Frame Family Adventures: April & May 2011

May 2011
Time sure does fly when you have 3 kids. I mean really REALLY fly. I cannot believe that my newborn, Chase, is now 7 months old and almost crawling. He is the smallest of my three. He has consistently been in the 5th-10th percentile for weight and 25-50th for height. I have tried SHOVELING food down this kid to get him chunkier but to no avail he is still small. He is such a happy baby. He smiles at everyone who will give him eye contact. With two bottom teeth in and two top teeth almost popping through, he is just growing so fast. (Funny how I saw them coming in a couple weeks before and told Craig. He thought I was CRAZY. Went to the doctor for his well baby and without even mentioning anything about his teeth the pediatrician says she can't feel any teeth but sometime in the next few months....I am THINKING to myself "Uhh. I can see them. But whatever." And guess what broke through THE VERY NEXT DAY. Yep. A tooth. And the second tooth broke through 2 days later. Yes. I am not crazy. So there! So much for my pediatrician. I am definitely going to be in trouble as soon as he starts crawling as he wants to see and touch EVERYTHING. He will play in his exersaucer, but soon will get board and will LEAN as far as he can to see what he can see on the floor. Anything he can grab goes straight into his mouth. So we have been kept on our toes to make sure the floor is clean of any itty bitty toys.

My 2 ½ year old, Cole, is climbing, jumping, running, and anything else a little boy should be doing. He is saying please and thank you. “Mommy, pease watch a show?” “Mommy, Pease have treat?” “No, No thank you!” He loves trains, trucks, boats, cars, helicopters. When he hears a plane or helicopter outside, he takes off running to find a place where he can watch it fly through the sky.
Sayings by Cole:
"Mommy, I ready take nap now. C'mon Mom." (and then takes a 3 hour nap every day)
"Super-Bunny" (as he runs through the house)
"Hi-yah, Hi-yah, Yi-yah...Let's make Pie!" (legs and arms chopping to the hi-yahs)
Chase was crying. Cole says "Need baby food Chase? Okay need baby food." Goes to the fridge gets some baby food (squash) and takes it to Chase, opens it. Then goes back to the kitchen and says, "Mom. Chase need baby food," and proceeds to open a drawer to find a spoon. I say, "No. Chase doesn't need baby food. He just wants Mommy." Thankfully Cole says, "Oh. Okay!" and puts the squash lid back on (I had NO IDEA he had gotten the squash out). What a disaster that would have been!

If Cole doesn't want something he always says "I TOO BIG (for whatever it is)"

Cole gets into EVERYTHING. He was in the tub one day. Gets out of the tub and climbs onto the toilet. I walk in and he is standing on top of the toilet, naked.

One day he climbed on the kitchen stool...finds some gum...I went outside to put Chase in the car and come back to find him eating 4 pieces of gum. Turns around and looks at me and then FRANTICALLY trys to shove as many MORE pieces of gum into his mouth before I can reach him....which is one more.

Haley, my 5 ½ year old is reading so well. She can read all of the Bob books and has started reading Little Critter, Clifford, and other books. She LOVES to draw and color. She is always making everyone she knows (me, Craig, Cole, Chase, teachers, friends) pictures. She is such a smart & bright little girl. To her, everything has to be fair. Whatever Cole has she has to have to. “Which one has more?” is a question she asks often. She is SO ready for summer and swimming. The pool is just getting warm enough that we can swim in it. I wish I had taken pictures of our first swimming day with Cole, Chase & Haley, but I didn’t…so next time I will remember!

Sayings from Haley-

She asked me to make her a bow for her bunny, to which I told her to ask her dad as I was feeding Chase at the time, to which she says, "Does Dad even KNOW how to make a bow?"

I have been making fruit/veggie smoothies lately to help get some more veggies in my kids' diet. Haley came in from playing and sees me making a smoothie (4th time in 4 days) and she says, "Woah Mom. You are going crazy with the smoothies."