100 day stats

4.30.11

Brandon is now 100 days old.

He has been home from the hospital 45 days.

At two months (3/17/11) he weighed 4 pounds, 10 ounces and was 17.5 inches long.

At three months (4/21/11) he weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.

When Brandon first came home from the hospital he slept a lot. Most nights he only woke up just once to eat (some nights not at all). Brandon loves to be held, snuggled and wrapped up tight.

More recently Brandon is awake a lot more. He wakes up several times to eat during the night, but luckily he goes right back to sleep if I cuddle him.

He definitely likes to be held and ends up in the front pack a lot—good thing he is still so light. He’ll sleep for hours if you hold him, but Scott and I joke that he has a five minute rule—that within five minutes of laying him down he’ll wake up.

Cameron is still obsessed with Brandon—wanting to hold, kiss or hug him all the time. For the most part Matthew ignores him, except when I’m holding or feeding Brandon and he wants to be held, Matthew will say, “Put Brandon down!”

And now for a few pictures (taken 4.25.11) ...

tall enough

Cameron is finally tall enough... this leads to the question, "Why can't I go poo poos standing up?"

I never would have known...

Cameron flushed his Pez bunny down the toilet today. I’m not sure why since he has been carrying it around almost non-stop since he got it. Can someone please tell me why he is he always so proud when he does something he’s not supposed to do? I guess it ishelpful that he announces everything he does...so I can get him in trouble. Is that wrong to punish a child after they told you that they did something bad (especially when you would have never known)? Anyway, makes me nervous to think
about what other objects he might flush down the toilet…

Seward Slides

My brother Joseph and his wife Wendy came to visit while Miriam was in town. We headed to Seward Slides for an afternoon of fun. Too bad Scott had class so he couldn't join us. I was amazed at how well Matthew did. By the end he was going all by himself (and even carrying his cardboard to the top). Cameron always wanted a buddy to slide down with. In fact, one time he insisted Aunt Wendy slide down with him even though she is 6 months pregnant.

Not an ordinary day

4.20.2011

You know how once you are a mom birthdays are no longer the same? You are still expected to do all of the motherly responsibilities you do on every other day. Well this year I can say my birthday was not the same as every other day. You see, my younger sister Miriam was on spring break and she decided to spend the week with us. So on the morning of my birthday Miriam stepped in and played with the boys, read them stories, got them dressed, etc. while I slept in a little and got ready for the day.

We went to a little egg hunt and brunch and had a great time. I don’t know if it would have been as good without an extra helper since Matthew and Cameron decided to run around crazy and try to escape a few times.

Scott had the afternoon off and made me a delicious dinner and dessert.

What a great birthday! 

Half a century

My mom turned 50 this week and my dad had the great idea of throwing her a surprise party. We drove to Granite Bay for the weekend and it was my job to get my mom out of the house since the party was a BBQ in my parent’s yard. We came up with the idea of a “photo shoot” so Saturday late afternoon we headed to a local park. We needed to be gone about an hour so my dad had time to set up/give time for people to arrive. Normally, that would have been no problem, but as soon as we got to the park the boys ran away, fell in the muddy grass and were not cooperating at all. So after about 10 minutes I was done and still had almost an hour to “stall.” To make matters worse there was a group at the playground portion that had hid Easter eggs that my boys wouldn’t leave alone. Somehow we were able to stay at the park long enough and it all worked out.

A few pictures from the park:

After taking pictures at the park, we drove back to my parent's house. When we turned onto their street, this is what we saw: 

My mom was definitely surprised!

About a half hour into the party a car pulled up honking and making a lot of noise… it was my grandma, aunts and sisters all the way from UTAH!

We all had a great time.

Zoo with Three!

I’m happy to announce that I took all three boys to the zoo today! All kidding aside, I feel like it was an accomplishment to get the boys fed, dressed, lunches packed and out the door by 10:20am.

I still feel like Brandon is too little to really be in public, but I justified an outing for the older two by making sure he was fed prior to leaving and keeping him in the front pack the entire time. Plus, we only have two more chances to take advantage of free day at the zoo while we live in San Francisco (one of which is the week before graduation). Yikes! It feels weird putting that in writing! And no, we don't know where we are going yet--we're still working on that.

We had a great time with some of our friends:

 

Waiting for the train to pass:

Me and my boys: