Monday, March 28, 2011

Pants?

Well Ben saw a little girl at his school take off her pants the other day and thought it was so funny that he has decided to de-pants himself every day this week.  It started with him pulling them to his ankles and waddling around the house giggling and now is at the point that pants just don't stay on him...even at night.  Thanks to the video monitor we are able to observe this bizarre behavior.  His new nighttime routine once we put him in his crib is to organize and pile all the stuff in his crib (blankets, pillow, woobies and his jayhawk stuffed animals/football).  He carefully places them one at a time to one side of his bed and then pounces on his pile of stuff with his butt in the air.  The de-pantsing comes either before or after this ritual and then they get tossed from his crib so there is no chance of him putting them back on.  Here's a pic from his naptime yesterday - and he is so proud of this as you can see.


He is also attempting to use the big boy potty.  He actually went in it once yesterday!!  Although he won't sit on the potty yet I'm hopeful he will soon since he was so proud of his feat yesterday.

As for Ashley - she is still doing great!  She only cries if you take too long to change her or if she's really hungry although normally I feed her before it gets to that point.  She's still eating every 3-4 hours but goes straight to sleep after the nighttime feedings which is awesome!  Here's a few pics.

With cousins Caroline and Riley last weekend

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Ashley is all festive to celebrate her first St. Patty's Day which was her original due date.  Big thanks to the Benson's for this super cute outfit!!


Looks like she's already practicing her phone talking like her big brother!  Happy first week to my sweet baby girl also!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ashley Marie

Our newest addition arrived on Thursday March 10, 2011, at 10:10 am.  She weighed in at 6 lbs 0.7 oz and was 18.75" long.  Her and I are both doing well and so far she has been a joy to have around.  Her demeanor is much different from that of Ben's and so far they seem like polar opposites.  We'll see once she grows a little more and her personality starts to show, but hopefully they will be good playmates for each other.  Ben could really use one!  And now for some pics...

Ashley Marie
Mom and Ashley

Dad and Ashley

Heading home from the hospital!!
Ben and Ashley
Ben and Dad admiring Ashley
Ashley

And it's been a while since I've posted so to get you up to speed Ben is talking much more.  He's finally started grouping two words together.  He's been great with Ashley and keeps calling her sissy and 'ashy'.  He can't seem to get the 'L' in her name but he understands there's a baby around now and is occupying more of daddy's time with his normal routine of going up and down stairs and shooting basketball which is his favorite hobby right now.  I think Brian was just getting him geared up for this weekend and tourney time.  The only things he will watch on TV is 'his show' (gabba) and 'shoot' (basketball).  I even found myself a couple weeks back turning on a rerun of a basketball game when Brian was gone just so he could watch 'shoot' since there weren't any games on at the time!


Helping Dad with his puzzle (with some pieces in his hair)

More pics and post to come soon - I promise.