Duncan @ 4 Months

Duncan at 4 Months:

Lots of smiles

First Valentines Dinner at Red Robin

Likes to be swaddled to go to sleep with green bink

Waking up in the night :(

Milk, milk, milk

Won't take a bottle 

Loves when his sister sings to him

Jensen loves to tickle him and make him giggle

Likes to sit in the bouncer and watch the kids play outside

Went to first movie "The Lego Movie"

The Trick!

Duncan @ 3 Months

Duncan at 3 months:

Rang in the New Year with the Walker Cousins

Blessing on January 5th 

Started to giggle and does baby talk

Sleeping longer at nighttime

Went on his first adventure to the Stratosphere

Eats every three hours 

Bathes with his brother and sister

Chubby legs

Likes sitting in the bumboo and Lucy's Olivia Chair

Duncan @ 2 Months

Duncan at 2 Months:

Holds his head up

Still likes the green stinky bink

Slept through the night once

Moved bed to the crib but still sleeps on the boppy

Smiles

Can do the "butt" trick with Daddy

Went to Utah for Christmas met Grandpa, Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, and Great Grandma Ivie

Belly Button leaking fluid went to the doctors again

Birthmark on his right hand showed up

Also a red mark showed up on his forehead - doctor said this one would go away

Sat on Santa's lap for the first time. He brought him new stinky binks for Christmas but likes the old ones better.

Duncan @ 1 Month

Duncan at 1 Month:

Not Babywised! 

Strong grip - already loves pulling Mommy's hair

Sleeps six hours each night

We had 5 doctor visits this month mostly due to his circumcision

Gets lots of kisses

Sleeps on his boppy in the bassinet

Celebrated his first Thanksgiving at the cousins in Logandale which was also his first sleepover

Got his first cold thanks to his siblings

Likes the green stinky bink

Looks like he might have a dimple on his right cheek

Loves Mommy's milk

Great Grandma Ivie Comes to Visit

Earlier this month my grandma called and asked if she could come visit for a week. I said of course. Ryan, my uncle, and his family were going to Disneyland and she was going to hitch a ride down with them. I didn't know if she would actually come but she came. She has always loved to travel. Grandpa and her were always going places. Now that Grandpa is up in heaven she still likes to get out of the house and visit. I told Grandma not to expect much since I had to work during the day. She was up for it and even brought her and Lucy a puzzle to work on. 

One night the girls went on an outing to Charming Charlies at Town Square. I knew Grandma would love that place. She said it was like taking an alcoholic to a liquor store. She found herself a couple of necklaces. Then before we got out the door she had found a few more. She even had me go back later and pick up one she didn't get that night. She cracks me up. She is wearing one of her new necklaces below while holding Duncan.  

Lucy loved having Grandma here to entertain her during the day. They painted nails and even tried on wigs together.  On Tuesday I dropped Grandma off at the dollar store while I took Lucy to preschool. When I came into the store to get her, she was in line eating a Butterfinger. She had been telling me all weekend that she is allergic to sugar and it makes her cough. Again, she cracks me up. 

Also on Tuesday, Quincy calls me while I am working and says that Grandma wants to go to Celine Dion. I guess I had been busy working so she called him to see if we could get tickets for her show that night. Grandma had been talking to a friend that morning and told her she had to go see Celine while she was in town. She would always go to shows with Grandpa when they were in Vegas and she said he would of wanted her to go. I thought we were just going to go to DI that night or go get ice cream but Grandma was determined to go. We still don't have a reliable babysitter on this side of town so we didn't know who would watch the kids. Luckily, the Barney family said they would watch the two older kids. So that night we hit the strip with Grandma and Duncan. We were trying to hurry and didn't get a good picture. 

Duncan was a good man through the show. He did scream a few times when she sang really loud but I it just blended in. Maybe he was singing along. 

Grandma can get some wild hairs but we are so glad she got this wild hair to come visit us. She can also be somewhat of a difficult visitor but she wasn't at all. We had such a great visit and memories were made for sure! 

Summer of 2013

These pictures are from last summer. They have been on my phone and I keep saying I am going to blog them. Today is the day.  I thought I was going to do a blog at the end of the summer to wrap up our fun but instead I had lots of other things to think about at the end of summer. 

I am sad because some of these pictures are blurry but I just love them anyway. 

Quincy had tickets to the 51's game from work. It was fireworks night so we took the kids. They did pretty well to sit through the game. One lady in front of us gave us their extra pair of sunglasses that they passed out that night. The kids were all over those. Another lady behind us kept saying how good they were to sit there. She ended up being one of the player's girlfriends. She said Jensen deserved a signed baseball from her boyfriend. So after the game she took Jensen and I down to the dugout for a signed ball.  Jensen thought that was pretty cool and even slept with the ball that night. The fireworks didn't disappoint either children. 

Since I don't have work over the summer we decided to get a summer pass to the children's museum. We tried to go once a week. It was perfect since I was pregnant. I would just sit down in the nice air conditioned building while the kids played. Jensen's favorite spot is the car where you can change the tire on a car. Lucy loves the art area or the wind tunnel. They both love the new water room. The Kanets also had a pass and would join us often. The new museum is way fun and hopefully we will use our pass here soon before it runs out for the year. 

Our Tuesdays for the summer were taken up with dance and t-ball classes at the Hollywood Rec Center. Lucy would go first and then Jensen would have his class. Lucy loved her teacher and we loved watching her try to skip across the room, dance with their fairy wands and doing plies in the mirror. Jensen was pure entertainment in his t-ball class. I just wanted to bring popcorn and sit on the bleachers and laugh. He had the most patient teacher ever! Mrs. T. He was the typical 5 year old that would chase the ball wherever it was hit or he would have his glove on his head when a ball was hit his way. He did love running the bases and even got pretty good at hitting the ball off the tee. They even let Lucy in her tutu hit sometimes. This picture below is my favorite but of course it is blurry. These two can be the best of friends when they want to be.

Grandma Cindy sent a book to the kids about a girl who makes forts out of boxes. Lucy ate this book right up and wanted every box in the house to become a new castle or ship. Little did we know that we would be needing these boxes for our move. 

Our last summer adventure to share was to the park for a little splash pad. We got to meet two capybaras at the park that night. A lady had these two huge rats for pets. She let the kids pet them. I stayed a good distance back and took pictures. She said she lets them run around her house like dogs and they even sleep on her bed with her. I was glad the kids didn't ask to have one. They reminded me of those nasty rats on Princess Bride (Thanks Di for that reference!).