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Doctor, busted lip, and a Sunday stroll

February 12, 2015

First, Samantha had her 2 week check-up yesterday and is up to 7lbs, 13oz! She’s obviously a good eater! That puts her in the 75th % for weight. She’s 20.5 inches long now which puts her in the 50th-75th % for height. Head circumference is 14. Growing girl!

dr 2 wk

dr 2 wk

She had to get her heel pricked which she didn’t like at all but, we survived.

Tuesday was kind of a rough day. We had some carpet installers here and their banging and staple guns meant Samantha did more of this…

cry

than this.

sleep

Then Maxwell slipped getting out of the bath and ended up with a very fat lip!

fat lip

Poor guy.

But, we’re still making it fine. Let’s focus on something fun like the Sunday Stroll we took last weekend.  The boys had on their glasses and were ready to go!

glasses

Our walk ended up being way longer than we anticipated but it was gorgeous weather and we were all happy for the fresh air. Spencer insisted on walking – or actually jogging – the entire way only getting in the stroller when we made him. He probably walked 2 miles!

stroll

He also bit it about 6 times but he’d just get up, wipe his hands off and keep going! This kid is tough…and cute!

stroll

Samantha enjoyed it all from the sling – her first ride in it!

stroll

Here’s to better days and many more pretty afternoon strolls!

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Good day sunshine

February 9, 2015

Happy Monday!

weekend

We had a beautiful weekend around here with plenty of warmer temps and sunshine!  Hooray!

On Friday, I dropped Maxwell off at school and then enjoyed a morning with my two babies – Spencey and Samantha! I managed to even keep Spencer off the iPad for the morning!

spencer playing

We also made some Valentine cookies and got a special treat at Target for the boys which I’ll tell you about later (kowabunga!)…

cookies

I was smiling the biggest all weekend because the sun was shining and this little girl slept all night in her chair instead of in the bed with me! Yes! I put her in the velcro swaddle for the first time and she did great, even sleeping for a 4.5 hour stretch!

velcro swaddle

It allowed her to get better sleep too because she didn’t get waked up (awoken?) when Maxwell came into our room at 6:30am like he does every day. She was able to keep snoozing in her chair for another hour while I got up and dressed. Again, YES! If she keeps this up, like she did all weekend, she’s going to turn out to be as easy as Spencer in the sleep department. That would be GREAT.

samantha

On Saturday, we all enjoyed some time outside soaking up the sunshine!

outside

outside

outside

outside

To top the day off, we actually went out to dinner for the first time since Samantha was born. We went to our new favorite, Babalu, and loved getting ask for a table for FIVE!  🙂

table for five

Sunday was just as pretty and we went for a – very long! – walk that ended up being great. Pics to come!

samantha

See you tomorrow!

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Friday!

February 6, 2015

Friday! We’ve been busy over here the past several days…

Samantha had her first bath…

bath

She didn’t love getting her body cleaned but did really enjoy getting her hair done! She is a girl after all!  🙂

bath

She also took her first snooze in the swing.

swing

I managed to get all 3 kids up and dressed and out the door in time for school Monday, Wednesday and Friday…

3 boys

3 kids

On Wednesday, I also took Samantha up for her first doctor checkup at 8:30. She got a great report! She’s back up to 7lb, 6.5 oz! She had dropped to 6lb, 13oz when leaving the hospital so a 9 oz gain in one week is impressive!

dr

dr

Spencer celebrated Groundhog Day at school…

groundhog day

Maxwell continued to love on “sweetie” (as he likes to call her!)…

brother sister

Samantha got to meet Susan…

susan

and she also got ready for her first photoshoot!

sam

Lauren of Peppermint Photography was here Thursday so take some pictures of my sweet babies – all 3 of them!

photos

sbk

It’s been a GREAT couple of days! Ready for the weekend!

sbk

See you Monday!

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Hospital Day 2

February 4, 2015

I woke up on my second day in the hospital so happy to find out that Samantha was indeed real and was indeed a girl!  🙂  and let’s get serious, it’s not like I just woke up that morning – I was up all night sleeping in about hour long stretches. I didn’t care though. I might have been tired but I had a baby girl and nothing was going to take me off that high!

samantha

The boys came up that day and brought Samantha a little treat – a tiger stuffed animal rattle picked out by Maxwell especially for her!  Perfect!

rattle

Samantha also had a treat for her brothers – these cool Boogie Board writing tablets.

boogie boards

The boys were so excited to check out their baby sister and, this time, even Spencey wanted to get up there and see her…and touch her!

baby

sam and brothers

checking her out

spencey

spencey

Everyone took turns holding her…

holding

and kissing on her.

kissing

Soon the boys settled into their iPads and Robert held the baby and I just had to laugh and smile at this image…

full house

We’ve got a full house now!

That night I also gave Samantha her first manicure!  🙂 Her nails were really long when she was born so I took some baby emery boards to her little nails so she wouldn’t scratch her face…

nails

and look at her scaly skin! eek! That’s what a full term 40 week baby’s hands look like!

It was a great day 2 with this sweet baby girl!

samantha

Tomorrow? Home! See you then.

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brusha brusha brusha

December 10, 2014

Monday we made a trip to the dentist!  While this was not Spencer’s first trip (thanks to him previously “busting open his whole mouf“), it was his first regular cleaning.   He’s almost the exact same age as Maxwell was on his first dentist visit. Both boys did GREAT. The dentist even complimented them on being such sweet boys.  Yay!

Maxwell had to get some x-rays…

dentist

and then showed Spencer just what to do in the chair…

dentist

dentist

and they both acted super sweet for the hygienist.

dentist

dentist

We got great reports from the dentist…

dentist

dentist

and were happy to get treats when done!

dentist

Happy for good dentist reports!

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