Thursday, March 01, 2007

sunshine, lolipops and... Soothers!







Today I went for a nice, invigorating walk in the sunshine. Add two new moms and three babies plus one preschooler and you have a recipe for disaster. BUT, it wasn't. It was amazing. Fresh air, good company, three sleeping babies and one behaving little girl. My shoulders are a bit sore though because I carried Megan on my back most of the way in our MEC baby babckpack. Which I do believe every parent should have. i think we've used ours more than our stroller even. Especially if you have more than one child and you want to do a bit of grocery shopping withour chasing a screaming toddler around the store trying to make off with a chocolate bar. I have been spared many a chase with that piece of equipment. If you don't have one. Get one.
Did I mention on here yet that we FINALLY broke Megan of her soother addiction? Yeah, we took her to soother-suckers anonymous and she went through the six steps of soother recovery.
1. Mommy takes the soother away.
2. Megan throws fits and screams and begs for the soother for two days straight.
3. Mommy says no.
4. Megan tries to steal and suck the baby's soother whenever mommy isn't looking.
5. Mommy gets mad.
6. Megan begins to accept that she is forevermore sootherless.

For the most part Megan has been very big and brave and rarely asks for the soother anymore. She does still, on occasion, take Olivia's soother and hides under a blanket sucking for all she's worth knowing it will be short lived. That said she does give it up again fairly willingly. Yesterday I noticed that the house wass unusually quiet and I went upstairs to investigate. i knew I would find a) Megan sucking Olivia's soother or b) Megan smearing my make-up all over her face.

What I did find was too cute to be angry at however. Megan was curled up on the chair in Olivia's room, soother in mouth, fast asleep. It was a beautiful sight. I took the soother out and let her continue to sleep for another half hour. Oh Megan....

Olivia is growing like a fast growing baby. :) She now weighs in a sixteen and a half pounds and nearly 26 inches. That put her in the 100th percentile for height and weight. I love it. I love her chub. I love her sweet face and multiple rolls. And yet she still isn't as chubby as Ben was at four months. Ben was just shy of twenty pounds. That is LARGE people. Olivia seens to be content to just lay around. She has roled but isn't too interested in doing it again. She also isn't interested in food yet, surprisingly. Ben gulped an entire bowl of rice cereal up at three months of age. Olivia just grins at me and lets it all dribble out onto her bib. cute. She is very smiley but doesn't laugh alot yet. She also isn't as grabby as the other two were at this age. I'm very glad she's taking her time doing things. The third time around it is so nice to have one that doesn't move around as much. For all I care, she can wait until she one to even start crawling. There is talk that Olivia might be our last baby. Not that we won't have any more at all (ie adoption) but she may be our last child borne of my womb. So, I feel sad at the thought of this being my last time nursing, my last chubby baby, my last pregnancy. I wish for the first year to linger a little longer. As it usually zips by before you can even stop to think.

Ben is LOVING playschool. But, lately he's in a bit of a funk with his attitude and backtalk. I'm not sure if it's a four year old phase or what but it's very unlike him. For the most part he's the usual, sweet compliant boy I birthed but every now and again I get a good ol NO! out of him. He is becoming alot more fun though. He understands games and jokes and has a great sense of humour. And sometimes the questions I get out of him are priceless. He's a great kid to parent.

This weekend we're celebrating Megan's birthday. It's hard to belive she's turning three already. And yet she almost seems to old to be just three. And then she'll have a tantrum and I'll remember why she's just three. Sometimes I've thought that God has thought too highly of me to feel I could handle a challenge like her. Whatever the case, she is mine and I love her no matter how much she frustrates me. I wouldn't trade her for the best behaved kid in all the world. This must be God's way of showing me what an amazing woman my mom is as I was exactly the same way when I was a little girl. And yet we somehow made it through my preschool years without me getting throttled. I'll just have to see if I can say the same thing about my daughter. Here's hoping that three will be better than two.









22 comments:

Kristin said...

What a great update!

Your kids are gorgeous!

Glad you enjoyed your walk this morning. :)

Stephanie and Brad said...

love you guys and it has been a joy to watch your kids growing up. walks are good- glad you got to enjoy the sunshine today!

Anonymous said...

Great photos, per usual! Hard not to take good pictures when your kids are SO DANG CUTE!

:)

Anonymous said...

Yay for an update!
You are such a great mom, Christy. I don't know how you do all that you do and remain sane and looking hot through it all. :)
Happy (almost) Birthday, Meggie!

Elizabeth said...

Happy 3rd Birthday Megan (almost)!!!

Kacie said...

Jillian had a hard time with her soother as well.
Jillian is giving more attitude as well. It must be the age.
Great pictures as usual!
Enjoy your time while you can. Kid's grow up so fast!

Jen said...

Yay on the soother!

The kiddos are adorable, as per usual.

I'm so jealous of your sweet camera.

Becky said...

Nice updaye, miss you guys! And happy birthday Megs!

Manda said...

I just sent a parcel in the mail today including Megs snowpants - sorry for the delay. Happy happy birthday to a mostly sweet girl (at least the only one that gives her Auntie hugs anyways!) We'll see how Olivia does when she's at the hugging stage. Sorry your birthday present is late. Auntie loves you very much!!!

Anonymous said...

I love that picture of Megan! It could be an ad for hot chocolate.

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Ashley said...

What an awesome momma you are. To have such wonderful children, challenges and all ( I was queen of the temper tantrums at that age..can't wait for that stage with Bethany) is attributed to God's creativity and good parents. You turned out great and there is no doubt your children will too! Happy Birthday Megan!

karen said...

Thanks for the update on your kids, Christy. They really are beautiful!

Anonymous said...

you really do have beautiful kids! Love the pictures! You are an amazing photographer!

Sarah said...

Beautiful pictures (and babies) I have been in a slump with the photo taking as the weather is so cold and my boys are uncooperative. It'll be nice to have a baby that will hold still for me!!
Fun to read your "breaking of the soother" story. My son is almost the same age as Megan, his birthday is in a week. We just broke him of his soother habit before Christmas and just got him out of diapers lately. No longer a baby! but yes, still a toddler and in that stage of crazy tantrums and mischief. I never thought I'd be so challenged by my own kids. This stage is so tough, but crazy fun.
Hang in there! you've got a great attitude!

Anonymous said...

HI
Just wanted to let you know we are moving to KElowna next month, we will have to book a playdate for the girls!Talk to you soon,L.

Kerri said...

Hey! We were so excited to hear from you guys the other day. Look us up on canada411.com, we'd love to hear from you. Happy Birthday Megan! Steve is getting pumped for dirt bike season Dustin! Do you have a bike too? Ryan is riding now too. He has a little 50. i'll try and post some new pics soon. Love you guys, Kerri

Vicki said...

Ah, the dreaded soother confiscation. We've gone through it twice, and will be doing it again some day. I remember it was so hard for us, too. Your kiddos are so adorable, Christy. Love the pictures. I can't help but get a little sad when reading about playschool. Kayla was supposed to be in that class with Ben, Graham, and Morgan. I'm hoping Lauren will be joining Olivia and Emily:)

Poetsch Family said...

I love those pics of your kids. They are gorgeous. We will be celebrating Tessa turning three this week as well. Man, time flies by.

Dana a/k/a Sunshine said...

Christy: I thought I would let you know that you might want to enter a photo contest I saw...about what inspires you. Deadline is tomorrow I think...come to my blog and read about it and the link is there to see if you want to enter. I just found this gal's website and it is neat. I probably shouldn't tell you about it - ha ha - cause you are such a great photographer and writer...I'm sure you'll win!

Angela said...

Beautiful kids. God has entrusted you with 3 beautiful little ones and I can see he is moulding you just as much as you are moulding them- enjoy this stage and process in their lives!

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