Ella turns four...

Ella

-Right now Ella is really interested in princesses (Cinderella is the favorite)

-She's moved on from pretty skirts to prefering dresses

-Ella is very spunky (dear God, please let it be a phase!)

-She likes to torment her brothers from the moment she wakes up to the moment she goes to sleep. ☺

-She loves her baby sister, Clara

-Her favorite colors are pink and purple

 Her Cinderella dress that she received as a gift. She actually got two since Rosaleen bought her one and Janille did too. :D It works out though because Ella loves it so much she wants to wear it everyday.

 We got her a bike this year too, since she's growing out of the bike we got her last year and she was stealing Aidan's bike. ;)

 She wanted a Cinderella party

 If you notice behind Cinderella there...right as the party was starting, Britton walked over to the cake and pulled Cinderella out of the cake and smashed up the corner.
There was lots of crying, good way to start a party. Heh.

 My cake decorating skills get worse every year... I'm going to permanately turn that job over to Cary. ☺

Thanks everyone who came!

Two Months (Clara)

Clara at two months old.

(I'm writing all this down for my own info, it's amazing how fast I forget)

- Weighing in around 13 lbs according to our scale (however accurate it may be) ☺

- She's been smiling for a couple of weeks now.

- Sleeping longer stretches at night (like 5-6 hours), but mom knows better than to get excited about this because all my kids start sleeping through the night around two months old and then hit a growth spurt or something and it goes back to crap. ;)

- She lost all her hair except a patch in the back near her neck, but she's growing some dark fuzz now.

- I hope it's safe to say that she's not colicky or anything. She'll have a fussy day here and there, but at least it's not everyday like it was with my boys.

- She has a little bit of reflux, but not bad enough that we need to medicate, I just try and make sure to keep her propped up for awhile after feeding.  Some nights I'll hear her ruminating...for lack of a better word while she's trying to sleep.

- The other kids adore her, and I still have to watch Britton very closely because he'd like to love her to death. (literally) I think Britton and Ella ask to hold her about every ten minutes. Ella had major regression a few weeks after Clara was born and we dealt with a very trying couple of weeks of potty accidents. She seems to have gotten over it and is back to normal. Whew.

 

2 Months Old (Britton)

This little guy is now two months old!

He's letting me sleep a little bit more at night, so that's always nice. ☺

He's also getting pretty smiley, but not for the camera.