Pictures, Pictures

I took Samara to get her pictures made yesterday. We also had Christmas pictures made of all three of the kids and my sister came along and had her little boys 1 year old pictures made as well. Needless to say we had a small enterouge and a very crazy day. To make a long story short, Samara's Christmas dress was stolen and now we are going shopping for a new one. I hope we can find the same one because I absolutely loved it. So I hope whoever got her dress really needed it. Here are some of Samara's pics. You will have to wait to see the Christmas pics when you get your Christmas Card!

Four Months

Samara is 4 months old today! She is growing and her personality is getting sweeter every day. We have had a tough week this past week. It began with Samara waking up Monday morning having seizure like movements again. We took her to the emergency room and needless to say she stayed 24 hours in the hospital so they could do an EEG to determine if she was having seizures. On Thursday we got the report that the EEG was totally normal. Yeah!!! No seizures. By process of elimination the dr's are pretty confident that she is having muscle spasms caused by her acid reflux. So we are trying new meds and now have a new GI specialist out of Children's Hospital that we are seeing. She seems to be a lot better than the previous specialist she was seeing. I'm learning this parenting stuff is oh so tough especially when your baby is sick and you can not make it better. I know this is just another place in my life where I have to learn to trust in God.
On Thursday Samara also had her 4 month check up. She weighs 12 lbs 2 oz and was 23 inches long. The Dr. said that despite her acid reflux, Samara is very healthy. She does not think that Samara will be tall! She is only in the 10th percentile for height. To top off Samara's great week she had to have 5 shots. It broke my heart:( Her little leg was so sore the next day. But by Saturday she was back to her happy self.
Here are some pics of her today! Happy 4 month birthday Baby Girl!

Halloween Fun!

We had a great time taking the kids trick or treating last night. We also stopped by the Baptist church and had hotdogs and let the kids play a few games. They had a blast. I don't know if they had more fun trick or treating or giving candy to the trick or treaters that came to our door. The kids ended the night on a sugar high playing with glow sticks that I had bought them.

Feisty Leopard


Mr. Incredible

Baby Leopard

My cute kids!

Samara & Ava ditched their costumes because it was to hot. Samara was tired and cranky by this point but Ava was all smiles! She was excited about her first Halloween!

Pumpkin Painting

I decided that I would let the kids paint their pumpkins this year instead of carving them. Less mess and less work!!! They had a great time and I took a few pictures during the process.

Dalton's pumkin

Lyric's pumkin.

I painted Samara's for her!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!

One Project Done

I finished Lyric's room today and I think it turned out great. I actually finished the painting yesterday and boy was I tired. Two days of painting was enough for me. Anyway while Lyric was at Pre-K this morning I put her room back together and added some new things. I decorated her room in Tinkerbell, put her new sheets and comforter on her bed, and rearranged everything. I took a few photos before she got home because I knew it probably wouldn't stay this clean for very long!

Sleep

Sleep is a big topic at our house right now for several reasons.

Lyric is just a little over 4 years old and has decided that she no longer needs a nap. This is way different from Dalton. I think he would still take an afternoon nap if he could! So I have changed nap time to quiet time here lately. The only problem with that is who has ever known Lyric to do anything quietly. So I am constantly telling her to be quiet during quiet time. The upside to this is that she is more than ready for bed by 8:00 each night and sometimes even earlier.

Samara turned 3 months a few weeks ago and went from sleeping from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. to waking up every couple of hours. I thought that it was just a growth spurt but this getting up several times during the night is continuing. She also has started taking little cat naps in the afternoon instead of a nap for an hour or two. At times I try to let her fall asleep on her own but she usually will fall asleep after crying and then wake up 15 to 20 minutes later. This is frustrating to me. I did not think that her crying would bother me but it does so I usually just pick her up and console her which means I am not getting much rest day or night between Samara's sporadic sleeping and Lyric's "not so quiet" time. My mom thinks it is probably time that I move Samara into her own room and that we would sleep better but I am struggling with that so for right now I will just continue to be a little sleep deprived. They are only this little once! My goal is to have her sleeping in her own room by the time I go back to work in January which is getting closer and closer.

The Great Pumpkin!

In between house projects, I took the kids to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. The weather was beautiful and we had a great time together! They fed lots of animals, played, and of course picked pumpkins!

On top of the hay!

Lyric riding her tricycle around the corn!

Dalton thinks he's big stuff!

As you can tell, they didn't go for the biggest pumpkins this year! Dalton chose white and Lyric and Samara got small orange ones.

Here they are tired and ready to go home. Well actually Samara slept through the whole thing but I'm sure she was tired out from riding in the stroller all afternoon!