May Pictures

Can you believe it is May already?!!

Chloe is already 16 weeks old! She is growing so fast and she is losing her baby hair. It looks like we are going to have another blond hair, blue eye girl! Right now, Chloe is learning to use her voice. She is making all sort of funny sounds. She is trying to roll over and she is so close. She is such a mellow baby. I can put her down after I feed her, and she will play on her little mat for hours. It is so easy to forget she is even there because she is so content. We went to the beach for mother's day weekend and everyone couldn't believe how chilled out she is. After having 2 crazy girls, I think we deserve an easy baby! Chloe is sleeping through the night and she is in her own room now. She has her 4 month check-up so hopefully I will have more to update then.

Ally is our crazy child! She is as close to a boy as we are going to get! She is talking up a storm and she is so funny. I could listen to her talk all day. She is very stubborn though. She has not had any more public tantrums but she gives us plenty of trouble at home. If she is off by herself being quiet, she is 95% of the time doing no good. The other 5% of the time she is laying in bed, sucking her thumb and holding her silky. Our neighbors just gave us all of their living room furniture, including a leather recliner, and Ally has somehow managed to completely scrape up the seat. She is constantly trying to jump off high pieces of furniture, including the kitchen table, couches, and the coffee table. She is trouble!!!

Emily is growing up too fast. The fact that she is starting Kindergarten still blows my mind. She is already on her way to reading. She knows all of her letters and she can sound out words. She still hates sharing her toys with Ally and we still have to enforce the 2 toy rule with her. She loves to draw on her drawing pad and it is getting easier to identify her drawings. She loves anything pink or princess. She and Ally have daily arguments over who gets the pink forks and spoons at meal times.

Dave and I love having 3 girls! We are really enjoying each of the girls at their different stages of life. Here are some pics of the girls!

Chloe trying to roll over.




Can you guess what the drawing is?


Dorcas, this one is for you.


Trying to get a cooperative picture of the girls is impossible!!!

Spring Time!

Being a mom of three sure does make the time fly by! I can't believe Chloe is 11 weeks old today. She is becoming very social. She now looks directly at you and smiles. It is an awesome feeling to receive a big smile from her. Last night Chloe slept through the entire night! I couldn't believe it! I woke up at around 3am, the time she normally wakes up to eat, and she was still sound asleep. I was shocked when I woke up because she was fussing, and it was 6am! If she continues to sleep through the night, I will be moving her into her own room!
Potty training update: Ally started out so good with potty training. She did all of her business on the potty and she even went in public bathrooms! Unfortunately she started having more accidents in her training diaper and every time I would take her to the bathroom, she would need a new diaper. Then she stopped pooping for days and we finally let her go in her diaper because it had been a couple of days. Then she started telling me after she peed in her diaper that she had to go to the potty and she would sit and play for several minutes and as soon as I put a clean diaper on, she would go in it. I was getting really frustrated and tired of dealing with it, so we decided it would be better to wait until I could focus more attention on her. Plus it was costing a fortune for training diapers! So now Ally is back in regular diapers. It is really hard to put her back in regular diapers after she did so well at the beginning, but she will get it when she is ready.
Next week I will be going to the local elementary school to sign Emily up for Kindergarten! It is such a bittersweet feeling. I know sending her to Kindergarten is the best decision because of how well she did in Pre-K. She loves being around other kids and she is really smart and needs to be challenged. I don't feel like I can give her those things. I am not sure what I am going to do with her being gone all week! She is my big helper and she gives Ally someone to follow around.
Here are the latest happenings around the house:

Chloe is not my best sleeper. Emily and Ally slept a lot more during the day. Chloe sleeps usually and hour or less in between feedings. But I have finally stretched her feedings to every 3 hours! What freedom!


One of Chloe's big smiles!


Ally is always trying to play with Chloe's toys. It is a big issue in this house.




Dave showing the girls how to have a tea party. They loved it!



Easter pics. Emily is already hates taking pictures! I thought I had a few more years before that started!

2 month check-up and Potty training

Chloe had her two month check-up today. She is 12 pounds 12 ounces (90th percentile) and 24 inches long (97th percentile). Everything checked out great and the best news is that the doctor could not hear a murmur at all! She thinks Chloe's hole has probably closed up! Being the concerned mom, I asked if it could have gotten bigger and the doctor said Chloe would not be gaining weight and she would be struggling to nurse if she was getting worse. Great news to hear!!!


More exciting news is that Ally is potty training! Since we moved into this house, we have put her little potty in the bathroom and whenever we catch her sneaking off to do her business, we ask if she wants to try and go on her potty. She has made a few successful attempts and this past weekend I decided she was more than ready to start training. I bought the pull-ups and we started last Saturday. Ally is doing way better than I expected! She is pooing and peeing on her potty! She is so excited about doing it as well! Today she even went in her first public bathroom (gross but still exciting)! She loves picking what color M&M she will get. I could not have dreamed her doing any better! I kept putting it off because I thought it would be too difficult with feeding Chloe. It actually works out great because I get her to go right before I start feeding Chloe. Yay Ally!!!

Rodeo Time!

Yesterday, Dave took the afternoon off and we headed down to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The weather was perfect, it wasn't crowded at all, and we had a blast.

Everyone has their cowboy boots on, ready to go!


Making silly faces in the car.




Riding the rides!








Notice both girls in time-out.









Ally trying cotton candy for the first time. Emily is in time-out.




Ally getting ready to watch the pig races!


Everyone cheering on the racing pigs!

6 Weeks!

Chloe turned 6 weeks old this week. The time has flown by! She has been much more awake and alert the last couple of weeks. She is even smiling now! She is doing really well at night. She will usually go down around 11pm, wake up at 3am to nurse, and then depending on how long she ate, she will usually sleep until 6 or 7am. Emily and Ally love their baby sister. They are great helpers especially when I am nursing. They have taken to carrying around baby dolls and dressing them in Chloe's clothes and pretending to nurse them. Getting out of the house is a huge chore for me, so we haven't been going many places. We did get to go to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo yesterday and we all had a great time getting out of the house for that.
We were unable to find our camera and so we had to buy a new one. We didn't get anything super fancy, just something to capture the girls with.




(These pictures look pink because I took them in Emily and Ally's room and they have a pink curtain.)

Latest News

We seem to have misplaced our camera during the move and we can't find it! That is the reason for the lack of pictures. Sorry guys! I have been taking a lot of pictures on my iphone but I can't figure out how to upload them to the computer and loading pics on facebook takes a long time. There are a few boxes in the garage that we have not unpacked so I am hoping the camera will show up in one of those. If not, I guess you will just have to come visit us to see the kids!! We are beginning to feel settled in the new house. I unpacked the last of the boxes in the house this morning. It feels so good to have that done!
Life with Chloe in the family is great! We went to church for the first time with her on Sunday. It went well, but I spent the entire sermon in the nursery nursing her. Fortunately I could listen to the message on an intercom. Emily and Ally were really excited to get out of the house and be around their friends.
I was supposed to take the girls up to the school today to visit with their classes and teachers, but Dave's car is having some issues and he had to take mine. Hopefully we will get up there soon.
Thursday Chloe has her cardiologist appointment. I am not sure what they will be doing but hopefully we can get our questions about her condition answered.