4 months

Cooper is 4 months today! And he had his 4 month check up today as well. The first thing the nurse says when she is measuring him is "This boy has a long torso and some short little legs" Yes, yes he does thank you very much! HA.. He gets that from his father. He is in the 50th percentile for everything. He weighs 15 pounds and I can not remember the rest of the measurements.. maybe 23 inches( I could be way off on this one). He is a very good baby.
Update to the sleeping at night. I let him cry that night and he slept 9 hours straight. And has done so pretty much every night since. So I guess the crying method worked for him too.

He's a keeper!

Question...

At what age did you try to start sleep training your babies? And what method worked best for you? With Emma it was so easy.. we did the cry it out method and it took 3 nights and she was sleeping through the night and we never had any problems we started her at 5 months old. Dottie on the other hand I can not even remember what we did.. That time in our lives was so crazy and hectic. Jordan says we did the cry it out method with her too but I don't really remember it and I have no idea how old she would have been (most likely before 6 months age). We moved into our house when she was 6 months old and she was sleeping through the night off and on at that time. Dottie was never really a great sleeper.

Love this..

Cupcake cookie jar.

and I want to buy one... $60 not this time.. Go HERE.



And I love these. I want to make another flannel baby blanket for Cooper we will see.

Go HERE

It's been a while

Just thought I would do a little update-
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, We sure did. We were able to go down to Vancouver for a couple of days. We stayed with Jordan's parents and spent Christmas eve with them and then headed over to my parents for Christmas day. It was fun to see everybody and of course the girls loved seeing their cousins.

We are trying to get back into our routines at home. Cooper was sleeping thru the night before we went down for Christmas (10pm to 5am) but while we were there he decided to get up every 30 min. uggg.. but he is slowly getting back into his routine.

I have set my goals for the new year and one of those is exercising a lot more. My mom, sister and I have started our own biggest loser .. so far so good. We only started yesterday!

I am also thinking of opening my etsy shop back up! So far just thinking about it. But I have found the busier I am the more things get done around here because I just don't have the time to procrastinate. I am not sure it will be bags though.. maybe a few but I will have to raise my prices as I just didn't make any money before. So I have been researching a few new things. We will see if it happens.

Emma is back in school and boy did she miss it. We are still all having trouble getting up in the morning and getting to bed earlier. When I go in to get Emma up she says, "but mom it's still dark out it's too early to get up." But then she is just to excited to go to school that she jumps out of bed.

We had our first Sunday for 9am church.. oh boy. Jordan starts at 6am with his meetings so that left me to get all three kids ready and out the door. I am happy to say I was only 3 min late. I started to wake the girls at 7:45 but could not get Dottie up until 8:45. I had already packed up breakfast for them to just eat it there. After I got Dot dressed and hair combed in super fast mom mode.. I pulled Cooper out got him dressed and in the car seat and away we went. We live pretty close to our church building. Dottie is a Sunbeam now.. she was so excited to be with the big kids. She had no problems going in and finding her seat... she started singing right away.

During Thanksgiving break we drove out to Spokane to visit some of Jordan's family. We had a great time visiting and catching up. While we were there Jordan's cousin Julie took our family pictures and they turned out great.. Thank You again Julie (madeline james photography) These are just a few.. there are a lot more I am still trying to decide which one I want to frame for my wall.


Also during the month of December I had a Birthday and turned 29 (really) Just seems a little weird to be 29 right now. Jordan took me out to the Old steak house saloon. It was really good. Later we went as a family to Red Robin to get my free Birthday burger. We always enjoy Red Robin.

Cooper is getting so big. He is 3 months now. He is smiling at us like crazy and loves to just watch his sisters. They are his little mommy's and are a huge help. Now only if I could get them to change his diapers ( they are still a little grossed out after they saw him pee all over once) He really is a good baby and doesn't cry to much. Last night he was talking up a storm to me it was pretty cute.

Happy New Years, Here's to a good year for everyone!

Getting the Christmas Tree (pictures by Emma Erickson)

Picking out the perfect tree!





She gave the camara to Dottie for this one!









Thinking we should give the camara to Emma more often.. she did a pretty good job!

some recent projects

The "Tie Onesie" I wanted to buy one of these on Etsy. But I realized I had all the stuff to make one... So here you have it. It turned out alright. I would rather have done stripes or argyle or something, But didn't have any of that kind of fabric. If you are interested click HERE for the tutorial.

I am a little bias but pretty sure he was the cutest little boy at church today!

Temple block- While looking for things to do for Super Saturday projects I came across these. Loved them. So I bought some and made a few. I also ended up teaching this class yesterday at our Super Saturday. And if you are interested in this one click HERE to buy the kit.

Love These

So the ones I ordered are cropped and zoomed in better and "enhanced" as they called it with softer edges. He did so great getting his pictures taken. I was so worried because you never know how a 6 week old is going to behave. But he did great. And I think they turned out really well.. so of course I spent way more money then I should have.