How I Wake Up

Once Mommy unwraps me this is what I do...

Shoot my arms way up high and stretch.

Then I scrunch up in a ball.

Next I stretch again.
After all the stretching I look around for Mommy...

and give her a big smile. =)

Already 4 months

Didn't I just do this for 3 months?

I feel like I was just writing about you being 3 months, and you are already 4 months old. You are growing so fast. You are quite the social little girl. If you are not sleeping you are talking. I am still amazed at how precious you are. You giggled at me for the first time the other day. It was one of my favorite moments. I lifted you up above my head and brought you down close to my face. You loved it. You tried so hard to keep giggling at me but it always turned into a cute little shriek. I kept lifting you up and down so I could keep catching that little giggle. We even called Daddy on speaker phone so he could hear you. You are such a happy girl. You are still a mommy’s girl and can get upset when someone else puts you to sleep. You are supposed to be working on rolling over but you don’t like to be on your tummy. You are starting to grab objects. You would be better at grabbing objects if you were not more interested in the people handing you the toy than the actual toy. Every time I hand you a toy your eyes light up and you break out a huge smile. When you do play with your toys you prefer your giraffe. It is awkward to get into your mouth, but you love to chew on it. You also love your brothers and talk to them. They keep you entertained with all their craziness. You are so different from your brothers. Having a little girl has changed me more than I ever expected. Even though I know you are too young to watch what I do I am still very conscious of how I act and what kind of example I set. I know I am not perfect, and I am never going to try and pretend I am. I know that how I live my life will impact how you choose to live. I want you to feel the freedom to love yourself, to see how beautiful God created you. I want you to define yourself by who you are as a person; not how you look, or what you accomplish. Having a daughter is a whole new experience for me, and I know it is not always going to be easy. I am so proud of you already and excited about watching you grow up. I know God has blessed me with a truly amazing and beautiful little girl, who I know is going to grow up to be a lovely woman. I am blessed to call you my daughter.

There is no way you can look at that picture and not laugh.

She is a Daddy's Girl

I may be the one who brings her comfort and puts her to sleep. But Daddy is the one who makes her face light up. He is her favorite person to talk to.



I pray this is the beginning of a very strong relationship.

3 months

You, my beautiful little girl, are three months old today. You are growing up so fast, but every day you are more fun to be with then the day before. You love to talk, especially to your daddy. I can tell your daddy absolutely loves his little chats with his daughter. You two go back and forth making noises and talking. So far you say; ma, hi, ah, and other crazy words but ‘Whoo’ is your favorite word. You have rolled over a couple of times from your tummy to your back but you don’t like to be on your tummy so you don’t get a lot of practice. You love your wiggle time on the floor and also enjoy swinging. You love to chew and suck on your fingers and hands. I have even caught you sucking on your blankets. I guess that is your way of telling me you are ready for some toys to play with. You are still so calm and mellow, so different from your brothers. You still like to nap, but you sleep much better in your own room, away from all the noises and bright lights. I know you are tired when you start to want your paci and don’t really want to talk anymore. That is also the time you want me. You definitely prefer to have me snuggle you to sleep. Once you are sleeping I swaddle you in your blanket and tuck you in. As soon as you wake up you are all smiles and ready to play. You definitely are a little fussier in the evenings and you will usually spend some time bouncing on the exercise ball with daddy, until you decide you want mommy and nothing else will sooth you. Your eyes are a beautiful blue; Nana says they look like jewels. You have rubbed a big bald spot on the back of your head so you are mostly bald with two patches of dark hair. Bald spots and all, you are absolutely beautiful. Kayla I love you more each and every day. You are definitely our little princess.

She is so stinkin cute!!!

Pee in the Potty

We are not officially potty training yet. However, we have the challenge of training two boys at once, so we are trying to consider what is the best approach for each. We think Nathan will be easier because he does well with structure and routine. Andrew however seems to have a difficult time in this kind of situation. So we decided to buy two potties to have them practice sitting on before we begin the training process.

The idea: Sit on the potty after bath time each night.

The Goal: Hopefully avoid or lessen the "I won't sit on the potty" fits when we actually start potty training.

Night 1: Talked the boys about sitting on the potty and successfully had two bare butts on each potty for at least 2 seconds. We considered that a success.

Night 2: (Babci was watching the boys so I am going to do my best retelling her story)
Both boys sat on the potty. All of a sudden Andrew got wide eyed and looked down into the potty. He had peed in the potty. Nathan completely shocked joins Andrew in jumping off his potty and both boys stared down into Andrews bowl. Babci poured on the praise and Andrew started to praise himself and clapped his hands saying "yeah". Then he started to reach down into the pot and touch his success, but Babci stopped him before he reached gold. Nathan who has always been the first one to do everything plops his bottom back on his potty with a face of full determination. If it was at all possible to will yourself to pee, Nathan would have done it. My two little naked boys sat with their bottoms glued to their potties and refused to move. Finally, Babci offered them a snack and the boys agreed to leave their posts. Although, if she had not closed the bathroom door they would have returned to their potty's with pretzels in hand. Andrew was so excited to tell mommy and daddy that Babci did not flush his golden success down the toilet. The first think I did this morning before getting the boys out of their beds was to put a little water in Andrews potty, since is had dried up over night. Then Andrew got to show mommy and flush it down the big toilet.
So our second night on the potty proved to be a complete fluke of success. We know that this will not transfer over to real potty training , but I am glad that Andrew was able to accomplish something first for a change. It is good for both Boys to be on the other side of things.

Children's Museum

Easter picture are coming soon. So in the mean time I will give you some shots of our first trip to the Children's Museum.

The boys favorite room was the kitchen.

Andrew is putting his pizza in the brick oven. "All Done. HOT HOT!!"

The noodle forest was also fun. They hung tons of pool noodles from the ceiling for the kids to get lost in. Mom stayed with Kayla and I tried to keep up with them, which obviously did not happen since I was outnumbered. I thought for sure one of them was going to realize that they were all alone and get scared when they couldn't find me. They both did great and always made it back to see Nana with a huge smile.


There was a 3 and under room which was nice because it was not as crowded and didn't require as much supervision. The boys loved standing on this. It would blow big bursts of air at them.

Blurry but to cute not to post. Nathan was jumping on it to try and get the air to blow.


Nana and her little girl.

No, his book is not upside down. He is learning to count backwards.

It was a ton of fun. I can't wait to go back and try some of the new exibits they are opening up this year. Next time we will drag Daddy along.

what you have missed

So here is a mix of pictures on what has been going on the last few weeks.

Kayla got to meet Great Grandma Collins for the first time. .

Kayla relaxing with Great Grandma.

Getting a picture with all three kids is IMPOSSIBLE!!! I even tried to bribe them with candy.

This is the best we could do.


Getting loved on.

We were sad Great Grandma had to leave but excited when Uncle Trav came to see us.

And again you see us trying to get a group shot.



The boys love helping (or more often then not, not helping ) me giving Kayla a bath.


Poor Girl. She has years of this kind of stuff to look forward to.

This is the part they really enjoy, playing in the sink and flooding my kitchen. =)