Friday, April 17, 2009

8 Weeks Old and a Warm Sunny Day!

8 weeks old and this picture above pretty much sums it up! Last week she figured out her thumb, this week she figured out how to use it! It's great! she soothes herself during the day and the middle of the night! Right now she is up to 6 hour stretches at night! Almost a full night's sleep for us! This week she grew out of the sling in the tub, and look how big she looks without it! She sits/lounges solidly in the tub itself, Caden and Cole would flop all over the place and slide off the bum bump when they first started! We weighed her yesterday and we think she is around 14.5 lbs! Whoowhee! She's a big one!
Today was a glorious day! reaching the high 60's maybe even low 70's! We decided to venture to the playground, and totally overdressed! It was HOT! You can see by Caden's pink cheeks! We also discovered this week that Caden went through some sort of growth spurt. He had grown out of his jeans a couple weeks ago.. but now nothing fits! Not his long sleeve shirts or his windpants! So I was a bit embarrassed as a Mom at the playground because that is when I figured this all out! I'm sure (or I hope!) I am the only one who noticed! It doesn't help that we are all wearing clothes that are left over in our closets since all our nicer clothes are packed for Nevada!! Caden is also going through a phase where he likes to hike up his pants over his belly button (not sure what that is all about) so it makes his pants look even shorter! Anyway the boys had a great time at the playground, it is so nice this year because Cole is big enough to go down the slides by himself and climb around and do most everything! It also helps that he is a bit of a dare-devil. He goes down slides this year that Caden wouldn't even go down last year!
Caden also got his first dose of mean kids. He was running around with some older kids (5 or 6?)and he was trying to play with them, but they kept calling him a baby, etc. Caden would say "no I'm not.. I'm 4" I wanted to go tell Caden to call them shrimps since he was taller than most of them!! After I heard the boys taunting tennis players and booing them, then talking about how they should chase Caden and call him a caca-head (or however you might spell that!) I quickly diverted Caden to play with Cole-bear, Caden quickly forgot about the older kids and the 2 played together pleasantly the rest of our stay! It was great to see them interacting together and getting along so well for that long of a period of time! Enjoy the photos of a beautiful spring day!! FINALLY!
OH.. and the last picture is of the boys and their picket, I plan to take a picture of them every year with it!! Last year Cole wouldn't cooperate, not that either of them were really enjoying the moment today!!

3 comments:

Kelly said...

Mean children! I would have smacked those bullies. : ) Just kidding!

What a beautiful day!! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.

Have a great trip-- we'll miss you guys!!

Amanda said...

I love that playground! Caden's pants look fine...and if any other Moms noticed AND cared about the length of a 4 year old's pants, then they have some issues :)

Can't believe how big Cora looks. Enjoy Spring!

Anonymous said...

Let's hope Cora doesn't find her
belly button!!