You guessed it, it is time for The Little Things Thursdays again! I just love doing these posts because it captures the snippets of our daily lives perfectly. Here’s what we’ve been up to this week:
1. Rylin is not quite ready to roll over, but she began tolerating tummy time really well! She will stay on her tummy for at least 10-15 minutes without protest and pushes up on her arms. She is also sitting up with minimal support rather well.
2. Harper doesn’t care about rolling over either, but he thinks he may want to scoot away! When on his tummy, he also pushes up on his arms, but kicks his feet and pushes back a bit. In other news, Harper started cutting a tooth and boy did he have something to say about it! He’s been extremely vocal about his displeasure with this new tooth. Orajel is amazing stuff!
3. Nisey brought a Jumparoo over and it is Sydney’s new favorite past time. That girl LOVES to jump. She seriously jumps with enough force to get a bit of “air”. While jumping she giggles and grins the entire time. The other babies have given the Jumparoo a spin, but could take or leave it. Sydney being the quirky girl she is found a way to get around a bit too. Instead of scooting on her tummy, she inchworms backwards when laying on her back! I attempted to record this, but of course she was too camera shy to demonstrate.
4. Mason is a man on the move too. He’s been kicking and pushing while on his tummy enough to get a bit of locomotion. He can turn around from one place to another and often tries to nap toys from siblings.
5. With spoon feeds we’ve accumulated new gear and have zero storage space left in our kitchen. George snagged an old microwave cart from his dad and re-purposed it. He sanded it down and re stained it from blonde to a deep espresso. We then bought several yards of fabric and made panels to go around the bottom and conceal the clutter. We store it in the dining room, but can roll it into the kitchen as an island.
6. My hands have begun taking an elderly appearance in recent days. I wash A LOT of bottles, wash my hands a bazillion times a day, and slather hand sanitizer all over them too. At one point, my knuckles started cracking and bleeding. I began using thick moisturizers and wearing gloves to bed. Crazy, I know, but I was desperate. Then, Mom had some great advice. When I wash bottles, I now put a little Aquaphor on the dry spots before gearing up with my handy dandy kitchen gloves. It has worked wonders! Just as I figured this little trick out, I have four fewer bottles to wash per day. With all the spoon fed calories the babies take, they started refusing a bottle. We’ve officially gone from our original eight feeds (total of 32 bottles) to just four bottle feeds (total of 16 bottles)! This means we can probably toss bottles in the dishwasher from time to time too.
7. Our blog reached over 100,000 hits this week! Thank you for keeping up with our shenanigans in quadville. We just love getting feedback from our readers so don’t be too shy to share. We hope to bring smiles to your face, laughter to your day, and maybe even inspire you from time to time.
HUGS!
Amber
I have never seen those teethers, i will have to try them out! The jumparoo is a fav in our house too 🙂
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Love the teethers! I don’t know where to buy them, however. I wish others loved the Jumparoo, but they don’t get it.
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Oh my gosh you forgot to tell us you dropped a bottle…yayayayayaya!!! The containment of your munchkins has ended! We are mgetting closer but we still are staying close to the spots were I put them. It doesn’t surprise me that Harper thinks the tether is a paci. Keep up the amazing work momma!
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I did forget to tell you about the bottle! We dropped it in a different way than I expected.
I think we better start looking into gates around here! Eeks! It does look like a paci, but is cool if they gnaw it. We later found a tooth in Sydney’s mouth. All but Rylin have one now.
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Wow, they are just growing so fast, and getting cuter all the time. You are also doing an awesome job, I guess I should say “you’ll” since it is a team effort! Keep up the good work!
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It has been great to keep up with you through the blog! Everytime I see a new post I scroll through right away to see the pictures, then I go back and read.
Glad to see that everything is going so well!!
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It makes my heart happy to hear that! I miss you so much, I really need to drop by BB again.
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Last fall I read a blog post of Kelle Hampton’s Enjoying the Small Things http://www.kellehampton.com/2012/10/everybody-plays.html where she went to CA and did photography of consumer testing (by little ones) of the new Infantino and Step 2 lines. They had an Infantino Go Ga Ga teether that all of the babies loved. It’s a cute little monkey and is available at Target. Our great-grandson received one when he was 7mo old and has found it helpful with his teething. It’s easy to hold and gnaw. =) Perhaps it would be helpful for MoM and DoM.
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Thanks for sharing! Her photography is stunning and I love her cause. I need to order some, or four of those teethers, they look fun! We have a lot more teeth coming our way.
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