Our Family: March 2011

I realized I never did post some of our Christmas stuff (hee-hee). So here's a bit of what we did. We did the traditional Christmas Eve out at my Grandpa's house, including a pinata (a candle this year).

Christmas morning by the tree

Opening presents

Jared in his santa outfit (thanks Gma H!)

Here's some random pictures from the month of January (Jared around 4mo old):

Madisyn loves to "help" with Jared. But she also likes to stuff random things around him. Here he is getting buried in his swing. :)

I found Jared in the laundry basket one Sunday when we getting ready to leave. I asked Ben why he put the baby there and he replies, "Well, I had to put him down somewhere, and I figured that was a safe place to put him. " Very true I guess. :)

My three little munchkins: Jared (4mo), Madisyn (3), and Parker (almost 5)

Maddie finally let her hair grow long enough that I could do some french braids! Yeah!

Jared, almost 4 mo old here

Parker loved pushing Jared around in his dump truck. hee-hee

The kids like to play "tent" with Jared under one of his floor toys. He actually enjoys it too... most of the time.

Maddie is such a good big sister. Here she is 'reading' him a book.

Parker turned 5 on January 22. Crazy that he is that old! So I made him a cake and we had friends over for a party and did some fun party games. It was crazy trying to have an indoor party in our apartment with so many kids, but Parker had fun and that's what was important. Too bad he wasn't born during the summer though.

his dinosaur cake

Parker with his cake

Jared had his first baby food a week before he turned 5 mo. He actually did really well and liked it...at first. Now he won't have anything to do with the stuff. sigh. But I've actually found other things that he can and will eat, mostly crackers, bananas, and other soft things. He's real low on the weight scale (2nd percentile), so I've been trying to feed him anything and everything that he will eat. We'll find out in a week and a half if it's working.

For Valentine's day we made sugar cookies, then meet with some friends to decorate them and make valentines.

Cutting out the sugar cookies

Madisyn's valentine to Daddy, made with an elephant on the front.

More pictures from February:

Jared on his 5 mo birthday

My three arm baby!

Jared LOVES LOVES LOVES his Johnny Jumper!

In January, Parker got a really bad kidney infection. Then a few weeks later he got a bladder infection. Boys rarely get those kind of things, especially young/little boys. So they had to do some tests on him to see if they could figure out why he got the infections. So here he is getting an ultrasound on his kidneys and bladder.

Madisyn coloring

Parker and Maddie colored their own place mats. I was really impressed with how persistent Parker was in getting his done all the way. Good job Parker!