Hunter's Birthday Party!

Wow! I haven't blogged in forever! I have been busy with work and planning, cleaning, and doing Hunter's birthday party last weekend. We finally had his Elmo party on Saturday. We had family over and Hunter had a good time. We ate pizza had cake that my Grandma made and ice cream that Hunter loved! I made all the family play put the sticker on Elmo's nose basically pin the tale on the donkey and I felt bad but I won, which was kinda good cause I forgot to go buy a prize! We had a good time and I think that Hunter did to. This time we had it after his nap and he wasn't too cranky. I took lots of pictures so I will try to put them on photobucket here in a few. Nothing new other than that. Hunter is talking up a storm! He says full on sentences with 4-5 words to them! Sometimes you can't understand him but I can most of the time he is getting better with his words. Today he said "I go to mall I go shop". Oh no! I took him to the mall when Larry was in Canada a few times to get out of the house and kill some time so he learned what the mall was!

Miss Grace is growing like a weed. She is starting to get chunky legs and cheeks. She is still stretching outwards and she is getting a big head like Hunter's! Poor girl! She is sleeping pretty good she wakes me up at 2-3:30 and than again around 6-6:30am. She is getting really good at watching you and she follows you with her eyes. She also is liking to be held more and throws a fit if you put her in the bouncy seat when she doesn't want to be in it. She also has no patience! When she is hungry she will let you know and screams nice and loud. She also has the same sad puker face that Hunter did when he would start to cry. It is the saddest look. Well I better get some pics on here so hope everyone is doing well!

Here is the birthday boy! Annie put stickers on his head so he put more. Nice. I think he will always be putting stickers on his head! Once he learns something he keeps doing it!

My sweet little Grace. She hung out in her bouncy seat when she wasn't being held. She was just chillin and sleeping through the party. Grandpa Lonnie put her to sleep after this picture was taken. Isn't she the sweetest?!

Okay so I am going to work on Hunter's birthday pics and try to download them tonight for you all!

Tons of pictures!

I guess it isn't tons since I couldn't get blogger to download today. So it should say a few pics. I have been busy lately with work and Lar being home! I thought he would fly in today but he suprised Hunter and I by knocking on the door Monday night! Miss G was already asleep so Lar had to wait to see how much she had grown when she woke up the next morning. It is so nice to have him back home! Gotta jet I am cleaing up the house for Hunter's bday party with family on Saturday!

My growing kids!

Today Hunter and Grace had their check-ups! I love it that they were born close together in the month it makes going to doctor appts easy. Hunter was born on the 9th and Grace on the 8th. Hunter didn't get any shots but poor Miss Grace got 3! They asked if I wanted to give her the shots but I couldn't do it. I had given the same shots to a 2 month old later that day and felt more guilty about it cause I knew that Grace got the same ones. Here are my growing kids stats!

My big tall Hunter~
Weight 32 lbs (He was the same weight at his 1 year check up)
Height 35.5 inches (He is almost 3 feet tall! The doctor said he will be double this when he is older so that means he will be about 5'10!)
Head size 20.5 in (still at the 99% and always is he has a big head!)

My little peanut Miss Grace~
Weight 10 lbs 1 oz
Height 24.5 inches (she is in the 98% percentile she is going to be tall like her brother!
Head size 15.2 in (not as big as her brother but in the 47% percentile)

So there you go! Miss Grace has gained 4 lbs since birth and has stretched out from 19 in to 24.5in! And Hunter just keeps stretching out! I don't have Hunter's height when he was 2 months old for some reason it isn't on my paper's but at 4 months he was 27.3 in so I think Grace is following his footsteps! I am going to have kids taller than me!

Children's Museum!

Here are pics from my special date with my birthday boy. He had so much fun! Doesn't he look like a big boy in his polo?

Here is a picture of Miss Grace swaddled in her swaddle getting ready to go to sleep! These swaddles work! Lindsey got started on them with Nate and got Grace one for a gift and we have been using them ever since. She has slept longer through the night since we swaddled her up in one. She lost her tan the week before Larry left for Canada and now she is nice and pale like me poor girl.

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Hunter turns 2 today! For his birthday week I took him to the Children's Museum yesterday and he had a blast but didn't like leaving at all. Cried and screamed almost the whole way home. Guess he was having fun but after 2 hours I was done and we needed to get home for lunch and nap time! I still am amazed that he is 2 time sure does fly! I couldn't imagine life without my stubborn little buddy you have brought much joy to your mama and papa's life!

More info on the kids...

I forgot to mention that Miss Grace has been sleeping in her big girl crib the last two nights! I made the plunge to not put her in her co-sleeper by me and see if I could move her across our room in her big girl crib and it worked! She even slept longer in it. We don't have another room to put her in so she gets to sleep with us until we get another house. I am proud of myself cause we moved Hunter into his room from the co-sleeper at 7 weeks and I thought I might as well do it again with Grace. I am proud of myself for moving her even if it is across the room. This weekend I will tackle the co-sleeper and get it out of our room. Last night Grace slept from 9-3:30am! Than didn't wake up until 6:15am! Yeah! But I still can't get Hunter to sleep till 7 am like he was he keeps getting up around 5:45am!

Here is some info about Miss Grace...
I like to call her mouse since she is so small and petite.
She likes to lay on her back and kick up a storm.
When you talk to her she smiles and coos.
She HATES wearing hats but will tolerate coats that have hats attached to them.
She falls asleep easily in the car.
She isn't a fan of vibrating in her jumper only when she is tired.
She looks cute in purple and if she wears blue her eyes are very blue.
Her hair is nice and long still it goes past her neck.
She is getting big cheeks like her brother.

Here is some info about Hunter...
We like to call him Buddy, Buddy Love, My love (I call him this), or HT.
He can talk up a storm. He is up to 4-5 word sentences.
He is getting better at going potty. We are just waiting for papa to come home from Canada to work on this alot harder.
He LOVES to dance.
He colors awesome! He colors on the character and doesn't color outside the page alot.
He wears 8 1/2 wide shoes! We just got him a new pair today for his bday gift.

I just wanted to post info like this so I can go back and remember what the kids did. Also, I love saying "the kids" it amazes me that we have two kids! Who would have known that Larry and I would have kids even more than one. Wouldn't trade them for the world even if Hunter is having a tantrum!

8 weeks!

Sunday Miss G will be 8 weeks old! My baby girl is not a tiny baby anymore! She looks like a newborn now instead of a premie. She is smiling alot and coos she is so cute! She has been a breeze and I feel bad cause most the time she has to hang out while I try to keep her brother happy since he is a busy little man. He turns 2 on Monday! That is just crazy to me! Lar and I decided not to have his bday party until he gets back from Canada so it will be weird not celebrating it on his day but he will not know. He is having family come over for his ELMO party! I hope he has fun this year. The kids have their doctors appt next week so will see what their stats are. The cool thing is I work for their doctor! And she is cool with me leaving work to pick them up at Annie's and than seeing them and taking them back all during work! How cool is that! Poor Annie will get them after their shots so they should be nice and grumpy and all better when I get them I hope! Just this week Hunter has been saying sentences! He says up to 4-5 words and you can tell what he is saying! This am he said. Mama I want baa now. Baa is his bottle. I just had to look at him and think were did my little boy go! Larry is going to come back from Canada to two different/changed kids it will be a shocker I think. They both have changed in the 1.5 weeks that he has been gone. My lovely Grace slept awesome last night! She slept from 8pm to 3:30am! Yeah! Bad thing was Hunter woke up at 5:30am and stayed up. Bummer thing was I didn't go back to sleep with Grace until close to 4:30am! But I should be happy with the sleep I did get. My old job at Davies Clinic is going great! It is a breeze! I love electronic records I have been used to paper charts this whole time! Love, Love, Love doing everything on the computer! I think that about sums up what has been going on in my world. Just working and watching my kids change before my eyes!

Hanging out on Sunday!

The kids and I hung out on Sunday. The only time we ventured out was to go to Fred Meyers for some more food for the week. I didn't venture out much today cause yesterday we did so much that doing it by yourself and loading two kids, a dog (who had to go with us everywhere) and whatever I bought in and out of the car made my wrists sore today. It was a good day today. Hunter is getting better with his terrible two's it only shows up when I am giving Grace her bottle or say no to him when he doesn't want to hear it. But we are surviving and I think he has just come to deal with his papa being in Canada. He gets to talk to him on the phone before he goes to bed so that has been nice. It makes me cry when I see Hunter listening to Lar on the phone cause you can tell Hunter is so excited to hear him even though for some reason Hunter doesn't say a word when he is on the phone with him. His eyes get really big and look like they water a little bit when he hears him. Last night when Larry was talking to him Hunter pointed to the phone and whispered Papa it was the sweetest and saddest thing. The good thing about Hunter getting phone calls from Lar before bed time is that since we have done it the last two nights Hunter has slept the whole nights through! Amen! He hasn't done this much since we brought Grace home maybe 4-5 nights total so to have 2 in a row is awesome I hope it continues! Here are so pics from today...

Hunter drawing on his aquadoodle
Grace sleeping in her big girl crib for the first time! I got her in her REM sleep that is why her eyes are halfway open! I promise she sleeps with the fully shut.Hunter playing with Grace while I folded MANY loads of laundry! I couldn't get to the laundry all week with working late at the beginning of the week and than working the whole week. I mostly do laundry on Wednesdays and the weekend. The machines were on all weekend. But I am done with the laundry. Yeah!Bath time! This is the first time I had Hunter help with Grace's bath. Mostly to give him something new to do since he had been stuck with me all weekend. We gave Grace a bath the night before so he knew what to do. I promise Grace isn't going to roll of the counter!Of course he has to play with the water! He had just finished a 45 minute bath prior or I bet you he would have climbed in that sink!Dirty girlClean girl! She has grown so much! She doesn't look like a newborn anymore! I combed her hair so that is why she looks bald. She is sticking her tongue out at you!

It was a nice weekend with the kids. It looks like Lar will probably be in Canada so I gotta get ready for the next week without him. Hunter's bday is next Monday so I am going to take him out for a Mommy and me date Saturday am to go get his birthday shoes since his feet keep growing!