4 years old!!

My little man, my first born, my Bubba, my little miracle monkey Marcus is 4 years old!! I can't believe he is 4!!

He is so much fun. He has a loud personality. He is that kid you don't forget. He's sweet and kind and sensitive. He has a love of trains, cars, books, outdoors, the beach and fishing. Just to name a few.

He is speaking more and more every day. His speech is still slow. Strangers can't understand him and we can understand him about 65% of the time. Its really hard on everyone. He gets so frustrated because we don't understand and we get frustrated at him when he's throwing a fit because he can't communicate. He is getting better. But its something we are working on daily. He gets seen 3 times a week for speech, once a week for feeding and once a week for OT. Hopefully soon he won't need as many therapies.

He is one BIG boy. He weighs over 43lbs and 40in tall and he has one huge head.

He goes to preschool mon-fri 8-12. He loves school so much and it has helped him so much with his speech and with his social skills. IE learning how to share. Lol.

For his birthday we tried to make it very special for him. So sat the 2nd we took him bowling, to monkey joes, sweet frog, fun fun fun and then red robin for dinner. He was so tired he fell asleep at dinner. Haha. Then Sunday the 3rd (his bday) he woke up to a house filled with 150+ balloons and a new family member Spidey the Beta fish. He had such a blast playing in the balloons. Then we took him to his favorite place for breakfast, krispy kremes. He was in heaven. Then we went to Barnes and noble for him to play with the trains and pick out some books. Then we headed to my moms for the day. We had a blast. I'm 99% sure he thought he was all that and a bag of chips. Lol.

I am so proud of the little man he is becoming and so proud to call him mine :)

18 months old!!

I can't believe my little baby is a year and a half old! Where does time go?? By way to fast is the answer to that.

This is my favorite stage. With having an older child I know what's to come. The awesome terrible twos. So I am soaking up this awesome age and this awesome little person.

Ten is a joy to be around. I would rather be with her then without her. She is still the vest shopping buddy ever. She loves going bye bye with her mama. She is such a ham and finds everything so funny.

She has learned so much this month. She can count to 5!!! I don't think she understands what she's saying she just repeats everything Marcus says. She can hum the toon of the ABC and sometimes she says the letters. She is talking so much. Like starting sentences. Her favorite sentences are i want Bubba. Go nigh nigh. More milk please. And my personal favorite is I love you :)

She learned some body parts this month. She can tell you where her nose, hair, mouth, eye, arm, leg, and ears are.

She also LOVES books. They are with her 24-7. She carries them with her everywhere she goes. She asks for us to read to her a million times a day. She hates the TV and would rather look at a book then watch TV.

She also is obsessed with coffee!! If you take it away from her you will get such a mean face from her. She even likes it black!!

She has her appt at duke next month for her GI issues and I am so excited she finally gets to be taken seriously.

Her stats are 22.3 lbs and 30 in tall. She is 20% for weight and 25% for height. Still my itty bitty baby. She wears 12 months and some 18 months but most are too big. She can wear 18 month PJs. She still has what's considered infant feet cause they are so tiny. She wears a 3.

She is such a joy and lights up our lives. We love her so much and can't wait to see how much more she grows and develops in the next couple months.

Busy busy busy

Life has been so crazy busy lately. Between me getting sick, Tenley getting sick, updating our kitchen, trying to figure out weather or not Chris is staying in the military, having family here, thus month has been CRAZY!! I have had some time to lose weight 8lbs in 3 weeks. Woot! So I'm excited about that. We have had a ton of fun too.

And here are some pictures of our life over the past month :)

Christmas Day

I have never had a more spectacular Christmas day. I couldn't sleep at all so I woke the hubs up at 6am and we waited for Marcus to wake up (he's our early riser). He did not disappoint. He was up by 630. We had to go get Teny cause we didn't want Marcus to see anything without her. So we went and woke her up and lets just say this girl does NOT like 6am. She cried and cried and cried and then she saw the play kitchen and girlfriend went from screaming to laughing and playing in seconds. It was awesome. We actually sat on the couch drinking coffee and watching them play for the longest time.

We finally decided that while they played we would open our stockings and presents.

Then the kids did their stockings and presents.

 

Afterwards we just played and played and then realized we needed to get dressed and head over to Chris' family for Christmas breakfast.

We had a blast over their and ate really yummy food.

After that we headed to my moms house and put the babies down for naps.

Once the babies woke up they had Christmas all over again. They are seriously spoiled. Chris and I decided there was no need for us to buy them ANYTHING! haha.

Then we had a wonderful dinner made by my mama and husband =)

Afterwards Chris and Marcus went home and Teny and I stayed and watched Pitch Perfect. (BTW it was an AWESOME MOVIE!!!)

We had an amazing Christmas. I loved watching my babies have such a good time, I loved hanging out with all of our families. I loved just being happy and sharing memories with everyone that will last a lifetime.

2013

I never really do new years resolutions or any type of goals just because the few times I've tried I've forgotten what they were by February.

I mean I've always had the I'm going to lose weight goal but that's never really stuck either.

But this year there are some things I would like to do, some things I would like to change in my life.

Number 1- I want us to eat dinner as a family at least 4-5 tines a week.

We have this bad habit of eating once the kids are in bed or eating in the living room watching TV. I really want family dinners and I feel like if we don't start now we will never start.

Number 2- Spend more time as a family.

We are  always all going in different directions. Chris is at work, then I'm taking Marcus to this therapy or that therapy, then I'm at the gym. Our schedules never mesh well during the work week. So I really want to try to find more family time for the 4 of us. 

Number 3- Lose the last baby bit of baby weight.

I know I said that putting losing weight down is pointless. But regardless its something I really want to do. I really want to lose these last 25lbs and I want to do it before summer. I started my weight loss journey in August, kinda fell off the bandwagon in Nov and Dec but I fully intend to get right back on the horse and finish this journey. 

Number 4- Learn Patience.

I have NO patience none. But being a mom you have to have patience.  

So those are the 4 things that are high on my list of things I would like to change over the course of 2013.