Nakee Time

Henry at 4 months

James at 4 months (wearing the get-up aunt Sarah got him in Hawaii)

Diaper party!

Ahhh...summer vacation is finally here! Actually, I feel like a slacker since I only worked a total of 12 days after coming off a three month maternity leave. I definitely timed the birth of Henry right. Our little guy is changing and growing so much! Today I spent some time packing away all of the NB-3 month clothing and pulled out all the 6 month clothing. Henry is so much bigger than James was at this age so we are moving through clothes quickly. I've definitely gotten into a nice groove with the kids. Sometimes I feel like I could be a stay at home mom, but I'm probably going to be okay with a change of pace this August. Right now our day is really predictable. I wake up with Henry first around 7:00 a.m. He goes back down for his morning nap exactly one hour after waking, and that's when James wakes up. We have time to play outside, clean up for the day and hang out, and then Henry wakes up again. We've been going to the park a lot or taking little trips to downtown Kirkwood to hit up the farmer's market, library and train station, and then we head home for lunch and afternoon naps. Henry goes down from 1-4:30 and James' nap is from 2-5:00. So during that window I get some pretty good pool time in! I never thought I would be able to get them both napping at the same time!


Here are some Henry updates:
- teething and drooling like crazy
- 2 naps per day (2.5 hours in the morning, 3.5 in the afternoon)
- Goes to bed at 8:00 p.m. and sleeps until 6:00 a.m., I feed him and he goes back to sleep for another hour!
- Has consistently slept through the night now for a week...knock on wood!
- Still breastfeeding
- Able to roll from belly to back
- Smiles all the time and has recently started laughing!
- Wearing 6 month clothing
- Loves watching everything James does
- Can reach out and grab toys
- Has some flatness on the back of his head...hoping we don't need to see the helmet specialist like we did with James : (

And big boy James:
- A vocabulary explosion has erupted.
- Speaks in complete sentences and understands everything we tell him.
- Loves books and can easily predict words in the books by using rhyming clues or pictures.
- Still loves trains more than anything else.
- Sleeping great! 11-12 hours at night, 3 hour afternoon nap
- Still has NEVER attempted to get out of his big boy bed. We put him to bed with lots of trains and when he wakes up he will play quietly with them and when he's ready he'll call for me and say he wants to get up.
- We still struggle with him eating, but with threats and lots of encouragement he eats most meals.
- Can easily navigate the iPad. When I need a shower I will just give James the iPad and he will cue up a movie on Netflix all by himself!!!!
- He has gotten a lot taller in the last few months, but still is pretty small next to his peers.
- Excellent memory! He and daddy play the memory game all the time and he is really good at it.
- Just a sweet, easy going kid! I got really lucky with this one. We rarely have to raise our voices at James. He does mostly everything we ask him to do and says please and thank you.
- He is extremely shy at first with other kids and adults. His thing now is to become a train when he meets new people. It comes off really weird when he does it. He'll close his eyes and make a gutteral train sound that makes him appear more mentally challenged than anything.