There are some things money can't buy

Homemade mobile: $16~

Sports themed bed set: $70~

Footy cozy PJs: $9
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Baby monitor: $40
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Listening to your 2 year old through the monitor saying "Callen, it's okay, Mommy and Daddy are just sleeping. We get to see Papa again. Go night-night Cal. Mommy and Daddy are sleeping, you're okay" to sooth her fussing brother at 4 in the morning: Priceless

My girl

I don't get to take many pictures with my baby girl but today we took a couple...


and you might not be able to tell but I straightened her hair today....



Isn't she delicious?

4 month stats

Callen had a check up on the 19th, here are the stats on my little man:

Weight: 16 lbs, 10 oz
Height: 25 1/4 inches

I didn't write down his percentiles but he is around 75th for his weight and I think around 60th for his height. I just have big kids I guess. I was looking at Olivia's stats and Callen at 4 months is the size Olivia was at 6 months. So I am a little nervous to see how big he is when he is 2 since she is about the size of a four year old and she is only 2.

This picture is a little blurry but I love it. Olivia doesn't like to touch or hold Callen very often so one night when she asked if she could hold him, we had to get a picture. They might not look a ton alike but they both have my eyes which makes them some what look like siblings.

Crazy hair Lou Lou. She has been off and on doing good with potty training. We are going on 6 months of potty training now and results are not as they should be. I shouldn't have tried training her before Callen was born because after he was born she would say she wanted to pee in her pants like Callen. Rookie mistake I guess. Since she is so independent and difiant, I have made her in complete charge on her training. So she takes herself potty (I do remind her sometimes) and if she has an accident she has to clean it up. This is actually helping but we still have accidents. She will get there.

She also has been doing a new thing. The last two nights we get up to put Callen's binkie back in and we find Olivia sleeping on the couch. We don't know why she is getting up and going on the couch but after we put her back in her bed, she ends up on the couch again. At least she isn't crawling into my bed anymore!!


Callen is dong good and growing so much. It just doesn't seem like he is my little baby. I guess with Lou I was excited for her to learn all her new things but with him, I just want to keep him my little baby. But it is fun. He giggles all the time, especially when we tickle his sides or feet. It is adorable. He tried rice cereal the other day and is starting to really like it. He also has some new tricks!!! Last week Casey put him on the floor on his belly and out of nowhere, he rolled over onto his back. He has only done that once but that's okay. Yesterday, he figured out how to grab his toys and in doing so, rolled himself from his back to belly. He likes doing that and did it about 10 times yesterday. But then he is on his belly and gets mad. He will get it all figured out soon enough.

Nursery

For the last two Sundays Olivia has been screaming and crying when we take her to nursery and says she wants to go with us to our class. The first week we let her just because she had never had a problem going to nursery before and we didn't know why she was so scared all of a sudden. This last week we decided we don't want her to think she can always go with us so we made her stay. She screamed and sobbed uncontrollably the ENTIRE time. I couldn't just leave her like that so I stood out in the hallway and kept peeking in without getting caught. That is pretty hard for a Mommy to listen to. She cried so long and hard that she eventually fell asleep in one of the chairs and slept the last hour. After church, we always go over the my parents for dinner and this was the conversation Olivia had with her Papa:

Grandpa: "Did you have fun at church today?"

Lou: "No, I got in trouble."

Grandpa: "Why did you get in trouble?"

Lou: "Cause I screamed."

Grandpa: "Why'd you scream?"

Lou: "I just wanted to go with Mommy and Daddy and Callen. (sigh) My Mommy drives me crazy."

What a stinker.

4 months old

This happy little man turned 4 months old on the 9th! Here are some tidbits on Mr. Cal...

• He is such a happy baby and such a mama's boy! I can go stand by Casey when he is holding Callen and Callen will start leaning and fall into my arms so I hold him. We tried to see if he would do it from me to Casey but he just buries his head in my hair and latches on.
• He is sleeping through the night except for having to get up about twice each night to put his binkie back in. It will be nice when he can maneuver that thing himself.
• Loves to be held and if thinks you are going to pick him up he gets pretty excited.
• He thinks it is funny when I put his toes on his checks and will always smile and laugh. Olivia thinks it is funny too and will frequently tell me to have Callen eat his toes.
• He will sit and watch his sister run around like a crazy girl everywhere she goes and always tries to give her big smiles.

• Does good on his tummy and will hold himself up for about 5 minutes at a time.
• Loves to sit up and looks like he is always doing a crunch because he is trying to sit up when I put him in his bouncer chair.

• He has found his voice and really enjoys using it at 5 in the morning.
• Sticks out his bottom lip so far out when he is about to cry. It is the cutest thing ever.
• He is starting to grab things and play with toys.
• Loves to kick and splash in the tub.