Friday

Very nice and laid back morning! We played with Mudge the dog a lot of the morning! The sun was shining so we also went outside for a little and Landon showed Oliver how to mow! Kobe has been a grouch though and did take a good morning nap. Poor Oliver must have been tired too because he fell asleep in the car ride to pick up Bryce from school. It was a cat nap so hopefully he'll still nap this pm! We also did bubbles and play dough fun this morning. Oliver ate well and I added carrots and grapes to his meal. He had a special treat today I'll show you the wrapper! It's an organic dried fruit bar but the ingredients had nothing he's allergic too (not even artifical coloring or flavors!)

Thursday

Today went very well! Very quiet this morning (which I'm not used to!) Kids ate a good breakfast and then we left to take the boys to school. Came home and Baby Sydney ate 4 oz well from her bottle and had 2 diaper changes. She's been a pleasant baby today! Sleeping a lot (basically all morning long!) Mostly in the pack n play but now she is in the bouncy seat snoozing. Miss Lilly had fun with Faith today! They painted for over an hour!

Zach's been a good boy and easy today. He's been happy playing. Took an hour nap from 10-11 and then had some lunch. Lots of babbling out of him today and I swear he said "I'm done" at lunch today!

Kobe continues to improve with his feeding skills! He fed himself mac n cheese with a fork! and fishies with his hands.

Wednesday

It was a good morning! The boys all played very nicely. The Baldwin boys of course ate well for both meals! Elliott had pizza (just half), so I made him a pb/jelly sandwich, yogurt, grapes, milk and a little piece of cake for dessert. Oliver ate all his food and I added some grapes and broccoli to his "carb meal" :-) haha

Drop off and pick up went well too! We started out playing in the playroom watching some sesame street. Then turned off the tv and practiced our letter flashcards (actually Elliott insisted we do them). Then we read some stories and sang some silly songs (that included bare piggies and me making up new versions to the "this little piggie" rhyme)

We had a quick snack and then did some water painting with the big boys while Oliver colored (Kobe took a huge nap!) Then it was time to play down in the basement with legos, trains, and we played restaurant again. The morning flew by! I can't wait until the weather is nicer so we can go outside more too! That'll make it go by even faster though!

Elliott has been cracking me up all day too! I asked him if he's going to be a comedian when he grows up... He said no, just a farmer!! haha He's so silly!

Oh and both of your boys are on the same poop schedule (hoping it's all out of them now for naps)

I'm insisting everyone nap today, the Rankin boys need some nap time!

Tuesday

It was a good and smooth morning! Sydney was happy, took a nap in her carseat after drop off and woke around 8:30 and was a hungry little lady! She ate 4 oz. Burped well in between. Then we were off to take the boys to school. Came home and she coo'd and giggled a bit and snuggled aunt Ash (Kobe) was trying to get her all morning but I protected her :-) She then got grumpa lumpa and fell asleep in the pack n play around 9:45 (all by herself too!) then Kobe went to bed so I used this time to get lunches ready ahead of time. Baby girl woke at 11 while Lilly was having lunch but wasn't ready to wake yet so she went in the bouncy seat an fell back to sleep, it's almost noon and I'm bouncing her while she sleeps still. I love her outfit, so stinken cute!

Poor Lilly I feel like I've ignored her all morning, I just have to get in the rhythm of having a tiny babe in the house again! She's playing great and played very well with Kobe this morning.

Tristan and Landon had a good party. They got a ton of cards/treats! They still haven't had lunch yet because I knew they wouldn't be hungry due to eating at the party. I'll feed them shortly!

That's about it! All is calm so a good day!

Friday

Awesome day! The kids really seemed to miss one another and played so well together! You should have seen Kobe's eye's light up when he saw Elliott and Oliver this morning. The boys ate well for both breakfast and lunch. Oliver ate only half of his mac n cheese today but scarfed down his grapes! Elliott had a pb sandwich with yogurt, grapes and milk and then he had his "cake pop." What a treat! He kept saying, is it cake? is it a lolly pop? is it both??

We played in the playroom and read books this morning. They were really into the pop up books about animals so we spent a good bit of time on that. Then we talked about Valentines day and made some crafts.

We had a small snack and then spent the rest of the morning down in the basement playing legos, trains, and then restaurant. The best part was when Oliver was copying the big boys with serving me and then he started coming over and handing me pretend food, it was so cute!

Picked up Bryce, then had some lunch, played a bit more in the play room (Landon and Elliott were having a wrestling war at this time) I didn't stop them since they were both enjoying themselves! The babies were laughing at them.

Then off to naps by 1. I snuggled Elliott a little extra and read him some books and it made a big difference. No fussing out of anyone and I'm pretty sure all were asleep right away!

Thursday

Lilly has had a rough morning today, you wouldn't know it now though (maybe she was just hungry??) I already talked with Alicia about what diva-ness she's had and the funny account that took place at the manchester township building because she didn't want to use my door, she walked into a glass window/wall. I picked up the book preschool wise today and the movie the Change up (looks very funny!) Just reserved 50 50! LOVE library! I also had Lilly on the system today to let her pick some new Barney DVD's to reserve (she loved that!)

No Zack today so it was just me and lilly and Kobe. Drop off and pick up went great and Uncle Kyle still came home to eat lunch with his little lady (although she had a major fit when he first came home)

I bought Lilly some Barney stickers yesterday so she was busy making a new creation.

The boys are playing downstairs and I told them if they are well behaved I'll let them play wii for a little.

wednesday

Um is it Feb?? or May?? I'm confused? So we were outside seriously the entire morning!!! It was close to 60 degrees! The boys had a blast! We ran around, had snack, played play dough, swang, climbed, scootered, and Oliver's fav.... blew lots of bubbles! FUN STUFF, and I really needed that and so did the kiddos!

Oliver's eye's lit up when we went out! He thought it was so cool that he had free rein of the entire back yard, he ran up and down the hill waiting for me to chase after him, then he would go up to the fence and shake it like he was a prisoner.

As you can see from the picture, Mr. Elliott is quite the baseball player :-)

We did have story time inside today but that was it!

All the kids ate so great at lunch! Elliott had pb sandwich, avocado (ask him to pronounce it's so funny), yogurt, grapes, milk, and 2 cookies. I added plain yogurt with honey, advocado (which he didn't like) and grapes to Oliver's meal.

landon ate 1 spoon full of applesauce to get his cookies today (hey it's something) I tried canteloupe but he seriously almost threw it up! That boy,

All playing now and we'll be down for naps soon! I have a new batman sleeping bag that Elliott is excited about!