She's 3!!

Renae is 3!! :)  She had a GREAT birthday!  More pictures to come!

2 Months HUGE

This 'little' boy is 2 months old!  We got his new measurements at his appointment this afternoon.  For dramatic effect I will put the other kids' info here, too.

2 Month Growth Statistics:
Renae: 21 in   9 lb 6 oz
Jack: 24.5 in  12 lb 13 oz
Noah: 25.25 in  15 lb 0 oz

R.U.Serious.  That is basically a pound and a half inch a week since birth.  WOW.

Fun Fun FUN!

Look at these 3.  Hahaha.  So cute.  Every single day.  Josh and I talk all the time about what great kids we have.  We are so blessed!

Noah is 2 months old TOMORROW! :)  I'll post his stats when I get em! 

Playing outside the other day.  Gotta love December in the sunny South.  We are getting waaaay too used to this!  70s and perfect outside!

 

I can not even wait to get the actual growth stats on this kid.  He.is.huge.  I've not ever witnessed a newborn growing so fast.  It's insane.

 

This is so funny.  (Jacks cheeks look all wet because he has super dry skin on his face so he gets to put on special lotion every night).  And can you even see how big our boys are!?  WHAT!

Also, I was looking back through the blog and I noticed our first post...which was pre-kids and just flat out weird.  But the other night we were laying in bed and I was showing Josh some pictures I took of the kids that day and flipped it around and these next two are what happened.  I guess we've still got it.
 

Thought I should put Noah in this outfit while I can still squeeze him into it.  It's a 3 mo size.

 

Renae was reading Noah her Franklin the Turtle book from Chick-Fil-A today.  haha
 

And this is for your viewing enjoyment:

Happy 31!

I celebrated my 31st birthday on Saturday with these cuties! (Also, happy 30th birthday to my sister Martha!! WOOP!!)  Josh and the kids took me to breakfast. Then we ran some errands and cleaned the house.  Then some friends watched the kids and Josh and I went to see Skyfall and ate at Shane's Rib Shack (think Famous Dave's) then we went to DQ.  And then we came home and watched the Huskers get smashed in the Big Ten Championship Game.  Not what we would have hoped, but a good birthday nonetheless!
 

Saturday also marked 7 weeks for this peanut.  Can you believe it!?

Jack dropped his second nap so now we have 2 kids up all morning!  This is actually great because I have a MUCH wider window for running errands.  However it makes some mornings seem really long without a out-of-the-house trip. 

These next few weeks are filled with birthdays, last minute shopping, and trip preparations.  We also have a LOT of friends who's husbands are deploying this week.  Around 1400 soldiers are joining those who left in August.  In our circle of friends we have 6 guys who are deploying.  All having to leave brand new babies or younger than age 2 children.  Please be praying for their safety and be praying for the families.  Separation is hard enough, but adding teeny kids, and single parenting to an already emotional situation, AND just in time for Christmas---they need prayer!  This is by far one of the most difficult and emotionally tough parts of the military.  :(  Be praying for us to have opportunities to fill the gaps for these families and to help them persevere!

New Favorites

This is my new favorite picture.

And this one is just hilarious.  :)

 

Thankful Anyway!

Well starting Wednesday the 14th, we have all (except Josh lucky guy) had our turn with a mysterious yuckiness.  Jack got it first.  ((PS this miiiiight have been bad parenting to have him sleeping so close to Noah, but it was the very early stages and I didn't really think he was that sick- not smart I know))
 

So what happens is you get this horrible giant sized headache, body temperature issues (which strange enough never did much on the thermometer), and are COMPLETELY unable to stay awake.  Which you don't really want to do anyway with the headache. 

 

 

 

I thankfully only had it for about a day and a half, and it happened on a Friday night to Saturday so Josh was home so I could sleep it off.  I don't think I ever when from sweaty to freezing and back so fast before.  It was miserable (reminded me of when I had pneumonia).

But side note for Renae that when she sweats in her sleep her hair gets super curly and looks beautiful :).  Mine just looked gross.  hahaha.

Poor guy.  He only had a very mild version like I did, but he was pretty sleepy and sweaty and clammy and goosebumpy for a day.

Renae is the only one with a little cough remaining but both kids had VICKS on their chests to sleep for a week.  And none of our kids have ever fell asleep at the table before and I can't even imagine another scenario where that would be the case with Jack, but it happened and I documented it. :)

All that to say, Thanksgiving was whatever leftovers we had in the fridge, lots of juice, and laying around.  But we were thankful it wasn't worse, involved no trips to the ER, and got us out of cooking an extravagant amount of food we would have had to eat for weeks!  And now even more thankful to all be back to normal!

I am going to blog more often, I promise :)  We're back on our feet now!

Update!

Can you even believe that this little man is 4 weeks old tomorrow!?  I can't talk about time flying by!  Noah is so stinking cute.  :)  Oh and he's growing at warp speed.... he gained 2 lbs in 12 days!  And that was a week and a half ago.  I would put money on his weight being over 10lbs now.

Can you tell who had spaghetti for supper?  He's so cute :)

And I am super excited that I can once again 'fit' into MY Husker gear :)

Hahaha

Also just funny

She can't get enough of him.  She introduces him to EVERYONE.  "This is my Noah."  :) 

:)

Well, this was the blanket we used when Renae was born, we have a picture of Jack in it because all his were dirty, so why not keep up the tradition :)

Sigh....he's so sweet. 

:)  Can't get enough

This is just hilarious....poor Noah.

Everytime Jack gets a change to hold Noah he says "Awwww" long and drawn out...and then hands him back.  Hahahaha.  Hold "Awwwww" Hang back.  Repeat 30 minutes later.  So I have no pictures of that.  Its over in less than 5 seconds.

We are all doing well and loving the fall weather!  It's finally down in the 65-75 degree range--very nice outside! The kids and I are doing much better than I anticipated with Josh back at work. I was more than a bit anxious for the first couple days. It's not as emotionally rough as I was thinking, it's just a little more crazy. I don't know why I was thinking it would be like when you're first trying to figure out parenting and there's lots of tears because you're so tired and the learning curve is insane. Don't get me wrong I'm tired, but not nearly as exhausted as I thought I'd be. Thank you Jesus! :) And I'm not naive...I know there are emotional days in the future, but I'm feeling much better now that I know we can do it!