Guess Who?

I think it is so funny that Shelby and Joey look so much alike (to me, anyway). Joey even has the same cowlicks as Shelby, and is losing her hair in the exact same pattern that Shelby did. So, can you guess which one is which? Jeremy even got two of them wrong!




See below for answers...

4 Months

Joey had her 4 month checkup on Monday. She weighed 14 lbs, 12 oz. I know I should not compare children, but I came home and looked in Shelby's baby book to see how much she weighed at 4 months. Ummm...yeah...19 lbs! Holy cow. I knew Shelby was my little roly poly baby, but I could not help but laugh at the difference. Jeremy pointed out that one reason Shelby probably weighed a lot more was that she was still waking up in the middle of the night for feedings. Joey has been sleeping 12 hours at night for a long time now. She does great in her crib. She has been rolling from back to stomach for a month now, and can almost roll from her stomach to her back. Since she can roll, she usually flips over as soon as we lay her down in her crib. We tried a sleep positioner, but she would just wiggle and wiggle until she eventually found her way onto her tummy. We finally ended up buying an Angel Care monitor that has an alarm that goes off if no movement (breathing) is detected for 15 seconds. It actually went off the other night. I don't think I have ever made it up the stairs faster. She was fine, but I moved her and stayed in her room for a minute afterwards.

Joey can also scoot around pretty well. I can lay her on one end of her play mat and she will scoot herself to the top in no time. She is very into holding her toys and gets mad if she drops one.

Her hair is doing exactly what I knew it would...falling out. She has pretty much lost all of her hair on the left side of her head, just like Shelby did. At least it will (hopefully) grow back quickly.

Other than that everything is going great. Joey fits into our family quite nicely and we couldn't imagine her not being here with us. The other morning Shelby woke up and the first the she said was, "Mom, I love having a baby sister".

Sunday Pictures

Sports

Sometimes Jeremy's job has some sweet perks that we all get to enjoy. He's gotten two tv's, tickets to "The Nutcracker", won numerous Visa gift cards, etc. Thursday he scored some sweet tickets to the Rough Riders game. We got some VIP treatment and got to visit the JCPenneys club before the game, and we got all the food and drinks we wanted during the game. We were sitting in the fourth row, directly behind home plate. It wasn't like it was tickets to the Rangers or the Cowboys or anything, but it was a sweet deal nonetheless.



Let's ignore how I look in the picture below and focus on Joey. See what she's doing? She's drinking a bottle! It was the first time I had tried pumping and giving her one, and she took it like a champ. Let's be honest- the girl just wants to eat. She doesn't care how she gets it. This is good news for us, because it means we can start having date nights and I don't have to be too worried about leaving her with a babysitter. (Shelby would take a bottle, but there was a whole bounce-while-the-blow-dryer-is-on routine you had to go through to get her to take it.)



Saturday was Shelby's first day of gymnastics at Excite. We tried out Little Gym and she was just ALL OVER THE PLACE. The teacher had to call in someone just to chase after Shelby. I know part of it was that it was her first time, but I felt like part of it was all the singing and make-believe. I think it was too much for Shelby and she lost interest. So we decided to try out Excite, where it is just straight gymnastics. She did much better this time. She tried to run over to some of the equipment a couple of times, but for the most part she did great. There are three teachers for her group, so there is always someone to help. It was SO CUTE to watch her in her leotard with all the other little girls. I really wanted to run out there with her and tumble, but Jeremy quickly reminded me that the last time I did that I hurt my wrist (that I fractured in college). Shelby showed me her back bend today. I am excited to see how she progresses in the next few months! Maybe one day she'll even train here.




With football starting up soon, I am sure we'll be getting all the sports talk we can handle around here. Joey already has her Ole Miss bib ready so she can cheer on the Rebels with Daddy and Shelby. Just as long as her first word is Mama and not Hotty Toddy, that's fine by me.