Morning Breakfast

Yes, you are seeing this picture correctly, you are probably wondering why you are looking at a picture of a Fiber One brownie in our bed and a pudding cup on the bathroom counter.  This is how we wake up every morning.  Lane brings us something to open for him to eat.  He wakes up and sneaks downstairs to help himself to breakfast, but he just can't quite open them yet.  Usually he makes a good breakfast choice, like a Nurti-Grain Bar or Granola Bar, cereal (which he will bring up a bowl and spoon), or a bagel.  These didn't get opened because I made him go get something else and I have to hide them in our bed.  Just writing this makes me laugh (today he brought up a ring pop, which is now sitting in the baby organizer on my night stand).  This makes me crazy at 6 am, but I know we will always laugh about it.   

Simplify

I'm trying to make a lot of changes around here, mainly to decrease my stress level.  I get tied up and often preoccupied with "stuff" and "things" that need to get done (like cleaning off the counter, and not having dishes in the sink all day).  But this is what I need to be doing.  Focusing on my precious little children.  One of my first changes is to pre plan meals (which I should have been doing all along, for many different reasons).  I tend to stand at the frig or pantry at 4:30 when it is complete chaos and decide what I don't want to make.  The last thing you want to do at the end of a crazy day is to figure out what to cook for dinner.  So I have decided to plan ahead at the beginning of the week.  We plan a few meals and expect some left overs or possibly take out for the other days.  So in the morning, when everyone is happy and has their good listening ears on we make dinner.  Here I have a great picture of Zackary entertaining Chloe while Lane and I did the cooking.  It worked out perfect and I just have to throw dinner in the oven in the afternoon.  And boy has this helped so much.  We have a good dinner and every one gets to participate.

4 Months

Miss Chloe is already 4 months.  I swear that each baby grows up faster than the other.  The time flies faster.  Where does it go?  I guess we are so busy that each day sneaks up on us and passes so fast.  What a fun age.  I guess I say this at every age, it really just gets better and better.  Chloe had here 4 month check and weighs 14 lbs 12 ozs and is 25 1/4 inches long.  She is following right along her 60 % for weight and 80% for height.  She had to have 4 shots but she handled them pretty well, I probably had a harder time with them...

As you can see Chloe is rolling from back to front she actually started rolling last week.  It seems so early to me for this to happen.  She decided one day to start practicing and did it the next day.  Not much practicing for her!  She is all smiles, she loves to chat and do her little dinosaur squeal.  She loves our "dance parties"  and is completely entertained watching her brothers.  She is sleeping very well, she likes to go to bed around 7 and wakes up sometime between 3-5 usually then goes back to sleep until 9ish.  It's nice because in the morning I get some time to get the boys breakfast and lets us have some play time together.  

I have to show a picture of her skullett.  Her hair is so long and thick on the bottom and pretty thin on top.  She is finally growing some hair on top.  It really is quite the look!

Agave pups

I was pretty impressed by this agave we have.  It shot up quite the "bean stalk" as Zackary called it, probably about 20 feet high, no joke.  Not only that but it is completely full of agave pups.  This was pretty amazing to watch grow this spring.  Aaron chopped it down today and we plucked all the pups off and he is going to take them to work to give away.