Babydoll

Ellie has now been mistaken for a babydoll, from far away, a handful of times.  One time, I ran into the store and left the kids with Grandma in the car.  Ellie was getting fussy, so Grandma got Ellie out of her seat and was sitting in the back of the van playing with her.  A woman quizzically walked over and told my mom that she thought she was playing with a life size doll.  Now, is it more logical to see a Grandma playing with a life size doll, or a baby?  And if she was playing with a doll, would you get that close to her?  I guess it just goes to show how perfectly beautiful my sweet, baby girl is.

Ellie's 1st Tooth

Here comes that 1st little tooth poking through.  Bottom, left it is!

Sleeps unswaddled

Ok...I really thought that I might just have to show Ellie's college roommate how to swaddle her before she went to bed...but, we did it!  Ellie, at almost 6 months old, is now sleeping unswaddled.  A good, tight swaddle is one of my secrets to good sleeping babies and all my kids liked to be swaddled, but Ellie was taking it a little too far.  She just couldn't give it up and we were running out of blankets that are big enough to contain her.

Happy 5th Birthday Wesley!

April Fools

I began today by teaching the boys about April Fools Day. My mom was famous for waking us up really early with some outrageous claim of snow fall or a hot air balloon landing in our back yard.  It was often too early to think logically and by the time we were peering out the back door, we knew we'd been had.  Wes and Nate are little enough still that they will believe just about anything and quickly fell for my stories.  Soon enough they caught on to the fun of this day and started making up stories of their own.  All day Wes was yelling things like, "Watch out Mommy, there's a dinosaur/monster/giant baby, behind you!" and would exclaim, "April Fools!" when I acted scared.  Nate followed right along and would exclaim just what he had heard his brother yell moments before.  My favorite of the day was, "Look out Mommy, there's an army of dancing koala bears coming!".  I didn't know if I should be scared or get up and dance along.