3-4 Months

Our precious Haven is 4 months old today!  He is so fun, so happy, full of smiles and so handsome!

~Eating 6x a day, about 5 oz and one early morning feeding where he doesn't eat too much.  He's about to start wearing size 3 diapers when I use up the 2s I have left.

~Night sleeping is improving.  He goes to sleep around 7, and gets up around 7:30am.   We are down to one quick feeding between 5-6 am.  Jill started sleeping through the night at 15 weeks (H is a few weeks older than that now) so I was hopeful he could do the same.  I'm thinking in a few weeks he'll be sleeping through.... fingers crossed!

~Rolled from back to tummy on Oct 5 and hasn't stopped since.  He rolls to his tummy immediately if you lay him down.  This caused a major hiccup in sleeping for about a week.  He wanted to roll to his tummy but couldn't get comfy and cried.  I was also freaking out that he was on his tummy trying to sleep when he was 3 months old.  After one long night of Haven rolling over every hour, screaming, and me rolling him back to his back, I let him cry.  He cried for 5 minutes and then started trying to get comfy to sleep.  I watched the monitor for 1 full hour just terrified he wouldn't be able to breath.  Anyways.... he has proven to me that he can sleep on his tummy so I dont worry about it anymore.  In fact, Haven sleeps in a different position almost every night.

Sleeping on his side (which I think is just precious since he's so young)

Trying to get that hiney in the air to sleep.  Jill didn't start sleeping on her tummy with her hiney in the air til she was closer to 8 months.

~ Loves sitting up.  Wants to be up all the time now.  He loves sitting in his bumbo or sitting in our laps and holding himself up.

~ Loves staring into our eyes and flashing the biggest gummy smiles.  He's starting to giggle too.  Oh how I love that!!!  He does it all the time!  The cutest is when he's eating -  he'll eat just enough to get comfortable, and then he wont stop looking up and smiling at me.  I just love it.  Nursing takes a little longer now, but he's so stinking cute, I don't mind.

~ Haven is BIG!  I'll get his stats this week when we see the Dr, but he fits perfectly into 6 month clothing and some 6-9 month clothing.  I'm guessing he weighs 16+ pds.

~ I can't believe when Jillian was his age we started her on cereal.  Maybe this has to do with Haven being the second and the months are flying by even quicker, but he seems like such a baby to be eating off a spoon!!  So we'll put eating cereal on the back-burner for a little while longer.

Here's a few pictures of him from the past 2 months:

We pulled out Jillian's Jumperoo for Haven and Jillian is OBSESSED with it again.  Too funny!  Haven took a lesson from Jill on how it all works.

(this is just temporary - yes it's quite pink for a boy.  My sister is letting us borrow hers in a few weeks)

This is from Jaden's 1 year party this weekend - it was SO fun!!  Post on that coming soon.

I think Haven looks more like me!!!!  Which I love!  

When I look at Haven's eyes, I see my sister!  It's the coolest thing.  No one else really sees it, expect my parents (a little), but I see Shelby every single time I look at him.  Very cool.

Haven we LOVE you!  So immensely.  You are the perfect addition to our family and such a blessing to us.  Now, if you could just figure out how to nap longer, we'd be set ;)   

Cherished Moment

I can't tell you how much I LOVED this moment with Haven.  It was beatiful.  Perfect.  Quiet.  Just what I needed.  I'm sure it was exactly what he needed.

Haven is just the perfect baby - BUT he's pretty bad at napping.  He only takes 3 naps a day and they are 30 minutes, one might be 45 minutes. He used to finish naps in his swing and now when he wakes he screams!  It's so hard for him to be soothed.  By late afternoon Haven is SO tired.  So.... after days of bad napping and trying different things I thought maybe I needed to be a little tougher.  Let him fuss more when he wakes after only 30 minutes, hoping he'd get back to sleep.  This has been really hard.  After hearing him fuss for a few minutes I went in, scooped him up, and rocked him.  He melted in my arms and fell asleep.  He never does this so I had Jeff take a picture.  I loved rocking him while he slept on me for 20 minutes.  I kept kissing his head.  Smelling him.  Praying over him.  And just loving those 20 precious minutes.

Sweet moments like this make you forget about the hard day you're having.

Fall Fun

We have had so much fun the past few weeks.  My foot is feeling better so walking around for longer periods of time feels normal again.  The weather has been spectacular and I'm feeling more and more comfortable venturing out with 2!  Haven definitely has his limits, but if I time it right, he can usually be so happy and content for about an hour and a half wherever we go.

Last weekend Jeff was gone on Saturday attending the A&M football game.  There was a REALLY fun carnival at the end of our street.   I took the kids  and crossed my fingers neither one would have a melt down.  They both did great.... til the very end.  Jill had the best time playing and Haven chilled in the stroller and baby bjorn.  We stayed for nearly an hour and a half and it was crystal clear when both kids had enough.  They both decided to have melt-downs at the same time.  Oh the looks I was getting as I had Haven SCREAMING in the baby bjorn and Jill crying, hungry, tired and angry I forced her into the stroller as we left.  Regardless, it was so fun.  I'm glad we went!

Jill had a blast in the bounce house.  Took A LOT of convincing to get her out.

She also got her face painted... of course with pink hearts.  

Pony ride.  

Wednesday we went to Owens Farm with our friends from Sunday school class.  Wednesday was a cooler, windy day and I totally forgot to bring Haven a hat for his ears.  I'm a little rusty at times with having a baby again.  We stayed for about 45 minutes and took off.  Jill was expecting a carnival like we went to on Saturday.  She was so sad when she kept asking: Get my face painted? - I'd say no.  Ride the ponies? - I'd say no.  Jump in Bounce house? - Nope, they don't have that either.  After we did the hay ride, picked out 2 pumpkins and fed the goats Jill didn't put up a fight leaving.

Another day we went to the Park, and had the playground ALL to ourselves!  Sweet Haven was such a champ - he snooozed for about 45 minutes in the stroller (which he never does - he must have loved the weather too).  It was like old times running around the playground with Jill.  We both had so much fun.

This playground is HUGE.  This part is clearly made for big kids.  Jill was still obsessed with climbing this,  it's about 15' tall.  Don't worry I didn't let her climb far, and I spotted her the whole time.

Last story - last week we went to our MOPS fall playdate.  It was so fun.  I left my phone in the car so sadly I didn't take any pictures.  Haven (again!) was awesome and was happy in his stroller most of the time.  They had 2 bounce houses there, which has got to be Jillian's new favorite thing.  She LOVED the boucehouse for bigger kids.  It has stairs you climb and a huge 20' slide.  All inflatable.  She was pretty careful since 3-4 year olds are much rougher; she would only slide when the slide was completely clear.  While she was waiting for the slide to be clear there was a landing at the top where she'd jump and watch all the kids.  I was talking with one of my friends and watching Jill from the bottom and all the sudden she taps a boy on the nose and says 'you're turn!'.  We almost died laughing.  The little boy looked at Jill like she was CRAZY.  Jill went back to jumping.  Like she had done her job directing traffic and could resume her jumping.  Too funny.

Jeff's Birthday

We celebrated Jeff's birthday earlier this month.  Jill helped me make the cookies (which Jeff requested) and had so much fun helping him blow out the candles.  It's SO cute listening to her sing Happy Birthday!

Look how SWEET this little guy is! He happily chilled in his bumbo on the table while we ate dinner, sang Happy Birthday to Jeff, and ate cookies.  Such a sweetie!!

Happy Birthday Jeff!!!!  You're a wonderful hubby and daddy!

Haven's Birth Story Book

Here's his photobook, I had SO MUCH fun makimg this:

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Little Aggies to-be

Here are a few pictures of Jeff and his decked out Aggie kiddos on game day last week.  He even convinced me to wear Aggie get-up.  Our household was definitely in the Aggie spirit, but it didn't do much good, we still lost.

I'm beyond obsessed with this little guy:  

 Jillian giving a Gig 'Em.  Haven's trying too..??

'Spilled Milk' as Jillian says.  She's my little helper and cleans him up without me really asking her to.  Such a sweet Big Sister.

My Handsome Men:

We're definitely Aggie fans in this house... NOW if they would just give us something to CHEER ABOUT!!!

Sibling Love

These couple pics are off my Iphone when Jillian was super sweet but not patient enough for me to grab the good camera.

Asking him to hold him..... this lasted maybe 20 seconds before she grew bored of sitting still.

 She did sneak in a sweet kiss though...

Playing on the floor with H.  Look how big she is next to him!

More sweet kisses!

Love these 2 precious souls more than anything!!