Friday, September 25, 2015

Happy birthday, Mr. Augustus!

Augie is 1!!! He's over 23 pounds and at least 30 inches (he has his official check up next week). He has platinum blonde hair and amazingly blue eyes. He's delightfully chubby. He has 8 teeth. He still has about 15 ounces of pumped milk a day. He's kinda of starting to drink some cow milk. He eats a TON of food. His favorite things are watermelon and blueberries but he'll eat almost anything. He takes one nap a day for around 1.5-2.5 hours. He goes to bed between 7 and 8 and gets up between 6 and 7 (and several times in between ha ha). He sleeps in a crib in the bedroom he shares with Ozzie. Sometimes he still uses his baby swing if he's having a really hard time chilling out for bed. He's walking! He still crawls some, too, but he's very deliberate in practicing his walking and he's improving every day. He started crawling at 9 months but didn't cruise until after he hit 11 months, so we weren't sure if he'd be walking by his birthday or not - but he was :) He's so funny because he was able to stand himself up without holding onto anything for a month or so before he even started cruising. He would do squats and work on his balance all the time! He doesn't speak yet but he signs "hello", "bye bye", "milk", "more", "all done", "eat", "drink", and "ball". He's starting to learn new ones almost daily! He has a great sense of humor and loooooves his big siblings and imitates them often. Taking baths is one of his favorite things. He loves being outside and is still perfectly content to ride in his stroller on walks. On his birthday, he had a cinnamon roll with a candle in it for breakfast! Then he hung out with his buddy Harper and Ozzie and his buddy Harrison. They went to the park and Augie got to do one of his favorite things - swing! He had a family birthday party with a football cake the next day. He got a giant stuffed giraffe, a talking stuffed dog, a train with tracks, a tool box, a dump truck and a suitcase. Plus $ for his savings account. What a lucky kid! He's such a joy to have around!!!

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Happy 8th birthday Lolli!

Lolli is 8! She has lost (and grown in) 8 teeth. Her hair is blonde but getting darker each year. She celebrated the day with donuts for breakfast and wearing a birthday girl ribbon to school. Lauren went and ate lunch with her and dropped off cookie cakes and juice pouches for her to share with her class. They said her name on the announcements and she got a couple birthday pencils! After school she chose steak and mashed potatoes for dinner - yum! Then she requested a trip to the apple orchard so they went to Tuttles where they picked apples and had slushies. Lolli even got hers for free! Then they watched Teen Beach Movie 2 and had cake (one of which Ozzie DROPPED on the GROUND! - but that's another story ha ha). She had a great birthday! Her gifts included that movie, a Kids Bop CD, some earrings, an iTunes gift card, a spirograph, a battery-operated fish, a microscope, Shopkins stuff, etc.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Lolli P, soccer extraordinaire!

Lolli is playing her 2nd season of soccer at NP United this fall. She's once again being coached by the world's greatest - her dad :) Her team is the U8 Dolphins. None of the girls on her team go to her school but she's made some friends. They split the team up on game day between a non-aggressive game and an aggressive game. Lolli has been doing great at playing the first half on the non-aggressive side and the 2nd half on the aggressive side. She's scored several goals and is really getting good at playing sweeper!