Emery and Ella's Four Year Old Well Child

Yesterday Emery and Ella went to their 4 year well child exam. Both girls are doing well and there is really nothing to report. Both of them, and Ruger, received their shots. I'm so glad the girls are done for the next seven years!! Phew, getting all three kids done at once, by myself, was not the easiest. :) Here are their stats:

Emery:
Weight: 36 pounds          58%tile
Length: 38.5 inches         22 %tile

Ella:
Weight: 43 pounds          91%tile
Length: 40.8 inches         71%tile

Thankful Tree

This was our second year of doing a thankful tree. Sadly, we don't have a picture of it...and some of the leaves have been lost or destroyed since I've waited so long to blog about them. So, this isn't a complete record of our tree this year.                
Isabelle:
for earning money
for trick or treating
for slushes to drink
for Ruger (twice)
for friends to play with at school
for my name plate (that she got at school)
for reverence
for saying please in our prayers
for turkey at Thanksgiving
for my toys Santa will bring
for Aunt Christy eating at our house
for Chicken Donalds (Mc Donalds)
for Abby
for riding on the bus

Ella:
for eggs
for my sister to play with
for our stuff in our house
for trick or treating
for chances to go to Isabelle's school
for the thankful tree
for snow
for Halloween decorations
for chicken and dinner
for our house
for Ruger (twice)
for going to Grandma's house
for my sisters
for Grammie's birthday cake
                               

Emery:
for Grandma
for my sister Isabelle
for Grammie
for Legos to play with
for our thankful tree project
for ghost projects (we did one during Halloween time)
for going camping
for Wendys
for Halloween decorations
for having fun
for trees
for candy
for Grandma's house
for projects
for Isabelle

I feel like last year the girls had a better time seeing beyond what was in our living room and coming up with things than they did this year. Overall though, we were really happy to finish this project again and look forward to completing it in 2015.                                

Ruger at 9 Months

I think December just flew by in the blink of an eye. I guess staying crazy busy does that to time. Our little man is growing up way too fast!

• Ruger loves to crawl around and explore the house and everything in it.
• He can open dresser drawers.
• He loves to pull clothes out of the drawers and books off of the shelves.
• He can use his pointer finger and thumb to pick up anything now. Most of the time it goes right in his mouth.
• He loves food. Especially non baby food. Rice meals are his current favorite.
• I absolutely cannot be on the computer while he's awake. He has to be able to sit in my lap and get at whatever he wants.
• He makes the cutest "yum" noises while eating.
• He rarely sings himself to sleep. I'm really going to miss that.
• He takes two 20-30 minute naps a day. Rarely are they any longer. If his first nap is any longer, then he won't take a second nap. If his second nap is long then he goes to be way later than his normal 8 o'clock bed time. His lack of sleep during the day is rough.
• At night, he still wakes up about four times. Sometimes he will only sleep for 90 minutes before he's up and wants to eat again. He really just wants to eat and use me as a pacifier all night. It is completely normal for him to get up twice before we even go to bed. 
• He still sleeps in our room. He seems to have a sixth sense and can tell when we or I come in to go to bed. I can be silent and he still wakes up within five minutes of me being back there. 
• He doesn't sleep through much at all. Our house is loud and he's way sensitive to any light when asleep. It is definitely a contributing factor to his lack of sleep during the day.
• He likes to pull up on anything and everything. 
• He's started to cruise along furniture. Not much but some. 
• He still very much loves his parents. He's pretty convinced he's the most important person in Curt's life. He wants Curt to come straight to him as soon as he walks in the door after work. If he doesn't, Ruger gets very jealous and starts crying.
•  At 9.5 months, his stats were 20 pounds 6 ounces (57 percentile) and 29.75 inches (89 percentile).