Farm Show and Snow

That time of year again! Nate didn't get to go this year because the kids were still sick over the weekend but by Thursday we were ready to go so my mom and I took them. Max had to touch every tractor he saw! And there were some beeeeeg ones!

Watching the cattle round up.

Got to touch a sheep.

Best part of the show is the famous milk shake!

And finally got out in the snow. Luckily for us we still had some in the back yard so Max enjoyed his sledding time!

Crash

Of course you have to have cars/trucks to play with. I made him bring a big one out so we weren't searching for hotwheels in the snow!

Peanut liked it too even if she couldn't put her arms down:)

Aliyah 7 months

Aliyah is 7 months old!

Of course Max had to go first...

So happy to have such good kids! She is still mostly smiles. She has a temper when she needs to but luckily she's happy 90% of the time so we don't have to see it often. I don't think our schedule has changed much. She wakes between 6:15-6:45am to eat and goes back to sleep. We're trying to cut out the first morning nap (though if she wakes back up before 8am its hard!) and then she goes down after her 10:15am bottle for about 45 mins. When she does wake up around 8:15am she eats a big bowl of baby oatmeal so that holds her off till after 10am for her bottle. She does also eat lunch, a stage one fruit at normal lunch time. After Max goes down between 1:15 and 1:30 she eats (if I'm home I nurse her) and she goes down. We're working on a long pm nap cause she got worse with it but she's getting better again. I try to keep her up there till 4pm at least, even if it requires rocking her back to sleep, or her sleeping on my lap or even just turning her glow seahorse on for her to play with so it keeps her in her crib till 4pm. This worked for Max and now, especially with being sick, he's down till almost 5pm some days. (But I never get him up before 4pm even if he wakes up earlier, he loves to play in his crib a while). She eats again around 4:45pm. After dinner she takes a little lappy nappy and then she eats her dinner around 7ish. The both get baths and Max goes down around 8pm and then she nurses and goes to bed herself. I do think this time when they're eating AND drinking is tough because, as you can see, there isn't much time one of them isn't napping or eating and its tough just to get out of the house but its such a fun age, I will miss my babies soon enough!

She's doing good, she does roll some but not often. The 2 best things are she can get her paci in herself and she sits up great. She loves to just sit and play and is very content doing so. She makes a lot of noises and can be very loud. She's quite impressed with her noises too! She loves to splash in the tub. She's getting funny about "mom". She doesn't like anyone else to feed her if she can see me and she gets very excited to see me but she also loves her play time with daddy too!

You can tell she's toughened up by her big brother because when I took her to get her 2nd flu shot on Friday she barely even flinched let alone cried!

Since we're usually all cars/trucks and trains...

It was really cute when I came downstairs the other day and found him putting Ali's baby in the carrier and "caring" for it! He even took her on a stroller ride too. (Note: she did end up under the TV cabinet but it was cute while it lasted!)

Happy New Year

Well, the sicknesses went from bad to worse. Max's cold (3 1/2 weeks later) is still lingering but him and I both came down with a stomach bug in there as well. Max's fever spiked high Christmas night but finally broke and came down. His special treat was sleeping with mommy! Nate ended up with a cold (so did my mom) and then I got it too. I had a high fever off and on, stomach bug, cold, etc... Max did end up with an ear infection we found out by the time we finally got him to the Dr's on Monday but was allergic to the amoxicilin (just a body rash and red ears) so he had to take something different (which didn't help his stomach bug). Ten days later Aliyah finished her meds then, New Year's Day, she came down with a fever too but luckily it didn't last too long. I wish we had frequent visit/call cards to the Dr's because between all of us (I took a trip to the Urgent Care Clinic when I was really sick because my Dr's was closed for the day) we had 6 calls and 4 visits! (Including a call Christmas and New Year's Day!) But anyway, once Max kicks this cough we should be good.

In the middle of all that, New Year's weekend the Brown's came up. Friday, New Years Eve, was actually an ok day for us. Max and I were still limited on what we could eat but feeling decent enough to get out of the house and meet everyone at Chocolate World and then head over to Grandma's for a New Years Eve party. We did come home around 9pm so the kids could go to bed and Nate and I made it up till midnight (a stretch for me which I paid for the next day feeling lousy again!). New Year's Day Ken and Diana came out and the Brown's came over. This was the day Aliyah got a fever and wasn't her usual smiling self but we had a nice visit and as always Max LOVED playing with his cousins!

Chocolate World:

Usually Aunt Ellie is taking the pictures, nice to have her in some!

The perfect shot! Ellie was trying to catch her with her new toys and caught this (this happens at least a dozen times a day so I guess it was bound to be caught on camera at some point!)
New Year's Day with MORE presents!

She actually kinda got the hang of opening this year!

Can never have enough trucks!