Carter and His Brother

So I will never get a picture of this but had to share a couple of stories of Carter and Cedar.

-The other day I was cooking lunch. I was just right around the corner in the kitchen, Cedar was asleep on the couch on the boppy pillow and Carter and Calla were playing. I heard Cedar let out this terrible cry so I ran in there. He was already right back to sleep but I find Carter had stolen his blanket and replaced it with a tractor that he shoved down between the baby and his pillow. Carter was standing there with the blanket looking like Linus from charlie brown, just smiling away and Cedar was sleeping with his tractor.

-This morning I took Carter out of his high chair after breakfast and he always runs right to the baby. Cedar was in the bouncer on the kitchen floor. He was awake, smiling, and happy. He had spit out his paci and it was beside his face. Of course Carter grabbed it up. I expected him to shove it in his own mouth but instead he looked at it and looked at Cedar, turned it around and grabbed it by the handle and gently tried to put it back in Cedar's mouth. All the while chatting away. (I only wish I knew what he was saying!) Soooo cute. And of course the camera is never around when I need it.

Still March 2010

3-26 We had a great visit with granddaddy and grandmommy (the Bowling's) at the end of March. They got to meet Cedar briefly the weekend that he was born, but this time came to really get to know him and to spend time with the "big kids" as we now call Carter and Calla. I do believe in this picture Cedar was telling granddaddy, "nope, sorry, I am going to be a razorback, not an Aggie". :-) "See I have the Hog hair to prove it".

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Calla showing an interest in her baby brother. She really does like him but these sweet moments are usually followed by her trying to climb in the swing on top of him or bouncing him too hard in the bouncer.

3-25 Cedar loves his granddaddy!

3-24 - The Bowling's delivered gifts for the family from Jamey Aunt and Uncle in Texas. Calla got this purse, her very first real purse. She likes to put toys in and take them out. She was thinking hard, see her little thinking tongue hanging out her mouth. She puts the purse on her arm and walks around, it is too cute!

3-24 - My chubby cheeked Carter Bug! Look at all those teeth, he now has 10 with two more molars working their way in.

Yes, Still March

3-24 Cedar getting burped by daddy. How quickly we forget what its like to have a baby to burp... He is a good burper and spits up what I believe to be a normal amount.

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3-21 This is a picture out our from window when it snowed spring break. It would be spring break without 10 inches of snow in Fayetteville. Luckily it was gone and warm again in no time at all.

3-20- Hannah came to play. It is already pretty clear that she is very interested in Carter. She beats up on him, which is great, since he is always beating up on Calla. He likes to touch her pig tails. It is so fun having such good friends across the street and to have our children be the same age, we could not ask for better!

3-20 You see who has the toys right.... Calla would never get away with that! Way to go Hannah, show him who's boss! Now if Hannah could show Calla how to stick up to that sometimes not nice brother we would all be in good shape. However I am glad to know that he is only a bully to his sister and not all children. :-)

March Continued

3-19- One afternoon, it was super nice outside and my mom and I took the opportunity to get the kids out in the sun. Since our backyard at the time was super poopy (dogs), we went to the front yard. Put a quilt on the ground and took some toys. Calla wanted to explore so she went crawling in the grass. They are still not that great walking in shoes so this was practice time. It was also practice in walking in grass. New experiences all the way around.

3-19 - Carter got into the grass and decided that he really did NOT like the way it felt on his hands. He was holding his hands up and crying for us to come and get him. It was too cute and funny. He finally gave in but really wasn't happy with us.

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Sweet baby Cedar.

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Box cars

3/14 - This is what happens when you take a set of twins, their daddy, and two empty diaper boxes. This never gets old and we love to hear all the laughter. I hope it makes you smile too!

March Continued...

On March 14th, my family came over to celebrate some birthdays. Mom mother's birthday is the 14th of March. Our two nephews, Cade and Austin, birthdays were in February, the 15th and 17th. With Cedar being born on the 19th, I am sure you can figure out why we missed celebrating them then. It was a lot of fun and we don't all get together near enough! March 14th is also Uncle Rusty's birthday who lives in Galveston, TX.

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Cedar meeting his Uncle Aaron for the first time. Look at that hair. It is crazy hair. I'm glad he is a boy and not a girl with that hair! Course he did just have a bath right before this picture, sticks up more when clean. :-)

3/14 - Cousin Cade holding baby Cedar. It will be a while before they can play together, but I know Cade will bring lots of fun to his life.

3/14- This is the twins first taste of ice cream. They really didn't like it. I think it was surprisingly cold. Little do they know that they will love it later in life.

3/14- Maw-Maw, my mom, and her five grandkids. I don't know about her, but it makes me feel old to know that my mother has FIVE grandkids. I think that it just means to her that she is five times happier! (Below)

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3/14- Cousin Austin and Cedar. Austin is going to be a Sr in high school next year! I cant believe how fast time flies by!

3/14 - Now I cant remember if this was before everyone came over or after they left, but I had to take this pitiful picture of Calla. When we brought baby Cedar home this is the face we had to look at for about the first 5 weeks or so. Calla and Carter were extremely jealous and anytime Jamey or I held the baby this is the face we would get from Calla, just breaks your heart! Luckily this did get better and now she loves him and really doesn't care if we are holding him or if I am feeding him. Thank God for small miracle, don't know how much more of these sad faces we could have dealt with!

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And then of course we are very happy to regularly get to see this sweet face! Cedar is three weeks old in this picture. Still wearing newborn clothes here but growing fast!

3/13- Anyone out there shopping for a crib? DON'T get one with the drawers at the bottom! They sound like a good idea, but they are not! I can not count the number of times that fingers have gotten smashed ! Any anything that I put down there got removed very quickly and carried around the house. I finally put their blankets in a big storage bag and luckily they have left it alone. However they do like to open it up and sit in it. I can't believe they both actually looked at the camera at the same time!

Week Three

3/11 - Cedar three weeks old. Look at that hair. Granddaddy calls it "hog hair". We like it, just means that he had already chosen to be a razorback for life (not an Aggie, sorry Bowling's). He loves trying to hold his head up here.

3/10- Who doesn't drink their juice in a ball pit?

3/10 - Maw-Maw, thank god for her, come to "play", which really means that she is there for me to keep from loosing my mind. She has been a big help. We love her very much!

3/10 - Sweet baby Cedar

3/8- The twins love windows. We open the one in their room when it is nice outside and they love to watch the world outside. Whenever they see people or animals it is a fun treat. Carter likes to talk to them. We get some waves from walkers, too cute. The hat on Calla's head was an attempt to stop Carter from pulling her hair. This has become his new favorite pass time. He is very jealous of the baby and his attention seeking is mostly at Calla's expense. This hat did work that day, then she decided it was more fun to pull it off every time it was put on.

3/8 - The miracle hat for the day.

3/6 - Our good friend Judy came over for a huge favor! Carter has only had one haircut and it really did go OK, but with a tiny baby now, it would be super hard to take him anywhere to get it done. So Judy came over and cut his hair. She gave him something to play with and he did very well. He is sitting on the dining room table. We needed to use if for something right?

3/6 - While Carter and Calla got their hair cuts, Holly had some one on one Cedar time. He must like her, not a peep out of him.

3/6 - When we were done with Carter she suggested that we trim Calla's hair as well so that it will grow better. We are wanting it to grow out and get some weight on those too tight curls. Calla was great at first, playing with the comb and looking around.

And then.......

3/6 - She changed her mind.

On Feb 23rd the twins went in for their twelve month shots (we are a little behind). Cedar was also back that day to check his weight since he lost so much to begin with. He got down to 6lb 5oz if I remember right. I never got around to posting their stats.

Carter

Weight 25lb 2.5oz

Height 29.5 inches

Calla

Weight 18lb 9.5oz

Height 28.25 inches

Cedar

Weight 6lb 15oz

Height 19.5 inches

Week Two

Well, this three kid thing is officially the hardest thing we have ever done! The biggest challenge we have faced. We love it, however, we are exhausted! The twins are super jealous and needing lots of our attention right now. So trying to hold three at a time is just not possible, especially after a c-section. I will say that maw-maw, my mother, is an angel and has been so helpful to us! We had several visitors this week to meet our newest addition. Here are a few highlights of the week.

3-4 - Calla discovered that she could climb under the shelf in her room. She would crawl in and then crawl back out to get her snugly or a toy, then put it in there and crawl back in with it. Very entertaining.


3*4 Sweet smiles!

3/4 - Sweet baby Cedar sleeping. This is most of what he does right now, sleep, eat, and dirty his diapers. I forgot how easy tiny babies are. He does scratch his face on occasion so here his little hands are covered. He is really looking just like daddy!

3/3 - Cousin Cade holding his smallest cousin for the first time. Cade is a good baby holder. I do think that he gets a little bored and would rather play with Carter and Calla instead.

3/2 - Jamey was watching the twins and he had left the room, came back to find that Calla had crawled into this tiny little tote basket. She really likes to crawl into things right now, the only trouble she has is getting out.

3/2 - Our friend Allison came by to meet Cedar. Carter showed out all evening, he had the best time with her. Calla too, and she is the shy one. Allison brought us pizza, which was amazing! Thanks Allison, it was great to see you!

3/2 - I only had to take 8 pictures in a row to catch this sweet smile. He smiles a lot, of course not meaningful, but sweet just the same. I could stare at him for hours. We are so blessed to have such amazing children!

2/26 - Sweetest face! He sees the camera these days and gets really close and smiles.

2/26 - This is a face I have posted before, but I love it! She makes this face when she is really happy and having a really good time, so when I see it I know things are really good in her eyes. It is very heart warming. ( And yes, for those of you who knew me in high school, its looking like she not only looks like me but she may have gotten my teeth also :-( )

First Week of Life

The first week home was fun filled with our trip back to the hospital for my crazy blood pressure. Other than that of course we really enjoyed some time as a family of five. Daddy was off work all week which was awesome. The twins go back and forth on liking and not liking their baby brother. He is really a good baby so far. He sleeps a lot, we forgot how much newborns sleep.

First bath at home. He pretty much hated it. He was much happier when he got cuddled up in his big fluffy towel.

We took lots of picture of the first bath but only one was super cute, in all the others he was crying. He was happier when I washed his hair and held him up off of the wet blanket under him. As soon as his umbilical cord falls off he will get real baths and I am sure that he will like that much better.

One of the first days home, I was very sore still from the c-section, so I was in bed a lot away from the hyper twins that like to jump all over everyone. I missed them a great deal since our hospital stay was the first time that I had been away from them for more than a shift at work. Calla, the calm one, came to see me in bed. To keep her from crawling all over me I gave her the forbidden things that she loves. She played with the remote, my phone, and the baby monitor. She sticks her tongue out when she is concentrating on something. She had that tongue way out trying to figure out what all those buttons do. Its funny how I always thought she was so little, but since Cedar came home, she seems so big. It kind of makes me sad!

Day one, Carter wants to touch his new brother immediately. His touch is not very soft so we are working on soft and gentle. It is getting better. Calla appreciates it too I am sure. Carter is all boy and can be a little rough at times.

Calla meeting Cedar for the first time. She was in awe, not sure what to think. She kept looking at him and then looking at us. She likes to touch him. Either she goes for his eyes, since that is one of the body parts she knows, or she goes for his paci. (And for anyone who notices, it did not occur to me that there are trees on that receiving blanket, and even so, they are not cedar trees) Thanks mom and Aunt Shelley for pointing that out!