Jeremy Update: 2.5 Years*

I love his smile!

Weight 

Starbucks Date

Jeremy is weighing in at 27 pounds! He stayed at 24 pounds for so long! I'm not sure where he gained those 2 pounds! He is tall!

Health

Cute little chair Gigi and Uncle Chase got him for Christmas

Shaving lessons with Daddy

Overall, he is a pretty healthy kid! We are going through a few rough days because of sickness right now. Read the full story here. We think he has some sort of blood sugar issue. He is very temperamental when it's low. We make sure he eats as soon as he wakes up in the morning and from his nap. He gets snack in between breakfast and lunch. We always have a snack bag packed when we go out. As long as we keep up on it, we are ok. If we forget, he looses patience very quickly. We can recognize the signs now! We haven't felt it necessary to take him to the doctor for it. We borrowed a friend's glucometer. He was registering on the high side of low blood sugar and we think if we can control it by food there is no need to medicate him.

Sleep

This kid is a good sleeper! He wakes up at about 7am. We play all day! Naps from 1pm - 3:30pm. I have to wake him up or he stays awake at bedtime for too long! Then bed at 8:30pm. He wakes up once or twice to go potty. Then goes back to sleep.
He has moved into his "big brother room" so that Capri can have the nursery (Ocean Room).

Clothes

Jeremy has just started loving to play dress up. We only have a fireman costume (go figure) but he loves to wear it and get in his fire truck (thanks so much Shilo!). His imagination impresses us each day! He is wearing 2T clothes, finally! We have put most all of the 18 months clothes in the attic.

Social

We have quite the social butterfly! He loves to be around people. When he comes home from The Moerer's house on Wednesday nights, our entire small group (18 people) is here. He jumps in the middle and starts telling stories, cracking people up!
His best friends remain to be Dillon and Drew. They are so cute together! Jeremy says their favorite thing to do it play in the dirt together.

Our trip to the zoo.
He was being a lion.

Brotherly/Sisterly Love

The kindness that he shows his sister is amazing! He always asks to hold her. Watches for spit up, drool, anything she may choke on! I just love to watch his love grow for her!
The other day he didn't know where she was (he always asks, he wants to make sure he always knows!). He said, "Mommy, where is Capri? Did you squeeze her til she popped?" I giggled. He was very serious! I have to admit, I say that when I'm hugging her! "You are so cute, I could squeeze you til you pop." I may need to change that!

Diet

Jeremy loves to line all his trucks up, in the same order.....

And create a huge pile up!
Then he puts them back in his closet, in the same order!

Jeremy is a very good eater. He has been taught to eat what we put on his plate. His favorite is avocado. He loves crasins, too. Lately he has been giving us a hard time with vegetables. I don't think it's because he doesn't like them. I think it's because he wants to see if we really mean he has to eat it all!

Milestones

His creative mind blows me away! I love to hear and interact with him while he is pretending! He loves construction! We have been watching endless videos on YouTube of different pieces of equiptment. His favorite (by far) is an excavator!

Visiting with Great Gramps and Gram

A boy and his dog. Bedtime conversations.
This picture is not great quality, but it's so sweet! 

Capri Update: 8 Months*

With her "Tag" blanket in a pile of laundry.
Does life get any better?

This little girl melts our hearts every day! The speed at which she grows is incredible!

Weight/Health

Daddy was playing with the camera.
He was so proud to get a "winking" picture.

Capri still rocks the chunk! At her appointment this month she weighed in at 19 pounds 12 ounces! That's the 83 percentile. Height is 27 inches, 46 percentile. She is healthy! We are giving her shots slowly. We are not against vaccinations, but we only give 2 at a time because we believe her tiny chunky body only needs a few to process at a time. At this visit we also found out she has Eczema. The PA suggested we use Aquaphor on it. No more smell good baby lotion. Daddy's favorite is the lavender bedtime lotion.
We have had quite the week with sickness. Break my heart to see her sick! Here is the full story!
**Update (1/27 (2 weeks later)) We have cleared up the Eczema. Aquaphor worked great!

Sleep

Still nothing new to report on sleep. She is a great little sleeper!
She goes to bed around 8pm, wakes at 6am to nurse, back to sleep until about 8:30am. She naps for about 1/2 hour at 1030. Then down for a 2.5 hour nap at 1:00pm when Jeremy naps (how did I get so blessed?)! Another little 1/2 hour nap around 6pm. Bed at 8pm.

Clothes

Little Fashionista!

We have put all the 6 month clothes away. We have a few 6-9 month outfits still hanging. She is in 9 month comfortable! A few 12 month jammies. I just think it feels better when you sleep to be in something a little baggy!

Social

Playing at church! She still has an obsession with TAGS!
A collage coming soon with all the places she gets them!

We are always on the go and have people over or going to see someone! It's no wonder my kids have no stranger danger. On the fence if this is a good or bad thing!

Brotherly/Sisterly Love

They love bath time!

This boy is such a sweet big brother. He always lets us know if Capri is crying, spitting up, drooling! He's on the look out for anything she may be chewing on that he can choke on. We have had a few times this month that Jeremy has taken toys from Capri because he wants to play with them. He is learning patience with her.

Diet

Auntie Danielle gave her an orange to play with and chew on.
She didn't think that her sharp little teeth could bite through and get some!
So her first official food was an orange! She made quite the sour face!

We gave her cereal 2 nights in a row and she threw all of it up! I did some research to see what might be causing this and found that grains are actually quite difficult for infants to digest. Who knew?? Since her stomach seemed to be true to this we decided to go with Baby-lead weaning, loosely.

The first food she liked didn't spit up was avocado mixed with breast milk! I don't give it to her every day. Probably about 2 nights a week. Other then that she is 100% breastmilk.

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Celery on Christmas Eve

We have also let her chew on apples and pears in her Fresh Food Teether. I love this thing! She has also use celery and a carrot for teething.

Milestones

 Aside from the food introductions we have not much to report. We are SO close to crawling.

Don't let her lack of crawling make you think she doesn't move around! She does an army crawl, head launch! I'll have to video it! 

Lean On Me. . . *

". . . We all need someone, to lean on." 

The famous words of the song that speaks sings truth. Life without God and a support group would be incredibly rough!

I felt this first hand while my kids have been sick the past few days, and B was working (24 hour shifts). This is the first time Capri (8months) has been sick. She has a cough, fever, and congestion. My anti-cuddle baby only wants to lay on me and moan! My heart is aching for her! Jeremy (2.5 years) has the same symptoms, but not as bad. He's been bouncing around despite not feeling well, even after 2 nights of no sleep and only 20 minutes naps here and there. I was trying to decide if I should take them to Urgent Care. Most of the time we are in and out (with prescriptions) of Urgent Care and back home within an hour, much faster then going to the doctor. I was debating going in because IF they had the flu the advice would be: rest, liquids and ride it out. I didn't need a $15 co-pay to tell me what I was already doing.

We headed outside for some fresh air.

By 7pm, C's fever was 101.2. Time to go in.

Turns out, they both have sinus, upper respiratory and ear infections. We had a long wait, 2 hours later, we had prescriptions in hand and were heading to the pharmacy! I get to the pharmacy at 9:02p.m., they close at 9. Despite my best efforts, they would not make an exception. C really need some sleep, so I decide the best option is to go to the drive-thru pharmacy. 

Well, we made it home by 11:15PM!

She fell asleep on him!

My patience was gone by 8pm! If it hadn't been for God, I would have given the kids to the next car that drove by and headed home for a hot cup of tea, a quite house and full night sleep! But the little breath prayers of, "God give me patience, Give me strength" is where the patience and strength came from. B was there to answer the phone and let me vent all night long. He even talked with J at one point because I couldn't calm my little boy. I was also, texting my dear friend Danielle throughout the night.
We are on the mend!

Playing "Doggy, Doggy, Where is your bone."

That smile melts my heart!

I hear people say, "God doesn't give you more then you can handle." I completely disagree! I think He does give us more then we can handle so we HAVE to lean on Him! The seasons that are rough we are clinging to Him to get us through each day. In the Desert Song by Hillsong United, (video below) these lyrics, "In every season, you are still God. I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship," have been ringing in my head the past few days. I have needed them to be my strength! God desires an intimate relationship with us! Sometimes He needs to fill our plate so full that we have no other choice then to call on Him!

I feel the need to note that I absolutely LOVE the snuggles that come with sick kiddos!!

Capri Update: 6 & 7 Months*

I didn't get with it for the 6 month update! So we will combine them!

Weight 

Those cheeks!

The last time I weighed her (about 2 weeks ago) she was staying at a steady 19 pounds. She seems to be slowing down a bit! I can't stop kissing those cheeks!

Health

So far no sickness! She had a stuffy nose for a few days but nothing a little breastmilk up the nostril fixed it! I know you may think I'm crazy but it WORKS! The stuff is amazing! We have her 6 month (opps) well baby check up next week.

Sleep

On a trip to the Zoo!

Oh, they are so stinkin precious when they sleep! Our schedules remains the same:

She goes to bed around 8pm, wakes at 6am to nurse, back to sleep until about 8:30am. She naps for about 1/2 hour at 1030. Then down for a 2.5 hour nap at 1:00pm when Jeremy naps (how did I get so blessed?)! Another little 1/2 hour nap around 6pm. She is a tummy sleeper! And loves her thumb! We don't use pacifiers anymore! 

Clothes

We are slowly putting away the 6 month clothes. We have a array of 6-9 and 9 month clothes. A few 12 month-ers but they are probably made small anyway, right?! I just love to see her in little footsie sleepers! I also enjoy putting shoes on her, Bobby does not! He thinks they are pointless! I agree but they are so cute! Terrible picture of me in the back round! I didn't know I was in it! 

Social

4 Generations!

My grandparents came out to visit from Vermont!  They were meeting Capri for the first time! We see friends all week long. Most of Jeremy's friends want to hold her! It's so sweet!! 

Brotherly/Sisterly Love

They continue to melt my heart! 

Diet

We are still 100% breastmilk. The doctor says I can start on food wit her, but I don't feel like it's necessary! She is gaining weight just fine and gets full and satisfied at each feeding. We did use jicama and cucumber to help with teething!

Milestones

We have 3 things to report here! 

Little Miss is sitting all by herself! She gets tired sometimes and flops over! But it ends with a giggle! She loves her little independence in the bath tub! And Jeremy adores it too! 

We got her ears pierced! It was the worst fry I have ever heard! BUT it was over very quickly and we have had no infections! 

I love that Jeremy was right there to comfort her. And that her thumb went right in! 

Annnnd. . . We have 2 TEETH! On the bottom! They popped up in 2 days! One was while she was spending time with Auntie, Sierra and Grandma during our date night! Thanks girls for loving on a crabby baby! I have yet to snap a picture! Each time I try she puts her tongue over them! I will get one! 

All that is boy! An update on Jeremy*

This little boy is so full of passion! He has a soft, quiet voice yet he is very opinionated! He always wants to "help." The little personality quirks are what make our hearts grow with joy each day!

• Inventive : Making our living room into a Wipeout course, making himself an excavator to eat, to play in the sand box, to clean up toys, to dump water, to put his plate in the sink
• Critical Thinker: Both hands are full and he wants to take a drink, after he tried with each hand he put one of the things under his arm to take a drink! 
• Sweet Big Brother: Anytime Capri cries, he is right there to soothe her, comfort her, make sure we know she needs something. He tries to calm her in the car saying, "It's ok Baby Girl. I am right next to you."He calls her "Sissy, LuLu." If he is not sure where she is he asks, "Mommy where is the baby."
• Potty training is going well! We have some days with accidents but overall we are good! He even wears chonies to bed! 
• Compassionate: If somebody is hurt, being disciplined, sad etc you will find Jeremy visually concerned. He's jittery, shaking a leg, almost like he is anxious! It's a very sweet trait! 

A few photos to show his personality! 

Painting his new room so LuLu can have the nursery!

Little Stud

Playing the "violin" at Musical Munchkins

Cake Pop!

He loves his Daddy!

Out of the mouths of Babes. . .*

I have been collecting little sayings from Jeremy for a while now. I just love his imagination and the way he phrases things! It brings me so much joy to listen to him!

I have boogers from my God Bless You - 2.5 years

While singing Skip to my Lu I asked Who is your darling? "Jesus" - 2.5 years

Jeremy be careful putting the glass on the counter, it's fragile. The Sock put him on the counter and said, "Be Careful." He says, "Why because I'm glass? - 2.5 years

Very passionately, "Daddy can NOT feed Capri, ONLY Mommy can!'" - 2.5 years

"When I get to be a grown up I am going to work in the Marines like Daddy and Uncle Dillin." -2.5yrs

"Mommy, who plugs the moons in?" - 2.5 yrs

"How does the red light know to tell the green light to turn on?" -2.5yrs

"I have the same like Daddy. The same this. . . pee pee. And you have the same like mommy an mommy has the same like you, She pees in the front." -J 2.5yrs

"Mommy, Let's pretend I'm Jesus and I get crucified" -J 2.5yrs

Daddy, "Let's have some whole milk." J: "Where are the holes? They must be inside!." J 2 yr 11mos

From the backseat, "Gigi is me happy."
Me: "What do you mean?"
J: "Gigi makes me smile. That means happy."-3 years

After being in the pool for an hour. . .
me: "J you should pour water on the slide so it's slippery when you slide."
J: "But Mama, I don't want to get my shorts wet!" - 3 years

"Mommy, today can you please call me J-Diggity today. I' going to ask my teachers too." -3 years

"Olivia is my princess, I'm going to marry her." -3 years old

Taking a Look Back: Jeremy's First Year*

I have been moving right along getting these journal entries digital! Here are the links for the posts of Jeremy's life.

Taking a Look Back: Jeremy's Pregnancy

Taking a Look Back: Jeremy's Bed Rest and Labor

Taking a Look Back: Jeremy's NICU Stay (Part 1)

Taking a Look Back: Jeremy's NICU Stay (Part 2)

I was hoping I had made more entries then I did! I guess adjusting to life as a mommy took priority over journaling!

8/27/10, 4 months old: Wow! Mommy wanted to write in here much soon but . . . I got busy! I LOVE being a Mommy! You are our little gift from God! We know He had given you to us to raise you to know Him and love Him and other people! Oh, where do I start to catch up? Let's see. . . . I'm watching you sleep right now. We'll start with sleep! While we were camping for 4th of July (you were 10 weeks old!) you started sleeping for 6 hours! Meaning you slept though one feeding! I still pumped to keep my supply up and start a stash in the freezer. Gradually from there you started sleeping more and more. Last night you slept from 11pm - 9am! 10 hours! Woo-Hoo! You take about 3 naps a day. We are not on a schedule yet. You nurse every 3 hours during the day. We think you are teething. You drool like crazy. You are a talkative baby. You love when we talk back. Your whole body wiggles, your legs kick, you droll! It's so cute! You love to chew on Daddy's finger. It always soothes you and you always poop while you are chewing! 

You love your bath time. We have a turtle hat drains water. You want to drink the water. You wiggle all over and splash us! You HATE your car seat! In the car you are screaming or sleeping! It makes going places kinds difficult! 

I think that's about it. I will not let it go this long again!

First smile: June 30 (9 weeks)

You rolled from front to back 2 times: July 3 (10 weeks)

Top Left: Cute onesie made by Christina!
Top Right: Bath Time!
Bottom Left: First smile
Bottom Right: Cute baby yawns while camping!

9/23/10, 5 months old: You are THEE cutest baby ever! We just love to watch you learn! I feel so blessed that Daddy works so hard that it's possible for me to be home with you every day! God blessed us with his job for sure!! 

10/8/10, 5.5 months: I think we are making some progress with your carseat. It's day 4 of no screaming! Awesome! A little fussing but nothing your binky won't fix! You are favoring regular binkys these day not the Soothies. You love apple juice. You have tasted apples and bananas. And a few drops of chicken broth. We switched you from your bassinet to the playpen in our room, so you have a little more room to wiggle around. We are having trouble with the monitor we got. When we get it fixed we will move you into your room in the crib. It's just too far away for Mommy to have you allll the way down the hall from us! You have the sweetest little belly laugh! I think you are a lefty! :). I didn't try to make you a lefty, I promise!

Your serious expression just cracks me up!

10/13/10, 5.5 months old: You are doing so good in your car seat! It's like one weeks you woke up one day and decided to be over it! We are so thankful. We drove to Oceanside yesterday and you were great! We got you 2 cute outfits for Uncle Dillin's bootcamp graduation. We started feeding you cereal too! Today you ate 1/2 teaspoon and nursed on both sides! Now you are sacked out! Sleep well my precious boy! 

Mini Cheese Head!

11/7-10/10, 6.5 months: You spent 4 days with GiGi while Mommy and Daddy took a little trip! Daddy surprised me by not telling me where we were going! He set up for you to be with Gigi and made all the arrangements! He even packed the 4runner so I didn't know what was in it. It was amazing! You were still nursing so I pimped faithfully every 3 hours, on the dot! Gigi said you didn't drink much milk while I was away. You really weren't interested in the bottle. We talked to you each night before bed. It was nice for us to get a way, but we missed you so much! When we got home I expected you to be all giddy and happy to see us.  you were a little unsure of us! You wanted to stay in Gigi's arms! After about an hour you warmed up and wanted to snuggle.