Random Recent Pictures

For Father's Day I wanted to take a picture of all four boys together for Phil to take to work.  This was the best I got, and I thought it was pretty good!  Most of the boys were very cooperative... one was not so much.  Can you guess which one?  LOL!  :)

Then, of course, when I finally convinced Emmett to smile, J's eyes were almost closed!  :)

Aaaannd... then I knew the moment was over and I would have to hope I had already gotten at least one good one.  The photoshoot went better than I thought it would, though!

The older three are doing a summer program at their preschool three days a week for a few weeks.  Here they are on the first day...

Reid loves fire trucks right now so I found him that cute lunchbox on Amazon.  He's not too happy right now about being away from Mommy, which makes it very difficult for us to go to church or me to go to bible study, so we're hoping a few weeks of this fun program might help with that.  He's getting a little better every day.

Sleepy chubby baby in the car seat...

And again after wearing himself out jumping.  He LOVES this jumperoo just like Jackson did...

Reid put this ring on his head at the pool the other day and we thought he looked like an angel with his water "wings"....

And then Emmett wanted to try... :)

Reid was watching Phil mow the lawn the other day and he ran inside yelling, "I need my hat!" A few minutes later he ran out with this on again...  LOL!

Tractor fun at Lowe's...

"YO!  Woman!  I don't care if I look cute in these PJs!  I want to freaking eat and go to sleep!!!"

We went to Destin the other day to visit family and at the end of the day Reid was plumb worn out.  We loved how his two sucking fingers just slid out of his mouth and stayed in "ready" position.  :)

Fountain Fun and Hair Tears

A few weekends ago we drove over to the "fancy, high-class" beaches to walk through two other houses that our builder is currently working on.  It was a gloomy day but still hot, so we stopped at these fountains to let the boys play.  They had a blast, and I guess since it was threatening rain no one else was there, which was nice.  These fountain play areas are really great, but all the ones we have been to down here have signs saying, "Please do not use if you are ill with diarrhea." I guess that needs to be said since the water is recirculated, but holy cow I could have done without the mental image of some other kid's diarrhea water running all over my babies.  Goo.  I try not to think about it.  :)

 

And in other "post-baby-hormones-and-humidity-made-me-do-it" news... I chopped about 7-8 inches off of my hair the other day.  I really liked it until just now when I was looking through pics on the computer for this blog post and saw my old long hair... and now I might cry.  :(  It will grow back, right?  It is much cooler and quicker to fix, so that's good.

Four Months

Stats:  25.5 inches long and 17 pounds. 

Still eating about every two hours during the day (and at least twice a night...ugh!).  It's been hard to get him on a consistent schedule with how busy we are and how every day is different for us with the big boys' activities and such.  That's probably why he's still eating so often.  But he continues to be very happy and content all the time and falls asleep on the go without fussing, which helps us to be able to still get out and do fun things as a family.  And he has no problem sleeping in his crib, either, so that's good.    

Just learned to roll both ways, but won't do it in the crib!  I have to go in there and flip him over when he rolls onto his back.  That happened with all the boys, though.  

LOVES his brothers.  It's so nice now to be able to set him down and have him be entertained by them, at least a little bit.  And when he is fussy I can ask J or E to go over to him and talk to him or put his pacifier back in and that usually makes him cheer up for a little bit.  They make him laugh all the time, too.  It's so great!  :)

Anytime you see an off-center picture of Davis, it's most likely because I had to move the camera away from my face so he can see me smile at him in order to get him to smile!  He gets transfixed by the camera and won't smile if it's in front of my face.  :)

Just some random iPhone pictures...

In mid-roll-over...

This is when I knew we had to start strapping him into the bouncy seat.  He had rolled over onto his belly from his back.  Oops!

Happy, happy baby!!

Watching J on the iPad...

He is starting to like the jumperoo thing... but only for a few minutes at a time.

And he loves sitting in the Bumbo.  I usually put him in it on the floor while the boys are playing so he can watch them, but I do also set him on the table sometimes when the boys are eating or playing up there.  I know, I know... you're not supposed to put it on a raised surface, but I'm always close by!  And how else can he watch them when they're at the table??  He just loves watching them and sits there smiling and even cooing at them!  And when they talk to him he laughs and laughs!  :)  Thank goodness for older siblings!

He is seriously the sweetest little thing.  My little lovey.  :)