Felicity 4 months

Four months old!

Felicity turned four months old yesterday! Our little bouncy flouncy is a newborn no more. She is smiley, loves kisses and she is full of life! She's started laughing and has discovered her voice... Volume: maximum. She likes to roll over both ways, she is a pro at tummy time and she'll bounce off on your legs till your arms want to fall off. She's discovered her hands, and she can grab toys, smack things, grasp at whatever is in front of her... or hold her fingers demurely.

Height: 25 1/4" (83rd percentile) weight: 13.7(33rd percentile) head circumference 41.6 cm (79th percentile). She wears 6 month old clothes and size 2 diapers. Let me tell you, girl clothes have a lot more pieces than a boy wardrobe! But it's fun. She actually likes changing clothes or getting headbands and hats put on her head. I think she likes the sensation of a cloth around her head. It makes her smile. :-)

Felicity wakes up around 7:30 am, and naps about 3 times a day, anywhere from 30 min to 3 hours at a time. Usually it's two short naps and a long one. She goes to sleep by 9 pm, but she's started getting tired sooner so that could creep up. She will usually get up at least once a night to nurse, and up to waking every two hours all night. It's a toss up. Now that she can roll over super well, she's started sleeping on her tummy, and that has vastly improved the going to sleep routine. The first time she slept on her tummy, she slept from bedtime till morning, but that hasn't happened again. 

Still exclusively breastfed, still won't take a bottle. We've tried a myriad of kinds of bottles and nipples and straw cups and open cups. She'll drink enough to be pacified if I'm gone for a couple of hours but not a substantial amount. I feel like if we can get through to 6 months and start using an open cup/feeding solids, it won't be as big of a deal.

Felicity's favorite toys right now are her fox and elephant and bee - all from my Aunt Tish actually! She loves Sophie the Giraffe, and is getting better at sucking on the wubbanub paci. She loves LOVES reading. It's so funny how attentive she is. She tries to turn the pages and leans in really far. We mostly read books with Wilder, so anything from Who's in the Forest? to Just Me and My Dad to We Have A Baby are all ones she loves. It's neat to see her look over the pages.

Last week she started blowing raspberries, and this week she's started laughing at Wilder when he runs around. She thinks he's so funny.

Here are some photos from yesterday. Wilder has started playing more with her and you can tell she thinks he's just the greatest!

watching her brother

Playing with the eiffel towers

Wilder's January 2016

26 months old

Our precious Wilder is 26 months old. He's solidly a two year old. His vocabulary and understanding grow more and more every day, and it's so neat to watch how his tender spirit operates in his world. Our living room looks like a parking lot and his play room upstairs resembles a train station. This boy loves his vehicles and transportation.

Wilder loves to picnic. Every day for snacks, he'll pick a spot, either outside on the driveway or in the living room, or in his play tent and say "sit down! picnic!" and we will sit and enjoy snacks. I love hearing his viewpoint on things as we watch planes go by and listen for delivery trucks. He loves going on man dates with Daddy. Sometimes they go to starbucks and discuss man things over croissants. He is my big helper at the grocery store. Always willing to help count produce and put it in the bags, or remind me that we need juice or toast or pouches... even if we don't need it. And he loves going on walks in the stroller, directing our path by pointing and saying "Straight, left, right."

One of the highlights of our days right now is after dinner, when both babies are in pajamas, we go play in his room. He'll use Zach as a jungle gym, race back and forth in made-up games, roll off his tiny chair, and then come lie down next to Felicity. "Crawling! She's crawling!" he says, when she's on her back or her tummy and kicking around. Felicity loves watching her brother, and if she could she would run around too. After he's tuckered out, we go and read books together. Felicity and Wilder in Zach's lap (I hold Felicity up) and they both listen and watch intently. Right now Wilder's favorite book is Welcome to Trucktown, with a lot of Smash, Crash, Smash and Crash! But he has about 6 favorites. He is actually revisiting some of his earlier faves like Brown Bear Brown Bear and The Very Hungry Caterpillar--now that we read them to Felicity. He likes Madeline too, and he can point out/name the Eiffel Tower in that book, on coffee mugs, on our photo gallery, all over the place.

We've taken a break from Cars and Planes the movies... he wants to watch Fishes, aka Finding Nemo, and he watches "toy trains" on youtube, which is really the most random train/car toy related videos you'll ever see.

We've eased off of pouches a bit (he would eat them all day every day if he could), so we're getting a little more "real" food these days. He loves noodles with butter, rice, toast, cucumber, grapes, sugar snap peas, pears, apples and strawberries. He'll have days where he chows down on fish sticks, shrimp and chicken, and days where he only wants peanut butter, cheese and yogurt for protein. We're working on it! The last few days he's been able to tell us "I'm hungry." rather than just "RED POUCH!!"

We're having some trouble with sleeping right now. He's napping well, but he's not sleepy for bedtime till way late. Even if he's in bed on time, it could take him 1-2 hours to go to sleep--he'll just roll around and talk to himself. He wakes up multiple times in the night, and consequently, he's sleeping later. Hoping this is just a phase!

While we do have meltdowns where I think "Wow, he's so two years old," he's a sweet and soft-hearted guy. He is so patient with the extra time things take with two kids, and he never complains when Felicity cries in the stroller, car, wherever... right next to him. He loves spending time with us, and his easy laugh lights up our days.

Here are some more photos from today!

"Acorn hat!"

Plane spotting

Owl nest spotting

Going to see the owl nest