Thanksgiving Point

We went to thanksgiving point yesterday. This is the first time Clara dared to ride a pony. Yeah Clara!!
Reid always has to have the biggest pony. This time he had is arms up in the air like he was on a rollercoaster. What talent. He was pretty proud of himself.
Chloe and Alvin in twin outfits. Katrina bought this for Alvin. I think it is the cutest outfit ever. They are 2 months old.
Here we are the proud mothers.
You can't see it in the picture, but it says prince and princess on the back of their rompers.

Alvin 2 months

Alvin is now 2 months. As you can tell his face is looking a lot better, although today he woke up and it was getting bad again, so I took him into the doctor again which this time was my regular pediatrician(and last time it was the on call doctor) and my pediatrician immediately said it was infected and gave me an antibiotic to give him. I was so bugged that the other doctor said it was only baby acne, when it looked nothing like baby acne. So he could have been treated 5 days ago when he first got it. He should be getting better now. He is smiling so much now. I can't wait for more.
Reid and Clara still can not get enough of their new baby brother. I thought it would wear off by now, but they are still just as excited about having him in our family.

Baby Acne Gone Bad

Poor little baby Alvin. In person his face looked so much worse. I kept taking pictures to try and capture how bad it looked, but it never looked as bad in the picture. He has had a little baby acne for the past 2 weeks under his chin and this weekend it went way wrong. Saturday morning i could tell some dry parts on his chin were ready to peel off and others not so ready. i also noticed his cheeks starting to get worse acne. by the afternoon from being hot and in his carseat it had irritated it and being too moist a lot of it started to break open and just start to ooze like crazy. then Alvin kept hitting it with his hands and making a lot more of it open up. he was oozing so bad his whole shirt around the neck was yellow with pus. I know that sounds so gross, but it was. I could barely look at him or hold him. We took him to the dr. to make sure it wasn't infected or some weird skin disease, but it was just a bad case of acne. He is so much better now. it is almost gone just 2 days later, but when it was like these pictures it seemed like my little boy would never be the same. I was so sad for him.

I was pumping and giving him bottles because the pus would get all over my arm if I nursed him. Gross huh.

Alvin 7 weeks

Alvin is 7 weeks this week. He is getting so big. He is my biggest baby so far. He is a pretty good baby. I still am yet to get a baby that only cries when hungry. Alvin is still pretty easy going. He is already pretty strong. He is always trying to hold his head up. He likes to look up in the sky. He likes the pacifier, which is very helpful. Neither of my other kids liked it. He likes the swing, his mobile, and the baby bjorn. He is smiling more and more each day. We love him so much already, and can't imagine not having him.

Chloe's baby blessing

Here is Porter my brother and his daughter Chloe. Today is her blessing day. She had the cutest blessing dress ever.
Here is my mom, Chloe, and Clara at my parents neighborhood clubhouse.

Here is my Dad holding the little ones.
The proud Grandparents.
Porter Blessed Chloe today. It was such a special blessing. There were many happy tears. I was so proud of my brother as a dad. He is such a loving father. He is so in love with his little girl.

We went to the club house by my parents house afterwards to eat lunch, and when we told our kids we were going to the clubhouse, they wondered if mickey mouse was going to be there. (if you don't have kids, there is a show called mickey mouse clubhouse). I had to include all the pictures of the kids, because the faces of the little ones are so funny especially Chloe. The babies are now 7 weeks.



My very favorite picture. I laugh everytime i see these last 3 pictures. Reid and Clara were holding them and as we were taking pictures they kept getting more and more smashed together. Katrina and i had to let it happen because we started to see the funniest faces ever. David pointed out that Alvin probably thinks Chloe's cheek is my breast. He's trying to suck her face. We couldn't stop laughing when we looked at the pictures we both took.

Reid's T ball game

Saturday we went to Reid's t ball game. My camera died so i didn't get any pictures of the actual game, but next game i will. He loves to play. I can't tell if he likes the game or just making his buddies laugh. Last game he was carrying a worm around and putting it in everyone's face. Then he made his hat as big as it goes and shows all the kids. This week the coach had to keep yelling to him to run to the next base, because he was having a conversation with the players from the other team in the field, or he was checking out the base and how it worked. He bats left handed, but throws right handed. Which could be a good thing. He does a decent job, but he just loves to play with his friends.
David and Alvin watching the game.
Clara playing at the game. She gets a little bored and usually has to go to the bathroom at one point during the game. I was known when i was younger (not so young actually) for just squatting to pee outside if i had to go bad enough, so i have made Clara do it on occasion. Then the other day at the park I look over and there she is squatting next to a tree peeing right in the open. like mother like daughter, but at least I found a place where i was hidden.
He is always looking all around.

Reid's first words every morning

Almost every morning Reid comes in our room rather early and says..."That's as much as I can sleep mommy." I just thought it was a funny way to say it.