luther's 4th birthday
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backyard photoshoot with pearl and calvin
calvin just turned 4 months old, and man is he a sweetie!! he is cuddly, smiley and loves to suck his thumb. he has started laughing in the last month and pearl is aways asking me to make him laugh. luther loves translating his coos and telling us what calvin is saying. he is sleeping through the night most of the time and taking a good morning nap. he stays up the rest of the day except taking one or two short cat naps. i wish he would nap more, but my other two never did either. he is nursing 5 times a day, 6 when he wakes up in the middle of the night. he is a very happy baby and rarely fussy. he does like to be held a lot, but he is sleeping in his bed at night and for his morning nap. he falls asleep on his own and puts himself back to sleep very often. he is very attached to a certain blanket, and his thumb. i have never had a thumb sucker and it is so so cute!! and so so nice!! i think it is a big part of the reason he is a happy baby. i am sure it will be a pain trying to g...
Luther and Pearl
i don't remember saying "show me your most unattractive smiles" on a hike to no where where is the waterfall daddy promised us??? another beauty of a smile from luther we don't going hiking without this:
Calvin’s birth story
On Wednesday, June 30 th my contractions started to pick up. I had been having contractions for 3 weeks at that point, but they were worse that night. I had not been having any while I was laying down at night. I would have a few every time I got up to the bathroom, but none when I was laying in the bed or sleeping(that i noticed). But that night I had several really hard ones that woke me up. They continued all day on Thursday being very regular all day long. When I would time them, they would be between 8 to 4 minutes apart. I tried to just not think about it because everyone says you will know when you are really in labor. James had a really important case at work that day and we had plans to go on a date that night and we had already paid $40 for the tickets. so I wanted to really make sure something was going on before I went running to the hospital for no reason. T he contractions continued all day and were strong, but not unbearable. By that evening I wa...
