Busy morning

Last night I got the kids clothes ready for this morning. I didn't check the weather though. I picked out a pair of shorts and short sleeve or sleeveless shirt for each. This morning Chad mentioned that he thought they were going to be cold as it wasn't suppossed to get over 70 until around 4:00. So then the madness began. I knew I had recently bought Isabelle one pair of jeans on sale a while back so I immediately went to get those. They were pretty big on her. So then we went through her jeans from last year. They were all too small - way too short. We ended up putting her back in the new ones, but she was complaining the whole way to school they were too big. On the drive in to work i remembered that she had some capri-pants that would have worked perfectly. Will definitely have those ready for tomorrow.

Went through the same thing with Charlie. He is a really tough one when it comes to wearing pants. The boy is small, really small. He has been wearing 12 month shorts this summer and everything has been great. They fit him in the waist and we don't have to worry about length. With pants though, the 12 month pants are a little too short. He is wearing them today and they don't look too bad, but I think we need to get a bigger size for length. I worry though that they won't stay up around his waist. The elasticized waist bands are great, but for the most part they don't start doing those until the 2T sizes. I have found a few alternatives but they are rather expensive. Do you have any suggestions???

Speaking of size, Henry is really closing the gap on Charlie. He is wearing mostly 6-9 months still, but the 12 month clothes are probably a little better fit. I think he will definitely be in 12 months for the winter. Charlie may still be there too. Charlie's clothes from his first winter were 3-6 and 6-9 month clothes. We are just going to bypass that whole bin. I guess it will be nice if they are wearing the same size so that they can share. They are already wearing the same size diaper. Actually I have contemplated moving them up a size, not for Charlie, but for Henry as he wakes up wet lots of mornings. I just got some huggies overnights over the weekend so hopefully that will do the trick. With the larger diapers, you still pay the same amount of money, but get less diapers. Hopefully we will be able to make it a little while longer in the threes and my bigger hope is that we will have Charlie out of diapers before too long.

Henry's Picture

I was able to copy it from Face*book, but it is a little small. Hope you enjoy his smile as much as I do.

Henry's moving around

I do realize that I have yet to get up a picture of Henry. It just seems that I am never at the computer that has the pictures when I need to be. I have been trying to get some pictures of Henry in his newest poses. A couple of weeks ago he started pushing himself up on his hands and toes. He gets in the perfect position to do a push up. His body is straight, and he holds himself up off the ground on his hands and toes. He is the first of my children to do this so I found it rather interesting. I haven't been able to catch it on camera as he usually doesn't stay there for long. Last week he got himself up on his hands and knees and was rocking back and forth. He looked he was so surprised he was able to do this new trick. I almost caught it on camera, but just as I was taking the picture, Chad walked in and said something, so Henry laid back down to turn around to see his Daddy. I will get a picture soon though.

This is harder than I imagined

So, I haven't posted anything new in two weeks. Time flies when you're having fun. It has been a busy few weeks. Two weeks ago Friday Chad, Isabelle and I attended a party to welcome Dr. Jaggers to the Eye Care Institute. We had a very nice time and she thought it was very special that she got to go out with Mom and Dad without Charlie and Henry. The following day we celebrated Chad's dad's birthday.

This past weekend we had our Annual Neighborhood Association meeting/cookout. In years past it has been held at the public pool which was not a conceivable options for attendance for us with three small kids. This year it was a block party with a big inflatable. The kids had a great time. Isabelle enjoyed bouncing in the inflatable and Charlie ran around chasing after the kids. Anytime one of the kids was running, he thought they were playing tag. He caught one little girl by surprise when he ran after her a grabbed her. I was quick to let him know that wasn't nice and he answered, but I was playing tag. Is the game over? He is such a sweet kid, but is sometimes a handful.

The five of went to the zoo yesterday. It was such a beautiful day. Everyone had a great time. We actually saw parts of the zoo that we had somehow managed to miss on our previous trips. Isabelle's favorite was the wild pig and Charlie liked the gorillas. He was really disappointed that he didn't get to see dinosaurs.

A few things from the weekend..lessons learned

Friday afternoon I am working seeing patients and having a good day when I received a call from the preschool. "Isabelle has stuck a sticker up her nose that we can't get out. We think you need take her to the pediatrician." My internal response was, she did what??? and then, how am I going to be able to get her. I actually replied with, "OK, can I get back with you to let you know when either my husband or I can be there to get her." So I hung up the phone, spoke with one of the other doctors and decided that I would get her and bring her back to the office to try to remove the sticker. When I get there to pick her up, she is happy-go-lucky ready books in the office. Again my response is what??? I expect her to be at least a little upset by what has occurred, maybe say that she was sorry, but that wasn't the case. I think I talked until my face turned blue on the way to the office. I am not sure if I made any difference, but she did tell me she was sorry. Once we got to the office, we didn't find a sticker in her nose. I checked her vision since she was here and we went on our way. I am hoping that a lesson was learned, but I am not so sure that it was.

Yesterday the two big kids were having some yogurt at the table. They like trix yogurt which is usually bright blue and pink. I heard them talking about being invisible, but didn't make much of it. When I went in the kitchen to check on them though, they were both covered in yogurt. Charlie had painted half of his face and hair blue. I think he truly thought that it was making him invisible though because Isabelle said so. He had no idea that he had done anything wrong. Some harsh words later I think he caught on to the idea. Isabelle thought that she was not in trouble as she didn't have as much yogurt on her face, but some more harsh words later and she caught on as well. So hopefully they will have learned their lesson and not paint themselves with yogurt. I have learned my lesson and now know, next time grab the camera for the blog and then proceed with harsh words.

3rd child not forgotten

They say that the more children you have, the less pictures you take. This is true. Henry is 7 month old and we just now had pictures taken. We did have pictures taken of Henry by himself. Somehow, they didn't make it in the previous post. I promise I did upload them, but as I was uploading the pictures there was an error so I came back and posted later. Henry's picture didn't make it. I will get his picture up as well, but I have to wait until I can do it at home because that is where the pictures are.

An ALMOST impossible task

Have you ever tried to get a picture of three children? A four year old, a two year old and a 7 month old? Isabelle was great. She genuinely smiled and was very cooperative. Henry was pretty good too, although he decided to not take an afternoon nap before we went. The problem child was Charlie. The boy would not sit still. He was moving all around and laying down when he was supposed to be up, or getting up when he was supposed to be down. The photographer was very patient and we managed to get some good shots and of course spend too much money on pictures, but we won't be doing that again for a while.