Nat is 4 months

Well Natalie is four months now.  On December 5th she rolled over from belly to back.  She can almost roll over from back to belly but her big ol head gets in the way.  She is in 3 month and 3-6 month clothes and growing out of those.  She wears size 1 diapers still, but I think that will only be for a few more weeks.  She is starting to get on a pattern and schedule of things.  She has slept at least 6 hours a night since birth but now we are up to about 10 hours at night.  She has slept in her sleeper thing until this past week when she moved to her crib and pack n play finally.  We should see her official weight here in a few days.  I bet she is over 15 lbs.  On the 17th of December we started on solid foods.  Guideline say one teaspoon, well our chunky money laughs or screams at that.  She can power down her bottle and then a big ol heaping scoop of food.  So far she likes sweet potatoes, bananas and rice cereal.  When she gets tired and fussy she likes to be held upright and over your shoulder so she can see the world around her.

Hopefully I can remember to blog every few months or so.  Next time Nicole.

Last road trip

So I took Nicole on our last road trip as a family of three, too bad Jake was in Alaska.  We went ot Shawnee, OK to visit Jakes Aunt and Uncle.  Nicole loves going to visit them and seeing them.  They live on bit of land so Nicole loves being able to run around and have very little restrictions.  Her Uncle PawPaw as she calls Uncle Dennis has a golf cart that she loves to ride and now drive.  She told me "mommy, he goes fast"  so cute.  It was a nice quiet few days of Nicole playing in her new pool and riding around on the golf cart.  During this trip I got us tickets to the Oklahoma  Relief Concert being hosted by Toby Keith but more importantly featuring Garth Brooks.  Garth Brooks is someone I have wanted to see for a number of years.  Uncle PawPaw, Nicole ad I headed to Norman, Ok the site of the concert, on the way there we passed by some of the tornado damage that struck the cities of Shawnee and Moore, it was amazing to see the damage that has happened.  Makes me pretty happy to be in my home.
All week I had watched the weather for Norman, OK more specifically OU Stadium, it kept showing mild 80's but on game day it was well over 90 degrees and inside the stadium that holds over 88000 people it was hotter.  We were on the field about 20 rows back.  When we got there the opening act had start already, we thought nearly 2 hrs early was enough time to get there, but again 80 thousand people converging on one town is a lot.  The opening act was Mel Tillis and to say Dennis was excited over that would be an understatement.  I know he was tagging along for the fun of being with us girls but he was pretty excited to see an act he liked.  After Mel was Garth Brooks and joined by Trisha Yearwood another performer I had wanted to see.  Garth sang for over an our.  At this point we had been in the sun for over 2 hrs and me and baby girl were just about done.  So we left with Garth singing The Dance,  it was a good time.  Nicole doesn't realize it now but she saw a great concert at the young age of 2.  Her first concert was in my belly and for the life of me I cant remember who it was we saw.
After the concert me and Nicole headed home the next day.  It was a good 4 days in Shawnee, next time we are there we will have a new bundle of love with us.

Speaking of baby, I sure don't remember all these Braxton Hicks with Nicole, Natalie/Alison is kicking my butt.  I see the doc on Wednesday and going to see if he really thinks 6 more weeks is doable.

Other than that Jake gets home on Friday and then we start the countdown to Nicole's birthday, Mikes visit and baby girl Chapman.

Asked Nicole to take her bathroom bag to the bathroom and she emptied it.

Riding around

Jealous of Aunt Cindys garden.  

getting us some ear defenders

looking up to her PawPaw

"Thunder Rolls" was a little loud for girly

Rest time

New things

So many things are going on over the next few months.
I did a little countdown of the events leading up to Nicole and thought I would do the same for this next girly.

June 28th-July 12 Jake leaves
July 3-7 Nicole and I travel to OKC
July 6th- Nicoles first concert
July 16th Nicoles Birthday
July 20th Nicoles Birthday
July 28th-Aug 1 ish-Jakes dad Mike is visiting
August 18th-Terri arrives
August 21st-Baby Girl Natalie arrives

I have seen people in the past write  alist of their kids things for milestones and birthday.  So here is Nicole's:

She is 3 yrs old on July 16th
Height: 37.75 inches tall
Weight: 32.2 lbs
Favorite food is tacos and brocoli
Favortie TV show is Gabba and Dora
Favorite Movie: Toss up between Finding Nemo and Beethoven
Favortie toy: Her dolls
She is Daddys little girl.  She loves her dog Toby.  She loves riding her scooter

Happenings June 2013

Its been almost a month of potty training and so far so good.  When Jake got home on the 16th we said no more diapers or pull ups.  Its been just over three weeks of no accidents.  Happy to say we are doing both one and two in the toilet.  She was scared to use the potty to poop, it was so sad but now no more issues.  TMI I know but its those little things

Baby #2 is growing more and more everyday.   I swear she is taking up so much room in my belly that its hard to get comfortable.   Her name is a great discussion in our house.  I had asked Nicole to pick between Alison and Natalie and she picked Alison, but after a week of hearing Alison, me and Jake think Natalie sounds better.  SO either way we haven't decided either Alison Mae or Natalie Mae.  Mae is a family name on both sides.  Jakes Granny Sharon's middle name is May.  And my great grandmother is Mae as well as Mae is my middle name.  She will also share Mae with her cousin Ellie Mae (Hope's little girl) So whatever first name we choose Mae will be her middle.

I am so excited to be done with school.  I was upset to not be able to walk here in Clovis but found that the Lubbock school will let me walk for my degree next week.  So we are heading out early Friday to stay in a nice hotel with a pool (another treat for Nicole) and then get to walk later that night.  Pretty excited.

Other than those things we are trying to get the backyard done.  We are building Nicole a swing set and will pick it up when we go to Lubbock.  Jake is gearing up to head to Alaska to float the Kwethluk River at the end of June.  And then not long after that Girly #2 will arrive August 21st.  So excited.  Terri gets here on the 19th so hopefully she will hold out until then.

Potty training

SOOOO after many times of trying to potty training I decided that this was the week to try again.  Our girly is so stubborn that she will just hold it and not pee or poop at all.  I hate this but I can't convince her to go.  So on Monday of this week it had been two days of nothing.  She seems to have this fear of accidents in undies.  Well daycare brought accidents the first day but by Tuesday she had one accident and I got to see her pee in the toilet.  Not sure if it is pregnancy hormones or what but I was tearing up over her peeing in a toilet.  So we still hadn't gone at home at this point but that changed on Wednesday (yesterday)  Today at daycare she did a both in the potty it is so exciting.  She even went at home after dinner.  Jake had said a new bike if she got it down before she got home, but he changed that to a Razor Scooter (I got hr one for her birthday so we have it already)  SO she keeps saying every time after she pees that she gets one.

So I have realized its the things that are little to others but huge to a parent.  Now lets hope I didn't jinx us and she keeps it up!!