Beau's Four Month Check-Up

It was more like 4 1/2 months before we had Beau's check-up, but everything was great.  He weighed 19 lbs 5 oz and was 27" long.  That put him off the charts in both height and weight.  Just for comparison sake, Sawyer was 19 lbs and 26.5" long at his four month check up.  We have some big boys.

St. Patty's Day

Clint was in Chicago up until St. Patty's Day (he did get to see the green river and hang out at an Irish Pub) so when he got home we cooked him a nice Irish meal for lunch.  We made a leprechaun house and picked flowers for the centerpiece.

The IRA invaded the leprechaun house.

Whats Up February?

We survived the worst month of the year.  Fortunately it went by pretty quickly after the mega snow storms.  Sawyer is still obsessed with books.  He will even sit there and listen to books without pictures.  So there was a lot of this in February:

Clint is reading the boys our 2010 blog book.

Like always we try to stay active.  Sawyer and Clint love to take bike rides when Clint gets home from work.  One particularly nice day they rode to a park 7 miles away and back.  

Our cousin Shepherd came to stay for a few days and we made a few trips to hang out in Arkansas.  I am so blessed to have my mom and sisters as my best friends and my boys are so blessed to have cousins their same age.

Check out the lip on Shepherd.  He is sooo cute.

Beau - Four Months

Beau turned four months old on March 10th.  Beau had a great fourth month of life (Feb 10 - March 10  -- I am little behind).  He started rolling over on Feb 10th and started giving big belly laughs the same week.  The rolling over thing has made tummy time pretty much non-existent because he just rolls over.  He has turned into the most fun animated little critter I have ever seen.  He loves loves loves faces and is very upset if he can't see a face.  He isn't the best napper, but sleeps 13 hours at night.  He also loves his exersaucer.  He can turn the thing around and play with all his toys.  Beau doesn't hold on to toys very well, but is starting to bat at things.

But let me get personal.  This guy has gas.  Bad gas.  It is amazing.  He is pretty happy though so I am not concerned.  We can not get enough of this smiley happy pudgy baby.

He loves to sit here and chew on this toy. 

Valentine's Weekend 2011

It took Clint and me a while to come to terms with the fact that we would have to be content with a "less romantic" valentine's day (fortunately we were reaffirmed because our Pastor spoke about something similar at church on Valentine's).  But once we embraced our own special Valentine's weekend we had a great time.  We first traveled to Stillwater.  Clint's mother made a wonderful meal for us to enjoy, and the highlight of the weekend was Sawyer finally got to meet Pistol Pete at an OSU wrestling match.  He was in awe of Pete and talked for days about how he got a high-five from the big orange cowboy.

I have gotten pretty good at juggling two kiddos.

On Sunday we took a family picnic and splurged for fried chicken.  It is Clint's ultimate guilty pleasure.  We had a nice picnic at the park even though there was snow on the ground.  The fried chicken was better than the heart shaped pizza we got from Papa John's one year for Valentine's Day.  That was a disgustingly huge disappointment.