The Poof Chair

Fourteen years ago my parents gave me the most awesome birthday present ever...the poof chair.  It was the biggest, softest bag chair I had ever seen and it quickly became a fixture in Hannah and my freshman dorm room. 

 

Four years of college, two years of grad school, marriage and three children later...the poof chair has served me well.  It's current home is in the girls room.  Keith or I sit on it every night as the girls go to sleep and more recently it has become an awesome babysitter while I change sheets in the girls room or put up laundry!  

 

 

Seriously...the best bean bag chair EVER!

 



Sunday Family Pictures

Every Saturday night, the girls pick out what they plan to wear to church on Sunday morning.  Usually I am okay with what they pick out but when Carli picked out the same dress she had worn the last two Sunday's I told her no to branch out.  She pouted.  I pulled out four dresses and told her to pick one and she refused.  So I told her to sleep on it and in the morning if she didn't choose one of the four, or I'd let Daddy pick it.  She went to bed not happy with me!

Sunday morning she was still not budging from wearing her same dress and I was not budging from her not wearing it.  So I brought her the outfit she had picked for Drew to wear that morning and told her to pick an outfit to coordinate with Drew so we could take their pictures together.  Apparently that was all it took.  She quickly picked a dress from my four choices and directed me on how to do her hair and then made sure Daddy coordinated too. 

And that my friends is how you get a very fashion opinionated six year old to get dressed on a Sunday morning without the world coming to an end!  :)

The Battle of the Nap

It'd be AMAZING if on the third baby I had this whole nap thing figured out...but alas, I'm simply not a baby whisperer.  Despite my best efforts to not nurse Drew to sleep, some days it is simply the only way and even then he will go from this...

To this...so cruel.

And about the time we reach this point...

 

It's time to go get the girls from school and he wakes up as soon as he realizes he is in the car seat and screams the entire way.  Oiy...

 



Drew is 2 Months Old

Drew turned 2 months old on Sept 1.  We went in for his 2 month check up/shots the following day.  Boys are so different from little girls.  We thought Drew was BIG but turns out he's an average sized little baby boy!  He's suppose to be bigger than his sisters were at 2 months!

 

At 2 months, Drew weight 12 lbs 7 oz (49%) and was 23 inches long (45%).  His noggin was 15.75 inches which put him in the 74% there.  He's a pretty proportional little fellow! 

At 2 months old, Drew consistently sleeps 4-5 hrs for the first stretch at night and then after nursing will go 2-3 hrs before wanting to nurse again.  He is still sleeping in his nap nanny but loves to sleep on his belly during the day for his naps.  He is not really on a schedule as he does not nap consistently BUT he does eat about every 2-3 hrs.  He gets the hiccups all the time.  He likes to lay under his floor gym and stretch out and move his little arms and legs.  When he hears his sisters voices at the end of the school day, he smiles.  He is starting to coo and every once in a while he will have a little giggle.  He is finally starting to get little rolls on his arms and legs.  He has "little old man" hair!  He is perfect.

Drew is one happy baby when he's not struggling with his reflux.  We had him on Zantac which worked but caused horrible gas and constipation.  We tried another med that did not work and our insurance refused to do Nexim which we know would work!  So our pediatrician had us buy Prevacid in the 15mg capsules.  We cut open the capsule and give him half of it.  They are little beads, not a powder and the easiest thing to do is wet our finger and just put on his tongue.  Then we follow it with nursing or some grip water.  It has worked well thus far.  We also have started giving him some EM-X in the mornings.  Our hope is that after a couple of weeks we can just give him EM-X and not use meds at all.  Fingers crossed!

Happy Baby

Until he tried the bumbo for the first time!

Labor Day at Ark-La-Tex Christian Encampment

We got to spend Labor Day at a Christian camp in Louisiana.  Most of our family went down on Friday night but we opted to go on Saturday morning b/c we were not sure how well Drew would sleep.  Turns out the boy loves camp.  On Saturday night, he slept 6 hours, nursed and then slept for another 3.5 hrs!  Good to know!

Anyway, we packed up on Saturday morning and it literally looked like we were packing for a whole week.  Drew's clothes by far took up the least amount of space but between his pack and play, nap nanny and travel swing, he took the cake for taking up the most space in the car!

The girls were really pumped to be getting to spend the night a real camp, bunk beds and all.  The camp was really neat.  Our family had our own cabin.  The cabins were air conditioned so that obviously helped us all sleep!  Keith, Drew and I claimed one end of the cabin and the girls the other end.  It worked out really well.  The rest of our extended family each had a cabin of their own.  It was pretty nice!

 

Drew was pretty happy with the set up!

 

 

The older kids LOVED camp.  They swam, played on the playground, played board games, played ball and thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.

 

Drew ate up all the attention he got from all his Great-Aunts.  This was the first time meeting Aunt Betty and Aunt Trudie.  He got lots of extra loving that is for sure!

The adults got to simply relax and enjoy catching up.  There was a human Foosball match (we missed this game b/c they played on Saturday morning) and ping pong tournaments.

We thoroughly enjoyed Saturday night singing!  I was sitting behind everyone nursing when it dawned on me every single one of my Aunts and Uncles were  there except my Uncle Tommy.  So all three of my Mom's sisters and all three of my Dad's siblings were there, plus my two Great-Aunts.  How cool is that?  And they can all sing!  It was beautiful!

After singing, we got to have some homemade ice cream.  Ava was pretty stoked about the oreo ice cream Keith made.  Carli stuck with vanilla.  I even enjoyed some and thankfully Drew did not seem to mind too much!

Pa thoroughly enjoyed having all his grandkids together!  He loves to pick on them, but they can dish it back as quickly as he can dish it out! 

This is a rare picture of Pa's eyes wide open, his hazel eyes complement Carli's blue eyes perfectly.  :)

Pa with his oldest and youngest granddaughters. 

Sunday morning we had church service at camp.  One of the camp board members actually came out and did class and service for us.  It was great.  Drew was all smiles through most of the service.  It seems to be a running theme for him.  He likes Sunday services!

We even had a Sunday School class for the kids.  Aunt Carolyn did an awesome job with their lesson and when they ran out of time doing their craft, they insisted on coming back after service to finish it!  :)  When I asked Ava what class was about, she told me it was about God making noses!  Ha!  Apparently they talked about how different God makes us all - all the way down to our noses and the noses on animals.

 

 

For lunch we had a shrimp boil with baked potatoes (for those of us who aren't shrimp eaters).  Drew was a big help to Grammy in getting lunch going. :)

He and Aunt Carolyn had quite the conversation!

It's always fun to see Grammy together with all her sisters.  They were all a great help in the kitchen this weekend.  Our family is blessed with awesome cooks!

Grammy & Aunt Trudie 

 Apparently the humidity fogged up my camera lens so the picture of all four sisters was a little foggy.  :(

Aunt Trudie, Grammy, Aunt SuAnne and Aunt Sarah

All five of the King Grandkids

Carli (6), Logan (8), Ava (5), Eady (21 mths) and Drew (2 mths)

Sweet brother and sister. 

I've always called the older three kids the Three Amigos, so now with our younger two kids Pa has dubbed them the Dynamic Duo!  :)  Eady was so sweet to lay next to Drew so we could get their picture.

Pa with all his siblings.

Aunt Carolyn, Aunt Betty, Pa and Uncle Danny 

I love this picture of Aunt Chelle and Drew having a very in depth conversation! 

Grammy & Pa with all their Grandkids.  Such a fun group!  This is one of my favorite pictures! 

 

We had an AWESOME wkd and hope we get to do it all again next year.  We will for sure stay more than one night!  Drew was obviously not ready to leave since he screamed at us all the way home!  :)



Sonic Treat from VA

Today is my good friend, Ashley's birthday.  We were pretty tight in college.  She actually convinced my parents to send me to Hawaii with her after my college graduation.  Fun times!  If it weren't for Ashley, I would have never met Keith and well the rest is history.  Years have flown by and we have kind of lost touch but today we got a card in the mail from VA and it was from Ashley.  Today is Ashley's birthday and for her birthday she sent us a Sonic card. That's right, she sent us a gift on her birthday.  Her only request was to send her a picture of what we got with our Sonic card...the girls thought that was pretty sweet.  So we went to Sonic and we took a fun picture and a smiley picture and sent it to Ashley with a wish for a wonderful birthday!  :)