School has started! (1.5 months ago!)

Raegan has started pre-school! She is going to a church preschool 2 days a week and then stays for lunch bunch. She is having a great time and learning so much. She loves her teachers and her new friends in her class.

She is loving all the new songs they are singing in class. She sings "Jesus Loves Me" every night before bed.

They have started working on spelling their names and writing them. She loves coming home from school and setting up her class room with her babies and she pretends she is Mrs Canada and she teaches her baby dolls to write their names and works on the ABC's and numbers.

She reminds me a lot of myself when I was little and I love it.

Next week she gets to take Ryan to school for Dad's night/ Halloween party. They were costumes and carve pumpkins and the kids all sing the songs they have been working on. Not gonna lie, I am a little jealous that he gets to go before me but I told him to record to entire thing. Let's see if he listens!

We have finished up with soccer and gymnastics for now. Soccer was too frustrating for me! She just wants to play soccer games and score goals and doesn't want to do drills or work on dribbling ect. We will start back up in a few months and hopefully she will be old enough to play games at that point. We stopped with gymnastics because she just wasn't enjoying it anymore. It was the same thing over and over, every week since March. She was bored and so was I. So now we are on to dance. Oh boy! She is in a ballet class but they do other forms of dance styles too. It's all to Disney and kids songs and she loves it. I think we are going to do a Broadway class next session too which is singing and dancing. She will be the next Britney Spears (minus the meltdown of 2007!)

BAYLOR 5 months!

BAYLOR RYAN 5 MONTHS OLD!!!!! 

Weight - 13+ lbs?

Length - 26" +

Head Circumference - ?

Clothing Size -  6 months. Size 2 diapers. 

Sleeping - Ugh. Sleep. Same nap schedule during the day. 2 short morning naps and then an long afternoon nap. He struggles to stay up past 7-730pm and still wakes twice at night to eat because he is not eating enough during the day/ spitting it all up. He wakes up to start the day most of the time around 630. He and Ryan get up together and get ready for work then Baylor goes back to sleep for his first nap by 8. Raegan wakes up around 8-830 most mornings. 

Teeth - nadda. So much drool and chewing but no signs of teeth. 

Eating - 25 oz of expressed milk a day. No solids yet. Gets about 2-3oz of apple juice/water at dinner for constipation. 

Movement - starting to get up on all 4 and rocking back and forth. Army crawls and scoots all over the place. Rolls all over the place. 

Milestones - Tummy sleeper, getting on all 4's and rocking, grabbing and shaking toys, belly laughing

Favorite toys/activities - Playing with his sister, baby Sophie the giraffe

Dislikes - sleeping and cuddling :( 

What we love - How chill and laid back he is for the most part. How much he adores his sister. 


What we don't love - acid reflux and constipation. Oh and not sleeping through the night! 

What we're looking forward to- Starting solids, crawling, sleeping through the night every night! 


We stopped giving B his Prevacid. It only works maybe 10 days out of the month, cost $54 a month and gives him major constipation and so Ryan and I decided it just wasn't worth it. He has been off it for almost a week now and surprisingly he is doing ok. He isn't spitting up nearly as much as I thought he would be I have been watching what I eat and staying away from lots of dairy. I still will put cheese on a salad or make a recipe with cream cheese or sour cream but I'm not eating ice cream, yogurt ect. 

I finally feel like he is gaining a little weight. I had a weight check for tomorrow but I don't think we will go. We will just wait until his 6 months appt and see how much he weighs. I feel like he has already grown at least an inch in the past month. He will be too long for his infant car seat in just a couple of months. 

Baylor man... 4 months old!

BAYLOR RYAN... 4 MONTHS OLD!

Weight - 12 lbs 13oz dropped to 20th percentile. 

Length - 26" So Tall! 90th percentile. 

Head Circumference - not sure but it was 40th percentile. 

Clothing Size - 3-6 months. Pants and sleepers are 6 months because he is so long. 3 month onesies still fit. Size 2 Pampers Swaddler sensitive diapers. 

Sleeping - He is still on a very predictable schedule. Bedtime around 7-8pm. Sleeps until 4am, eats, and goes back to sleep until 7:30, eats and then usually stays awake for a little while until falling back asleep around 9-930. He takes 2-3 short 30-45 min naps in the morning and then a long afternoon nap from about 2-5.  He is sleeping through the night more. But we have to get up at least once to give him his binky and then he falls right back asleep. 

Teeth - nadda. So much drool and chewing but no signs of teeth. 

Eating - Prevacid was working great. Sleeping through the night, no crying, no spit up. He was like a whole new baby. But unfortunately it was a compound and the compound breaks down after about 15 days and starts to lose its effect. Back to spitting up until we can get a new refill. 

Movement - Rolls all over the place. Loves tummy time.

Milestones - Sitting up, starting to pull his knees under him to try and get on all 4. Sleeps on his tummy.

Favorite toys/activities - Anything he can chew on. "Playing with his sister!"

Dislikes - Spitting up, going days and days without pooping

What we love - What a good, easy, chill baby he is. How much his sister adores him. 

What we don't love - Acid Reflux. Not consistently sleeping through the night. 

What we're looking forward to- Sleeping through the night and growing out of his acid reflux. 

4 MONTH CHECK UP-

Dr. Freeman is concerned with B not gaining very much weight in the last 2 months and dropping quite a bit on the growth chart. There are a couple factors that we are looking at. 1. It could be his acid reflux and spitting up along with not eating more than 2-3 oz every 3ish hours during the day. Or 2) it could be that he is developmentally like a 6-9 month old and burning a lot more calories than most 4 month olds. So he is having his weight gain drop off now instead of at 9 months. I think it is more related to #1. 

Other than his weight and acid reflux he is doing so great. Dr. Freeman thinks he will be like his sister and crawling at 6m and walking at 9m if not sooner. 

We are holding off on starting solids due to his lack of weight gain which is kind of a double edge sword. Solids will help with the AR but we need him to get his calories from milk and not rice cereal. At 6 months we will re-evaluate our plan. 

B had 3 shots and 1 oral vaccine. He took them like a champ. He hardly cried at all and wasn't fussy or feverish at all.