Henry is 4 months old!

Henry was four months old on January 2 and since we were out of town this weekend I took his picture today while Abigail was at preschool. He is growing so fast! If only he would sleep through the night! Ha! No really, he is doing ok, I have not been feeding him at night for a while, however I should so we could all get some sleep. I feed him his last bottle as late as I possible can (usually around 10pm) and put him to bed. He sleeps fine until about 4:00 and then we start the pacifier game, I am sure I give it to him no less than 100 times. He doesn't sleep with it initially, just when he thinks he needs to eat do I give it to him. The weird thing is he isn't even really awake when he is grunting, twisting, fussing etc... Just not really content. When it is a reasonable time to feed him, I roll him over and wake him up he is all smiles and doesn't seem hungry anymore. I hope this is a phase, because does a baby really need to eat more than 42 ounces a day? I think at 4 months and 18+ pounds he could sleep for at least 8 hours. I am looking forward to his 4 month check-up to get some directions about feeding him solids, if I can wait til then.

He is a happy baby and loves sitting up and sticking his tongue out, thanks to his dad. He hasn't rolled over yet but he is getting close, when he is on his stomach he won't stay on his blanket for long because he pushes up on he arms and slides back . He pushes back every night until his feet hit the end of the bed.

More Christmas Pictures

Matching Pajamas

Henry didn't really want to join the picture, he was pooped and ready for bed.

Decorating cookies

Henry wondering what everyone does at this table all the time!

Day after Christmas

We came home from Paris on Friday and went to the Kirby's that night. Abigail is getting ready to open presents at Grammy and Pops.

New furniture for her dollhouse Santa brought her.

New doll clothes Grammy made.

Henry having fun in the saucer.

Christmas Day

Henry needed a little nap after opening all those presents.

Scott giving Millie some attention, she is so neglected! Ha!

Matthew started off hunting that morning as usual but this time he got his first deer. It was a doe, but the big one is still there because he walked out of the woods shortly after he got this one. We are going back to Paris this weekend to get him!

Abigail opening her presents at my parents.

Henry checking out his pile of presents.

New gown! She LOVES gowns.

Christmas Morning

Santa came to see Abigail and Henry.

Millie just wanted to sit right in the middle of their new things.

Henry liked his new chair and drum.

Working on that new drum!

Preschool Christmas Program and Santa

This has been Abigail's first year in preschool and she really likes it! They had a little Christmas program and she did perfect. She had been singing the songs around the house for weeks and I was a little worried that she might get stage fright and run off the stage or something but she didn't. She walked in in a line and got in her spot and sang every word and did every motion. The teachers led them off the stage and to the classroom and we went there to pick her up and she told us it wasn't time to leave she hadn't had a snack yet! She would have been happy to stay all day.

Since Matthew stayed home that morning to go to the program with us we went to see Santa at Bass Pro Shop after the program. We usually do the mall but this year our Bass Pro location did the Christmas village and it was better that the mall. No lines, lots of things for kids to do, and free pictures. Abigail wasn't scared at all, neither was Henry!

Matthew and Abigail coloring a picture after talking to Santa.

Christmas Card Outtakes 2008

Pretty cute "Matthew grin"

He was tired of me taking pictures.

A pretty good one that I wanted at the end of this post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Still not comfortable yet.

Me trying to save Henry from being tossed off the couch.

I am sure this is common but the challenge this year was not the three month old, that leaves the 3 1/2 year old. She was so silly and not really interested in doing what we would ask her to do that it made getting the picture really hard! I was going for anything, we started out trying to get a good picture of both of them together but Abigail was getting wild and not really wanting to hold Henry up so Matthew said lets just do some separately and put two separate pictures on the card. I think I took 254 pictures to get the ones I used on the card and turns out I was able to put individuals and one picture together. It helped that the picture had to be cropped so much I could take out the flying arms and ugly background things I didn't want in the picture.

I can't believe Christmas is almost here! It looks like Santa will come to our house tomorrow night (23rd) so that we can go to Paris/Camden to my grandparents for Christmas eve dinner and presents. I am finally done shopping and so I am ready for Christmas to get here. Every year with Abigail gets more fun. She is excited and really has no requests about presents so I hope she likes what we picked out. She liked talking to Santa this year and we have a good picture this year that I will get on here soon. We saw him at Bass Pro Shop and that was much better than the mall. Abigial told me the Santa at the mall was scary. It was laid back there and there were lots of things for kids to do in their Christmas village so she just walked right up to him. It probablly helped that we got there about 15 minutes early from when the sign said Santa started seeing visitors, but Santa waved to us to come on up and Abigail went right up to him and started talking. Up until this point she was not interested in Santa and nothing you could say made her want to see him up close. She was ready to sacrifice her toys that he might bring her as long as we didn't take her to sit on his lap. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!