time flies.

Miss Elle is almost 12 weeks old!  At her two month visit she weighed in at 12 pounds 1 ounce and everything on her seems to be growing except her tiny little feet!  Everyone thinks she is a doll, literally.  On her blessing day I went in the church library to get some paper and the librarian thought she was a doll and so did one of the moms at the boys' preschool.  She was so tiny and perfect!  Now she is still perfect, but not so tiny!

At two months she started sleeping 5 to 7 hours every few nights.  Now she consistently sleeps from 10 pm to around 5 or 6 am.  She loves to be wrapped up and swaddled when she is tired and she adores her binky!  She doesn't need it at night to sleep though.  She loves her brothers and smiles at them all of the time and doesn't get bugged when the poke and pet her.  She coos at her daddy and gives me smiles all of the time.  I especially love when I go in to get her in the morning and she smiles so big her eyes smile too!  She is an angel!  We all adore her. 

The boys are hard to keep up with these days.  They swim for at least four hours or run around the park for three and never get worn out.  In fact, they went to their first soccer practice the other night and ran around for an hour and a half and then wanted to go to the pool afterwards!  They have really excelled at hurting each other and driving me crazy these days.  I am still grateful they have each other because for the most part they get along and have somebody to pay attention to them.  As long as we are not home and not in a store they do pretty well.  That means we will be at the park, pool or beach all summer long.  And Matt is on grocery store duty for sure. 

gaige.

Gaige is 4 now.  He loves bananas, pickles, everything sweet and most of all cereal.  He thinks the world is going to end if he has to stop what he is doing to go to the bathroom.  He loves to be silly and is very into punching right now.  Luckily his punching isn't usually directed at anybody, just Bentley every once in awhile.  He loves to ride his razor scooter, catch bugs, and do anything outside. 

Gaige told me last night that he did not turn into a booger.  I told him if he kept eating his boogers he would turn into a giant booger.  He hasn't eaten them for about a week now.  He told me today that 4 year olds don't pick their noses.  He miraculously didn't pick his nose all day.  Now we just have to get him to stop doing all of the other gross things he does.  These two took awhile so it will be long time till all of the gross things he does are no longer habits. 

He loves his new baby sister, Elle.  He comes in every morning and asks to hold her.  He sings her songs, talks to her and lights up when he is around her.  He is showing some great potential of being an amazing big brother and protecter with his love for punching!

more pictures of elle.

meet miss elle.

Close your eyes and imagine the easiest labor ever...No pain (thanks to the drugs), great nurses, quick, hardly any pushing required, no pain afterwards, and a beautiful reward at the end. That is exactly how my labor with Elle was. Sorry to rub it in! Matt and I arrived at the hospital at 7 am on Friday, April 6th. After the millions of questions, and hooking me up to everything they started the petocin at around 8:20 am. My doctor broke my water about an hour later and then right after that I got my epidural. At 11:30 am Elle was ready to make her debut, but of course I had to wait for the doctor to get there. 5 pushes later and she was born at 11:42 am. 7 pounds 5 ounces and 18 inches long. She looked a lot like Gaige. They gave her to me right away and she stayed with me for at least the first hour and a half.

We spent all the time we could in the hospital since the boys were super sick. We came home Easter afternoon. Since we've been home she has been a dreamy baby. Sleeps well at night, hardly ever cries, and burps like her mom (before I got married). We're crossing our fingers she stays this way.

The boys adore her and Matt and I are smitten. I can't believe we waited so long to have her.