4 Months

Well, to finish my last post, I don't know if Braydan will do any more big mountains this year :) It seems we're both back and forth about the idea. At first I told him he should finish his goal, but then I thought, what am I saying? Am I crazy?! So, the next day I changed my mind and told him it's not worth it. But now I decided I'm staying out of it and will leave it up to him.

Anyways, while he was gone I spent a lot of time working outside on my garden. I love my little garden!

All my veggies are coming up good! All our spinach is ready so we had an awesome strawberry spinach salad last night!! Our neighbors gave us a few new things to try, one being leeks. At first I equated leek with leech and had some weird ideas of what it might look like. But they're kinda a mix between garlic and onion I think? Braydan and Kaleb built a ladder on Monday for the beans to climb up. I'm excited :)

On with what I wanted to post about! Eliza!! I feel like I've neglected to post about her and she's changing so much, so I better hurry up. She had her 4 month check up a few weeks ago (i know...she's almost 5 months now!) But she weighed 14 lbs. and is in the 90% for weight! I love all her chunkies. It's the only time in her life that she can enjoy being a chub, so I say show it off girl! I love her hair too. It's like a wave mullet going on back there. Just today she rolled over from her back to belly!

I totally missed it the first time cause I was feeding Kaleb lunch. I looked over and did a double take. Then of course I ran and grabbed the video camera and flipped her over so she could do it again, but it didn't go so well. Kaleb got jealous and started rolling over on her so he could "have his picture" too. I guess I was so focused on keeping her safe from his legs that I messed up the video, but now there's two to watch!

She sure is a social baby. If you even just smile at her, she'll smile and "talk" back. The only time I can get her to laugh is when I let her put her fingers on my face and if she pulls my nose or lip and I say "ouch!" really loud, she'll think it's funny. It's worth it to get scratches all over my face just to hear her giggle :) She's still the easiest girl. I can go anywhere and she's perfectly content to suck her fingers in her car seat. She's becoming more aware of what's around her and plays with toys. It also means she's more distracted when she nurses. She'll start and then hear Kaleb crash his cars and look around . . . . I'm like "focus girl! Get the job done!"

Braydan wanted to feed her rice cereal yesterday so I said fine, whatever. I thought it was normal for her to spit it all out, but then I tried a bite and almost died! He used the ol' school rice cereal that you're supposed to cook, not the instant! It tasted like tiny, grity bits of rice. Disgusting!! We'll have to try again later :)