Baby Update: 7 Months Already

Where does the time seem to keep going?? 7 Months, really?

Sleep: You are an excellent sleeper now! You go to bed around 7:00, usually cry a second or two once during the night, then wake up at 7:30am. You take a nap at either at 9:30 or 10:00 until 11:30 or 12:00. Then you take another nap usually from 2:00-4:00pm. 

Weight: At your last appointment we found out you were only eating enough to stay hydrated, and you dropped down to the... 4 percentile I think it was; the point is that we had to make the decision to be done breastfeeding because apparently I was drying up and you weren't growing. As sad as I was, it is once again another decision I didn't have to make (pretty much like all the decisions we've had with your brother). I think you're at 16.4lbs now, but I'm crossing my fingers the formula is helping you catch right up. 

You love when I place little
snacks on the stool for you
to crawl to and push around

You're getting the hang of
that straw!

Likes: Being mobil!

• Eating Anything
• Maddix
• Pushing the stool around the kitchen
• The hoses that connect from the toilet to the wall
• Maddix'x toys, or anything that's not an actual baby toy
• Nala
• Attention
• Being snuggled while you eat your bottles
• The lullaby I sing to you while you fall asleep in my arms. 
• The nighttime routine Grandpa Jeff has with you when I'm at work
• Riding in the stroller
• Burps/farts make you laugh
• When I sing
• Watching the fire in the fireplace
• talking
• Trying to roll away when I'm changing your diaper!
• The shower
• Bath time/ your sponge
• Seeing Dad on the phone-video chat
• Pretty much you love everything... aside from a couple of little things: 

Dislikes: There aren't many, but the things you don't like, you REALLY don't like!

• You detest laying on your back for anything: getting your clothes on, changing your diaper, anything
• The "Bug zapper" or the blue booger picker. 
• Getting your fingernails clipped.
• Anytime I'm fixing you a bottle and you can hear it shaking, see it being made, or I swear even smell it and it's not in your hands, you are furious. 
• When I bath you, you have claimed the sponge as YOURS and I cannot have it. When I remove it from your hands you SCREAM. If I place it back, you stop. I can do this repeatedly without fail you'll scream, stop, scream, stop. 
• Still don't like the carseat.
• When Maddix accidentally drops his toys on you, or plays too rough. 
• Not a huge fan of the swing, but you don't detest it. 

Anything Else: Well, the biggest of news really is that you're crawling! You started out so funny and slow, but now you're really booking it.. by my standards, you're still actually getting the hang of it. Also, you can now pull yourself up on all the furniture, and you're desperately trying to master the stairs:) You've begun this game where you push around the stool on the kitchen floor and you look like an old man pushing his walker:) As I said before you've completed the stage of breastfeeding and you seem happier now that you are getting enough to eat. Today when I placed you next to your walker toy you actually took some steps while pushing it!! I don't remember if I recorded this but YOU SAID YOUR FIRST WORD! You said, "Dahdt." It's the only thing you've said consistently and even then it's rare, but legitimately it's the first word for you, and I couldn't be happier at your choice. Maddix said mom, and you said dad, I love it.! 

Always trying to eat
everything:)

You have been fighting getting sick while your brother and I have been down with a terrible flu/cold thing that's been going around and unfortunately, you woke up with it this morning. You poor guy, you just seem so unhappy, even though you try to put on a happy face. The only good thing to come out of being sick is the ample amount of cuddle time we've all been having while we watch movie after movie after movie. You did seem to like the extra long we got out on today with my co-workers to try and lift your spirits, but man I was beat by the end.. and so were you and your brother! 

Man I love you. You change and grow so much each and every day. There is never a day that you don't make me smile or melt my heart. You are so different from your brother, and I love seeing how you have your own personality. You're curious, but not as mischievous (not yet anyway!) You're tender and love to cuddle. You lock eyes with anyone and then smile in a way that makes that person think they are the most special person in the world, one day I'll capture that look because I NEVER want to forget it! You are an angel boy, and people constantly ask how we got so lucky to have such a happy and good boy! I don't know, but we love every last bit of you Mr. Falco, Aaron boy, Barron Falco, Angel baby, Bubba, Little Penguin, Little Tard, Cute Boy, and so many other loving names that everyone calls you! 

Never stop smiling. Never stop Loving the Lord. Always know You are LOVED. 

~A SuPeR (bIrThDaY) BoWl PaRtY~

On our last post I got all caught up... and since then? Colds... all that yucky stuff that's going around. I think Maddix brought it home from nursery and by Saturday I caught it as well. So Sunday, Groundhog's day, Super Bowl Sunday, and ya know... MY BIRTHDAY, I woke up so so sick, I could barely move :( Gratefully I live with my dad and he took the boys and sent me back to bed.
Nonetheless, the day went on and  I was not any help. Thankfully, I prepared all the food the night before so there wasn't too much left to do:

Our Super Bowl Set up

My Football Field Beandip :) 

Brenna decorated the lamp

Choc covered bananas, football strawberries, and football cream puffs

my football

Some of our spread

Cute little football cupcakes

No bake football cookies

Sweet 'n' sour chicken

Some of our crazies:) 

My dad pushed the couches back so everyone
could have a seat. 

When my mom came to pick up my siblings Nala was in the van.
My mom said she wanted to give me birthday wishes.
It hurts so much to not be with half my family!
(referring to Trav and Nala)

Our grown boys chatting with my
grandparents who are away on
their mission in
Fiji

 Safe to say Feb 2nd was an eventful day with everything that was going on, but I'm not going to lie... it didn't feel like a birthday, especially not a BIG one like it was since I was turning 25 and do you know why??
Of course you do:

Come home soon, Love!

Midweek Report

MONDAY
Monday was my favorite day of the week so far. Although it started out a little stressful with trying to get the boys ready and out the door by 8:30am so we could go get Nala to the groomers. Of course, as we're about to leave Aaron has a blow out diaper... up to his neck! But we did eventually get out the door and were only slightly late to the Groomer. 
While we burned some we wondered over to Petsmart where we looked at all the animals and bought some dog food. 

After some playtime over with cousins Keili and Allie's home, we met my mother and Grandfather over in the River bottoms for lunch and to give my mom the dog food.

Maddix took the photo

 TUESDAY
I was lucky enough to have my third day in a row off of work. We played on the floor all morning. I did a lot of cleaning, and at one point I was vacuuming the hall when all of sudden Aaron disappeared. 

During Maddix's quiet time (instead of naps he takes time in my bed with a ton of books) I heard him leave the room to go to the bathroom and it clicked in my head "Hmm... Maddix has a pile of toys in the hall. What are the odds that he picks up some toys." So I hid around the corner and sure enough he snuck a few into the room. When I opened the door, he flipped around with a slight smile, trying to judge if I knew anything. "Hey mom, I'm just reading." I asked him if he had any toys to which he replied
No.
I continued on about how mommy's know when you're lying to them and continued to shake his head that, "no, I don't have any toys in the room," all while sliding the lump under his blanket closer to him. OH MY GOSH... so we continued again, with the explanation that you'd be in more trouble if you lied than if you just told the truth, at which point he sat on top of the blanketed mass, and innocently shook his head back and fourth... THIS IS MY THREE YEAR OLD!! Eventually he was discovered and he smiled and said, "I was just trying to be sneaky." 

Later that day cousin Bella came over to play. They went out and went sledding in the backyard, rode scooters downy the hill, had a snowball fight, and basically emptied EVERY toy in Maddix's room out on the floor, ha ha. 

WEDNESDAY
We went to my mom's and while we were playing with the lovely Nala: 

Beauty after being groomed

Love this girl

laughed as Aaron crawled over to pick up Nala's slimy ball. Well as we were leaving I had Aaron in the carseat and Maddix came running over laughing, "Mom! I... Mom, I gave ha ha ha... Aaron..." He couldn't even finish. I looked around the corner to find Aaron sucking on Nala's slobbery tennis ball!!! YUCK!! But Maddix thought he was just Hilarious. 

When I came home from work last night I heard Maddix crying in his bed, "No, I just want mommy, please, I just want to go home!" When I went in to check on him I found him BURNING up. He had a fever of 101.6 but was still being so nice as I made him take some medicine. 

My little trooper

My little trooper

It took all my self control not to snuggle him in my bed as I listened to him toss and turn all night. In fact, when he woke up in the morning for another dose of Tylenol I tried to put him in my bed, but he said, "mom, what are you doing? You need to put me back in my  cool bed. Crazy, you were confused:)" 

So once we were up for the morning I made a little resting spot on the couch and informed Maddix that all we were doing today was watching movies and reading; he is officially fine with being sick. He really really likes that we are watching sooooo many movies today! 

learning to pull himself up

Went over to check on his big brother

The Rest of Our Week

Today was a nice day. 

Maddix and I enjoyed some fun time together outside just sledding, playing basketball, running up and down the hill, wrestling, and having a ball while Aaron napped. He just laughed and laughed, and for once I didn't find myself checking my phone every few minutes to check the time or worry about what else I needed to be doing; truthfully I didn't even have my phone with me. 

At church Aaron was such a chatterbox. He kept saying, "dad" and "dadda" so I filmed it during Sunday School and sent it to Travix who was VERY excited to receive the video; he misses his boys so so much. Also cousin Bella (4yrs old) and Colton (my 17yr old Brother) were with us at church and the Relief Society Pres. came over and said, "Lacey, I didn't know you had 3 little ones, or that your HUSBAND came home already:)... no NO, this is my brother, and my cousin. It was quite entertaining. 

Also today we got to pick Nala up from the breeders. They informed me that she should be "good and pregnant" after FIVE rendezvous' and she seemed like she was really enjoying her big backyard and other dogs to play with. Now I don't think I mentioned before that we took her to be bred, but that is partly because I know that in the world today there is a HUGE stigma about breeding dogs and many people are very against, BUT here are my reasons: 

1- I REALLY want to keep a puppy from Nala's blood line someday, and realistically when we actually I get an opportunity for that she will be 7, and I've read everywhere that it is still okay at that point, however they have to have had a littler before so their body knows what to do. 

2- It really mellows your dog out and instals a mothering instinct in them, which would be nice for Nala to have where we're moving back into an apartment in New York. And

3- If there is an opportunity to make a little money while fulfilling the top two reasons, I would consider myself extremely blessed. 

SO, those are our reasons. You can think what you want, but I stand by our decision. To continue on...

Yesterday Maddix had a great time at his "play date" with Porter and Lucy while I went to work, then enjoyed our evening having Colton come spend the night: 

Breakfast pancakes, compliments of Grandpa

Friday we took the morning easy and later had some friends over for lunch. They ended up staying while I went to work and they watched/played with the boys until my dad showed up. 

Thursday was a very great day. Maddix was so excited that I had the WHOLE day off from work to be with him and just NOT go anywhere:) We had a great time. Got some Insanity work out done in the morning, deep cleaned together, then me and my boys had some uninterrupted cuddle time for the length of the entire How To Train My Dragon movie. That was probably my favorite moment of the whole week: 

And that was our week in a nutshell. 

For Travis...

His week went like this: 

Study, Study, Study, Study, Study, sleep, eat a little. 

Study, Study, Study, Study, Study, eat, sleep a little, shower. 

Study, Study, Study, Study, Study,

Study, Study, test, test, test...

briefly talk to us. 

Study, test, test, and then finally reach Sunday where he had decided to eat some time

up by cooking: extensively cooking. That was the beginning of what turned into his 10lb. lasagna. 

 Then he had the elders over to eat. Before they arrived he said to me, "this lasagna will probably last me until I come home." At which point I reminded him he had Elders coming over for dinner, and he quickly said, "you're right. There won't be anything left over:)"

P.S. Some bonus moments from the week:

They melt my heart!

Where to Start??

Where to start?? Seriously. So much has happened in the past 10 days; nothing traumatic, or life altering, nothing like that. It has just been busy, and crazy, and fun, and hard, and well that's why I don't know where to start... because it's been a little of everything.

I guess to start off, we moved :O)
And today I think I finally finished putting the last of our things into their new places

Our yard to play in

MY room, no boys allowed ;)

The Boys Room:)

I love that they're in their own room

A big THANK YOU to my grandparents for letting us stay at their house for the time being. And a big THANK YOU to my in-laws (including the Brother-in-laws) for opening their home to us whenever needs be. For helping us whenever he fell short of something, and for being willing to alter their daily life style to accommodate ours; Thank you very much and we love you all.
Shortly after moving here and getting acquainted to having a little more space, I decided it's time to get back into shape. So once it's warm I want to start running again and what better way than not having to find a sitter, but just getting the boys out of the house too. So we bought this:

Found it online for only $100! 

We've already taken it out for one walk and the boys LOVED it. The weather was perfect... maybe a little chilly, but it was just nice to not have Aaron in those terrible MOBE wraps (sorry, not a fan), or have Maddix constantly hopping in and out of the other stroller. We went 5 miles before going home and snuggling up to a movie; I love days like those :)

Beginning of the walk all bundled and
equipped with snacks.

They didn't quite make it all the way

I must say that we've really been enjoying the added space. For instance Maddix gets to burn a little extra energy simply running up the stairs to breakfast, vs running laps around the kitchen table ha ha, which was entertaining still.

Little boy energy

Bat man shirt and cape!

Just taking a readying break! 

Then on top of having all the space, we've been enjoying all the play dates and new friends that are around to play with:) 

Wanted to be a part of the fun

First play group in this ward

Aaron has also been growing bigger n bigger! He is pretty much crawling; it's not pretty, but he gets anywhere he wants too! He is also trying to pull himself up on everything and still wants to eat everything big people eat. He just went to the doctor and is in the 60 something percentile for height and is on a 9 month old baby level with mental development; however, his weight plummeted down to the 9th percentile because come to find out... my milk is drying up and he is basically starving :( So we're pretty much done with breastfeeding; this makes me sad, but I also know that it's better for Aaron at this point, and once again I don't have to make the decision on when to be done. Like his brother, Aaron will be done feeding without it being my call, so that's fine. 

Bath time in the sink because we don't have a tub

A NOT so happy day

A very happy day

First time sitting up in the grocery
cart and not sitting in the
carseat

And puking some more, of course.

 And that brings up to yesterday. I asked Maddix, "buddy, how would it sound to go with me to the grocery store and then after, we could rent Turbo and snuggle under some blankets and eat some popcorn?" His face lit up and he JUMPED into my arms, "Oh that sounds like the BEST idea ever!" He was sold. And we didn't get to cuddle long before I had to make dinner, but we had a good time, me and my boys. 

And today, today was once again a farewell to another loved one. Goodbye for two years Elder Garett! To say goodbye we went to lunch at Brick Oven (apparently it's the place to go if you're a leaving Elder). Aaron was a little less than pleasant at the beginning and then got nice as it went on. Then as Maddix went to say goodbye to Garett he got wapped in the eye REALLY hard with a chair, and then vomited in the parking lot on our way out; overall it was a successful farewell and I even managed not to cry:) 

"Guess what Garett? ... NOTHING"
Maddix said his last one of those
to his Uncle Garett for awhile. 

Just after puking