5 month comparison

Well, this whole week I have been thinking in my mind that Channing is looking a lot like her brother but clearly in these pics, Channing still looks like a 5 month Jillian. 

 

I love the chunkiness of 5 months.  I love the chunk on the thighs and the chunk on the arms. 

 

This cracks me up.  Hadleigh made this face at me this morning.  She did not like what I picked for her to wear to school. 

5 months

Channy-boo is 5 months.  I feel like I cant stop time.  It is flying at warp speed. 

Channing is an angel except between the hours of 5-7 pm.  The witching hour of course.  The day after Valentines she got her first tooth on the bottom which was quickly followed by the 2nd bottom tooth.  if nothing else, I do create children that know how to grow teeth quickly! !

She likes the swing, she can roll from front to back, she drinks her bottles at school with ease. 

She has a little chubba-lubba on her arms and her thighs.  I love that!!  She weighs about 16 lbs!!

Hadleigh is 4!!

How can my baby be 4? I continue to be late with my posts but  Hadleigh turned 4 on February 10th.  If ever there wss a girl so full of life, it is Hadleigh.  She is adventurous,  fearless,  inquisitive,  social oh so social and loving.   She has NEVER met a stranger and wil ask questions and more questions.   What is your name?  What is your baby's name?   What are you doing? Etc. 

She loves school and all of the teachers especially ms. Jazmin and ms. Georgina.  She plays school at home all the time and fets out 100s of books and lots of blankets for nap mats. 

She loves my phone.  She used to watch peppa pig on youtube but now She will watch "eggy" videos all.day.long.  she also loves to take selfies. 

She is very independent from Jillian and rocco.  She will play by herself.   She loves to hold Channing snd will try to feed her from her chest.  She adores kk and they can get in a lot of trouble together! !

She is so loving and is my shadow most of the time.    She is a lot like me in personality and can have some blonde moments and falls down all if the time.  At least several times a day she will fall.  Today she fell hard twice snd skinned her knees and elbows.

She is so beautiful inside and out!  Happy birthday! !

Channing is 4 months!!

Chan-Chan is our little doll baby.  She is such a sweet, low maintenance baby.  She is 14 lbs of pure baby love.  Her eyes are still a mystery.  They really have brown in the center but have a ring of gray blue around the edges.  Not sure if they will stay that way or continue to change.  She has very little hair but looks like dark blonde is coming in. 

 

She is definitely mama's girl but has her regular witching hour right when I am making dinner.  She will scream and scream until I basically I stop whatever I am doing, feed her and put her to bed.  She will sleep from about 6:00 or 7:00 to 11:00 or 12:00 and then it is hit or miss the rest of the night.  The kids wake her up at 6:00 a.m.  So I get about 5-6 hours of sleep right now....no wonder I can be grumpy during the day!!!

 

The older kids adore her.  Hadleigh wants to adore her but really has no patience for holding her or actually helping.  She does call Channing my Sissy.

 

 

In my opinion, Channy-boo looks a lot like her OLDEST sister. 

 

and maybe a little like her bruder without the chubba-lubba....hee, hee

 

But not really anything like my Haddy-Waddy.  Hadleigh definitely had her own look. 

 

Rocco is 6!!!

Oh this boy!  This boy has my whole heart!  On January 15th, Rocco turned 6!!  I cannot believe he is 6.  He has conquered kindergarten with charm and obedience.  He has a love of learning and a desire to please his teacher.  He ALWAYS has a smile on his face.  ALWAYS!!

 

 

Or sometimes he looks like this.  He is his father's son.  He thinks he is a professional comedian.  He is always willing to be silly or crazy to get a laugh!!

 

The kid has no teeth.  He has lost four on the bottom and three on the top.  He only has two that have come in the bottom.  That does not stop him from his basic vegan diet of green beans and raspberries and all other berries.

 

He loves this look.  OH EM GEE he rocks this look.  My sweet boy can be a stinker.  He really can only tolerate getting his own way every single time so we regularly have some serious power struggles.  He usually wins. 

 

This winter, he has been playing basketball.  The first game he was ten times worse than a deer in headlights.  He came off the court at the end of the game and said "Mom, I do not know how to play basketball."  Way to go Mom and Dad - epic fail!!!!

 

But by the second game, he was doing a little better and realized you needed to dribble and learned that you needed to shoot the ball in the hoop.  He made a couple of baskets and he was feeling good!!

 

By the next game, he earned the medal for most improved and best listener. 

 

AND THEN he broke his collarbone.  He always keeps us on our toes.  He has kept the sling on for more days than I thought he would and then after about a week and a half, we can't get him to wear it and he seems to be on the mend.  He already returned to basketball and tomorrow he starts back at spring soccer. 

 

I cannot believe he will be done with kinder in a few short months.  It will be a very fun year for Rocco because he makes everything fun!!

Jillian is 8!!

I realize I am way, way, way behind.  Now that Channing is no longer a newborn and has her own opinion, this mothering of 4 has become harder.  That's the understatement of the year.  BUT tonight let me try and catch up on some things. 

 

My big girl turned 8 on Janurary 6th.  She is really morphing into a young lady before our eyes.  She has finally hit her stride with 2nd grade.  She struggled in the beginning with the upgrade in spelling homework and math homework but now is in a groove.  Her teacher sends monthly science challenges and she loves doing those. 

 

She is definitely the first born.  She is the little general and usually bosses everyone around.  She loves taking care of Channing.  She and Hadleigh will sometimes play together but Hadleigh can only take being bossed around so long.  Rocco can last a lot longer.  But in the car, Jillian and Rocco will fight on the way to school and on the way home EVERY.DAY.  Lovely!!

 

For her eighth birthday, she wanted her ears pierced and even though there were some unexpected tears, now she loves it!  She picked out a teal color and they go perfectly with her blue eyes.  She is (percentage-wise) the smallest in the house.  Little Minnie is only is the 20th percentile for weight and only average for height so Rocco weighs more than her and is almost as tall.  Hadleigh is only 10 pounds behind her.  But what she lacks in size, she completely makes up with her big personality.   

 

 

She can be silly sometimes.  She likes to hide behind doors and scare you.  She is definitely Daddy's Girl.  The rest of the crew is mine but Jillian has her Daddy in the palm of her hand.  He will do anything for that girl. 

She is still taking Ballet I.  She complains sometimes that her teacher Ms. Hayley is too strict.  But then she will have a substitute and suddenly, Ms. Hayley is not so bad.  This winter, I signed up Rocco for basketball and once Jillian saw it, she was very jealous and wanted to play too.  There is nothing this girl won't try.  She is pretty fearless.  She also expressed interest in taking tumbling so she can get ready to be a cheerleader.  We'll see! 

 

She has a serious appetite for reading.  She has started checking out some classics like The Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame.  For Christmas, I ordered some old Babysitter Club Books that I used to read and she has liked those. 

 

I am so proud of this sweet girl.  She is loving, inquisitive, kind, helpful.  Her writing will blow you away.  She loves writing in school and will compose a pretty decent well thought out composition.  I cannot believe how quickly she is growing up.  It is thrilling and scary at the same time.  I love you Jillian Avery!!  I love watching you grow into such a beautiful and intelligent little lady. 

3 months old

Channing is 3 months old.  She started daycare on monday and the ladies love her.  She goes to Hadleigh s school and hadleigh s teachers let her stop by to check on HER baby. 

She is still very easy going baby.  Very tolerant to her brother and sisters.  She is a serious baby.  You have to work and perform to get her to smile. 

The olders fight to see who can sleep with Channing BUT usually they regret it as she does cry during the night LOUDLY for milk!!