The Meanest Parents in the World

So in the next few days I'll tell the real story of our adventure today, but for now, I'd like to say that due to the insane amount of crying that goes on, one may think that we are really mean parents. (Sometimes we are, but all the same.)

Thoughts on the above picture- OK, so he's not crying, but look at him, it's like we're torturing him making him be here with us.

Second thought- look at the people in the background. Do you ever wonder how many pictures of you there are out there on the Internet where you are just in the background of someone else's picture? Did you ever see that episode of Better Off Ted when they developed a software that could find your photo anywhere on the Internet due to facial recognition? (I miss that show...)

That's it. Now back to the crying children.

Just pictures

Nothing special, just some pictures from our latest photo shoot. These boys adore their sister.

We are Family

What do you think- do my kids look alike? Maybe Olivia and Graham are the most alike? i want to get that little yellow sleeper out and take one of Olivia in it though. But that would involve going through the tote of boys clothes. So probably not. Since that size would be on the bottom of the pile. :)

One month

More or less....

Olivia is now 7 weeks old, but let's back track to a one month post. At one month Olivia was still a sleepy little baby, and hadn't really started her evening fussy time yet. By 6 weeks however it was in full swing. We are trying her on zantac to see if perhaps she has reflux, and it has kind of brought an improvement. It seems like now when she cries she doesn't seem to be in as much pain, but perhaps is just plain tired and is having trouble settling down.

We all still like her a lot. The boys like to talk to her and hold her for about 15 seconds at a time. And then they just let go of her. You gotta be on your toes with those two. She sleeps really well at night, generally only waking up once. Sometimes she goes right back to sleep, sometimes we have a two hour party. I like it better when she goes right back to sleep.

At her doctor appointment (Which was actually closer to 6 weeks) She weighed 9lbs 13 oz, and was 21 3/4 inches. She is plotting right at the 50th percentile.

So there she is. Stay tuned in a week and a half for her 2 month update! :) But she cries, and kids whine, so I'd better end this.

Random photos

So nothing much has been happening this month. Nate had swim lessons for two weeks, and he did pretty well. Well enough to move up to the next class, but the thought of two more weeks of having to be at swim lessons at 9am makes me sick, so we'll wait until next summer. But he's much more comfortable in the water now, so that's good. Other than that, I've just been extending my nesting, and been cleaning and organizing around the house, which has been greatly needed! So since nothing interesting has happened, here are just some random photos. This was not posed, I just glanced over one day, and there her tiny little foot was all that was sticking out of the cover.

Happy sleeping baby.

This was a few days after Graham did a nose dive on the driveway at my mom's house. But I just love that little face! (scabby nose and all!)
And here's Nate, smiling away. They usually love to cheese it up for the camera, just so they can see themselves afterwards.
Tiny shoes and socks. Olivia has a million pairs of shoes already, but she has such skinny little feet, that they are all way too big for her. I finally found these little black Mary Jane style shoes that are perfect for church.
This was the dress that I got specifically for her to wear to her first week of church. It's pretty big for being a 0-3 mos, so she'll be able to wear it for a while, which is good, since I love the dress. When it gets cold, I even have a little white sweater that she can wear with it.
So there you have it. It's been insanely hot this summer, and since I can't swim for another week, we've just been staying inside mostly. I think I heard that it's supposed to get out of the high 90s this next week though, so that'll be a relief, and we did have a thunderstorm this afternoon that lasted a while, always nice to get a little rain. Hopefully we can have a few fun little adventures in August, and it'll be a more interesting month than July has been!

More Glamour Shots

On Sunday I got the disc that had the results of Olivia's photo shoot that my friend Ashley took. This is one of my favorites: One where she is dressed and awake:

Tiny ear:

Tiny fist:

And is it weird that I want to print this picture and frame it and put it on the wall with the rest of the family photos? Ashley should go into animal photography. That day while we were taking a nursing break trying to get Olivia to go to sleep Lizzie thought that she would like to just take over the photo shoot.

So thanks Ashley, now I need to figure out which ones to print out and put where.

Round one

When Olivia was a week and a half old my friend Ashely came over to take some infant photos. She set up right there on my dining room table. It didn't go as smoothly as hoped since Olivia just would not fall into a deep sleep, so she kept on waking up and wiggling around, and not keeping a pose. These are the first photos that Ashely sent me last night. I can't wait to see the rest of them!