tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13216796519065459902024-03-13T13:43:26.108-05:00The Clayton ColumnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.comBlogger628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-50476947635414204772018-01-05T21:02:00.000-06:002018-01-05T21:02:09.449-06:00December 2016We went to visit Santa on Nora's actual birthday. We stuck with our usual spot: Bass Pro Shops, and it didn't disappoint.<br />
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We kicked off our December with a bang - a few days after Nora's first birthday, we left for our first trip to Disney World. We took both grandmas with us to help out, and we had the BEST trip!! I made a whole separate book covering our trip, so I won't talk much about it here. We can't wait to go back!!<br />
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Jack had a 1st grade musical, which was so cute!<br />
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We made gingerbread houses one day and the Lang family Christmas tree cookies another day. I realized after the fact that I accidentally gave the boys gel food coloring instead of icing to decorate with. The result was VERY blue mouths. Whoops!!<br />
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Some other fun in December...<br />
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We also had a really great Christmas. Nora didn't quite get into opening presents, but she did love her new kitchen.<br />
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After Christmas we had some fun too...lots of Legos to assemble..<br />
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A play date with the Pressons at Sky Zone...<br />
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And we had a fun New Year's Eve with the neighbors at the Minchers' house.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-63259125005395682682018-01-05T20:57:00.000-06:002018-01-05T20:57:42.150-06:00Family Photos - 2016We got some one-year and family pictures taken near Nora's birthday. This was the same photographer who took her newborn photos and 6 month photos (Jill Shadden Photography), and we're happy with how they turned out.<br />
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My sister's family was in town, so first we tried to grab a cousin picture. Graham wasn't thrilled about having his photo taken. We're fairly certain the photographer photo shopped him in after the fact because he wasn't this subdued on the couch with all his cousins. :)<br />
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Nora was SO close to walking on her birthday. In the few weeks leading up to her birthday, she stared taking a few steps here and there, and started to get brave moving between furniture. We officially stopped nursing on November 29th, so we <i>almost </i>made it a full year (with formula supplements starting back in July). Our sweet girl can do sign language for "more," claps and can blow. She also has her own special way to "blow kisses" which we just can't get enough of.<br />
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At her one-year check-up, she was 31.5" tall (99th percentile), weighed 26 pounds, 1 ounce (99th percentile) with a 19.1 cm head (99th percentile). She had 5 teeth as of her birthday and her first molar broke through a few days later.<br />
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Here is a collage of Nora's 12 monthly photos. So crazy how much she has changed!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-81375915404656572432017-11-18T20:32:00.000-06:002017-11-18T20:32:23.476-06:00November 2016Grandma and I have an annual tradition with my friend Rebecca and her mom to see <a href="http://www.sncmusic.com/?frontpage=true" target="_blank">Straight No Chaser</a> in concert at the Fox Theatre. This year Rebecca's sister joined us, which was fun. We love this group!<br />
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Charlie had been in speech through the school district for the past year to help him with his pronunciation of certain sounds. He was pronouncing the /j/ sound like "d" and the /k/ sound like "t". This November he graduated from speech! He liked going but was also happy to graduate.</div>
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Grandpa Lang and I took the boys to see the Wild Kratts Live show. It was so fun!</div>
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Later that night, Nora had her first milkshake. It was a hit!<br />
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We had a cousin sleepover with Mia and Lily.<br />
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Nora got to attend her first Veteran's Day assembly at Jack's school. They honor Grandpa Clayton, among all the other Vets..</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-66089674744139332642017-10-06T22:15:00.000-05:002017-10-06T22:15:00.726-05:00Fall 2016A quick catch-up on our fall!<br />
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I guess the official kick off to fall is the start of school. Here are pictures from Jack's first day of 1st grade:<br />
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If you look closely at this next picture, you can see that my poor little man got sad when he got on the bus. It was so unexpected and I felt so sad for him! It only lasted a few minutes, and then he was fine.</div>
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Jack's birthday was the second day of school, so I took him McDonald's for lunch at school. We also brought cupcakes to soccer practice that night for all his buddies.</div>
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He also got a new bike for his big 7th birthday!<br />
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That weekend we had a joint birthday party for the boys at Pump It Up.<br />
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We took the boys to their first concert: REO Speedwagon! They are big fans, and we had so much fun! We left before Def Leopard took the stage. ;)<br />
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Then it was Charlie's turn for his birthday! We did our standard balloon countdown, and had fun celebrating our 5 year old!<br />
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A few different weekend days, we took a neighborhood crew for a bike ride up to school to play. The first day it was just 5 kids and me.<br />
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And the next weekend the crew grew (and I had Jason as a helper). So fun!!<br />
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Lots of fun with the neighborhood crew!<br />
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And Jason and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We were invited to a 40th birthday party that night, so we had a nice dinner out just the two of us and then met up with our friends.<br />
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Charlie's day care had a fun night at the Magic House (Nora's first time!):<br />
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We celebrated Grandpa's birthday.<br />
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Charlie went to a buddy's birthday party.<br />
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We hit up a pumpkin patch.<br />
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We celebrated Paige's birthday:<br />
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We went to a pumpkin carving party with the neighbors:<br />
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I got to go to Jack's Halloween party at school. He and his BFF got to wrap each other up as mummies.<br />
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And last but not least, we celebrated Halloween. We had 2 ninjas and a Cabbage Patch Kid.<br />
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There's our fall in a (not so small) nutshell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-91061698997835405882017-08-31T20:21:00.000-05:002017-08-31T20:21:38.097-05:00Fall 2016 SportsJack continued on his same baseball team for the summer, The Benchwarmers. They are mostly boys from his soccer team, so he has a lot of fun. This year they played machine pitch, which Jack really enjoyed.<br />
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For the fall, Jack was asked to join a different baseball team with his buddy Louis, whose dad is the coach. The Benchwarmers were not playing in the fall, so we went for it. The Wolverines are a U9 team, so Jack was the only 1st grader. Most of his teammates are in 2nd grade, with a few young 3rd graders. This was the first time for all the boys playing kid pitch. It went fairly well, considering. The games were a little slow, but the boys did pretty well. Jack struggled a little with the kid pitch and didn't get a lot of hits, but he kept his head up and never gave up.<br />
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Every kid who wanted to got a chance to pitch. Jack had a few turns, and did pretty well. He wasn't a superstar, but given he had very little practice, we were so proud of him!<br />
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Charlie played on his first baseball team this fall too. He and his buddy Brooks signed up. They ended up on a U6 team but there weren't enough teams to complete a league, so they played against some U7 teams. That meant Charlie's team had machine pitch for 5 pitches and if they didn't hit it, they got to hit off a tee while the other teams would strike out if they didn't hit it.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Charlie LOVED it! He hit really great off the tee, but didn't make a lot of contact with pitches from the machine. </span></div>
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The highlight by far, though, was watching this guy catch. When most kids his age catch, the ball goes right past them as they make very little effort. Charlie, however, caught nearly every pitch that came to him. It was so fun to watch!<br />
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Both boys also played soccer in the fall. Jack's team was at a bit of a crossroads because their coach's son didn't want to play soccer anymore. We decided to shop around for a club team that would take all 7 of our boys for the same team, and ended up going with Missouri Rush. We had a very busy fall, and the boys didn't win a ton of games, but we can tell that Jack's skills are improving a lot. It is so fun to watch his team get more and more competitive.<br />
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I can't seem to find many pictures of them in action, but here are few of Jack with his soccer buddies. We had one tournament across the bridge in Illinois and since the first game on Saturday was at 8:00 am, several of the families decided to get hotel rooms Friday night. We had so much fun!<br />
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Charlie played for the same soccer team he played for in the spring, The Bulldogs. He has a lot of fun with this team and this fall their team wore orange, which was fun with his baseball team being orange too!<br />
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I would be remiss if I didn't mention what a trooper Nora was through all of these sporting events. This chick just went with the flow all fall. We had a lot of hot games and plenty of late games and she was so great for all of it. Next year may not be so easy...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-31870764554192702552017-03-04T20:23:00.000-06:002017-03-04T20:23:51.209-06:00Summer 2016Brace yourselves. This is my summer 2016 roundup and it's a doozy. We did a LOT this summer, most of which is not worthy of its own post, so I will attempt to summarize here.<br />
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It was Jack's first summer as an elementary school student, so you know what that means: camps! We didn't fill up every week with a camp; on the off weeks he spent time alternating between the grandparents' houses. When I asked what camps he wanted to do, he specifically requested a baseball camp. We ended up doing the following:<br />
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After the last day of camp, the boys went back to Connor's house for some swimming. Fun!<br />
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Generally, he loved camp, but he said Vetta was his least favorite. I never really pinpointed why that was, but I'm not sure if we'll sign up for that one again next year.<br />
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The boys also did another round of swim lessons this year. Jack has really made so much progress and is a great swimmer now. Charlie does pretty well too, but we still generally have him wearing his life jacket for everyday swimming. Lily was in Jack's class, and coincidentally so was his buddy Ben from his kindergarten class, which was fun. I took exactly two pictures at lessons and two videos.<br />
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We celebrated Father's Day at our house.<br />
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I reunited with my college friends for a Cardinals game girls' night out.<br />
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Charlie got some new catcher's gear - a dream come true!<br />
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In July we visited Onandaga Cave with our friends the Duckworths. It was something new and different and we had a great time! The pictures didn't turn out great because, well, it's dark inside a cave...<br />
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On the drive home, Jack and Nora were cracking each other up (while Charlie slept)...<br />
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We went to a few Cardinals games this year. One day we had good seats, so we went early. The boys liked getting up close.<br />
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It started getting a little crowded at the railing, so Charlie got snuggly...<br />
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And then his hand ventured down a little. Haha!! Neither boy realized where his hand was until later when we showed him the picture.<br />
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In August we took the boys to their first concert. They are big fans of REO Speedwagon, so when we heard they were coming to town, we knew we had to get tickets. We had SO much fun!!<br />
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One night we had the Pressons over. Our kiddos are almost the same ages as each other and had such a great night playing together!<br />
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This night was awesome. We were all a few houses away from the Porters' house when Travis realized his sprinklers would be coming on any minute. Being the good parents we are, we told all the kids that their friend lost her Skylander in the yard and they all needed to look for it. They obliged and we waited with our cameras ready. And waited. And waited. The sprinklers never came on (some glitch or something) and we all had a good laugh at our amazing parenting.<br />
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It was a fun-filled jam-packed summer!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-17753681098085819862017-01-15T15:33:00.000-06:002017-01-15T15:33:09.282-06:00Lake of the Ozarks 2016In mid-July we took our annual trip to the Lake of the Ozarks My friend Jules missed it for the first time ever because she was pregnant and they are currently living in Singapore, and my sister and her family couldn't make it this year either. We missed them, but we still had a good trip.<br />
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Jack and Charlie got to go tubing with Dylan and Amelia. They had so much fun - Dylan is a daredevil!<br />
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On July 4th some special visitors arrived! My sister and her family had been at a family reunion in southern Illinois about 45 minutes away for Greg's family, so they (obviously) made a trip to St. Louis while they were here. The added bonus was that Greg's sister's family and his dad and Sandy came along too. We had such a great time!!</div>
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Jason's sister Cyndi and her family were in Florida that week and they graciously offered for Kelly's family and Gennie's (Greg's sister) family to stay at their house. It worked out perfectly!!</div>
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They arrived in town just in time to head up to the O'Fallon 4th of July festival. Parker got some snuggles in with Nora before we left...</div>
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We rode a couple rides, but the lines were long so it was pretty short lived.<br />
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Kind of blurry, but so sweet after the fireworks walking back to the car...Jack was pushing Catie, walking next to Parker, Clare and Charlie<br />
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We wanted to show the Johnsons a bit of St. Louis (first timers), so Tuesday morning we headed down to the ol' St. Louis Arch! It was a VERY hot day and the arch grounds are under construction so we had to park fairly far away and walk. BUT, we had fun.<br />
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That night we hosted a family gathering at our house so all of our aunts, uncles and cousins could see Kelly and the crew and meet Greg's family. Several of Kelly's high school friends and their families came too. It was a fun night, during which I took zero pictures. Oops!<br />
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Wednesday morning we headed to Grant's Farm. We arrived right when they opened, which worked out perfectly. It was a rainy day on and off, but it felt great compared to the sweltering heat the day before.<br />
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When it started raining, we headed to the (covered) bird show, which was pretty cool.<br />
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It just so happened that the Pirates were in town, so of course we had to take in a Cards game with our favorite Pirates fans (the Johnsons).<br />
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Before the game the out of towners went into Ballpark Village to check it out while Jason and I manned the fort outside with these crazy kiddos...<br />
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Last inning. We needed our rally caps because our Redbirds were losing. Sadly, it didn't work this time.<br />
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Thursday morning the Johnsons headed home and Sandy had left already too, so we just had a low-key day at Grandma and Grandpa Lang's house. Papa G (Greg's dad) brought over a old style crank ice cream maker, which was a fun treat! Everyone took a turn...<br />
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Friday Kelly's family and Larry all headed home. We had such a great visit with them once again. It was so fun having Greg's family here this time too!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-2535173742689042172016-10-21T22:34:00.000-05:002016-10-21T22:39:33.322-05:00Nora at 7 MonthsNora turned 7 months old on the 4th of July! She had a big 7th month! She started eating vegetables, which was so much fun! She loved everything she tried, just like her brothers. We took it slow, and this month she tried peas and sweet potatoes.<br />
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Nora also got her first (and second) tooth this month. The first one (bottom left) came in on June 7th (right after she turned 6 months), and then her second (bottom right) came in on June 20th.</div>
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Check out this naked baby at her 6 month check up!! Those are the cutest rolls I ever did see...<br />
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Nora LOVES bath time! We were still using the infant sling in the big bathtub and it was working out well, though she was starting to outgrow it.</div>
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Just before the 7 month mark, we switched over to the ducky bathtub. Nora thinks she's hot stuff now!!<br />
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This month Nora started blowing raspberries too!! I don't have video evidence, but it's awfully cute!</div>
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She also started rolling over from tummy to back this month, which opened up the wonderful world of tummy sleeping!!</div>
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She is of course still smitten with her big brothers, and the feeling is definitely mutual.<br />
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Just some other pictures of our sweet girl this month...</div>
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Here is Nora's 7 month photo shoot.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-6067801365283810192016-10-21T21:22:00.000-05:002016-10-21T21:22:27.935-05:00Tablerock Trip 2016Last year we went to Tablerock Lake with our neighbors and we had such a great time that we came home and immediately booked a trip for this year. We went the last weekend in June and we had the best time once again!! This year it was the same crew (us, Lades and Kortes) plus the Ashers. <br />
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We left Thursday late afternoon and stayed the night in Springfield. We had dinner at Lambert's, the Home of the Throwed Rolls, and we had a great time. The boys thought it was great that they could just raise their hand to have a roll tossed to them. The highlight was when a roll destined for Charlie landed in my water.<br />
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Our hotel had an indoor pool so the boys took a dip before bed.<br />
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In the morning we headed down to Branson. When we arrived it was raining, so we got our game room visit out of the way.<br />
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On Saturday, Nora had her first boat ride! We took the boat, the Ashers' wave runner and a rented wave runner out. It ended up not being great because the boat was very full and we lost Greg, Melissa and Ethan on their wave runner somewhere along the way. Nora did OK while we were moving, but she was less than thrilled when we stopped the boat to hang out. We ended up just cruising back to the resort, where we met back up with the Ashers. Charlie, Nora and I got off, along with most of the other moms and kids. We took naps and spent the rest of the day at the pool while Jack, Jason and the others went for wave runner rides, etc.</div>
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Sunday we decided to rent a pontoon boat to go along with our boat, which was must more comfortable for our group. The kids got to go tubing, and Nora enjoyed herself much more. She even got to swim in the lake for a few minutes!</div>
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We had a scary moment with the tube...Jack, Charlie and Hayden wanted to ride together but didn't know to lean back when they were started out, so the front of the tube went under. Jack and Hayden rolled off the edges, but Charlie was dragged under in the front of the tube. I took this picture from the anchored boat right before "the incident." Jason and I screamed and both jumped into the water and swam over to him. Darrin quickly stopped the boat and Charlie was no worse for the wear. I'm pretty sure our hearts stopped for that few seconds though. Luckily, Melissa was on our boat with us because we left Nora on there when we both jumped in the water. Phew! Scary!<br />
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Speaking of sleeping, I apparently took a lot of pictures of my children sleeping...<br />
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We had such a fun time, as evidenced by the three sleeping children in the back of the truck on the way home.<br />
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We've already booked next year's trip!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-75851311819080082912016-09-11T01:04:00.000-05:002016-09-11T01:04:00.750-05:00Nora's 6 Month PicturesWe hired the same photographer who did Nora's newborn pictures to take 6 months photos of her as well. The photos were taken by Jill Shadden at In the Moment Photography. We met her at Blanchette Park in St. Charles and I think the photos turned out great!<br />
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We had a fun day with the neighbors. After the pool we went back to the Minchers' house for dinner. Nora and her buddy Lincoln had fun playing.<br />
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And Charlie zonked out on the floor. I'm telling you, this kid will sleep anywhere!!<br />
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It was a nice ending to the long weekend!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-16078144107457668482016-09-11T00:45:00.003-05:002016-09-11T00:45:57.892-05:00Nora at 6 MonthsNora turned 6 months old on June 4! That 1/2 year flew by, as they always do! She is getting so big! At her check-up, we learned she (like her brothers) is rather large for her age. She weighs 21 lbs (99th percentile!!) and is 27.2 inches long (91st percentile). She had to get shots and once again she was not a big fan (who can blame her??), but she recovered quickly.<br />
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Last month, Nora started really grabbing for things, and now she will grab for anything in sight. The benefit of all this grabbiness (can we pretend that's a word?) is that she now likes to hold her own bottles. And one of her favorite positions is grabbing her toes, which we love...<br />
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She has really started rolling back to belly a lot now, but after awhile she gets frustrated on her tummy and needs help turning over. Towards the end of this month, the big girl figured out how to sleep on her side. She doesn't do it consistently yet, but she has spent a few naps and evenings that way.<br />
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This month Nora really started sitting up well. She will still topple over if left sitting for too long, but she's getting stronger and stronger. She's started taking a more consistent long nap in the mornings, and most afternoons we can get a longer stretch out of her too. She still has some days where she chooses to cat nap, but I feel like we're finally getting into more of a nap routine now.</div>
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Nora loves both of her big brothers and is always watching everything they do. One day I plopped her in this chair while Charlie was watching TV and she just sat there and watched right along with him. Too cute!!<br />
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Another new first: the hand-me-down doorway jumper from Aunt Kelly. She has fun in it, but only for short periods at a time.<br />
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Last month Nora sat in her high chair for the first time, but this month she actually got to eat food! We started cereal the week before she turned 6 months, and not unlike her brothers, she loved it!<br />
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Last month I was a little concerned because she had laid off the talking. Never fear! This month, Nora started up with her babbling again. She still hasn't gotten any teeth, and we think she is just so close!!<br />
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Here are some pictures from her 6 month photo shoot:<br />
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Here is a comparison of all 3 kids at 6 months. I'm embarrassed to admit how long I searched for Jack's monthly sticker photos only to (finally!) remember that I didn't do them for him (I didn't know about it then). I'm so bummed I don't have these for him, but we did get 6 month professional photos of him at least:<br />
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One thing is clear in this comparison: we breed large babies in the Clayton house. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-10049921309820360222016-09-10T21:37:00.001-05:002016-09-10T21:37:24.117-05:00May 2016 Rochester TripMy mom, the kids and I flew to Rochester to visit the Goforth crew for Memorial Day weekend. It was a very quick trip (we arrived mid-day Friday and left late Sunday afternoon), but it was still a nice visit. The kids have so much fun with their cousins!!<br />
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We spent the night at my parents' house the night before we left so we'd be closer to the airport. This is how I found the boys in the morning...<br />
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At the airport, waiting for our flight...<br />
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There are no direct flights, so we had a layover each way unfortunately. Nora didn't do quite as great on the way there as she did on our flights to/from Florida. At one point the flight attendant asked me if I wanted to try nursing her (I had already tried) and then assured me that letting her cry was just fine. She said it's not as loud as I fear it is, and a lot of times the crying helps with their ears. Not easy on Mommy though to just let my babe cry. She was kind of out of sorts the rest of the day Friday too. Poor baby girl. She recovered nicely the next day though and was her normal, easy going self the rest of the weekend.<br />
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Friday when we got there we just hung out at their house and played outside. The boys played a lot of catch while we were waiting for Parker and Graham to get home from school...<br />
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Then there was a group art session, some playing on the floor with Nora, some bouncy house time and showers all around. <br />
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Charlie zonked out fairly early. It had been a long day!!<br />
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When I went to check on the boys (on an air mattress in Parker's room), silly Charlie was again sleeping with his head at the wrong end.<br />
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Saturday morning we played in the yard for awhile (Nora watched from inside), then went to Parker's soccer game, which was fun. Jack loved that Parker's cousin Collin was there too and he got to play soccer with him. <br />
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After soccer we headed to a park for a picnic. It was unseasonably warm there (100 degrees!), so we found a nice shaded area to eat.<br />
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Saturday evening we walked into downtown Pittsford for a festival. The kids got to do a hayride and we ate dinner there. Since it was so hot, we headed out early to get back to the air condition. Jack had a bathroom emergency, so he ran home alongside Uncle Greg (who was on his bike) while the rest of us walked. Ha!!<br />
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Another fun cousin visit is in the books!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-85632818462601163302016-09-10T19:36:00.000-05:002016-09-10T19:36:32.535-05:00End of KindergartenJack finished up school the 3rd week in May. Overall he had a great kindergarten year. If asked, his most common response was that kindergarten was "boring," so I had to constantly remind him that though they are reviewing things he already knows (letters, basic addition, etc) he also learned about several new things (holidays around the world, for example).<br />
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We really liked his teacher, Mrs. Rohret, and didn't have any complaints. The most important thing Jack did this year (in my opinion) was improve his handwriting. He has VERY nice printing now, and we definitely credit Mrs. Rohret for that! <br />
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Jack made some new friends, including a few girls who "liked" him. Who knew this flirting started so young?!? Jack was embarrassed any time I brought the girls up, so we didn't talk a ton about it. He loved being in class with his best neighbor buddy, Jack, but the two of them started to get a little silly as the year went on. His mom, Kim, and I agreed that the chances of them being in class together again was unlikely so we started warning them early on of that possibility.<br />
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The last week of school there was a school-wide awards ceremony. Only 5th grade parents are invited, so we weren't there, but my teacher friend did capture photos/videos of our big guy winning an award. He received the Golden Apple Award. Each teacher gets to pick one student to give his/her award to for the reason of his/her choice. Jack's teacher gave him the award for "his eagerness to stretch his mind and always learn new things." We are so proud of our big guy!! He thought it was awesome that he got the very first award of the whole ceremony!<br />
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On the last day of school, I took 1/2 day and volunteered at Jack's Field Day. It was a beautiful day, which was great since most events were outside. Unfortunately I got stuck in the gym at the parachute station, but it was still fun. After all 5 kindergarten classes came through, I sneaked outside to watch for a little while before I headed into work.</div>
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Here are some of my favorite writings/artwork that came home with Jack at the end of the school year.<br />
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It was a great first year!<br />
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Our friend Addison shares my birthday. Her party was a book theme, so the boys dressed as their favorite Mr Men characters. We initially wrapped Jack's head in an ace bandage for Mr Bump, but he immediately took it off. To my dismay, it was before I even snapped a picture.<br />
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We bought the same Cardinals season tickets that we had last year, so we have 3 games this year. Our first one was on May 4. We decided to leave Nora with Grandma & Grandpa Lang and just took the boys this time.<br />
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Grandma sent us this picture of Nora cheering on our Redbirds...</div>
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This was my Mother's Day gift that Charlie made at school...</div>
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And Jack made this:<br />
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We had a little Mother's Day gathering at our house. We were also celebrating Grandma Clayton's retirement, which was so exciting!! We took the opportunity for a photo shoot. We got every combination except our family of 5 (Jason was inside cooking) - whoops!</div>
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Later in the month, we had another Cardinals game. This time we took Ms Nora to her first game. She was a perfect angel, and even took a little nap in her stroller for part of it (she is a champion stroller napper).<br />
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After the game, we headed over to the Pressons for an outdoor movie night. It was a long, fun day!<br />
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This month Charlie also learned to ride his bike without training wheels! He was so excited!<br />
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We also went to a birthday party at Bounce U for our neighbor Trenton.<br />
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One evening we went to the neighborhood park and a storm started moving in. It got a little chillier than I expected, so Nora had to wear my cardigan. She looked so cute!!</div>
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It started drizzling so we had to drive home, but Jack REALLY wanted to ride his bike. We drove alongside him while he rode in the rain. He LOVED it!<br />
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In this 5th month, we stopped swaddling Nora at night. She loves to sleep with her arms up by her head and she loves this really small square lovey my friend Jamie bought her. She puts it on her face, so we have to go in and move it off as soon as she falls asleep. Thank goodness we have a video camera this go 'round so we can spy on her. She is still sleeping well, and I would say she sleeps through the night about 1/2 of the time. The nights she wakes up, we generally just give her the pacifier and she goes back to sleep. <br />
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Nora is putting EVERYTHING in her mouth and has started drooling like crazy. No teeth to show for yet, but it seems like they're on the way. She also grabs for anything that comes near her - we suddenly have to be a lot more careful when she's on our laps. She particularly loves my necklaces. <br />
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Our big girl just keeps getting bigger. She's solidly in 9 month clothing and can even wear many 12 month things. She's graduated to the size 3 diapers. She's not doing a ton of talking or making noise. She did for awhile, but this month it seems like she's fairly quiet. I did a little research (of course!) and learned that babies tend to focus on one skill at a time, so her verbal development could be on hold while she works on something else, which makes sense because our big shot ROLLED OVER on April 24th!! We were hanging out with our neighbors and just laying in the grass when she finally made it over. This was the after effect....</div>
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Here is Nora's 5 month photo shoot. Happy girl, and she loves to hold her own hands...<br />
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Jack's school had a Bingo Night one Friday night. It was actually the night of Nora's kidney testing, so she and I left a little early. We went with the Knichels, Ashers and Lades and the kids had so much fun. We can't wait for next year's event!<br />
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Another fun school event happened in April: there was a book fair and art fair. We got a letter home the day before saying that Jack was winning an art award, so of course we attended. Turns out our boy got 2nd place from all the kindergartners for a fish he made. So proud of him! He was pretty proud of himself too - he practically ran up there when they called his name. Love it! Lily won an award too - she got 1st place for the 1st graders.<br />
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The boys have been begging forever to go play up at the skate park at the nearby park. There are always bigger kids there, so I've been a little weary of taking them. One Sunday morning though, we got up early and headed over there. The boys brought their scooters and thought they were hot stuff! It was fun. A few bigger guys were there, but they were nice and didn't seem too annoyed with the 6- and 4-year olds who were on their turf.<br />
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In April we also had a long, long overdue play date with my college friends and their kids. We met at Chesterfield Central Park and had a great time.<br />
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Charlie joined a new team this year. We liked his coach last fall, but we weren't a fan of a couple boys on the team, so we decided to sign up with a new (random) coach. He still played with his buddy Brooks, but the other four kids on the team were new to us. We really loved his coach (Coach Mitch) and he had a great time.<br />
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Jack continued to play with the same team he's been with for the last couple of years. They had a great season and were undefeated once again. These boys are really improving and are even starting to pass to each other. They are so fun to watch!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-82117013216890564312016-06-04T12:40:00.004-05:002016-06-04T12:40:54.995-05:00Nora's Kidney Update - April 2016<div>
In April, the day after Nora's four month check-up with her pediatrician, we had a follow-up appointment with her urologist. She needed to have another ultrasound to see if anything had changed with her dilated kidneys. She once again was a trooper during the ultrasound and the doctor's visit that followed.<br />
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Unfortunately we learned that her left kidney was more dilated than at her last ultrasound in January, which means the urologist wanted to do more tests. She was scheduled to have a Renal Scan, which would tell the doctor how her urine is flowing. The test involves placing an IV and a catheter. Since she would already require a catheter, we opted to go ahead and do the Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG) they told us about a few months ago to also determine if she is having any reflux.<br />
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Luckily they scheduled the appointment pretty quickly so we didn't have a ton of time to fret and worry. We went to Children's Hospital on Friday, April 15 for the testing. <br />
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The first test was the renal scan, and as we walked into this big room with all its fancy, intimidating equipment, my tears started flowing immediately (no surprise there!). The radiologist and technician were both VERY nice, very patient and very calm. They told us what to expect and then took their time getting to know Nora's veins to determine the best spot for her IV. She started to get upset as they searched for the best vein, and she screamed while they put the IV in her arm, but calmed down quickly afterward. Next up was the catheter, and while Jason and I stood on either side of her table talking to her, they slipped it right in. Baby Girl didn't even flinch!! They said she was quite the tough cookie!<br />
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After all her lines were in, I was allowed to hold and nurse her for a little while as they got the machine set up. For the test, we laid her on a table and her body was strapped down to avoid too much movement. They injected radioactive tracer in her IV, which the machine then tracked as it went through her system. They were looking for a few things: 1. Are both kidneys functioning equally? and 2. How long does it take for the material to get from her kidneys to her bladder? (this part requires an empty bladder, hence the catheter). That test took about 15-20 minutes and sweet little Nora just laid calmly on the table the entire time. There was a TV above her head so she paid some attention to that. <br />
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After the testing was complete, they determined they had to also inject a diuretic (Lasix) to get the material to flow completely out. They said this is needed in 95% of the cases, so it wasn't alarming, but it did add another 30 minutes or so to Nora's time strapped to the table. She started to get a little antsy towards the end, but the radiologist came to the rescue by dipping her pacifier in sugar water, after which Nora promptly fell asleep.</div>
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When that procedure was over, her IV was removed, but they left the catheter in place. We walked down the hall to a different room where she was to have her VCUG. For this test, they inject another radioactive material through her catheter and watch how the bladder function. Nora just laid patiently on the table during the procedure, until they filled up her bladder and capped off her catheter. You could see on the computer screen as the size of her bladder increased, and she got more and more irritated until she was full out crying. After a few seconds, they released the catheter and she immediately stopped crying as her bladder returned to normal size. Crazy! They took pictures of her bladder and ureters throughout the whole process. That test was pretty quick.<br />
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All in all we were at Children's for most of the morning. Our doctor was in a conference, so we didn't get to meet with him after the appointment. I did talk to one of his nurses later in the day and then had a longer conversation with him on Monday to discuss the results. They learned from the renal scan that both kidneys are functioning normally and there is no blockage, which is a huge relief because a blockage could mean surgery. The VCUG, however, did show that Nora has some reflux on both sides, but worse on the left side (urine that has entered the bladder returns back up the ureters, which it's not supposed to do). The doctor said in most cases, especially in girls, they grow out of this issue with no intervention.<br />
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For now the plan is to keep Nora on the preventative antibiotic until next April, when we will repeat the VCUG again. I was having a hard time imagining all this testing on my four month old, but now I'm REALLY dreading trying the same with a mobile, squirmy 16 month old!! Hopefully she's a much a trooper then as she was this time.<br />
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We were so proud of our sweet baby girl and how she took all the poking, prodding, and lying still on tables in stride. We are grateful to have some answers and even more grateful that she doesn't require surgery now (and hopefully not ever). Here is our happy baby girl a little while after we got home that day; no worse for the wear...<br />
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This month Nora gave us her first laugh! On a Friday night just about a week after she turned 3 months old, I was just talking to her on the couch and I think I made some funny noises and next thing you know she was laughing. We all got to witness it, which was so great! We've gotten her to laugh a few times since then, but so far she's been kind of stingy with those chuckles.<br />
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At four months, baby girl is still sleeping swaddled. We think she's almost ready to ditch the swaddle, but we haven't tried it yet at night yet. She does take naps unswaddled and her most common position is arms above the head. She's still sleeping great, going anywhere from 10.5 to 12 hours overnight.<br />
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This month Nora started really drooling, blowing bubbles, sticking anything and everything into her mouth, especially her hands and toys.<br />
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Nora had her four month check-up and everything went well. She is growing very quickly, just like her big brothers did. She weighed 17 lbs, 10 oz (96th percentile), was 25 3/4" long (93rd percentile) and had a head circumference of 17" (98th percentile). I compared her weight to her brothers: Charlie at 4 months was 17 lbs, 9 oz (almost exactly the same!) and Jack was 20 lbs, 13 oz at 4 months. She had to get two shots in her thigh plus a liquid immunization squirted in her mouth. She wasn't a fan of the shots, but calmed down pretty quickly.<br />
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Here are the pictures from Nora's four month photo shoot. She gave me one measly little smile...<br />
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And a little comparison of our girl at month 1-4:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-14777176501199883512016-05-14T23:00:00.000-05:002016-05-15T17:07:58.371-05:00Easter 2016We had a great Easter once again this year. We hosted my mom's family on Saturday and the weather was perfect! We got to sit outside and the boys had fun playing baseball and basketball, especially when my cousin's son A.J. joined in.<br />
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Easter morning the boys got to find the eggs the Easter Bunny hid for them. He brought them a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Super-Mario-Bros-Wii-Nintendo/dp/B002BRZ9G0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463281585&sr=8-1&keywords=super+mario+bros+wii" target="_blank">new game </a>for their Wii (the one they played at the Ramirez house while we were in Florida), along with some money and candy. Somehow I neglected to take a single picture of our morning at home.<br />
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After we were finished at home we headed up the street to the annual egg hunt with the neighbors. So many kiddos! They loved it and got a LOT of candy!<br />
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After lunch we went to my Aunt Patty's house for a quick visit with my dad's family. The boys got to do another egg hunt while were there!<br />
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We finished the night off with the Clayton crew.<br />
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Another nice holiday! Easter is one of my favorites because we spread it out between two days, which seems much more manageable.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-55173221256870282932016-05-14T22:39:00.001-05:002016-05-17T21:50:57.372-05:00March 2016In addition to returning to work, we had some other fun stuff going on in March. First, the boys each got a new baseball helmet, which was very exciting! A few weeks earlier, Jason had taken them to Johnny Mac's Sporting Goods and the boys each made a mental list of baseball/sports gear they wanted. Jason told them they could earn the items one-by-one with good behavior, using our baseball charts. Well, after they were SO well behaved during our marathon airport adventure on the way home from Florida, he took them that very night to get their new helmets. They had earned it, big time!<br>
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Jack wrapped up his latest indoor soccer season in March. This session they played at Tony Glavin in hopes of finding some greater competition. Unfortunately they still clobbered most of the teams they played. The boys loved it because they all got a lot of goals, but they definitely need to find the right league to challenge them a little more. They had fun though, which is of course what matters. Jack prefers indoor soccer to outdoor because the ball doesn't go out of bounds.<br>
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Here he is scoring a goal:<br>
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And after the championship game - they were undefeated and won the league.<br>
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And one of Jack's biggest fans.<br>
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Also in March, Jack performed in the Kindergarten musical, "Zoosical the Moosical." It was on a Wednesday evening in the high school theater, and it was so sweet! They got to dress up like their favorite animal (Jack chose polar bear because he wanted something that stands on two legs like him. Can't argue with that logic.) and they sang 9 songs relating to animals. I wasn't sure how our shy guy would do but he got really into it. We have a copy of the DVD with all the songs on it, but this one was my favorite:<br>
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My pictures turned out terrible because we were in the last row, but you get the idea.<br>
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This is random, but one night Charlie joined us in the middle of the night, and I got a kick out of how he was sleeping when I got up in the morning.<br>
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Here's a little video of Charlie rocking out in the car...<br>
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We went to our buddy/neighbor Logan's 4th birthday party. It was at a park and the theme was "hunting." Our boys LOVED it - they got to wear their camo and shoot Nerf guns and bow and arrows. They also did a scavenger hunt and a fire truck randomly showed up and the firemen handed out ice cream bars (not arranged by Logan's parents, they just happened to come by). It was a fun party!</div>
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The boys both started their outdoor soccer games in March as well, so we had a busy month!!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321679651906545990.post-11276896263283486552016-05-14T19:43:00.000-05:002016-05-16T21:09:52.888-05:00Back to WorkWe had a glorious maternity leave. I say we because this time it coincided with Jason's slow time at work, so we spent many of our days at home together. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit concerned about all that quality time, but It. Was. Wonderful! Jason was super helpful with the boys and with Nora and with errand running. Once I was back on my feet, he started working on our basement, but still we were both home together a lot. We binged watched all five seasons of Breaking Bad at night after the kids were in bed, and then started on Orange is the New Black. We really had a great time being at home with our little bundle. We also kept Charlie home with us on Tuesdays since he is going to speech in the morning, and we tried to pick Jack up not too long after he got off the bus (he didn't want us there right away because he wanted to play with his cousins for a bit). Overall, it was a fabulous 13 weeks and 2 days.<br />
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The Wednesday after we got back from Florida, my dreaded return-to-work date arrived. You would think by the third kid, going back to work would get easier, but alas, it did not. Nora is one lucky lady, though. Similar to her brothers, she is going to Grandma and Grandpa Lang's on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but unlike her brothers she gets to go to Grandma and Grandpa Clayton's house on the other days. Grandma Clayton made an arrangement with her work where she would use her vacation and sick days on Mondays, Wednesdays and every other Friday so she could watch Nora and then work on the other days. My parents agreed to watch her every other Friday too, SO, no day care at all for our sweet baby girl.<br />
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Nora's first day was with Grandma Clayton, and they sent me this picture of the happy girl in her swing...<br />
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I also got this lovely flower bouquet delivered at work from the kids (i.e. Jason). Made my day!<br />
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We had a busy day that first day back. After work Charlie had a meeting with his new soccer team, AND Jack lost his first tooth. Eventful day for the Claytons.<br />
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I went back to work at a very busy time, so I had a lot of catching up to do. In the first week alone, I worked 2-3 of the evenings after the kids were in bed. Not fun. Overall we have adjusted to being back to work. Jason started back up mowing grass the week after I started back, but we have a good system to manage our mornings and evenings and it's going as well as we can expect.<br />
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Nora is doing great with all the grandparent time! Here are a few other pictures I got over the first few weeks...<br />
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We realize we are very lucky to have so many helping hands around and willing to help us out! I have no doubt our transition would have been so much harder if we were dropping her at day care each morning, so for that we are so grateful!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456480376458279245noreply@blogger.com0