Funny 4 Year Olds (ongoing post)

Oh goodness... I think I just need to keep a running blog post of the funny things they say and come up with lately.

Seren was shirtless with her favorite necklace on a week or so ago.  She looked like Jim Morrison in the iconic picture and Jeff and I were talking about it.  She heard and understood that we thought she looked like him and quickly said, "I'm not a boy!  I don't have a penis."

We recorded the girls while telling them we were going to fly to visit my parents in Florida.  Kendall's first question was, "But how will we fly...we don't have any pixie dust?"  (they were pretty big in Jake and The Neverland Pirates at the time)  - April 2015

Talking about school in the car.  Kendall says that Kindergarten starts similar to her name and talks about the K and the "Ken" sound starting them both.  "It's like 'Kendall-garten."  She laughs.  Not to be outdone Seren says "What if they called it Seren-garten?"  I had a laugh at that one.  They are excited for school even though it's two years away.  - July 2015

After going to Wendy's for lunch, Seren says, "They work really hard to make yummy nuggets. They are better than you make."  I laugh, "Yep they are pretty good."  Kendall says something to stick up for my cooking so Seren says, "You make lots of other good things though.  I'm soooooo proud of you."  - July 2015

Grocery shopping with the girls.  Kendall spots a Green Giant can of green beans.  "Oh no.  Mom look it's the hulk."  I have a good laugh, "No that's the Jolly Green Giant"... she laughs back like I'm the crazy one, "No.  That's the hulk"  It took a few minutes to convince them both at this point.  "Why would they put a giant on their food?"  Gee I don't know why would they put the Incredible Hulk on it (I didn't say this of course). - Aug 25, 2015

While running errands the cashier asked Kendall where she got her red hair from since it obviously wasn't from mom.  I told him that Daddy had some red hair in his family.  So the cashier asked if she got her red hair from Dad and she laughed.  "No!  I growed it myself."  Too cute and literal.  - Aug 27, 2015

...more to come I'm sure

8 Month Update

Weight / Length:  17 lbs 12 oz and 28 inches.  I'm assuming close to the same since this was only 2 weeks ago.

Eating:  We are still breastfeeding (yeah!).  He can feed himself finger foods a little bit and he likes too.  He also fusses to taste what you are eating, even if you have something prepared for him specifically.  He does get more bits of table food and hopefully this isn't a bad thing.  I know we aren't the best (but hopefully not the worst) eaters in the world.

Milestones/Development:   He is pretty quick at army crawling and crawls all over the house and follows his sisters around and anyone else.  He still gets mad/upset when mom leaves the room though.  He sits on his own really well and I think only falls over intentionally.  He likes to stand and bounce on his legs.  He isn't able to pull up yet but is beginning to learn to hold onto couches and legs to stay standing.  Not very well yet but learning.  He is understanding more on tone and response.  He will blow raspberries with a mouth full of food and when I say "No, Nolan don't do that" he usually smiles or laughs.  He gets upset if you use a hard tone or startle him.  

Physical Therapy/Torticollis:  We graduated!  May 22nd was out last appointment.  He is not showing regression while wearing his helmet.  We were given approval to stop doing stretches (we haven't really been consistent in a month anyway haha) and just continue with strengthening movements.  If he does regress we return to stretches and if it doesn't resolve withing 10 days or we're concerned then contact them.  

Sleep:  Helmet affected his sleep and now teething is affecting his sleep.  Just about the time he was adjusting to the helmet a tooth started coming up and sleep went down the drain again (waking up every two hours).  We tried orajel and preemptive advil to no avail.  Luckily he would just nurse for a short while for comfort and back to sleep he went.  He's improving again now that it popped through.  His helmet and the heat/sweating is causing eczema on his scalp.  I gave in and slathered Aquafor through his hair last night and put his helmet over it.  Best sleep he's had in a couple months (only woke up once).

Fun Memories (Outings/Events):  We've done parks and sprinklers since being home from Florida but nothing exciting.  He likes watching the girls at the park but he gets frustrated on the blanket with me or even sometimes being carried around to watch.  You can just tell he's going to be racing to join them soon and raring to go.

Challenges:  Teething and his helmet.  Hopefully we will be clearing these very soon.

Likes/Dislikes:  He likes to feed himself when he can grab it and fusses when you do it for him.  He likes to be on the floor but also fusses to be picked up rather quickly at times.  He likes to be in the middle of the action and get on his sister's nerves a bit.  They love him but get frustrated when he wants to do puzzles or blocks with them.

Looking Forward to:  Being done with his helmet.  It wasn't so bad before but now with the sweating and skin issues on his scalp it isn't much fun anymore.  It is helping his head shape quite a bit though and looking forward to the follow up next Thursday (11th) to see how much he's improved and maybe a hopeful timeline of what's remaining.