Please pass me the Mother-of-the-Year Award!

I took the boys to Imagine It yesterday morning and as we are in the car coming home, stopped at a light, Riley sitting in the third row, way beyond my short arms reach (I mean I can barely reach the second row) and he's all "WAAAAATER!!!" man he is thirsty from playing hard and he's eating his pretzels and crap his water is next to me, I forgot to give it to him.  I start thinking about how he is going to cry the whole way home if I don't get him water....so I grab it, turn myself around (still stopped at the red light) and lob it back to him.....whacks him right in the freaking head, stuns him, falls to the floor of the van.....he starts bawling, both because I hit him in the head and because now he doesn't have his water.  And I can't help but laugh....for two reasons....1) what the hell was I thinking? did I really think he was going to catch that???? and 2) I am sick in the head and can't help but laugh any time someone gets hit in the head. bad mommy, poor little guy!

Then our whole schedule was off yesterday afternoon because we went to get hair cuts and then to yogurt tap as a treat because it was Siena’s last day (sad panda) which meant we didn't get home until 530.  Normally I feed Kellen at 4/430 and put him in the swing for a late afternoon nap at 530, but he had fallen asleep and our schedule was off, so I fed him at 530 and then put him in the swing so I could cook dinner and do the whole dinner/bath/bedtime routine for the big boys. Normally I get Kellen at 7 once I get Riley down, and do his whole bedtime routine, but since I didn't feed him until 530 I figured I would wait until 8.  So I go on about checking things off my to-do list......10pm, done with most things on the list and now its time for bed!   230am Kellen wakes up (he's been STTN, yay) so I get up and I'm all groggy and I go into his room, but he's not in his crib, but he's crying and I'm all disoriented thinking "how did he get out of the crib??? where is he???" looking all over the floor.....um no, he's still in the damn swing! I completely forgot to put him to bed. I mean, obviously he is fine, he was sleeping in the swing, he was fed, but like how the hell did I forget that?

so, there you have it, pass me the mother of the year award!

Nerds Unite

So you’ve seen my growth charts that I’ve been keeping, but today a friend of mine asked where the color coded line chart was and I almost passed out…..I hadn’t even thought to make one!  Within minutes, these were created!

 

Kellen is 4 months old!

And too stinking cute!!!

I mean look at that face!  Gah!

Took him in for his 4 month appointment today, just a week after taking him in for his first sick visit, coxsackie virus.   Boo!  Sick babies are NO FUN!  But he’s all better and he looks awesome.  He got two shots, the first one didn’t even phase him and the second he started to make a face just as she was finishing and it was over and nothing!  Rock star!

He started rolling over from his back to his belly on 7/16/11, one week shy of 4 months old.  Finn and Riley both did this when they were 5 months old!  And in the week that he started doing it, he has completely mastered this skill and rolls all.over.the.place!  He’s like a steam roller, he just keeps going and going….

I have mentioned before how much his big brothers love him, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned how much he loves his big brothers!  Riley likes to get RIGHT.IN.HIS.FACE and talk to him (very loudly) and Kellen thinks it is the funniest thing ever!  He loves to sit and watch them play and laughs and smiles and coos along with them. 

Right now Finn and Riley are BFF’s, but I think once Finn starts school and as Kellen gets older, I see the same thing happening with Riley and Kellen.  As the days pass by, I am more and more happy that we had them all so close together.  I suppose it is more challenging (not that I know any different!) but it is SO worth it!

Now for the details…..

Kellen’s Growth Chart

Age	Weight	%	Height	%	Head	%
Birth	8lbs 8oz		21”
5 Days	8lbs		21”
1 Month	11lbs 9.5oz	90th	22.875”	95th	15.25”	90th
2 Months	14lbs 6.5oz	90th	24.5”	95th	16”	90th
4 Months	16lbs 10oz	85th	26”	85th	16.625”	75th

Grandpas!

Papa gets a little snuggle time with Kellen!

   

and some talk time!

And, grandpa O’C came to visit too and finally got to meet Kellen!

 

Finn’s Camera

Another really awesome gift that Finn got for his birthday, was his own digital camera from Grandma and Papa!  He LOVES it!  Grandma and Papa gave it to him before his party, so he was SUPER excited to take pictures of his party and friends!  I think we’ve got a budding little photographer on our hands!

His first ever picture!

Us working on painting the signs for his party!  (very flattering picture, yes)

His new Finn McMmissile!

The neighbors, ha!

Yes, that is a man in a big peach costume.

His new bike!

  

His new monster truck!

Busted!

Birthday Presents!

Finn got a lot of really awesome presents for his birthday this year, and I let him dictate his thank you cards, which was HILARIOUS.  I really wish I had copied down a few of them just so I could remember, but they were definitely the best thank you cards ever!

He got this huge dinosaur floor puzzle, that he LOVES!

 

And a Cars Road mat!  He makes a road on our living room rug every day during quiet time, we thought it would be FUN to get him a real road.

 

And, drum roll please…….a new big boy bicycle!!!

He had outgrown the one we bought him for Christmas 1.5 yrs ago, it was time for an upgrade!  Please note, he had JUST woken up from a nap when we sprung this on him, so that’s why he is a little spacey in the video!  Here is some video of him zooming around on it!

And video of Riley zooming around on his bike too!

Flashcards

2.5 years ago, Aunt Britt gifted us these awesome Flashcards.  I won’t go into the details of why it is 2.5 years later and we finally got our cards, but here they are and they are awesome!

We made a set of Family cards, and choosing the pictures was the hardest part.  Turns out there isn’t a picture of just me that isn’t pregnant, shocking, I know, so I just went with it.  But I absolutely love the way these turned out!

And Finn loves his card!

 

Thank you Aunt Britt!

When Big Brothers Are Away….

Little brother gets to sit in front!

End of an Era….

Finn has worn this swim suit for 3 years now…..amazing that it still fits him, but it has finally said “ENOUGH!”.

There is a huge hole in the shirt, not good SPF coverage, and the seams in his shorts are coming undone at the bottom.  It’s time to move on!

Right Said Kellen, er, Fred!

I’m 4 months old today, and I’m too sexy for my shirt!

Official measurements and post to come on Monday, but this was just too stinking cute not to share!  Todd’s aunt sent this tie, and matching ones for the bigger boys, and some other goodies in the mail this week!  I.die.

He just keeps on rolling on….

Kellen has a few new tricks!!!

One of them is Todd’s FAVORITE baby thing….grabbing his feet!

 

I lay Kellen down in bed for the night and he is playing with his feet so I call Todd in to watch and he kind of looks like he’s about to roll over (from back to belly!) and I jokingly mention this to Todd……20 minutes later he is WAILING at the top of his lungs….get into his room to find him laying on his belly.  Stinker DID roll over!  and he did NOT like it one bit.  Its like he has completely forgotten that he knows how to roll from his belly to his back!

Then, at like 6am and I can hear his mobile playing through the monitor.  I ask Todd if he got up and turned it on for him and I somehow slept through it and he says “no….wonder if he had a visitor?”  Meaning, that either Riley or Finn (most likely Riley) went in and turned it on.  So I get up, all mad that Riley would go in there and turn it on (because Riley is always turning it on) but when I get up, I find Finn on the potty and Riley sound asleep in bed.  “Whuck???”  So I go into Kellen’s room and and find him really close to the end of the bed….he flipped the switch himself with his foot!  Someone call Mensa, he is a baby genius!

We’ve since spent a long few nights with him flipping onto his belly and wailing and us flipping him back over…..finally he relented and gave in to the nap!  Yay!!!

Video of back to belly!

And just like that, he is finally remembering that he can roll both ways!

I’ve taken about a thousand videos at this point, but I’ll stop here….for now!