Happy Fall

Last 2 fall pictures attempts. None of these pictures have been edited. If only there were a few more hours in the day... never mind if there was they would just be taken up by a little girl ;)

at Meemaw & Papas:

Playing with Papa's tractor

They enjoyed their ride to the car.

Tried to take some pictures with Meemaw & Papa, best I could get.

Going for a ride in the cart.

Keldan had picked up a big pumpkin and put it in the cart, he then did this and yelled I strong.

At Gramps and Grammie, helped with the leaves:

Where's Mikaela :) She was definitely toasty!

Boy have I been slacking! and its definitely not from the lack of pictures :) Just been a bit of a rough month and not much time for blogging. Going to try get caught up with them. Some pictures of whats been going on (the pictures go from newest ones takin to older ones).

How cute is she in that hat?!

The oats container was his camera and he was taking pictures of Minnie...wonder where he gets that from ;)

Keldan pushing Lucas around in the container. Keldan was in it and Lucas pushin it, but they were not moving too good ;)

Mama and her boys :) I love them beyond words!

Building a tower, he's getting so good at this. Has some dimension to them, not just straight ones.

wearing Daddy's hat and shoes, he loves to do this.

The boys love to sit in her Mikaela's seat. Too silly.

Some (maybe too much) brotherly love ;)

Mikaela smiling at Lucas, she loves her brothers. She's been talking and smiling to them and they think it's the greatest!

Thought this was kind of cute of Keldan and Gramps

Cousins Jason & April holding Mikaela for the first time.

Love this picture of Gramps (great gpa) and Mikaela.

At Cousin Allie's house, they were throwing these (paper circles) up in the air yelling happy birthday. They are too funny!

Lunch date with Meemaw at Chips (aka El San Jose). Our favorite place to eat.

Keldan thought he needed to look at a menu to decide what he wanted to eat. He looks a little then says cheese :) Such a stinker. That's usually all he eats there, cheese and chips.

2 Months!

Mikaela turned 2 months on Sunday. Here's her update (mainly for my reference):

*10.9lbs (50 percentile)

*23 in long (75 percentile)

*Size 1 diapers

*Size 0-3 month, 3 month, and some 3-6 month clothes

*Rolling belly to back. Usually her tummy time consists of 2 seconds on belly and then she rolls over. Still not a fan of tummy time.

*Tries to roll belly to back but can't quite get her arm out of the way yet.

*Holding her head very well. Loves to sit in the bumbo seat already and watch her brothers play or the dogs.

*She just loves to take in everything around her. Very nosey little girl :)

*Cooing and smiling away! Every morning I get greeted by the biggest grin, perfect way to start the day! Melts my heart, every time I talk to her she just smiles.

*Tries to grab toys, can hold onto them if you put them in her hand.

*Sleeping is still not her best friend. Only have about 1 good night a week, and by good I mean goes about 3 or so hours with out fussing. Its usually 45 min at the longest and I have to soothe her again. I have begun letting her cry some, she is VERY colicky so sometimes calming down is not an option so the crying helps tire her out and then she can sleep. She's had a rough first 2 months, but starting to see some light!

*Changed from Zantac to Prevacid for reflux and scheduled a swallowing study. Test was done at Akron Childrens Hospital last week. They watched the way she eats. God is just so amazing, just all the little details that our body does to get through the day is unbelievable! They gave us a paper that explained what was going on, I won't go into all the details but she was having a couple episodes while eating where the formula was "going down the wrong tube". Wasn't enough where she was diagnosed with it, but enough that she was not going to rule it out. So we made a couple changes with her bottle (no more rice in them & back to slow flow nipples). Give that a couple weeks and see how she does. First couple days she was still choking, but since that has all gone away and no more projectile spitting up! Think the medicine was not helping because it just kept coming up and irritating it. Poor thing! She still spits up with each bottle, but just a small amount and not at all fussy with it. Still gets tummy aches, some evenings are worse than others (her worse time) but I feel she is a lot more comfortable now. Things seem a little more colicky now so I discussed it with her doctor and she felt like it was too. Shes growing and doing what she should be so it's not interrupting her learning/growing time at all. Her doctor also feels her sleeping will get better when her body realizes she is no longer in pain and doesn't need to wake up for it. Whenever I feel ready I can try weaning her off the meds and if no better just start them back up again.

*Just a perfect little angel (other than the colicky episodes). The boys are loving her coos and when she smiles at them. They love to share their toys with her and tell her what they are doing, so cute! I love how they are interacting with her already...sometimes gives me a few grey hairs when Lucas doesn't realize she's not his brother and you can't tackle her but I couldn't imagine life any different!

Enough about what shes doing, onto some beautiful pictures of her :)