Baby Steps

Stats from her one year check-up:

Weight- 19lb 11oz- 25%ile

Head- 17.5in- 50%ile

Height- 30in- 75%ile

On Top of Spaghetti

A neat freak's worst nightmare for a meal.

Partay

We celebrated lots of birthdays at our house this weekend. Mine (March 3), Mima's (March 22), Callie's (March 28), and Julia's (April 1). It was chaos and mayhem at its finest, but we managed to pull it off without any major problems.  The climax was cake time when Preston was throwing a tantrum, Callie was screaming, and someone else was crying, too. No, not me, though I thought about it. I think it was Eli?

But I digress. In tradition with what we did for Preston's first birthday, I made sure we had the big banner picture, clothes line full of her monthly photos, and photo albums from her first year. Party favors were seeds to plant in a month or so.  I thought it was appropriate for our Callie ROSE to give out flowers! (Patting myself on the back.)  Here are some snapshots of the day and a video to show the madness.  

We are so blessed to have two incredible children!   

 

 

After previewing this video, I realize I made the movie out of order. I'm too lazy to fix it, so just pretend not to notice.

A Full Year Has Passed...

A full year has passed since we welcomed our Callie Rose into the family. She brightens our days and is proving to be an active/determined/stubborn child, just like her brother. As challenging as parenthood is, there is nothing better than a one year old (Gasp! Is she really one?!) giving you a big hug and patting you on the back every morning and falling asleep on your shoulder at night.  These are the moments I wish I could bottle up. But, alas, they keep growing.

Some of Callie's milestones over the past year:

2 weeks- hold rattle

4 weeks- smile

3 months- roll over

4 months- eat feet, eat cereal, laugh

6 months- give kisses, army crawl

7 months- sit up, clap, first tooth, first word (MAMA!)

8 months- regular crawl, wave, second word (Dada- this is also her current favorite word.)

11 months- cruise

Still not walking yet, but she's close!

 Here's a little trip down memory lane.

Happy Birthday, Sweet Callie!!

Little Things

Sometimes I forget how easy kids are to please. (Normally I forget this when Preston asks for something, changes his mind, asks for something else, changes his mind, DEMANDS something else, etc.)

But SOMEtimes he is happy with the simplest things.

Like Turtle Slippers.

And pictures of airplanes, helicopters, and trains.

(Mom, you'll like how Preston tells Clint EXACTLY where to put the pictures. I don't know who he gets that from...)

On a side note, for all the parents out there, I got my refund check from McNeil Consumer Healthcare today for all of the Motrin/Tylenol we had in the house. Highly recommend you get yours! I was impressed with how quickly they tried to make things right. Hopefully my kid doesn't grow a third arm because of the meds we gave him before knowing there was something wrong with them...

Molly and Preston's Day of Fun!

Molly came to take Preston on a pre-birthday adventure today. We had planned to go to the Zoo, but the weather didn't cooperate. So we went to the mall instead. Who knew it could be so fun! This JUMP! thing was awesome. We decided he would either love it or hate it. Molly was the coolest god-mother ever and went with him. Getting strapped in...

WEEEEEE!!! He LOVED it and immediately said "MORE MORE" when it was over.

Then we went to the arcade that was next door.
Driving my car.

SKEEBALL! (This was more for mommy...)

Carousel ride.

He had a great time. And (obviously) we were not the only ones who took our kids to the mall today...

Sorry most of the pics are blurry- something was wrong with my camera today. Boo.

Pretend & Polite

Mama Love

Happy Mother's Day to all of my mommy friends and MY mom! I am not a perfect mom, that's for sure. But I sure love being one. And feel lucky to have such a great hubby and son. Hope you all had a great day today!

Wait for a special message to all moms at the end of the video...

April Recap and more!

Lots of adventures this month. Click this first photo to see it all. We played outside (a LOT), went to Julia's birthday party, celebrated Easter, went to the park (a LOT), got our first skinned knee, played with silly string at Mima's house, had a big head bonkie, went to a Royal's game with Dada (sorry, no pictures of this because Clint is a slacker), and went to The Farmstead.

We took a trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art today with some friends for a photo walk. Great weather for it, and great idea, Bets! I took about a hundred pictures (most of them stink), but here are my favorites from the day. I guess if you take a hundred, you are bound to get a few good ones.

The Reflection Pool was Preston's favorite. Of course, he wanted to swim in it.

Giant shuttlecocks are fun.

Preston called this statue a Kitty and meowed at it. Looks like more of a bear to me, but I'm no art expert.
Running across the lawn.
I told him he needed to hold it up because it was going to fall. "HEAVY!" he said.

Such a Mama's boy...

The rectangle path. Poor Ellen got a bonkie.
Jumping with Aunt Betsy. Check out her vertical!

Ellen thinks Preston is crazy for trying to hold up the building. She doesn't know how STRONG he is.

Left, Left, Left, Right, Left
Mischievous grin.

Love in a shuttlecock?

Maybe we can take their prom pics here someday...

(I stole this pic from Betsy's friend, Jill. It is by far the best one-she is a much better photographer than I am and has a great camera! Thanks, Jill!)