4 Month Update

It is so hard to believe that the girls are already 4 months old!

This really is going to go by so fast.

I am trying to enjoy each little phase the girls are in.  Knowing that I will never be doing this again is helping me to cherish almost all of it :)

Here is the update of the girls at 4 months old:

Naomi is 9 pounds 3 ounces 22 inches

Colette is 9 pounds 1/2 ounce and 21.75 inches

They have started to sleep for a 6 hour stretch~ cutting out one of the middle of the night feedings!

YAHOO!!!!

They have (finally) out grown all of their preemie outfits and are starting to fit into some of the 0-3 month jammies.

They are now in Size 1 diapers (no more newborn).

They are still eating every 3 hours and they are still using the preemie Dr. Brown nipple, but they are now drinking 90 mls (3 ounces) at each feeding.

The best of all~ they have started smiling and cooing!!!

It is adorable!!!

I LOVE IT!

My favorite is when I am putting them to bed or getting them up and they are both right next to each other and both will look up at me with big bright eyes and smile at me!

It makes everything all worth it!

Naomi smiling with her doll.

Colette smiling with her doll.

This is how the girls sleep the best~ I absolutely LOVE it!!!!

Both girls working on tummy time and holding their heads up.

Smiling while getting bundled up to go the the doctors~ I have no idea who this is :)

And just to remind everyone that I have 4 other kids~

Here is Shayden getting her last Go for the Gold Award at Altara (sorry it's sideways).

I can't believe my baby girl is going to be in middle school next year!!!

How did she get so old?!?

How did I get so old?!?

Here is Vivian eating her toes (totally random) while watching the boys play on the computer.  She definitely thinks of herself as one of the "big kids." 

Proverbs

I am working on this project that I got off of Pinterest.  

Yes! 

I am actually doing some of the fun things that I pin!

So, I am organizing all of the kids paperwork/ memories into file folder boxes like these and I came across a paper that Shayden did in 2nd grade.  It was a worksheet with the first half of well known proverbs and the kids had to fill in the second half.  

1. Don't bite the hand that will hurt the leg.

2. If you lie down with the dogs, you'll get licked and bit.

3. Don't put off tomorrow what you want to do today.

4. When the blind lead the blind you crash. 

5. After a storm comes the sun does.

6. The bigger they are the better.

7. Don't wash your dirty laundry in the tub.

8. A bird in the hand is quiet.

9. People who live in glass houses get hurt.

10. Don't cut off your nose, that would hurt.

11. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

12. When the cat's away the mice can play.

13. You can't get blood out of your nail (and by nail I mean your finger nail or toe nail).

14. Don't wear white, you'll get dirty.

I think #10 is my favorite :)  

What is your favorite?!?

I love looking back through my kids work.  It is making me realize how quickly they are growing up and how fast this time of having young children in the house is going to go by.

Shayden is in that in between space of too mature to be a kid but not quite mature enough to be a teenager. 

I am not ready for her to grow up!

I am not ready for her to become more independent.  It is making me question if I have done enough to prepare her for the tough years ahead.  

Being at home will these little girls is helping me to realize that the whole reason I am here on this earth is to be a mother to these children I have been blessed with. It is helping me realize that I will find the greatest joy in my life through my kids~ and I only get the privilege of having them with me at home for a short time. 

All the other things that I want to do or accomplish personally I will have plenty of time for later.  Right now my biggest responsibility and joy will come from raising these kids to the very best of my ability and then hope and pray that they turn out okay!