The Tooth Fairy Doesn't Visit Here!

Look who has a wiggly tooth!

 

 

So wiggly in fact that Daddy tried to get it out.

 

 

But...it just wasn't ready yet.

 

 

It was really, really loose though. So loose that on Friday December 14th Daddy was able to get it out.

 

 

It's so cute to see the gap in his teeth. The funny thing is there isn't another tooth growing in yet so I'm not sure why it was wiggly in the first place. It also seems young to lose a tooth at 5 years old. I didn't lose my first tooth until I was 7.

 

 

As for the title of this post...Michael's family didn't do the whole tooth fairy thing they put the tooth in water and it "grew" money for a week. Once the week is over the tooth "disappears" and it's all done "growing" money. It's fun for the kids...they love coming down in the morning and seeing how much money it grew overnight.

After a week Owen's tooth had grown $4.17!!

 

Owen's other bottom tooth is already wiggly so I'm sure he'll be "growing" more money within a month or so!

7 Months Old!!!

My Zeke Man is 7 months old today! Seriously...what is going on!!! How can that possibly be???

 

So what is Zeke Russell up to...

 

- He is eating like a pro. He eats 3 meals a day and will eat almost a whole jar of baby food at each meal. He knows what he likes and doesn't like though. He could eat peas at every. single. meal! He can not stand bananas. If he doesn't want to eat what I've made for him he will just lower his head, cry and not open his mouth until I get him what he wants. We are SO in trouble!!!

 

- He is nursing about 5 - 6 times a day. He gets distracted really easily so it can still take up to 20 minutes to feed him. Sometimes he thinks that sucking his thumb is more important that nursing and that gets a little annoying!

 

 

 - He has discovered his feet! I love this stage! He will just grab them and try to rip his socks off or bite them. It's so cute!

 

- He is FINALLY rolling over from his back to his belly. He still won't do it when he's in his crib though so one of us has to go in there and flip him over to his belly.

 

 

- He is teething like a mad man! All that acidic drool has made his poor face all red. I've tried putting cream on it to see if it will get better, but nothing really does. It's hard when he's drooling all day and then when he sleeps he drools and his face lays in it.

 

- He is the only one of our kids to still have a concave chest like Michael. Ella had it when she was first born, but it slowly faded. The Dr thinks Zeke's is here to stay.

 

 

- He is starting to babble a lot. He makes squeaky noises and fake laughs and then sometimes I swear he's telling off his toys. The other night he was babbling and he was saying "Da da da da da"...we've also heard him say what sounds like "Ella" before. I love hearing his little voice.

 

 

- He is really starting to get into toys. By far his favorite toy right now is one of those infant Tylenol containers with the dropper. He loves to chew on the part you squeeze for the dropper.

 

- He is a good sleeper. He goes to bed around 8 and then is usually up around 6:45. Before daylight savings time ended he was sleep from 8 until 7:30 though. He still takes two naps a day. His morning nap is from 9 - 11 or 11:30 and his afternoon nap varies, but on a good day he'll sleep from 1:30 - 4.

 

 

I can't believe he's been in our arms for 7 months now. It's crazy how time flies! I love this little boy to bits and I can't wait to see him grow and develop even more!

Books, Books...Wonderful Books!

 

We love books over here at the Martin residences...Berenstain Bears are our favorite! What books do your kids like??? What are your favorite books for early readers?

Twins...4 Years Apart!

I know I've talked about how Jack loves Zeke before, but he really LOVES Zeke! It's so cute. He's always wanting to snuggle him and he says things like, "Oh my baby bubby...I need a snuggle!" He's so mushy and lovey with him it's adorable!

 

 

 Most everyone that knows our kids in real life have said that Zeke looks like Jack. I agree! In fact we have a book for Jack that has baby pictures of him in it and if I didn't know that the pictures were of Jack I would seriously think they were pictures of Zeke.

 

 

Jack - October 2008

 

Zeke - October 2012

 

I wish I had a more similar picture of Zeke, but for some reason I can't find my all my Halloween pictures. I just recently got a new laptop and I'm still working through the kinks of moving everything over from my old one. The point is it's fun to see the similarities!

Family Christmas Craft Day!

Since I've been putting the blog on the back burner I'm going to be catching up over the next few days. Here goes...

 

On Saturday December 1st we took the kids to our churches family craft day.

 

 

 

First thing on the agenda was making candy houses. Jack and I did this last year and Owen and Ella stayed at home with Daddy. This time all 3 of the older kids got in on the action.

 

 

Well...Daddy worked on Ella's house while she worked on eating handfuls of frosting!

 

 

Owen focusing on decorating his house!

 

 

 

Zeke Man got to hang out with Isaac (Our friends the Meyer's oldest son)...he has 4 younger brothers so he's great with kids. Doesn't Zeke look cute in his reindeer outfit!  

 

 

Towards the end Owen realized that he was going to be able to eat the candy when we took the houses home so he just loaded up the front yard...he's a genius!!!

 

 

Here is Michael's...I mean Ella's masterpiece!

 

 

After doing a few more crafts we had a potluck with the other families. I brought these cute Christmas tree sandwiches.

 

 

Zeke sat in his Bumbo and ate some peas.

 

 

When we got home the kids got to eat their masterpieces!!

 

 

Ella is being all dainty by picking each piece off, but once the candy was gone she literally licked the frosting off!

 

 

Jack just dove right in!!!

Another First!

With each of our kids I have preferred to bathe them in different ways. With Owen it was mainly the baby bathtub. Jack I loved the sink and with Ella I would bathe her in the tub with me. As for Zeke I love taking showers with him. We have a shower head you can pull down and I just pull it down and I lay him on the floor of the shower and he kicks and grabs for the water...he loves it. On Thursday morning Zeke needed a bath, but I didn't want to get in the shower with him since I had 4 other kids to look after. So into the sink he went!

 

 

Cute big boy...hanging on!  

 

 

The bubbles started to pop so Mama helped him be modest!

 

 

It was hard work trying to balance and sit up!

 

 

This cute boy could chew on things all day long. 

 

 

Baby burrito all clean!

First Christmas Craft!

On Thursday I got out a Christmas Craft to do with the kids. One of my fellow MOPS Mom gave me this ornament kit. Thanks Jessica!!!

 

 

Instead of making ornaments I just decided we would glue the trees to paper. The rest of the pieces were like stickers. Of course I still helped them a little with the placement of things.  

 

 

Jack of course picked green paper!

 

 

Logan kept trying to eat the foam pieces and she was licking the glue...this girl things everything is food!

 

 

 

Owen did his all by himself...it's a bit abstract. You can see his main tree and then he want a separate bush as well.

 

 

Beautiful masterpiece!

 

 

Our art gallery!

It's High Time For The Highchair!

Last week pulled out the highchair for Zeke. We have just been using the Bumbo and sitting it on the table, but that makes the table really crowded.

 

 

Zeke looks so small sitting in his chair.

 

 

When he's not eating he loves to chew on his spoons!

 

 

When he is eating it's messy...he loves to grab for his spoon. He is also the pickiest eater so far. It's hilarious the child hates and I do mean hates...bananas! That's just crazy to me. In fact he really isn't fond of any fruits. If he could eat carrots and peas for every meal he's be super happy! As for the highchair he wasn't really fond of it the next day...I think he doesn't like the feeling of not being snug. So....

 

 

I improvised! It's the Bumbo Chair. We don't follow safety guidelines here!

 

 

Living on the wild side!!!

Sledding!

Last Sunday we headed up to Snoqualmie so we could have family Christmas pictures taken. It was a beautiful day! My friend Starr was taking our pictures and I knew she was bringing a couple props, but I thought I'd bring a couple too. One of them was this little red sled. The boys wanted to go sledding so bad so once pictures were over Daddy took them up the hill to go sledding.

 

 

 It totally cracked me up that they were able to sled with my decoration!

 

 

It was the perfect size for them too.

 

If they had proper snow gear I'm sure they could have done this all day long!

 

 

It was super cold and their hands were freezing! I think they played out there for about 15 minutes.

 

 

I on the other hand took pictures and then got into the nice warm van with the seat heaters on!!! As for the pictures we had taken...they turned out fabulous of course! We are sending them out as Christmas cards so I won't be posting them here until after Christmas.

Pretty Princesses!

These girls are all about princesses! Thankfully I found Ella's Cinderella dress at MOPS Care & Share. Now we have two princess dresses to play dress up with.

 

 

Such pretty girls!!!

 

 

And what exactly do princesses do might you ask??

 

 

Twirl round and round of course!!!