4

months! Here are some cute pictures of our sweet little 4 month old (crazy it's been 4 months).  Lydia is getting stronger and sweeter each day.  She is getting really good at lifting her head up and often when we go get her up from a nap she has moved into the corner of her crib by scooting back because she loves to kick up her feet. She hasn't rolled over but is getting closer and closer.  She coos and babbles all the time excpet when I try to record her and then she becomes silent. The past week or so she has decided that her fingers are great for entertaining her and sucking on. Anytime she wears a dress she loves to play with the skirt part and pull it up.  It makes me so happy that she is such a content little girl. She plays nicely and loves watching her brother run around.  Jared loves Lydia so much.   That also makes me really happy!

April 23rd, exactly 4 months!

12.9 pounds

24.5 inches

 

Just like a little doll.
♥

Happy Mothers Day!

"There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one"

Jill Churchill

 

I am so very blessed to have these two cute, happy, healthy kids and to GET to stay at home with them.  I am also so very blessed to have an incredibly generous and loving mother of my own.

As much as I enjoy being a mom I sometimes have a hard time being at home all the time. I just feel unproductive. I have a major need to be busy and productive so when I wake up in the morning and don't have any set plans except little things like feeding kids and playing with them (still important I know) I get a little anxious. I have never been very good at just being at home having a "pajama day". I will never question the importance of staying home with my kids and the blessing that it is to be able to do so, I just like to be out and doing things with my kids. Just simple things like walks and trips to the park.  I know as Lydia gets a little bit older and can stay awake longer we will go out and do these little things again and that will help me.  I just love structure not empty time. No matter what, I know that being Jared and Lydia's mom is the most important job I will ever have and am so grateful for the opportunity to raise them and learn from them.

One of my biggest hopes is that Jared and Lydia will be the best of friends.  Of course they will have up and down times but I hope they can build a strong relationship.  So far we are off to a strong start. Jared is so sweet with Lydia. He loves to hold her and "play" with her.  Often as she is laying down or playing in her bouncer he will go over and say "I keep company" or "I share my blanket with her". It's fun to see. I love to put little headbands on Lydia and they occasionally fall in her eyes and Jared is always quick to go over and move it out of her eyes. I am glad he is looking out for her.  I also hope that I can build a strong loving relationsihp with each of them.  I want my kids to be want to be around me and to trust me.  I think if I can achieve that it will be one of my greatest accomplishments.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made Mothers,"

old Jewish Proverb

Look Alike Meter

Last night Mark and I were looking at old blog posts that I wrote about Jared when he was around this age.  I am so happy that I have this blog.  It works great as our "family journal" and its fun in this case to see what Lydia may be doing soon. I am so lucky that I have had such easy babies! They are so good natured. I came across the post I did for Jared with the look-alike meter and decided to do Lydia's now. Any guesses on who she looks more like?



It's funny to me that our son looks more like me and our daughter looks more like Mark.  Jared was just 3 % more like me and Lydia is just 4% more like Mark so really they are a pretty good mix.  We were at a wedding Saturday and a friend was looking at Lydia and trying to figure out who she looked more like and she came to the conclusion that Lydia looks the most like Jared.  We have such cute sweet kids!

3 months

Already!
We are so happy that Lydia is part of our family.  She is a super sweet, happy, healthy kid.  She is easily soothed and very undemanding. It's so great.  At church yesterday a woman stopped me in that hall and commented that she "is so cute, she looks so happy and healthy just like a baby should." At her last check up she was 11.5 pounds but I am pretty sure she is at 12 pounds now and was almost 22 inches.  She still has her "weepy eye". The Doctor said it is a clogged tear duct and if she still has it at 6 months they will probably do surgery.  I hope it goes away soon.  We wash/massage it all the time but if you have any great suggestions we would love to hear them.

She looks like a little mushroom here like the dancing ones from Fantasia, found below.

First Daddy Daughter Date

Mark took Lydia out on their first (of what we plan to be many of) Daddy-Daughter Date.  A family in our ward is having an open house for their son who is leaving on a mission this week.  I am sure they will have a lovely time. Mark took me on a date today as well.  We went over to the brand new Tucanos here in town and ate so much food!  It's so funny that they built one like 5 minutes from our house seeing as it is Mark's all time favorite restaurant.

Here are this years porch flowers.  It is so windy here that after losing two baskets of hanging flowers last year we opted for this stylish planter box. I love how it turned out. We went ahead and put hanging ones in the back since the fence blocks a lot of wind. And that is all the planting I plan on engaging in.  And really Mark did most of it. I just don't get the enjoyment from gardening as some do but I am happy to report that our tulips and daffodils have bloomed.  A whole week earlier then last year. Happy Spring!