"I larious!" - Part 18

April 1st 

We were going to town, voting on what to have for lunch. "Panda!" "Zips!" "Arby's" were all thrown about. K was talking everybody into Zips but Peanut. She told us, "Me and Peaches vote Panda!" 

April 3rd 

Peanut was having a conversation with Noni. "Cocoa can't have any babies because she is wearing a collar." Noni: "So if you take off her collar she can have babies?" Peanut: "No, cuz she doesn't have a husband! She scratches and bites a lot though!" 

April 17th

Grandpa brought us a Port-A-Potty for when we are working out at the farmhouse. Apparently Peanut was associating it with something else though because the first time I went out after it had arrived she excitedly told me, "Look Mommy! Grandpa brought us a poor potty!" 

April 28th 

"Mommy this Barbie is called Tangled because she tangles. You have to brush her hair ALL the time because it always tangles.

May 5th

I made the mistake of teaching them a rhyme we used to say when we lined up in elementary school and for a while they said it ALL THE TIME. 1st is the worst. 2nd is the best. 3rd is the one with the hairy chest! To which Peanut piped up one day, "No, DADDY is the one with hair on his chest!" 

:)

Happy Birthday Peanut!

FOUR! Our little Peanut is 4 today!

 Here is her birthday interview:

1. Favorite color: pink

2. Favorite toy: elephants

3. Favorite fruit: grapes

4. Favorite TV show: Magic School Bug

5. Favorite lunch: peanut butter and jelly sammiches

6. Favorite outfit: me elephant outfit

7. Favorite game: Life

8. Favorite snack: ga-nola bars

9. Favorite animal: elephants

10. Favorite song: Wild Kratts

11. Favorite book: elephant ones

12. Your best friend: Stacy

13. Favorite Cereal: Lucky Char-warms

14. Favorite thing to do outside: play Boxcar Children

15. Favorite drink: water

16. Favorite holiday: Summer

17. Favorite breakfast: cereal

18. What do you like to take to bed: Te

19. What do you want to be when you grow up: a mommy

20. What do you want for your birthday dinner? peanut butter and jelly sammiches

Our Peanut is such a joy. She dearly loves to laugh and can be quite the ham. She is always making funny faces for the camera, telling jokes, shaking her booty, dancing to the muse-kick, and just generally making us laugh with her faces and expressions. 

She loves to climb on things and has great control of her body. She can get up on stuff that even her sisters can't by using her both her arms and legs along with leverage and ingenuity. Sometimes when she slips or stumbles she says, "See Mom, I'm ok." or "Don't worry Mommy. I'm fine." 

She has funny thing of making one syllable words into two or two syllable words into three. Like car is "Car-rer" and she loves "Lucky Char-rems" and her baby sister's name is always said with three syllables instead of two.

She is so grown up and independent that at times I forget that she is still little. She can buckle herself, get dressed, get ready for bed (including brushing and flossing), get herself a drink of water, get out bowls, spoons, milk, and cereal for breakfast, get herself a snack (and open most things by herself ), and even go potty (#1) without any help. All that being said she still loves to be cuddled, held in laps, and carried around. If she could she wouldn't use her legs at all, but would be content to be carried wherever she needed to go. She also still takes a nap 2 or 3 times a week. If I don't make sure she has a nap every other day or so she will sleep until 10-10:30. 

She rarely walks anywhere, but is always skipping, tripping, and twirling about. 

She loves to dance, draw, color, do Playdoh, play Barbies, play on the iPad, and get dirty in the sandbox. Reading is still the favorite though. She would have me read her books for an hour every night if we could. 

She loves her sisters and has a special relationship with each of them. She can play with any one of them, and is also pretty content to play on her own. She loves to be wherever I am so if they are all playing upstairs and I go to the basement to run she will come play Legos just to be near me. She loves hugs and kisses and holding hands.

She can read and write 3-4 letter words, and count to about 30 before she starts getting mixed up. She's bright just like her sisters and is going to do great when she starts preschool in a few weeks! I  can't wait to see what the year brings!

 Dear Peanut, 

Happy Birthday sweet girl! You bring so much joy and laughter to our lives! I can't imagine our family without you: your silly faces, made-up jokes, or your booty shaking whenever you hear a good beat. I love the way you belt out worship songs in the car and the way you get the giggles when you are cracking yourself (and us!) up.

Four years have gone by so quickly. I wish I could slow down time and enjoy each day a little longer, but at the same time I am loving watching you grow, mature, and learn each day. 

I am so proud of the sweet, thoughtful, kind girl you are becoming. I love the way you stop and pray each time you hear an ambulance, fire truck, or police siren. You are so sincere and trusting of God. I pray that you continue to put your trust Him and let Him guide you as you grow. 

I hope that four is your best year ever...that you make lots of friends at preschool, that you hide God's word in your heart in your last year of Cubbies, that you dance your heart out, smile big each day and that you laugh a million belly laughs like you love to do. 

You are beyond precious to me sweet girl. I love you more than words can say.

Love, Mommy

Johnny Jumper

 I pulled out the Johnny Jumper the other day. I adore Peaches' "first discovery" face. Cracks. Me. Up.

"Ok. I could get into this."

 

"Oh hey Mommy!" 

Love this cutie pie! She fills each day with love and JOY!

Funny Friday

Happy Friday! :)

Leftover Thursday

 Boo made me laugh the other day because she was wearing Peanut's 4T pants. This was pre-haircut. :)

Peaches is SUCH an amazing baby! She has stopped falling asleep at the drop of a hat in the car, but you wouldn't be able to tell because most of the time she just plays quietly with her toys.

She is starting to get really interested in food. She watches us intently whenever we eat.

The girls are always creating something. This particular day they were antsy so I sent them to the backyard to play. When I looked out a little while later I saw this.

 

It was a little windy and apparently they decided to solve that themselves. 

 

They also took a whole bunch of barbies outside and made a sandy mess, but it entertained them for a solid two hours so that's something. Haha :)

I love Peaches' concentration face. She gets so intent! 

Ok, that's all for now. Happy Thursday! :)

Wordless Wednesday - TWO!

6 Months

 6 months! Where does the time go?? 

 

I told T I need a pause button and he said it's called number 5. Haha :) 

 At six months Peaches is:
Starting to sit up for several minutes at a time.
Has two teeth.

Has rolled from back to tummy and tummy to back.
Will sit and listen to us read several books at a time.
Loves her sisters to pieces!
Eats 4 times a day (8/9, 12, 4, 8)
And takes 3 naps.
Goes to bed about 9:00 and wakes up around 8:30 or 9.
Plays quietly in her crib until we come to get her.
Is all smiles when we look at her!
Is grabbing everything!
And whatever she gets goes straight in the mouth.
And is just SUCH a happy baby!

 I think she is the most mellow of our babies so far. Bug has been intense from day 1. Boo and Peanut were both more mellow in personality but they loved to jibber jabber and were always making noise. 

 Peaches is a very quiet baby. When we eat dinner she sits in her bouncer chewing on a toy literally 6 inches from my face and sometimes I forget she is there. She is that quiet. It's a good thing we have a video monitor because we would never know she is awake based on noise. She will lay in bed looking around for a long time. The only time she makes noise is to sing her sleepy song if she is ready for a nap, but not laid down in her crib. She used to be good about napping on the go. Not so much anymore. She can go all day on snatches of 30-45 minute naps if we're out and about. If we're home and she's in her own crib she naps about 5 hours (total) a day. On days when she doesn't get good naps and is over-tired she will cry in her bed for 10-15 minutes before finally giving up and going to sleep at night.

She is just starting to sit up on her own so I decided to be brave and try to get a couple shots. 

Love this sweet face!

I know it doesn't look like much but she is finally starting to grow a little hair! 

And I think it actually has a reddish tinge to it!

Me? A redhead?

 

She started to get a little tipsy at this point and I should have left well enough alone. You can see that I moved closer to catch her if she started to fall. 

 

I was concentrating on the side that lead to the floor, but she leaned back and over onto the wall. I think it scared her more than hurt (it was more of a smush into the wall than a smack) but she let out some impressive wails to let me know she was quite offended that I allowed this to happen! :P

 We're headed to the doctor today for checkups so I'll update her stats on this post later today. Here are her sister's 6 month stats to compare. We weighed her on Grandpa's scale a month ago and she was a hair over 16lbs. so she's got everyone beat!

Bug: 15lbs. 14oz.

Boo: 15 lbs. 10 oz.

Peanut: 15lbs. 14 oz. 

Check back later today for the weigh in!

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Update: Peaches weighed in at 16lbs. 11oz. She is the heavy weight champion of 6 months! Haha :)