Pregnancy Buddies

Many of you know that Me, Hayley and April J. have all been pregnant at the same time TWICE! (Were we crazy, probably yes!) Alexandra, Tyler and Lauren were all born within 2 months of each other. When I found out I was pregnant with Avery, I remember Hayley telling me "I could never do that myself." Then about a month later she found out she was pregnant! Then April got pregnant again. I wanted to get a picture of the 3 of us pregnant again, but it didn't happen this time. We did see each other that morning that Avery was born and I did have my camera but didn't do it. Oh well. Anyway, Avery was born in August, Andrew was born in November and Jackson was born in January. This time is we spread our 3 kids out over 4 months. It is fun being pregnant with friends because you can complain and compare together. Pictures of the Dads and the latest 3 babies.

Jeremy & Jackson, Tim & Avery, Matt & Andrew

Baby Avery is growing up too quickly

Avery is 5 months today!! Holy cow, my baby is growing up too quickly on me. I haven't even had the time to post her 4 month stats from her Dr. check-up. So I am going to do it now. She weighed in at 10 lbs. 7.6 oz. (3%). She was 23 1/4" long and her head was 15 1/2". She was/is still pretty small. But she is very strong. I love it when she smiles and just lets me cuddle with her. I also love her cooing and when she kicks her legs when she is happy.

This is a picture of Avery on Christmas Day (She is a few days shy of 4 months.) . I stole it from Steve & Jessica's blog. I Love it!!
These 2 pictures are at Disneyland last week. Love this little one!!

Alexandra ... our chatter box

This little girl talks a lot (at least more that the boys did at this age.) and copies everything we say. For example Miles was in the kitchen the other day being his normal annoying self and I hear him say "Whaa Whaa Whaaaaaaaa." (Whatever that means). Then Alexandra repeats him exactly "Whaa Whaa Whaaaaaaaa." Great!! But it was funny.

Here is a long list of words that she says. (Some she has been saying longer than others):
Mom
Dad or DAAAAAAAD
Sister
Avery
Caden
CUTE
Blanket (GeeGee now it is Gainhit)
Bottle
milk
bath
towel
socks
shoes
eyes
nose
teeth
hair
elbow
toes
eat
Ready, Go!
One, Two
Papa
Grandma
house
No
Cheese, Picture
ball
football
touchdown (can you tell who taught her that one? Daddy is so proud of her)
out
all gone
cry
hi
what
broke it
Minnie
Mouse
fish
kiss
apple
yellow
blue
whoa
eewwwww ... poop
"all through the town"
"ashes, ashes we all fall down"
and last but not least
SpongeBob!!

I am probably forgetting some, and there are some we still don't understand.
Talking on my cell phone to no one. But she can hold a good conversation with no one.

Miles 9th Birthday

For Miles' 9tbirthday Grandma & Grandpa Doll came over along with Aunt Kati, Cousin Spencer & Aunt Denise. Miles chose to eat Spaghetti for dinner. Grandma doll made these amazing birthday cupcakes (from scratch). There were carrot cake cup cakes and chocolate cupcakes with Reese's on the top (Miles' request). I really can't believe that Miles is 9!! (He makes me old!)

He thought we were mean parents that day because we made him go to school. I always had to go to school on my birthday, did you?

Disneyland 2009: Day 4

We spent the rainy morning at California Adventure. We really wanted to see the High School Musical 3 show, but it was canceled because of the rain. Bummer!

The new 4-D Toy Story ride is so much fun! Worth the 30 minute wait. (The longest we waited for any ride the whole time we were there.)

We had spent 4 days at Disneyland and hadn't taken many family pictures in front of all the "touristy" spots. So we did that before we headed back to the car, changed our clothes and drove back home.

How can you not think this little girl is just adorable?!?

Caden is pretty cute too!

It is fitting that Caden is holding a churro in this picture. The boys ate churros everyday!!

Disneyland 2009: Day 3

We are HAPPY to be at Disneyland!! We went on everything that we possibly could. We ate at Rancho del Zocalo for lunch where you can get free refills on your drinks. We watched the Fantasmic show that night. It was hard, at times, with Avery and Alexandra and wanting to go on the bigger rides. So we all just had to be patient and do everything we wanted but just at a slower pace.










The boys BOTH got to picked to be in the Jedi Training Academy Show. If you want to see their pictures click here: Caden & Miles

Disneyland 2009: Day 2

Day 2 was spent at California Adventure. Gotta love those letters!!





Alexandra wasn't feeling good that morning. The only thing that made her happy was letting her "talk" on my cell phone. She did this for a good 10 mintues.




We went and saw the Playhouse Disney Live show. Alexandra totally loved it. I bought her this baby Minnie right before the show started. She kept loving it and just giving it kisses. It was so sweet. I was hoping it would make her feel better.


Caden and Miles both went on California Screamin' for the first time. Caden's first time was in the very front! Caden ended up going on it 4 times. While Miles only went once.


We watched the Pixar Play parade that night. Caden and Alexandra were totally into it, dancing around. (Alexandra almost got run over by Mr. Incredible on his Segway, I pulled her back at the last second!)