Olivia: Four Months Old

Olivia,

     Today you are F O U R months old my little princess.  I love you so much, and I show you by giving you a million kisses everyday! I can't help myself because your chubby cheeks are so kissable. You have developed quite a little personality this month. You love to smile and talk to anybody that will listen! Your brother is starting to finally pay attention to you and interact with you. He swears you are saying words when you are cooing and he makes sure I am listening to you. One day you two are going to be best friends, I'm calling it!

XOXO,

Your Mama

{Photos taken on December 21}

Olivia: Four Month Check-Up

    Little Miss Livie had her four month check-up today just three days shy of turning four months. She is petite just like her mama. Her stats are:

Height: 60.2 cm {23.5 in} {33%}

Weight: 5.85 kg {12 lbs 9 oz - with clothes} {38%}

Head: 39 cm {15 inches} {8%}

     The only concern the doctor had was with her head being on the smaller side. Her soft spot was smaller than what it should be, so we will have to keep an eye on it. If for some reason it's even smaller by her next visit, they will have to do a head ultrasound. I went by myself to her appointment, so I didn't get any pictures during her check-up, but here are some from this morning.

Holiday Treats

    I love making treats for people, so when Connor was given the opportunity to take a treat to his class Christmas party, I was all about it. While searching through Pinterest, I saw some cute recipes for snowman soup, which I had never heard of. I loved the concept, so I made 10 bags for the kids in our family and for our friends kids that will be spending some time with us over the holidays.

Connor's Visit to the ER

    So because I like to document everything {because one day I am going to print these out into books for the kids} I need to write about our Saturday spent in the ER. Connor had been running a fever on and off for the last couple of days. On Thursday evening he complained that his neck was hurting. I mentioned to Aaron that a sore neck is a sign of meningitis, but we thought we would see how he was feeling the next morning. The next morning he was back to his old self, until around 3pm he started running another fever. I medicated him the rest of the day/evening. Around 4am on Saturday morning I noticed he still felt warm, so I gave him some more Ibuprofen. When he woke up he was acting normal. We had errands to run and stopped to eat lunch between one of our stops when Connor started shivering. It was cold in the food court, but not cold enough to cause shivers. Then he started complaining that he was tired and his head hurt. I started looking him over and noticed he had a rash on his chest. That's when the red flag came to my mind: meningitis. I told Aaron we needed to take him to the ER to be seen. 

Switching Olivia To Cloth Diapers

    Today was Olivia's first day in cloth diapers, and it was a success. I had been delaying using them because I dreaded the prep phase, but we were finally running low on our fourth box of diapers and realized it was time. I am so glad I finally started using them on her because she looked so darn cute in them.