What a Chubber!!

Georgia had a weight and measurement done today, and is she ever getting big! She is now measuring at 21 1/2 inches long, and is now weighing in at 9 pounds 12 ounces!! I've been constantly told that babies 3 months and under should be eating every two to three hours, which is something Georgia doesn't do-she eats about every 4. However, there is obviously nothing to worry about since the last time she was weighed about 3-4 weeks ago she weighed 8 pounds exactly. She is obviously getting plenty to eat, and you can tell by her steadily getting chubbier cheeks and double chin!! She has her two month check up in about 2 1/2 weeks, and I would bet she'll be 10 pounds by then and even possibly in 3-6 month clothes. It's amazing how fast they grow!!

Happy Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Day!! Hooray!! It's also about time for an update.

Robbie is doing well, and so am I...nothing much new with us. Robbie keeps pretty busy with school and work and exercising in the wee hours of the morning, and I keep busy with all the household stuff plus 2 very active little girls and 1 very small one. I have been a bit busier than usual with packing up all the maternity stuff (hurrah for getting back down to my prepregnancy weight...now I just gotta loose all the weight I gained after having Gwen) and deep cleaning our apartment in anticipation of all the family we will have here in about 2 weeks for Georgia's blessing. Robbie's been awesome and has been helping me so much with the girls so that I can get more done in the day and have time for myself. He is amazing. He was also thoughtful enough to get me something for Valentine's day...my first quilt project (been wanting to try this for years)...I'm so excited!! He's kept himself happy with the waterproof watch he got for Valentine's day-he uses it for the swimming workouts he does 3 times a week up at the school.

Gwen is doing well-still not potty trained though (and is that ever frustrating). She is learning so quickly and has got such a stuborn, independent and hard headed personality. She is a very bright little girl though and loves to help with the baby. She tells me all the time how much she loves her baby Georgia, and this morning the girls were even fighting over who Georgia belonged to (she's mine...no, Georgia mine!!)

Grace is doing well too. She has a bit of a cold, but it seems to already be subsiding. She too is learning quickly and we are able to understand more and more what she is trying to tell us. She still has that very loving, soft personality, but she is starting to show more signs of being hard headed like her sister (oh joy). She is very easy to please though and that helps.

Georgia is now a month old!! How time flies...she is getting really big too. If I had to guess I'd say she's probably about 9 pounds right now, judging from how fast she's been gaining weight. She likes to be awake more and more and is starting to get the hang of tummy time-she can hold up her head a little bit longer now. She is trying to reach for toys and even gave Robbie her first official smile the other night-though no smiles since then. She calms down while listening to her sisters and will follow their movements when laying on the floor. We have hopes that her eyes will stay blue like Rob's (Grace's changed from this blue color that Georgia has now into a more hazel color) and we are excited for her blessing. She's such a sweet baby.

The girls have been very excited for Valentine's day and hopefully we'll find time today to do everything that I promised them-sticker art (they decorate paper with stickers that family has sent to us), making heart cookies and watching the new movies they got for Valentine's day (we added to our Disney collection). Along with laundry and running errands it should be a busy day. Hope your Valentine's day turns out great!!

Sleeping Issues

So while my mom was out here, she decided that she would buy a toddler bed for Grace, since they had also bought Gwen's toddler bed. Grace has taken to it really well-she never had a problem switching from the crib to her bed. However, it didn't help the issue of her wanting to sleep with us in our bed all the time. She is still spending most of the night curled up between Robbie and I. It's a bit of a pain, but we are trying to work on it.

We've noticed something strange since getting Grace's toddler bed though. Gwen likes to sleep in Grace's bed and not in her own. There have been countless times since my mom left where we have gone to lay Grace down and Gwen is asleep in Grace's bed. We've asked her why she can't sleep in her own bed and she says that it's too scary. So, we are going to try switching beds and letting Gwen sleep where Grace is right now and let Grace sleep in Gwen's old spot (which she's already done on a few occasions and not seemed to mind). The past two nights though we've found this:

We don't know what Gwen's problem is, but even if Grace is in her bed, Gwen still seems to have to sleep in that bed and climbs in with her. Hopefully switching spots will fix that since last night Gwen woke Grace up climbing into bed with her and we were up with Grace until close to midnight.

Even the baby is having some sort of sleep issue. She's been keeping to a pretty good routine as to when she wakes up and eats (every 4 hours, starting at 6 every morning). Don't know how she got on it, but it works well for me and I have no complaints-she's been such an easy baby!! However, when it comes to her 6 pm feeding, she decides that she has to stay up for 2-3 hours before she'll sleep. So I have now taken to sleeping on the couch from about 8 at night till she wants to eat again at 10. We can't figure out why she likes to stay up right when we are ready to go to bed, but I joked with Rob that she does it because it's the only cuddle time she can get alone with us. Oh, and we've been taking pictures of her for her birth announcement and this one turned out really good-she was wide awake without needing to eat and not screaming because she was tired. We'll see if the blue eyes keep (Grace had blue eyes until close to a year old, then they changed to hazel).