Indy 500 Parade

While we don't typically do anything for the actual race, we always go to the 500 race.  It gets more and more fun as the boys get older; this year both boys loved the action!  We had the perfect weather (in my opinion), cool and cloudy so we weren't sitting in direct sun squinting the whole time!  Charlie has grown quite a bit since his first parade, and so has Sam!

 Julia slept through some of it :)

 Grandpa driving the "race car"!  Charlie was yelling "HI GRANDPA HI GRANDPA" and waving like a crazy guy; the people behind us thought dad was famous.

 Love this picture

 

Another fun day!  We even stayed for the whole parade this year (a mistake since it took us 40 min to get out of the parking garage...lesson learned)

Four months old!

Our beautiful baby girl is four months old already.  Several weeks ago she started sleeping 12+ hours at night, sometimes I even have to wake her in the morning to take Charlie to school!  She wakes and coos by herself until we go get her.  Last night was her first night downstairs in her big crib (she has been in the back of my closet, in the pack-n-play) and she did great, although I might have shed a tear to have her so far away :)  At the doctor's on Friday, she weighed 13lbs12oz, of which I'm sure 6 or 7oz was her cloth diaper :)  And she's 95th percentile in length--such a big girl!

 

 

 

Love.

Sleepover at grammy and grandpas

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go with Scott down to Florida--he was headed to Universal Studios for work/research, and Julia and I decided to tag along...I really wanted to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter :)  Fortunately, my parents were able to watch the boys for us.  Since I was in Detroit for a baby shower over the weekend, and basically drove straight to the airport Sunday, we decided they would stay Saturday and Sunday nights.  Then, when my parents realized our flight was scheduled to land late Monday, they kept them another night.  Three nights at grammys = lots of fun for the boys (and lots of work for my parents!).  They played a lot, "helped" grandpa with yardwork, and slept a little here and there too.  My dad captured a few pictures.

Eating lunch outside

 Crashed.

 Look familiar?

 Exhausted grammy the last morning :)

Charlie's birthday (part 2)

Finally getting around to Charlie's birthday, a month later :)  We had a small family dinner at grammy and grandpas house, with uncle Jordan, aunt Becky, uncle Kyle and cousin Cole too.  Aunt Becky came through with the decor (as always) and had a personalized monster truck sign for Charlie--he loved it.

My first attempt at a homemade cake, chocolate per Charlie's request, with mango and blueberry sauce to make it "tie dye".

  A monster truck cup!!!

 Handsome Sam

 Possibly our first ever attempt at a sibling pic...Sam was thrilled to hold Julia but she was not as excited.  Charlie also received a forklift from Coco and Pops--something he's been dying for!

Happy Birthday Charlie!!!

My beautiful baby girl--3 months old?

Where does the time go?  It seems to go even faster with Julia, partially because we're so busy and partially because she wants to grow up fast!  This past month has brought changes around here...she first rolled over at 2.5 months old (back to tummy) and now does tummy to back as well...so we often find her on the wood floors after leaving her on her play mat for a few minutes!  The boys were both 4 months (or older?) before they rolled so it caught us by surprise.  Julia likes to be on her tummy and will hang out until she gets tired of holding up her head.

She loves sitting in the bumbo, especially with the two boys when they're eating or sitting at the table--full time entertainment!  Smiles at the smallest bit of attention, too.

She's still not sleeping ALL the way through the night, mostly because she insists on going to bed around 8:30 or 9, so she's usually up to nurse around 5am, but then back to sleep until 8 (or until I wake her, if we have to take Charlie to school).  It works for us.  But she hasn't been sleeping as much in her car seat (transporting boys everywhere, out for walks/etc).  And is awake and alert much more of the day now!  In the past few days, she fell asleep once in the jumperoo and another time in the bumbo!!!  Pretty funny.  She sucks her fingers all the time, even though we try to get her to take a paci.  Scott and I both sucked fingers as babies so I guess it's inevitable!

 

   We just can't get enough of this little one...such a blessing for our family.