insta-friday

We've been busy busy busy over the past week.  The days fly.  But it's been pretty good.

So last Thursday I loaded up the kids and headed to Waco to visit my friend, Jamie, and her family.  I could not have asked for better behaved kids on the way down!  The girls colored and watched movies, and Nolan slept the entire time.  It was SO nice.  The ride home....the girls were still pretty good, but Nolan cried for the first 30 minutes (that's a pretty loooong time, folks!) and then finally went to sleep.  Parker stayed up the entire trip and Grace held out for a little over and hour.  It was a good visit though.

Our kids.  All half-dozen of them.  haha  :)

After a day Thursday....we took it easy Friday and had a lazy lazy morning laying around in our jammies.

 During lunch, Parker was 'tinkering' as she said, 'like Tinker Bell', and went to the pantry and got this straw...and put it in the straw on her cup and began drinking.  Her mind never stops.

 And for dinner....PW's French Bread pizzas.  So easy and they were so good.  The girls are actually eating pizza lately so we're eating it more frequently.  The pizza with the roma tomatoes on it was SO good.  Wish I would have made more of that one!

Nolan's growth chair pictures from Newborn- 3 months.

I came home from work one evening and Parker was working on this picture.  I'm trying to find the words to say, but really....the picture says it all.

Geoff sent me this picture while I was working.  Little guy just fell asleep under the play mat.

 And then he sent me this picture.  When I first went back to work 5 weeks ago, I handled it pretty well.  It wasn't too 'hard'.  But this past weekend.  SO hard.  I missed them like crazy.  And this picture did me in.  But good news....only 1 more week of full time work and then I will be part time.  So very excited about this for many reasons.  :)

 At one point while I was working last weekend I asked Geoff to send me a picture of everyone because I missed them so much....and this is what he sent me with the message "this is as good as I could get."  Hahaha!!  And I LOVE it!

 And then one day this week....Aunt Aubry and Uncle Greg were so great to take the girls for a day and spent the night with them, too!.  The girls had so much fun!  And I had fun spending some 1 on 1 time with baby boy.

Nolan @ 3 months

(I started this post closer to around the time he turned 3 months old.   A lot of this has already changed, but I'll save for his 4 month post since this is, in fact, what he was doing around 3 months.  :)

-sleeping: to bed around 8ish. usually wakes up between 4 and 5....then up for good around 8 or 9

-awake time in the day for usually 1.5 to 2 hours at a time

-feeding mostly every 2 and a half hours sometimes every 3 hours during the day

-clothes size 3-6 month

-size 1 diapers

-coos and aaahhhhs.  will 'talk' to us.  so sweet.

-has the sweetest smile and is smiling sooo much.  completely melts me every time.

  -really starting to focus in and grab for things.  amazing to watch.

-sweet, sweet feet

-drooling.  so much.  when awake, he pretty much has a bib around his neck.  and it gets drenched.  quickly.

-not sure how he's big enough to be in this thing?  with Parker- i was always waiting for things to happen...for her to do the next thing.  and now...with Nolan...I often say, "what????  when did he get big enough to do THAT?"

-and he loves, loves, loves his sisters

-loves holding his hands

-loves his bath.  on this particular day....Geoff and I were both home.  it reminded me of the days that we'd give Parker a bath together if we were both home.  now it's more of a tag team effort and so rarely does one kid get both of our attention at the same time.

-each day it seems like he's becoming more aware of his surrounding and really grabbing for things.  geoff and I talked about the other day how our lives are about to change with mr, grabby hands.  :)

-Sweet boy wants to roll over, I think.  :)

Nolan month to month.

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