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Falyn’s Four Month Check-Up

Falyn had her four month check up yesterday. The appointment got off to a rough start. On the way up to the doctor’s office, Falyn pooped. It was a huge poop and it got all over her clothes and on mine too. I had extra clothes for her, but none for me. I was able to wash it off my clothes in the bathroom, but then had a very wet shirt on. Since I was mostly holding Falyn anyway, you really couldn’t tell. Luckily, it did dry pretty quickly.

Falyn was 14 pounds and 24 1/2 inches long. Those numbers put her at the 50th percentile for both weight and length. She would have been 6-8 ounces heavier if they had weighed her before that huge poop! I get that she is 25-26 inches long when I measure her. For comparasion, here’s the weight and length of all her siblings at this age:

Talia 17 lbs 5 oz 26 ”
Kayli (5 mo.) 15 lbs 10 oz 25 3/4 ”
Aidan 12 lbs 11 oz 24 ”
Jared 11 lbs 15 oz 24 3/4 ”
Riley 11 lbs 14 oz 24 1/2 ”

The doctor said she is doing great and I could start her on cereal if I want. I don’t think she is ready, so I plan to wait until I see signs that she is ready to start solids. The doctor said that was fine to wait till she was older.

Falyn got four shots which made her very cranky last night. The nurse did give me some infant tylenol to give her that seemed to help a bit.

Talia also had a check-up today. Her 11 year check-up. She is doing just fine and is in the 50th percentile for height and 60th percentile for weight. Her hearing and vision are all both great. They also checked her blood pressure, which was in the normal range.

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Just Missed Seeing the Governor

Yesterday when we were driving to church, we say a bunch of news vans and people standing outside on one of the streets in our neighborhood. We were all wondering what was going on. We were tempted to stop and ask, but didn’t want to be late for church. By the time we returned, the news vans were all gone. We opened the paper this morning and right there on the front page was a story about it. Gov. Schwarzenegger had paid a Father’s Day visit to a family in our neighborhood! The mother of the family is in the military and serving in Iraq. How wonderful that our governor took time out of his Father’s Day to visit this father of three whose wife is serving our country. I only wish that the Governor had gotten there fifteen minutes sooner so we could have gotten a glimpse of him when we drove by.

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Challenge Mother /Daughter Day

Today was the annual mother/daughter day for Challenge. This was the first time we have attended. Girls can join the group when they turn 10, so Kayli is still too young for it. I did take Falyn with me since it went from 11:00 – 3:00. Since she is still exclusively nursing, I couldn’t leave her that long. They told me it would be fine to bring her along, even though she wasn’t yet 10. 🙂 I had her in the sling most of the time and she stayed pretty happy. Everyone thought she was so cute.

The day started with the attendies being broken up into three different groups: the angels, the apostles and the martyrs. Each group had to make up a cheer. We were in the apostles group. We made up a cheer to the tune of the We Will Rock You song. Ours was by far the best cheer. Miss Talia, the poet, helped make up the lyrics. We then played some games and had lunch. After lunch, the girls had a speaker and the moms had a speaker. Then the moms had some time alone with their daughters. We finished up by praying the Rosary. Talia led the second decade. I’m so proud of her for not being afraid to do that. Some of the other girls wouldn’t be a leader.

All in all, we had a good time at the event. I was reluctant to go at first since I had to bring Falyn along. But, I’m glad I went and we will certainly go again next year.

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Gone Most of the Day

Today was Aidan’s last day of preschool. They had a picnic and puppet show and invited the families to attend with their child. So, I went with all the kids. Aidan and the twins sat up front for the puppet show. I think they all enjoyed it. After the puppet show, they had hot dogs and chips and cookies.

Then this afternoon we went to a girl scout pool party. Since the boys do not swim very well, I bought them floaties for the party. They weren’t too thrilled with the idea, but once they got them on and got in the pool they liked them. I got a new spray sunscreen that I just love. You just spray it on them and that’s it. You don’t have to rub it in, except for the face – you can’t spray it there so you have to spray it in your hands and rub it on their faces. Everyone had a blast at the party and were very tired afterwards. I was exhausted afterwards! I was holding Falyn the entire time and then kept having to take one boy after the other to the bathroom. I barely sat down the entire four hours we were there.

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Last Day of School

The school year ended today for Talia and Kayli. It has been a great year for both of them. Talia again made the honor roll, continuing her perfect record of being on it since 4th grade when they start giving out letter grades at her school. Kayli also had an excellent report card with lots of “O”s. These pictures are of them with their best friends in their classes. It was taken yesterday at the end of the year Field Day.

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Last Day of Speech Class

The twins have now graduated from speech class. We had their final IEP last week and they had their last class this morning.

They have come so far in the last two years. Back then they spoke only a handful of words. Now their speech is at age level and understandable to most people.

Ms Karen did a great job with them this year. They had lots of fun in her class and will miss not going there anymore. I’m sure glad not to have to take them there every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8:15 anymore!

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Can’t even figure out how they did this one!

At some point during the day, I remember one of the twins telling me that the other “broke our door”. I can’t remember which twin it was because at the time Falyn was screaming and I was trying to calm her down. They were upstairs in their room and I was downstairs. I was trying to ask them what door, the closet door? The closet doors often come off the track, so I assumed this was what they were talking about. I decided that it must be the closet doors and that Dan could take care of it when he got home. I then forgot all about it.

Fast-forward to tonight at bedtime. Dan goes to put the twins in bed and discovers that the door knob of their door has been broken totally off. Jared tells him he “fixed it”. He had put the screws back in the handle and placed it in his bed. How in the world did two 3 year olds with no tools manage to rip off the door knob???? I couldn’t help but laugh about it. What in the world will they do next? Dan says we should just pad their entire room and take everything out of it so they can’t do any more damage to it.

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Welcome to my new home!

I’ve spent most of the day setting up my blog on my new domain. I like this wordpress interface much better than the blogger one. I’m not totally done configuring it yet. I still need to go back and categorize all my other posts. And I want to fill out the about page too. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow! The baby just woke up so, I’ll have to stop here.

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Bye-Bye Bassinet

I sold the bassinet to Children’s Orchard yesterday. Falyn had gotten to big for it and is now sleeping in the crib. My goal now is to get her to go to sleep in the crib by herself. She normally falls asleep in my arms and then I put her in the crib. She is starting to get too heavy to carry around all the time and I really need her to learn to sleep in her crib, so I have to stop doing th at. She did sleep better last night, now that her cold is almost gone. She only woke up once, at 3:19 am. I got up and put her binky back in her mouth and she then went right back to sleep. I’m hoping that soon she will be able to put her binky back in her mouth all by herself.