Aubrey is 4 months!

Aubrey is 4 months old! At her four month doctor visit, she had to get a few shots and one (or maybe two?) oral vaccines. Yuck! She really doesn’t cry very often so it was so heartbreaking to hear her scream when she got her shots! She weighs 14 lbs 7 oz which is in the 64th percentile. She is still SO long. She is 26 inches – the 98th percentile!! The doctor was impressed at how strong she is! For Ben’s sake, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she’ll be our athlete. She rolls from her back to her front and I have seen her roll the other way too but only a couple of times. She giggles (love!) and smiles all the time. Just in the last couple of days we have started stretching out her day time feedings to 3 1/2 or 4 hours and she is doing great with that. She is still sleeping at night. She sleeps through the night most of the time but will occasionally have a night where she wakes up hungry around 3am. Luckily, those aren’t too often. She had her first taste of rice cereal yesterday. I don't think she was too impressed. : ) We have switched to all formula for her. I was sad to give up nursing but it was just too difficult with me being back at work. Speaking of being back at work, things are still working out really well with the nanny, Mrs. Paulina. She is wonderful! She takes such good care of Aubrey and does lots of extras around the house that I don’t even ask her to do. She makes the beds and cleans up our breakfast dishes and has even had dinner ready for us a couple of times. She is so awesome! She usually shows up on Monday morning with some special treat she found for Aubrey over the weekend. And she made the tutu that Aubrey is wearing in the 4 month pictures below. She is such a blessing to us!

 

At the doctor:

 

 

Sisterly Love

“I found my feet!”

 

 

“No more pictures please!!”

The Week In Review

We have had an eventful week so I thought it deserved it’s own blog post. Last Friday I took the day off and went with Ava and Macy on their field trip to Disney On Ice. It was a blast! It is fun to see them in their element interacting with friends and teachers at school (amazing how much better they behave at school!). The show was great. It had all of their favorite princesses and songs!

Macy and her friend Boden on the school bus.



Loving the show

The pictures that I took of the show didn't turn out very good, but you can see Mickey in this one.

Outside American Airlines Center waiting for the bus to pick us up.

 

On Saturday, we went to a crawfish boil in our neighborhood. I was too busy with Aubrey to get any pictures but Ava and Macy had their first taste of crawfish! They will pretty much try any foods but I was a little surprised that they tasted it. I mean… it has eyeballs and legs!! They didn’t hate it but they didn’t love it either. They kept calling it lobster. : )

 

 

On Monday, Aubrey had her four month doctor visit. It went really well (except for the four shots!). I will post more details about that when I do her 4 month post. Here’s a sneak peek of her at the dr. visit. She’s getting so strong!

 

On Tuesday, we went to kindergarten round up and registered Ava and Macy for kindergarten! Wow! All it involved was dropping off paperwork but it was still pretty exciting. They will get to tour the school in May. I attempted to take a picture of them outside of the school but the ice cream truck drove by right as we were walking out of the school and then Macy proceeded to throw a fit because I wouldn’t let her get ice cream. Not exactly kindergarten behavior!!

 

The rest of the week was pretty low key for us girls, but Ben spent Wednesday at the Masters tournament. He got to go for “work.” It was a quick trip but he said it was awesome and something he can cross of the bucket list. He brought back really cute golf shirts for Ava and Macy. Macy wants to wear it every day and Ava doesn’t like it because it’s “boyish.” Actually, she says “boilish” but she means boyish. (It’s purple by the way but apparently shirts with collars are for boys.)

 

Yesterday we had soccer and last night we grilled out and enjoyed this awesome Spring weather with some friends. Today we are taking it easy after all of the excitement we have had! Getting ready for another busy work/school week ahead of us.

 

Just a few more pics:

 

Macy entertaining Aubrey while I make dinner.

Ava helping feed Aubrey before church.

Hey there Momma!

We've been putting her in her Bumbo on the table while we eat dinner and she loves it.

The girls with their neighborhood friends. 4 little princesses. They are surrounding Ben who has a ladybug. The ladybug kept them entertained for a LONG time.

EASTER

We had a fabulous Easter weekend. On Friday, the girls had their Easter Egg Hunt at school and then we went to Rockwall to hang out with the Nalleys. Saturday we had a soccer game (Ava and Macy both scored a goal!) and egg decorating at home. Sunday morning we got up to see what the Easter bunny brought, went to church, went out for Easter brunch, and then relaxed at home for the rest of the afternoon. Here are some pics from our weekend.

 

 

 

 



Easter baskets waiting to be filled. The girls wanted to leave some carrots for the Easter Bunny.
 

He came!

You can't tell what she is doing in this picture but the Easter basket is filled with candy and goodies and the first thing Macy did was start eating the Easter Bunny's left over carrots!

 

Ava still half asleep and pumped about her chocolate bunny!
 

Hunting for eggs.




Aubrey checking out her Easter loot.
 

3 Months Old

Well, we have all survived me going back to work. Aubrey is still alive and I didn't have a mental breakdown (although I came close). Mom and Dad came and stayed Saturday through Tuesday so that Aubrey would be with them on my first couple of days back. That was such a blessing! It was much easier to leave her knowing that she was at home with them. Also, mom made a TON of meals and put them in my freezer so that I won't have to worry about coming home to cook dinner. Such a lifesaver! Paulina, the babysitter, started on Wednesday. I seriously thank God everyday for sending her my way. She is amazing. I feel so comfortable leaving Aubrey with her. She is sweet and personable and loving and nurturing and honest and so much more. She does a great job of doing what I ask her to do but is also assertive enough to make decisions about what is best for Aubrey without needing to check with me on every little thing. She is a mom and has a mother's intuition. I know that she really loves Aubrey too which means so much to me. As for me, it is SO hard to be away from Aubrey but in a way it is good to be back in the swing of things. I only teared up at work a couple of times the first day when people would ask about her. But I cried all the way to work on Wednesday when I left her with Paulina for the first time. But after seeing how good Paulina was with her, I haven't had any more breakdowns.  I am so ready for summer though!!

I just took Aubrey's 3 month pictures because she had this terrible eye infection and I didn't want her eye to be all yucky in the pictures. Oh yeah... that was another thing. She has been the perfect picture of health for her whole little life and then got this eye infection the weekend before I had to go back to work! Again, thank God for Mom and Dad. They took her to the doctor on Monday which was my first day back. She also stopped sleeping through the night that week. I don't know if it was the eye or the change with me being gone but she decided to start waking up in the middle of the night for the first time in weeks! But now that her eye is better, we are back on track with that now. Thank goodness!

She has started giggling and making all kinds of new sounds. She smiles all the time. She found her hands and loves to stare at them and suck on them. She has started "playing" with her little toys that hang down from her playmat. She will reach up for them and grab them. This makes Ava and Macy so happy. All they have ever wanted was for her to play with toys, so now they are getting their wish. I walked in the other day and found Ava holding Aubrey's little hand and making her push buttons on my iPhone to play a game. Aubrey was just going along with it. Letting Ava move her hand around to find the different rhyming words. : ) She is taking bottles really well and we have moved to about half formula feeding and half nursing but we are slowly moving to more formula. I'm doing the best I can with nursing while being back at work but it is really hard. At night, I put her to bed about 8:30 and then go in and feed her around 9:30 then put her back down and she will usually sleep until around 7:00 or 7:30. She is such a good baby and such a blessing to our family. Here are some 3 month pics!

This was her eye the day before we took her to the doctor. Poor baby!



This was the worst day. The first medicine they prescribed didn't work so it kept getting worse. Finally got some drops that cleared it up.

 

Sitting on the couch and watching TV.