90th)
Head: 40.4cm

She's cooing and smiling all the time now and she has started to blow bubbles back at us (we've been doing it to her and now she does it back which is pretty adorable).  She's a pretty happy little girl and is generally only up once a night which is way better than her siblings were doing at this age.  Third time's the charm, apparently.

Rough mom moment

So last week was the first week in awhile where I was gone ALL week.  Literally I left the house at 445am Monday morning and didn't get home until 830pm Friday night.  It was a long week for me, and apparently for the kids.  As I was driving home from the airport Friday night I called CK and he asked how far out I was as Emily was hungry.  Given that I'd just gotten off a 3 hour flight, I was similarly ready to feed her :) So I got home about 15 minutes later and tried to feed Emily.  Well, little Emily wanted no part of Mommy.  She screamed her little head off and wouldn't eat.  I tried calming her down and then retried feeding her to no avail.  I'm pretty sure she was shooting daggers at me behind those tears, too.   Anyway, I finally gave in, handed her to CK, who warmed her up a bottle of frozen breastmilk which she eagerly (and immediately) scarfed down.  I, then, sat in the corner and pumped all by my lonesome :(  A very sad mommy moment to be rejected by your infant daughter who was clearly not happy that I'd been gone all week.  If this had been my first, I probably would have ended up in tears on the bathroom floor ready to quit my job.  Since it's my third, however, although I still felt the sting of rejection, this also isn't my first rodeo.  CK and I were even able to joke about it later.  And, of course, come 2am that night when she was ready to eat again she eagerly accepted Mommy's direct feeding.  Lucky for CK, right?  Ah, the joys of motherhood.

Jumperoo and Lindsey's birthday party

Reese and Asher like coming into our room in the mornings and playing with Emily while she's still in bed.  She's happiest first thing in the morning and loves all the attention from her siblings.

 Since Emily's neck muscles seem to be so strong and she wants to be upright looking around all the time we decided to break out the Jumperoo a bit early.  We tried it out yesterday for the first time and she seems to like it (in short bursts at least).
"Mom, this is not my most flattering angle"

 Making funny faces at Reese (who is also responsible for draping my blanket over the back

 Smiling because I can "stand" up by myself- finally!

 We celebrated Lindsey's 11th birthday yesterday with her friends and family. The girls played a photo scavenger hunt game and I was one of the photographers.  I'm proud to say our team won and Kaitlyn was a champ for volunteering for the "cover one of your teammate's faces with stickers":

We got extra points for getting adults in the pictures...Clint was a good sport.  Here he is in the "surfing" picture.

Happy Birthday Lindsey!

Sisters

Emily loves being entertained by her big sister:

Video 12 from CK LaFond on Vimeo.