Sarah is 6 months old!

Sarah is 6 months old!

25.75 inches long (45%)

16.2 lbs. (50%)

Landon at 6 mos.

January 8, 2011

27 inches long

18.2 lbs.

When you compare their stats, Landon is bigger than SK at the same point in their lives, but to me, Sarah feels so much bigger than Landon was for some reason.  Maybe its the cheeks :)

Sarah is eating lots of purred foods, loves water from a cup with NO lid or out of a spoon.  She sleeps through the night about 3 nights out of the week (same as Landon at this point), and is napping much better on her own during the day.

She is interacting with her environment and with us so much these days.  She pulls on and grabs onto everything in her reach and is beginning to put things in her mouth.

She loves rolling over to get where she wants to go.

Landon and Sarah playing with kitchen tools :)

Landon still loves pretend play.  He plays Ghostbusters, Ninjas, and Frozen often.  He loves building with Legos, building with other blocks, reading, and playing outside.  He also likes to help in the kitchen and laundry.  He loves to tell jokes, retell stories, dance, sing, and play with his friends.

Peeing and Pooping in the potty :)

Who ya gonna call?  

Growing up so fast!

Preparing for the Holidays

November 30, 2014

This girl can now roll from her back to her belly!  Now that she's accomplished this, she doesn't stop!

She rolled over the first time while Jared and I were struggling to get our very crocked Christmas Tree in the stand (P.S.  Never let the 4 year old pick out the tree).  I say this jokingly because it was well worth it to see his excited face when we chose the tree he deemed as "the best smelling ever!" 

Sarah is loving solid pureed foods these days.  She has tried sweet potatoes, apples, carrots, avocado, prunes, pumpkin, pears, and peaches.  Her lease favorite seems to be avocado and her favorites are apples and pears.   She is also drinking water from a spoon to wash all her yummy food down! 

Something we have begun to try and have had a lot of success with is putting Sarah on the potty when we know she is going to poo.  She forecasts her need to go very clearly so we are able to catch her more often than not.  Cloth diapering is going Extremely well and SK has never had a rash or any redness using cloth!  Jared was a skeptic at first, but he's mentioned often how happy he is we made the decision and I know I am! 

Ms. Snowflake returned to our house and Landon seems very excited about her adventures every night.  

Sarah and I attended my Woman's Club Christmas Dinner at the Roanoke Country Club.  We had such a great time!  We look forward to more holiday fun in the coming weeks!

After a FANTASTIC week at school, Landon got to sleep out under the Christmas Tree!

Sarah at her first Chritmas Parade

Landon at the Salem Christmas Tree Lighting 

Sarah meet Santa for the first time. 

Landon wants "the train Rokenbok for Christmas"

We had a great time at the Salem library, reading with Mrs. Claus, writing a letter to Santa, doing crafts and spending time with friends!

Guess who slept through the night for the first time on November 11???  This girl!  Sweet, sweet girl!  She slept terribly the next night, but then last night she slept through the night again!

She also likes to swing at the playground :)

 Lots of science experiments going on in our house these days!  Bending pencils

Dancing Raisins

Lava!!!

Every day is something new :)

Fall is here and with it brings beautiful, windy days, cooler temperatures and lots of fun in the leaves!

Sarah is getting better at sleeping on her own these days.  She takes tiny "Kat" naps throughout the day and I try very hard to make sure they are independent unless we are out and about and she falls asleep on one of us.

 We've been enjoying the Autumn festivities of walks to look at leaves, pumpkin carving and lots of pretend play with Landon

 I see the resemblance!

 Growing up!

 Halloween 2014

 November 1, 2014
Sarah Rolled over from front to back for the first time!  We captured it on video!

Landon sorting, organizing and then making a bar graph of his candy from 3 Trick or Treating adventures this year!

 Her smile and laugh are contagious!

October 4, 2014
 Sarah slept from 9-4AM last night and then nursed till 5 and fell back asleep in her crib till 7:45!  Yes!  We are on the right track for sure!

"Sarah, you're the poet in my heart.  Never change.  Never stop!"

Growing so fast...Ummm I'm not ready for this!

This guy is a WIZ at Legos!  He follows the instructions, makes modifications to improve the design and comes up with his own creations all by himself!  He calls himself the "master builder."  When creating structures from his imagination, he usually makes them symmetrical and typically builds some sort of vehicle that transforms into something else.

Guess who slept in her crib in her own room last night!  This big girl!  Cereal has helped her sleep longer stretches during the night :)  Yay for more sleep...boo to growing up soooooo fast!

First taste of "real food"

4 month check up:

24 inches long and 14.6 lbs!

The first attempt at cereal did not go so well, but after she was nursed and had a little nap we tried again and she LOVED it!  She finished the ENTIRE bowl!

This little guy is still loving preschool.  He comes home everyday singing a new song or asking to play the new games he's learned with us.  He's also adding, subtracting and even dividing these day

Me:  Landon can you please bring me 5 chips.

Landon:  Counts them out.  

Me about 5 minutes later:  Landon can you bring me 5 more chips?

Landon:  Mom!  You're eating 10 chips that's a lot of chips

Jared:  How did you know mom ate 10 chips?

Landon:  Because she had 5 before and now 5 more and 5 plus 5 is 10!

Over the weekend we met up with The Lauer's in DC.  The kidos had a blast together as usual and we had fun catching up with Pam and Eli.  We are looking forward to another great adventure next summer!

These posts are getting shorter and shorter because our sweet girl has such trouble sleeping on her own, so we're trying the cry it out method.  It's been working, but its been torture to hear her cry out for us.  She quiets down as soon as you pick her up and cuddle her.  Just breaks my heart, but its time for her to learn to self soothe, right?