Emma Girl is 4 Months Old

Our little (big) girl is 4 months old!!

We had her 4 month appointment last week and she's weighing in at a whopping 16lbs 11oz and 24 1/2" long which means 

she's short and chubby. 

Her rolls have rolls. 

Either she's already starting to sit up on her own or her belly is so big when it rests on her thighs it keeps her upright. 

She's also rolling from front to back and back to front.

And she's reaching for any toy to shove into her mouth hoping milk will come out of it.  

 She's still all smiles!  

I know I say this all the time but I couldn't be more serious.  During this little photo shoot I took 15 photos total and in 11 of them she's got a grin from ear to ear. 

She's also a little chatterbox.  She doesn't stop laughing and talking. She'll talk/screech to anything, mostly to Murphy though who looks at her wags his tail.  

He has no idea that in just a short couple of years she's going to dress him up in all her millions of bow that I'm hoarding and try to ride him around the house like a horse.

Poor Murph.

 She loves when you sing anything, even when Chris sings her the very popular children's tune "Twinkle-twinkle-3-blind-mice" song. 

Oh you've never heard of it...weird.

She's FINALLY sleeping longer then 1 1/2 at a time at night.  I started to put her to sleep on her belly and like a miracle she sleeps from 7:30pm until 2:30am (eats) then 

until 6:30am which I'll take.  

She's going to be my little wild child for sure though, I can see it already, we're in for it.   

We're still going strong breast feeding and it's working so well, she's growing fatter and fatter by the day. It wasn't an easy road to get here but we made it and it's awesome to be able to do this for her and myself.  

And in case you haven't noticed, still no hair. You're going to start seeing me wandering the streets with oversized hot pink polka dot bows in my hair soon. 

Happy Birthday to ME!

So I'm 32...I know I know, impossible I don't look a day past 25. But it's true. 

This year I wanted to celebrate with something that my whole family would enjoy. 

So we went to Muscoot Farms in Katonah to see all the different farm animals.

This turned out to be a very cool thing to do and since it was free it shoots to the top of my places to waste time list.  

 Doesn't this look like a painting with the clouds and the trees....it was a really beautiful day. 

 Our first stop was the Pig Pen and to our surprise there were 9 little piglets playing and squealing all over the place.  Jack was really enjoying it until the Mama pig made the "dinner squeal" and all the piggies came running for food.  It was such a cool thing to watch nature take control like that and since I'm still nursing Emma it was even that more fascinating .  Until I turned and looked at my horrified 2 year old.  Jack got so scared because all the piglets were making so much noise and they were all pushing a shoving that it did look more like an attack then a meal.  So we moved on. 

 "This is a Lion" 

according to Jack this very hairy goat was a Lion.  We tried to tell him that it was a goat but he kept pointing at it and telling us very matter-of-factly that 

"This is a Lion" 

So we agreed to disagree.

 Me and my babies. 

This is one of my favorites from the day.

 It's so cool to watch Jack grow up, now when we tell him to smile he gives us a big cheese grin.  Little things like that always amaze me and I can't quite explain why. 

 We spent some time in the garden until I looked around and realized we were surrounded by bees so we high tailed it out of there....the flowers were prettier from afar. 

 After we walked all around the farm and saw all the animals we took a break and enjoyed some ice cream.

  

I remember when I was little and I was handed an ice cream cone my face lit up like you just handed me keys to a brand new car.  

Thats what jacks face looked like when we let him pick out what ice cream he wanted.  

Then his face looked like this.....

Chris took us all out to dinner at one of our favorite places.

Birdsall House in Peekskill

We sat outside and enjoyed some really good food and both the kids were on their best behavior 

 This is Jack putting Sophie to bed and giving her a kiss good night. 

 This is Emma's "mad face" cause Jack took Sophie from her. 

And of course because one sugar filled treat for the day just wasn't enough, we had some birthday cake.  I wonder when Jacks going to learn that whenever we sing happy birthday it's not always his birthday.  

Oh well, at least he didn't spit on the cake trying to blow out the candle.

When I woke up that morning and Chris asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday I said

"I want a picture with my babies"

And that's exactly what he gave me......

AND AN IPAD (yayayayayayayayayayyaay)

My 3 1/2 month old is a CIA officer

Do you want to know why I know this....

Because she's practicing sleep deprivation techniques on me. 

I feel like I'm always trying to figure out why. 

Why does Jack always find the day old milk behind the couch and think it's a good idea to drink it,

 Why do kids think ceiling fans are funny,

Why won't my sweet daughter sleep?!?!

Some times in the middle of the night I'll hear low muahhhhhhh type laugh come from her crib and then the sleep deprivation training will start. 

  

This little ball of chubb rolls and happiness isn't going to put one past me...Oh no Missy

Your cover is blown sweet sweet girl...

Mama always knows the truth