Tyler - 4.5 months old!

Tyler is now a rockin' 4 1/2-month old. This happy, skinny dude is only in the 5th percentile for weight, so his pediatrician is having us do bottles after each time I nurse to try and fatten him up. We're doing weekly weigh ins to check his progress for now.

He has started to roll over from his back to belly like a champ. He doesn't so much love the Bumbo or his jumper, but he loves being on his back with his mirrors/rings/bells above him. He can entertain himself for a long time like that. He HATES real food and cries every time we try to give him rice cereal or mashed bananas. So we've given up for now and will try again later. Milk it is. Alexa was the opposite--really, really liked being able to have solid food.

He loves to grab his toes!

The many faces of Tyler....

The rare pouty face. But what a fat lip!

We love those big blue eyes!

the "duck face" when he's stretching

The "I hate being swaddled right now" face! He's quite the escape artist. Much better than Alexa ever was....

He will now sleep from 7 or 8 at night until 6 or 7 in the morning, hoorah! He still often wakes up between 4 and 6 and whines a little, but puts himself back to sleep. Usually. It took him FOREVER to fall back asleep during the night when we first started trying. He's a stubborn one, I tell you. He would cry and cry for 2-3 hours. I would check on him every 30 minutes to make sure he was ok, hadn't pooped himself etc. Finally I would give up after a couple hours and nurse him. He would last like 10, maybe 30 seconds before falling asleep. Not even hungry, what a punk. (Or more tired than hungry I guess) And he doesn't nurse himself to sleep for naps or at night--he's actually really good at putting himself to sleep besides the middle of the night apparently. Anyway, he's a cute little boy and we love his guts. He just took a lot longer to sleep train than Alexa. And it's still a work in progress. We're trying to get him to sleep well so that he can sleep in the same room as Alexa. Soon I think....

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stairs and a silly little girl....

I forgot to mention a few August updates in my last post, and have some more Alexa stories (as always)...First, Kyle (with the help of Uncle Paul and Todd--thank you!!) finished the stairs and they look awesome!! He completely rebuilt them (ripped them down all the way to the drywall). Second, both Kyle and I were supposed to be in this work athletic competition in August, but I had to back out for obvious reasons. Kyle still did the tennis and basketball tournaments and made me oh so proud. He even got this funny little basketball trophy for taking third place. The other tournaments that week included horseshoes, ping pong, foosball, golf, Wii dance, volleyball, and a triathlon. We went to Ikea for breakfast last Saturday (so delicious and cheap!) and bought Alexa a stuffed puppy while we were there. She now takes it everywhere continuously saying "puppy, puppy, puppy!" Speaking of the puppy, she even dragged it through toilet water last week. Yes, you

Good news!

I'm excited to announce that we went to the doctor yesterday for another ultrasound and I now have all my privileges reinstated!! Tear is healed and baby looks good, so we are very grateful. As promised, I took Alexa to the park to celebrate. We went swinging and ran around looking for flowers (dandelions). She has to stop and touch every flower she finds :). She insisted that her puppy come along. Maybe because she's a lazy bum and wanted to use him as a pillow!! We didn't get any really good ultrasound pictures from the tech (I should have made special requests!), but we saw lots of baby! This was the ultrasound (20 weeks) where they check every little thing developing - every section of the brain, spine, chambers of the heart, kidneys, diaphragm, fingers, toes, blood flow, placenta, cord, measurements of head and waist (baby is 4 days bigger than the due date), etc. etc. It's so fascinating to see all of that already developed and so teeny tiny!! Baby

April - May 2012

We started out April very busy at work with the Shelf Reliance annual convention up at the Salt Palace. I stayed up there Thursday morning through Saturday night and ran around making sure things went smoothly with registration, workshops, the AV Team, slide layouts, that the owners actually stopped to eat, etc. etc. We normally had meetings with the AV Team until 2 in the morning to prep for the next day, and were up early in the morning with the consultants. It was lots of fun! The executive team even dressed up as an 80’s band for the final group session and performed some Bon Jovi and Air Supply. They were in a band together in college, so I think this was like a dream come true. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to use my amazing musical talent to help make up some lyrics to their songs that had to do with the company. We also had a FANTASTIC guest speaker, Kris Belcher. She travels a lot doing motivational speaking, and was phenomenal. I laughed so hard that I was crying

La felicidad que se encuentra: Kyle, Jenny, Alexa, Tyler, Tad, Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

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