Appointments and tears.

Today we had Cohen's 4 month appointment. He'll actually be 5 months next week, so we are a few weeks behind. But Cohen weighed in at a whooping 12 lbs 14 oz and is 24 inches long. He's such a tiny little thing! He is in the 5th percentile for his weight and 10th percentile for his height. His head is in the 50th percentile. Overall, he is doing really well. His 1 testicle finally dropped so he is good to go in that area. His skin is semi better too. We did try a little rice cereal last week, but he isn't ready for it so we'll try again later this week and see.

I also had a doctor's appointment as I've been sick for almost 12 days and just couldn't get over it. So I have sinus infection and a mild ear infection in my right ear. Hopefully I'll be 100% soon.

And lastly, today was also a sad day for our family. We had to put Miss Reese to sleep. Luckily, Lyla isn't really old enough to understand what happened and that Reese won't be coming back. So so far, it hasn't been bad for her. We'll see in the morning if she asks about her. My heart is pretty broken as that was/is my first baby! We will get another dog, but it'll probably won't be until spring. I've always had a dog growing up and I want my children to have that as well. It already feels weird not having her here. There's been a few times I've caught myself thinking I needed to do something for her (letting her in, getting her water, etc.) She will be missed.

Eating and dancing

This morning we get up and ready and headed into Hays for recipe club which is part of my moms club. We made a Tortellini in a butter sauce and it was SO good!

Then this afternoon, Miss Lyla had her very first dance lesson! :) And she was SO excited. We had a mini photo shoot to show off her outfit and dancing skills!

She loves her tutus!

Getting her dance on...

And I totally did not cry whenever we got there and she was sitting on these little rubber spots. Ok. So what. I did. It made me sad... my little girl is getting so big!

She was a good listener so she got a little sticker at the end of class! She was pretty excited!

Overall, she did pretty good. I'm pretty sure she's the youngest in the class so the other girls were a little better at the listening part. But she did pretty well following the directions and only got distracted a few times. The poor girl still can not jump, though. She had to jump like a bunny and fly like a butterfly during the class, so whenever I asked her what she learned, all she tells me is jump like a bunny, fly like a "futterfly". I was just highly impressed she didn't cry whenever she had to leave me to go dance. She just walked off and did what she was told and even talked a little bit to her teacher, who is Miss Jenna. Randomly during the class, she would come up to me and say, Fun mom and give me a high five. I think she really enjoyed the class. We go twice a week for 3 weeks and then they will do a little routine at the end so I'm excited to see how the rest of the classes go! I'm just excited I have a little dancer on my hands! :)

Go Steelers!

Unfortunately, all the cheering Lyla and I did today didn't help us win... but still very proud of my Steelers! And like I tell Sean...we made it further than the Chiefs! :)

Aren't my Steelers fans adorable? Oh my, I love them!

We had a great day today, minus the Steelers loss. For lunch we headed to Brookville Hotel for Sean's Nana's birthday. We got to see some of our favorite people. Lyla loved getting to see everyone and as always, enjoyed the attention!

Tomorrow Lyla starts her first little dance class! She is doing a Tiny tots tutu class at the Rec center. I have no idea how she will do as she can be really shy, but I hope she does well. Mostly, I'm hoping that I don't have to do the class with her, by her side. Maybe I should take a tutu for me, just in case! :)

A House Divided

Lyla and I are Steelers fans and Sean and Cohen are Chiefs fans. It'll be interesting to see which team they will end up liking when they are older. I'm praying they all like the Steelers. At least they win games! :)

Mr. Cohen

He's getting SO big and it makes me sad! With Lyla, I was eager for her to start new things, for new developments, etc but with him, I just want him to slow down. He's moving way faster than I expected and I want it to stop! :) He's just so sweet! :)

We got out the jumperoo and he's just a bit too short still! Haha! I had the boppy underneath and also a blanket in the seat part so he would sit up a little higher. He's a short, petite little thing!

Cohen is an only child right now as Miss Lyla is with Gigi and Pops. We were all sick the past few days and so Lyla is getting some one on one attention. And I'm sure she is loving it! I miss her though... it is really weird having just 1 kid. If I felt better, I could be getting a lot done. Instead, I'm enjoying snuggles with the cutest little boy I know.

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And because I'm a on-top-of-it kinda mom, you can go back to Dec 18th and read about Cohen's 4 month post that I just put up tonight. Better late then never! That kind of goes with a lot of my blog posts that I need to post!!!!

Merry Christmas

From our family to yours....

3 month pictures

I'm pretty impressed with myself that I managed to get his 3 month pictures done before he turned 4 months! :) Actually I waited a little longer because I wanted him to be able to hold his head up really well for a couple minutes at a time. Makes taking the pictures a little easier on me! :) I did these in about 3 different sessions - one of the pro's about being the photographer. I can do them/squeeze them in whenever I want! One of the cons... it's hard to get him to smile when I'm hiding behind a camera!

So enjoy Cohen's 3 month pictures. I know I'm biased, but I think he's stinkn' adorable. I could just eat him up. Oh, and his wrinkles on his forehead... love them. He may need botox though before he's 10! :)

Christmas twinkle

I'm SO behind in blogging. I still have Turkey day to blog about, if I'm correct. If not that, then the Steelers game. You know, the one where the Steelers beat the Chiefs? Yes, that one! :)

I've also got Christmas posts, Cohen turning 4 months (really?!!!), Cohen's 3 month pictures, and more. I'll get on that...soon! For now... I'm enjoying some snow days, a perk of being a WAHM!

And for now...2 of my loves the other night. Sean normally puts her to bed (after she asks to "sleep mommy daddy bed" a million times). Loves these two!

Cohen (4 months)

Oh this boy has stolen my heart. His smiles, his giggles, his coos. Love everything about him!

- We weighed you today (1/3/12) and on our scale he weighed 12 lbs 2 ounces, so he was probably just under 12 lbs at his 4 month birthday! You have a 4 month appointment next Tuesday, so I'll update then!
- You are wearing 0-3 and some 3-6 month stuff.
-You are wearing size 1 shoes and size 1 diapers. I haven't had you in cloth diapers for quite some time, so hopefully I'll get back in the swing of things soon.

-You are sleeping around 10 hours straight, wake up to eat and then go back to sleep for another 2 or 3 hours.
-You take around 2-3 naps during the day, anywhere from 30 minutes to and hour and a half.
- You fight your naps almost every single day.

-You are a constant eater. You still nurse every 2-4 hours and will not take a bottle from me or your dad. But you will take a bottle from other people as long as I'm not there.

- You are a rolling machine. Anytime we lay you on your back you automatically go to your stomach. You can roll over to your back from your stomach but you don't do it very often.
-You love to sit up and see what is going on. You get bored on the floor after a little while.
-You are tripod sitting for little periods at a time.

- You are finally starting to giggle more often. You coo and talk and love to blow bubbles a lot but your hard laughs don't come very often.
- You still love attention and love to be talked to. You'll smile instantly and throw your arms and legs around. But you are also a bit needy with all the attention you want!
-You are starting to interact with your sister a little more. She adores you!!!
- We think you have an allergy to our laundry detergent as your skin is always broke out everywhere your clothes touch you.
-Your cradle cap is pretty much all gone!
-We got out your jumperoo and you are hit and miss with liking it. I'm ok with you not wanting to be in it, but I'm not ready for you to grow up!

We love you little boy!!!:)

Christmas Pictures

I took Christmas pictures of the kiddos the other day and overall, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. I tried, really really hard to get one of them together and didn't even get one. But I got super cute ones of them alone.

I've seen a bunch of cute ones on Pinterest so I had to try it out. I wish I was this creative to think this up!

Isn't he sweet?!?!

And her... oh my. She makes me so happy! I'm so blessed to be this sweet girls momma!

She LOVES Miss Reese! And thought it was so funny that Reese was wearing a hat!

My very very favorite of this fella!

LOVE this of her!

She was a PAIN while taking these. She's big into pouting right now and all she wanted to do was play angry birds on my phone. The girl loves angry birds. Here is proof of her taking a break to play birds for a minute.

After that wore off, I told her I was going to call Uncle Bro and tell her she was being naughty. She found that hilarious for some reason, so after many fake calls to Uncle Bro, I got some cute, genuine smiles out of her!

And Mr. Cohen was easy peasy! That boy melts my heart!