Just for fun

It's hard to blog regarding things that we do - we don't do much so if I blogged on doing nothing - you'd be bored!! So I'll just share some recent pictures of the kids for ya.

Perhaps a dentist when he grows up???






Told ya someone is always naked here.


Notice ALL three are standing up next to the tote.

One of the few pictures with me in it.


Here's a video of Travis and Ian batting around a ball. It's hilarious when all three get involved but there is only two in this video - not sure how Logan slept thru this. It's hours of fun (ok about 10 minutes in reality). I didn't have time to edit it, but it's only about 3 minutes. Grab yourself a tasty beverage and enjoy.



We have all three boys crawling all over the place now. I think we will have a walker here very soon as Travis is traveling around the coffee table. Gates are in place, finally. We are fast approaching their first birthday and I'm trying to plan that in my free time which is about 10 minutes a day. Looks like we will have a good amount of the Johnson crew down here at that time...watch out folks it may be too much of a good time.

Lauren's soccer and softball practices and games have been canceled for the next week due to the scare of the swine flu. The school has also canceled all extra curricular activities as well thru the 11th of May. I think the media is making way too much of this especially since thousands of people die each year from the regular flu. Not saying that we aren't taking precautions, but we aren't going overboard either.

We finally got three bath seats so we can bathe the boys together. It's still a two person job (a third person makes it even easier) but at least the boys can play together. The bath seats were extremely hard to find. Oh I could find them on ebay but I refused to pay $15 plus shipping (Be quiet Bob ;-). I found one on my mommy forum and then another one on a site similar to craigslist and I didn't pay an arm and a leg. I used to have one for Lauren and I must have given it a way - unlike all the other stuff of hers that I STILL have. I did sell the swing that I had when Lauren was born and she was sad about it..she pouted for an hour. That girl will not give up anything.

Ok, well I could go on and on about basically nothing that is going on here. So I'm going to hit publish so you all can enjoy the recent pictures.

SLEEP

Can you guess what I'm about to post?? I believe that it's happened once A LONG TIME AGO. But last night the boys slept all night long. I kept them up an extra hour playing extra hard and apparently it worked. They went to sleep at 7 p.m. and didn't wake up until a little after 6 a.m.

Mike was a on a business trip this week so it was all me. Ian is now at a point where he wakes up and wants to be held while he sleeps. If you put him down he screams. Which usually isn't a problem but w/o help here I really don't want to handle three babies up in the night, one being hysterical. So for a couple nights I slept from 2-6 a.m. either on the couch or in Mike's recliner with Ian just to get some shut eye.

Mike comes home last night and said that he would get up with the boys and I could sleep all night long. Go figure that the boys would sleep all night. Definitely no payback there.

We had pictures done last Sunday and the photographer has just a sneak peek of them on her blog. You can see them at http://www.jacquelinereitzphotography.com/blog/

I'd post a pic but I'm having trouble with my USB ports on my computer (it's always something isn't it). Hopefully the pics that are Jackie's website will suffice for right now.

Happy Easter

Well the Easter Bunny made it to the Scott house.

Someone is always naked around here...


Getting out of the house isn't all that easy anymore. Ian is out of his infant car seat now; so we have two in their carriers and Ian being carried into anyplace we go now. I really don't think he minds being carried ;-)

All three boys are now crawling. Ian is still a bit slow but at least he is able to get where he wants to go; which I'm so glad because he would get frustrated and just whine. I now know what the most annoying sound in the world is!!!

We are totally off of baby food - I feel like I'm always in the kitchen making snacks or meals though. I feel like my Aunt Betty at times. When we would visit, her and mom would always be in the kitchen. It all began with breakfast then clean up and then they would sit down and chat for about an hour and back up they would go to start making lunch.

Travis and Logan apparently are tired of crawling and now are pulling up to everything. Just as I get one stage under control they change it up.


We all went to the Hilton for brunch on Sunday. It went better than I anticipated. We had enough adults for the 4 babies (3 mine - 1 Tiffany's) that were there. I even got to eat!!!

Lauren with her cousin Ava


My Easter cutie (ok just one of four of my cuties)


The Poor Easter Bunny had no idea what he got himself into


Boys will be boys....

9 months old today

The boys are 9 months old today!! Only 3 months to go before the "We made it through the first year" party.
The pediatrician was extremely pleased as to how well these boys are growing. They are almost perfect!!

Their stats are as follows:

Travis:
28 3/4 long (75% percentile)
16.4 lbs (less than 5% percentile)

Logan:
28 3/4 long (75%)
16.5 lbs (less than 5%)

IAN: (ready for this????)
28 1/2 long (50% percentile)
20 lbs (45%)

Although the smaller boys weights are in the lower percentile, the pedi is not concerned at all.

The boys are eating regular food and are extremely active as long as they continue to eat and play, she said there is no concern. We only got one shot today along with a toe prick to check for anemia, which was normal for all the boys.

Look before you snap

Spring break is long gone. We didn't go anywhere this year but tried to keep Lauren busy for the week. She went grocery shopping, Costco, to the mall, and canoeing with Dad and the girl scouts. I think we've decided that traveling with the trio will have to wait until they can sleep in a regular bed and take turns driving!!
Perhaps we can make a trip to Michigan next summer - but we will have to wait and see what these little turkeys are doing at that time.

Logan and Travis are crawling - ALL OVER THE PLACE. It is time for gates, but then again I need to find time to put them up. Ian still isn't crawling but it's just a matter of time before he does. I think he will do so in a week or two. He's tired of getting his toys taken away from the other boys. They crawl up to Ian, take his toy and crawl off.

And who needs baby food..these boys don't. They want real food darn it. I'm slowly getting rid of the stash of baby food that was in the pantry. They are eaters let me tell you. I know it's just the tip of the iceberg!!

Lauren took some recent pics of the boys and thought I would post them tonight. We are getting the boys 9 month pics done on Saturday with a photographer from my local mommy forum. I'll be sure to post.

Logan
Ian
Travis

It's been nice here for the past few days and the boys were quite fussy tonight. We took Ian out on the patio and let him hang out a bit. We took some pictures of him and he just smiled for the camera. Unfortunately, I didn't notice "what" was going on in the yard. Thank BooBoo.

8 month old boys and a 9 yr old girl

The beginning of March brings me older kids (BTW - I'm not getting older at all).
Lauren turned 9 last month and the boys just turned 8 months.


Logan and Travis are both scooting around; not exactly crawling yet, but are somewhat mobile. They can both go from their hands and knees to a sitting position. There have been several times that I go into their rooms and I see them sitting in their cribs. Ian is not crawling at all. He rolls where ever he wants to go. And for those of you that have seen him recently, there's a lot of him rolling. I haven't weighed him recently but I believe he is over 20 lbs. He is pushing the limit on his infant carseat. I know he's pushing my limit on carrying him in that infant carseat. It's all I can do to lift him up and place the seat on the base in the car.

Here's a video of Ian blowing raspberries.


The boys are having their class picture taken tomorrow. I wasn't going to take them since it's not the same day that they have Mommy's Day Out. But I recd a call from the teacher on Tuesday and I could tell she really wanted the boys to be there.

Spring break is happening next week. I cannot believe that it's here already. Earlier this week we were wearing shorts and tank tops and today, well, let's say we are wearing a hell of a lot more clothes. It's raining and it's only gotten to 42 degrees today.

I gotta get to bed. It was not a good night last night and I'm hoping for something better tonight!!

It's a very good day today

What a happy day today is. I bought three new convertible carseats for the boys that were on sale (and with a multiples discount nonetheless). Ian is going to be out of his infant carseat before he hits 1 year old and Travis and Logan won't be far behind him.
That means more stuff for the garage! Poor Mike hasn't had his garage in over a year with all the baby stuff out there.

Mike bought a new hard drive and memory for my computer - so hopefully it won't crash again.

AND....drum roll please....I paid off the Van today.

More pics to be added soon. I'm getting ready to consign alot of the boys' clothes and most of my awake/not with the boys time is taken up with that this week. We also have a wedding to attend this weekend and I have NOTHING to wear. It's hard to be fashionable when you haven't had to wear dress clothes to work for the past 4 years, and have been pregnant or stuck at home for the past year!! I hate shopping for something specific too!!!

I promise - more pics soon!!