Summer so Fun!

My friend Autumn came into town and it was so great to see her and have her meet Turner! Her children are not in the picture because they were still asleep. Kennadie is 3.5 and Brodee will be one in a month or so. Her kids are adorable. I love how we met in 7th grade and now swapping momma stories! It was a great visit with her family too. Aunt Nancy attempted to put Turner to sleep. She did such a good job! Love this family!

Date Night! Woo hoo!

My mom and dad watched Turner so Addison and I could go on a date. Mom laughed because she thought it would consist of dinner, movie, ice cream, stroll around the park...a 4or so hour date. We left about 6:30 and was home by 8:15 or so :). It was great! Shogun was horrible, had previous students sitting right next to our booth, and a woman almost passed out behind us and had to be escorted out :) but the company was good and loved eating at the same time with Addison! I then did get my Maggie Moo's before heading home! Turner pretty much slept the entire time we were gone.

Turner's personality! This age is so exciting. He is really starting to 'show' his personality. I love, love hearing him laugh out loud. He will sit in front of anyone and just giggle and coo at whatever funny thing you do. He has started to develop moments where he will 'chill'. This is where he will lay on his blanket and just hang out by himself. It's great to see what he does and how he interacts with his world around him.

I'm paying attention, Mommy! Promise!

Classic Turner. Sneaking an eye to me when he should be paying attention to Daddy reading him a story. Turner is starting to let us read an entire book to him. It was an ongoing joke the first two months on how I told Addison, I will get through his bedtime story, Night, Night Little Pookie! He would start off good and then start wailing halfway through it! Addison just grinned as I was trying so hard to get him to listen to the entire story. He now loves to listen to his stories!

'Dream a little Dream for me....'

Him sleeping across the way has had some stressful nights. What's funny is we all can't wait for the morning your baby sleeps in and that's when it freaks you out! Countless times, I say to Addison at the wee hour of the morning...I am going to go check on him even though we have both angel care and video monitor..in and out I go until Momma pretty much wakes him up...I'll get better, promise. What is so unfair is when he chooses to sleep through the 2:30 feeding (like he did last night) but Momma has to get up at 3:30 to pump because of the pain...

Nothing is better than sleeping...and Turner has been doing so good lately (don't want to jinx myself) on sleeping until 6-7~ now this is still with his 2:30 feeding. We tried dreamfeed...but the little oinker still would wake up at 2:30..so I decided to not waste that extra bottle if he is still going to get up the same time!

Anyways. The video monitor is kept on my side and the angel care monitor on Addison's side. BEEP! BEEP!BEEP! Addison bolts up and runs across the house as I roll over and turn on the monitor as I am kicking the covers off and  I see him move right away when I turn it on and he has several times made it go off because of his moving! I try to drift off to sleep with the beeping still going.. Addison comes back in the room...wide eyed and plops back in bed...the beeping goes away. I tell him I saw him move right when he got up, but couldn't yell for him (I know lazy..but I've been sleep deprived since April and my body seems to have momets where it can't move..)

 Addison then says, "It was my alarm"...  

You won't find me laughing out loud at 6 am in the morning, but this was classic. We usually wake up to the radio and for some reason it went to the buzzing...

Turner still dreaming away as Mommy and Daddy sit wide eyed in the bed (me laughing)

We visited Sue Gillman over coffee and bagels! It's fun to get out for short trips and see people! Thanks Sue for the invitation!

Roll Over, Turner!

(to the tune of 'Mooove over, Butter'--I know..I'm clever :)

Turner has become lazy about tummy time. He did great the first couple of months and now it's a very small window he will do it. I've been trying to catch him on the FLIP doing some kind of roll. He is starting to move where I could see him go from belly to back but no success yet. The other day (this is about day 7 of where I record him and nothing occurs) he was on his back, chillin' and PoPo looking at me needing to be fed. Popo and I go get food for him while Turner decides to roll from back to side while I'm gone. I come back to him in this position...he just smiles and spits up. :)

Not Successful by any means

Turner and I attempt to put this together. Many of you saw my voyage on Facebook. I tried to keep it hidden from Addison so I could surprise him with, "Look what I did myself!" He caught me and brought it out to the living room... he says I had everything in the wrong place...I didn't have everything! Needless to say, Addison finished my job.....

This little orange (maybe giraffe looking thing) is going to hurt someone..well let me rephrase that..I flicked it at about the right time Turner was in perfect view of being smacked with the 'flingy thing'.. He's still too big for this, but we stuff blankets and he looks at it all. I can't wait for him to be able to go to town in this!

Growing! Growing!

He's at the stage where he will hold his toys. It's fun except for the occasional head bang...  Here he is holding his head up high!

Went and visited my friend Krissy and her sweet girl Anna! She was born on May 29th (My birthday!)

It's so fun to hang out and swap stories and especially to hear that your child is 'not the only one'.

All I wanted to do was make a pretty fruit pizza for my BFF, Marcy's, 30th Birthday... I am actually good in the kitchen but Momma Brain here seems to have to jump through 4 hoops! Turner is just hanging out in the kitchen with me bouncing away while Momma is cooking away! Got the dough in the oven and went to change Turner's diaper.. I come back to a smoke filled kitchen! Open it up to discover this...Turner is back in his bouncy....doors opened....and now looking around my kitchen at what I call 'Martha Stewart on crack'..... oh well!

It's been a great few weeks!

If you haven't noticed...Turner is still using the paci from the hospital. it's not that we are cheap, but it's the only one he truly likes. Luckily, he doesn't use it that much throughout the day since it goes missing throughout the day! He does love his Rocco the Rhino paci my friend Katey gave him! 

Looking forward to month 4!