Hot Chocolate and Movie Time

Let the Christmas movies begin! Tonight before bed we busted out some hot chocolate and a "Charlie Brown Christmas".  We are currently in the process of getting out our Christmas decorations so I don't have my Christmas mugs out yet.  Caleb was excited when I asked him if he wanted to drink some hot chocolate and watch a movie before bed.  He was in charge of putting the hot chocolate mix in the mugs, stirring everything up and putting in the marshmallows.  He was very proud of himself and has become quite the little helper in the kitchen.

Even Joshua got in on the fun of watching the movie for a little while (this totally cracked us up because he was just laying contently watching the movie).

I'm hoping to have all my decorations up this week and I already have the majority of my Christmas shopping done so my goal is to enjoy many more nights like tonight and just have fun making some holiday memories with my boys.

3 months old - Joshua

On Sunday the 4th, Joshua turned 3 months old.  Here is some random information about our little punkadoodle:

- You wear size 1 diapers
- You are currently wearing 0-3months clothes but I don't think it will be to much longer before we will have to move up to some of your 3-6 month clothes as your sleepers are getting a little short.
- You nurse every 3 hours during the day
- You go to bed around 8:00pm and get up at least once to eat, usually around 4:00am, and then wake up between 7:00-7:30am.
- We still either swaddle you at night or put you in a sleep sack
- We still have not moved you to your crib to sleep at night but instead you sleep in your pack-n-play in our room.  I do however usually put you in your crib after you wake up to eat.
- You are not a fan of tummy time at all
- You are not making any attempts to roll over
- You love your swing
- You like your pacifier but LOVE chewing on your fingers and hands
- You still really enjoy bath time but are not a fan when it comes time to get out and put your clothes on
- Your night routine is a bath, put pj's on, eat, swaddle, go to bed.  You are usually pretty easy to get to go to bed.
- You like to take cat naps in the morning and normally go down for an afternoon nap around 2:00pm and will sleep for 1-2 hours.  You like to cat nap again around 5:30pm.
- You have still not had any formula and have only had a bottle a couple of times.
- You can blow bubbles
- Your brother loves you to pieces and comes to find you as soon as he wakes up in the morning.  The two of you are already the best of buddies and carry on quite the "conversations" with one another.  It is sweet to see how you react when you hear his voice.
- You are babbling more and more
- You have the best little smile
- You drool quite a bit
- You love being carried in the baby Bjorn carrier and typically fall asleep
- You don't mind being in your bouncy seat for short periods of time
- You are ticklish on your belly and back.  It's sweet to hear you laugh and squirm around if I lightly tickle you when I'm changing your diaper.
- You like laying on your changing mat in your bedroom.

 (See I told you....you are not a fan of being on your tummy)

 

I love these little socks

Jack-O-Lantern Fun

Caleb was all excited this year about making a jack-o-lantern and asked for several days when we were going to make one so Sunday was the big day. 

 

Here are a few family pics before the carving began. :-)

The boys were deep in thought drawing out the outline of their jack-o-lantern and getting all the pre-work done.  David showed Caleb a few different jack-o-lantern ideas on the computer and let Caleb pick which one they ended up making.

 

 Caleb was all about getting his hands dirty and scooping all of the guts out of the inside of the pumpkin.

 

 

 While David worked hard on carving the pumpkin Caleb worked on creating his own masterpiece with all of the ooey gooey guts of the pumpkin.

 

 

 And here is the finished product.  I thought they did a great job and I love our jack-o-lantern.

 

 

Random:  This has nothing to do with our jack-o-lantern but I think it's funny.  Last Friday Caleb had his Halloween party at school and Joshua and I got to attend.  It was fun getting to watch them play games, have their snack and enjoy some craft time.  One of the crafts was getting to decorate a pumpkin.  One of the kids in Caleb's class was a little upset at Caleb and said "hey Caleb you are using all of the eyes", without missing a beat Caleb responds "well my momma likes a lot of eyes" (LOL! Where did that come from.)

2 Months Old - Joshua

 

My little punkadoodle (yes this is what I call you sometimes) you are getting big so fast.  You are such a sweet boy and we love you to pieces.  Your Daddy and I love having two boys and are starting to get a little more adjusted to the fact that we are now a family of 4.   I'll admit it's still a little weird saying "the boys" or last night I made a reference to "the kids" which caused your Daddy to stop and have to repeat me saying "the kids" as we are still getting use to the fact that there are now 2 kids in our family.  I still feel like we just brought you home from the hospital and here you are already 2 months old.  Here is a little information about you:

- You usually eat about every 3 hours during the day
- You are all full of smiles and have lots to say first thing in the morning
- You have been going to bed between 8:00-8:30pm and are starting to sleep a little longer at night.  We actually had a few nights where you slept until around 2:00am, ate, went back to sleep and slept until around 4:00am and then ate and would wake up between 6:30am-7:00am. The last couple of nights you didn't sleep quite as well but Daddy thinks this might be because your nose was a little stuffed up last night.
- You still start out at night sleeping in the pack and play in our room but the last couple of weeks we have started putting you to sleep in your crib at a later point in the night after you wake up to eat.  You can be quite the little grunter at night and were on this trend of waking up around 4:00am and then just grunting and being really restless the rest of the night which was causing us to not get much sleep so we started putting you in your crib at your feeding at 4:00am and slowly moved it up to putting you in your crib whenever you woke up the first time to eat.
-  You have been doing a really good job lately of me being able to feed you in the middle of the night and lay you down partially still awake and you put yourself back to sleep.
-  You really like bath time, with the exception of when we get you out and are getting you dressed, and it actually seems to calm you down at night.
- You have started taking a pacifier occasionally
- You are still nursing and have not had any formula.  You have had a bottle twice (once to see if you would take one and once while I went out at night for a couple of hours while you stayed with Daddy and big brother)
- Your big brother is still crazy about you and is always coming up to you and saying "hi Joshua" while he is right up in your face :-).  He also likes to try to get you to smile and says "do you have any smiles for me".
-  You are in size 1 diapers
-  You have started transitioning into 0-3 month size clothes
-  You really like be carried in the baby bjorne front carrier and typically go to sleep while you are in it.
- People are always saying you look like your big brother and Daddy.
- Your umbilical cord finally came off

Sugary Fun

On Tuesday we went to visit my Mom at work and let her introduce Joshua to her co-workers.  While in Fayetteville me and the boys stopped by Rick's Bakery for a little sweet treat and to watch them decorate cakes.  I think Caleb likes looking at the cakes they have made and watching them decorate them as much as I do.  I think it would be so much fun to know how to decorate cakes the way they do and I love to just sit and watch them.

I let Caleb pick whatever he wanted to from amongst the donuts, cupcakes, brownies and cookies.  He went with the swirled icing sugar cookie while I opted for a german chocolate brownie.  Yum!