4 months

I swear I just posted about Griffin turning 3 months. Lo and behold, another month has already passed!

Things have gotten much better. There were a couple weeks there that he was starting to take short naps and waking up crying, or even screaming out of no where. I knew he had to still be tired because he wakes up happy when he's had a good nap. So I'd try to rock him back to sleep. Sometimes it would work. I finally researched what could be going on and all I really found was that he was waking up screaming from being overtired. I think I had been putting him down later than usual so I figured that was the problem. I worked on looking for signs of being tired and kept him up no longer than 2 hours and it's gotten better! He's back (cross your fingers) to napping for an hour and a half morning and afternoon with a short nap before dinner and waking up happy! Thank goodness! 

The most recent things he's done is just these past couple days he's been scooting so much! I'll have to put another blanket in front of him so he can continue. And with that, he is constantly rolling onto his back. Can't do the other way yet, but he's so close!

He's just such a happy baby! We've been so blessed. Kort still keeps me on my feet so I'm glad Griffin is the way he is. Kort loves saying hi baby over and over and is a lot more gentle with him. Before I know it, it'll be 5 months and then that much closer to half a year old!! 

Father's Day

Since we're always running behind getting ready for church, poor Clay didn't get breakfast in bed. Don't think he ever has gotten it though :/. The Young Women gave the guys a little bag of kisses and when we got home we took naps. I decided to try grilled pizza along with corn on the cob for dinner and it actually turned out awesome! 

Clay has been wanting to get his concealed weapons permit so I gave him the money for it along with some yummy snacks in a basket for his gift. 

Clay is an absolute amazing father to our children! He jumps in and helps whenever he can. Kort just adores him and loves him to pieces! I love that he is such a handyman, loves to keep our yard looking nice, grow a garden for us and maintain it, keep our cars in tip top shape, and all of this even after he gets home from a long day of work. He is the best! Love you Clay! 

Independence Day

We had a pretty chill day. Last summer we hit up a small town parade. About an hour or more south of us in Edmond, they have a huge celebration and I had wanted to go to a parade but I really wasn't in the mood for a large crowd and dealing with a baby as well. So instead we just ran some errands, rested, and got ready for a BBQ with some friends. 

We BBQed brats and burgers, had yummy flag cake and pretzel jello salad. I put Griffin down for bed and we all went out back for some sparklers. Kort didn't want to hold his own but enjoyed watching when he wasn't exploring around the yard. We then went in the front yard and put off some fountains. 

We weren't supposed to have them more than three feet tall inside city limits. Don't know how tall they'd get and frankly I don't know if we're considered in city limits since we're pretty much on the outskirts of town. Oh well, everyone was at the city fireworks anyway, which I didn't want to bother with. We were able to actually see them though through some trees! 

I think Kort was just really tired since he just sat still in my lap the whole time. It was a fun night. 

I'm thankful for the land that we live in, that we're able to worship as we please, for all those who fight for our freedom and to keep us safe everyday. 

Kort is 2 1/2 years old!

I can't believe where time has gone. Just last summer I was counting down until Kort would be 18 months so he could go to nursery and we would take our family vacation to California. A year later and he is now quite the character. 

I was a little nervous when he turned 2 and wasn't really talking that much, or at least making much sense with his words. He has come a long way in the last 6 months. He still is only speaking in like three word sentences, but we understand him better and are able to help him get what he wants/needs. When I'm explaining to him what something is, I say "it's a/so . . . " whatever it is. So now that's what he starts everything with! The main things he uses that phrase with would be

Itso cold

Itso good

It's a bug

It's a ladybug

It cracks us up! We have this video that Clay took of him playing in his kiddie pool saying "it so cold" over and over and just laughing and screaming (which he has definitely learned how to do)! 

We'll sing him songs and say I love you when putting him to bed and he'll just interrupt us and say "nigh nigh". His "Ilove you" sounds more like "I rove roo". He loves giving hugs and kisses. He got to spend lots of time with his grandma Cita when I had Griffin and so he's always wanting to Skype her and says Cita over and over. He loves his baby brother and kisses him and says I love you baby brudder. 

It is just so much fun being able to communicate with him better. He loves cartoons now, but still won't sit still for the whole time. He loves saying Dora, even though I'm trying to get him to like Diego better ;) He loves saying Mickey Mouse and watching that as well. 

We have frogs in our backyard and caught one one night to show him. Now he sees things move in the grass and thinks it's one every time and says "fog" - and sometimes the g sounds more like a k :/ ha ha 

He's a champ sleeping in his toddler bed, which is still the crib while Griffin is in the pack and play. He sleeps from about 8-8 and naps around 1 for an hour or so. He is great about eating most food we give him. He's getting better drinking out of cups and water bottles. 

He loves grabbing things that he's not supposed to have and run away from us into the other room and jump onto the couch. But one thing he'll grab and has done a few times are the knives out of the dishwasher! Ahhh it scares us! He always goes for the sharp objects :/ He does love helping with chores like sweeping, vacuuming, putting clothes in the washer/dryer, and Oompa and Nana got him a bubble maker lawn mower that he loves pushing in the yard, even though he prefers the real one. 

Kort has an obsession with sitting in the driver's seat in cars. Any chance he gets he will run and open the door and hop in. So now we have to lock the doors and all he says now is "unlock" over and over! He is also starting to say prayers with us which is absolutely precious :) 

3 Months

Griffin is three months already! We have gotten back into a good routine and hopefully it'll last for a while now. 

I started sleep training a little over a week ago. It got to the point that once we had him asleep and put him down, he'd wake right back up. For his naps, I was able to put him down drowsy and he'd fall asleep on his own, but that became a thing of the past and he required to be rocked to sleep and that became harder since Kort has started getting into everything once I left the room. SO, I started what I did with Kort. The Good Night, Sleep Tight book. The first night I had to pick him up after him crying for over an hour. Second night he finally fell asleep on his own after an hour and a half. Next night was 45 minutes and got less from there. However, he's not as easy to just sit next to the crib and try to comfort by patting and shh ing. So the book says with those babies sometimes they do better without you in the room and just make quick visits every 15 minutes or so. That's what I've began having to do. I'm trying to work on getting him more drowsy so he doesn't cry as long. Last night he only cried for 10 minutes and he was out! So it's definitely getting better. And with this, he's sleeping through the night! His naps are about an hour or more now also! He cries a little for his naps but it helps him sleep longer since he falls asleep on his own. We also just moved his pack n play into our guest room and he's been still sleeping great. He may be in there for a while until Kort is ready to share a room. He wakes up around 9, awake for a little over an hour, about hour and a half nap. Takes usually 3 good ones and sometimes a short 30 minute one late afternoon/early evening. Bed time has been around 9:30 but I'm trying to make it a little earlier. 

Griffin has rolled over a few times from his belly to back. He likes to scoot on his belly already. I put him on his blanket and when I go back to check on him he's already off of it! He loves kicking his feet and has giggled a few times. He is very vocal now and jabbers nonstop! He's gained probably about another pound since his checkup and is 14 something! He's already wearing clothes Kort was wearing at 6 months. It's not like he's a super chunk and he only nurses about seven minutes each side. He's just a lot different than Kort. 

Things are going well though. He's getting to the point of starting to hit lots of milestones like more laughing, rolling over, and then sitting up! I'll take it week by week though :)

Memorial Day

I figure I am way behind on blogging. I usually do it all on the computer, but since it's in the everything room where Kort can't keep his hands off of anything and I take nap time for myself whenever I can get it, I am now resorting to the blogger app and trying to post from my phone. Anyway, moving on.

We had basically agreed that we wanted to go camping for Memorial Day weekend. The weather forecast didn't look too great, but we've camped in the rain before (nothing new to Washington), and just put up tarps over the chair area, etc. We were trying to talk our friends into coming so it'd be more fun. They bailed out the day before but I don't blame them. They didn't have the gear yet anyway. So off we went just our family. 

Eastern Oklahoma has more rolling hills and greenery so we found a state park about 2 hours away. We got there around 7, which was close to Kort's bedtime. Good thing Griffin napped the whole drive. Clay worked on getting the fire started, I was putting up the tent, Griffin was enjoying the bouncer, and Kort was running around trying to get in the car. Amid the chaos, Kort ended up in the car. I came to find he had dumped a 5 hour energy drink on the drivers seat. (This is important to know). Finally Clay got the fire going. He got Kort a hot dog while I was getting Griffin ready for bed. Later Clay was roasting marshmallows and after he took it out of the fire, Kort grabbed the other empty side of the roaster. Cue nonstop screaming. Good thing we had our first aid kit we just put together with all that stuff to help with burns. Finally I got Griffin to sleep and ate while Clay got Kort ready for bed. Maybe around 45 minutes later we were falling asleep around 11. Probably an hour later Kort was awake kicking all over and whining. This went on for an hour or so. Then he finally konked out again. About another hour later he woke up again doing the same things. More time goes by trying to comfort him and put him back to sleep. In the meantime, Griffin wakes up to eat. Oh, and about 3 campsites down the people were playing their loud country music radio (until about 3:00). Clay just took Kort into the car to fall asleep. I got Griffin back asleep and then they came back in to the tent. Finally some sleep. Kort was then up at the butt crack of dawn around 7. Clay took him to go play outside, and I couldn't fall back asleep. So we got about 3 hours of sleep. 

Ok, so our thoughts on why Kort slept (or didn't sleep) the way he did.

1. We have outgrown our tent. He needed his room just like we did.

2. Naturally if you opened a bottle of liquid, say a 5 hour energy drink that smelled good, you'd take a sip at least. Then dump the rest for fun on the carseat.

So he was probably wired on that energy sip he may have gotten and had a hard time sleeping. Boy, was that ever a fun night. The baby even slept better.

We had baked oatmeal for breakfast. Then we decided we were already bored. There was basically only boating and water stuff to do where we were at. We finally decided we didn't want to go through another night like that again and were packed up by 11. We hadn't even left the campground when Kort had already fallen asleep. Go figure. 

Griffin once again slept the whole way home. Thank goodness. 

We got back into town and went shopping to make our own slip n slide! That will be another post coming hopefully. We just relaxed and caught up on sleep the rest of the weekend. We also had some friends over for kabobs Monday night. It was nice to have Clay an extra day!

2 month checkup

Griffin had his 2 month check up just a few days ago. Today he is 10 weeks, so it's a little overdue. Here's where he stands:

Weight: 13 lb. 5 oz. = 79%

Height: 23.5 inches = 64%

Head circumference: 40 cm = 45%

I thought Griffin has been way more chunky than Kort was, but now looking back at Kort's 2 month checkup, it's showing that Kort was bigger! Here's Kort's:

Weight: 13 lbs. 11 oz. = 85%

Height: 24.5 inches = 85%

Kort's 2 month check up

Maybe Griffin looks more chubby because he's an inch shorter? Anyway, it's just funny how different they can be. He got his shots, screamed for a few minutes while I calmed him and did great. Slept a lot that day and has been a little grumpy the last few days and kind of cries while eating, or not really eating as much. These two posts compared are pretty much the same. 

I asked the doctor about putting Griffin to sleep at night, since he won't fall asleep on his own being drowsy, like he does for his naps. She said that we can just rock him for a little bit longer but once three months hits, that's when they start associating things like crying will equal us picking him up. So once again, I'm going to try and get him to fall asleep on his own, even if it means crying a little :(