Our Little Bit is 3 Months Old (AK)

To the most adorable little girl in the world, (along with your twin sissies!)

You have stolen mommy and daddy's heart! I cannot believe you are already three months old! How could that possibly be true?! The time is flying by way too fast and mommy isn't so sure she likes it very much. =0) You melt our hearts! Ashton Kate, the Lord was soo incredibly gracious when He gave us you! You have the BEST temperament, you are a great sleeper, and you are laughing, smiling, and cooing away these days and we are soaking up every minute. We are trying so hard to savor each baby moment with you and just hold you close knowing this time is so fleeting! We are so grateful for your easy going demeanor and your overall easiness thus far. We're not exactly sure how we would survive if that wasn't the case. We might even fight over getting to hold you at night because that means we are relaxed and not running wild with your twin sisters! Ha! We hope you always know how much we love you, but even more how much Jesus loves you! It's exciting to see your big sisters learning bible verses and starting to understand things about Jesus and although you sit with us many nights for "family worship time," we're pretty confident there's not much understanding at this point. =) But soon we pray that will change. We can't wait to teach you all about Him. The ONE who created YOU! The one who fashioned you perfectly in His image. We await with great anticipation the day you too will see your need for a Savior and see the magnitude of His abundant grace. Apart from Him, we are nothing. With Him, we now await eternity with Him forever. We love you Ashton Kate Currie and thank God for blessing us with the sweetest little girl that has captured our hearts and then some...

Love, Mommy & Daddy

 

Here are a few milestones for this third month of your life: (from 2-3 months old)

-You weighed 12 lbs 11 oz. and the only reason we know is because we happened to go to the breastfeeding support group on your 3 month birthday =)

-Slept 8.5 hrs on Jan 3-9.5 wks/2months

-Waking up all smiley :)-9.5/10wks
-At around 9.5/10 wks sleeping through the night-usually can count on 8 hrs which is such a blessing!
-6 feedings now and takes 4 oz generally if given a bottle
-Wearing 0-3 & 3 month clothing and size 1 diapers
-Went 9.5hrs at 10 wks & 10 hrs on jan.9th-10wks 2days
-Does a cute little grunt or smacks lips right before mommy starts nursing :)
-Pulls on her blankies and any dresses or shirts he has on
-11wks-grabbed onto toy (1/16) for the first time
-more steady with her movements not as jerky-11.5/12wks
-loves the piano play mat and being carried in the ergo :) falls asleep almost every time!
-seems to be a momma's girl already! Can be crying and as soon as mommy takes over it usually stops…oh dear goodness :=)
-tummy troubles last couple weeks-hate to hear you cry!
-At 3 months, began playing with hands
-At 3 months/13 weeks, holding head up very well
-First snow! A day shy of 13 wks 1/28
-Fussy while eating-does better asleep-trying to figure out what’s causing pain
-Likes facing out and seeing everyone
-Loves when you interact with her!
-Loves to spit and blow bubbles
-Snugly still!! Love being held =)
-First cold at 3mo =(
-loves to hold hand in the air and stare/talk to it
-A TOTAL JOY =) Truly, you are SO much fun! Such a happy, delightful little baby girl!

SNOW in Alabama...So.Much.Fun.

SNOW?! Sure didn't think we'd have the chance to do a post about snow living in Auburn, Alabama. It was already a stretch to get our one snow experience in Birmingham, but now Auburn? Lucky little ducks I tell ya! They waited on pins and needles for the snow to begin falling....and with all the hype and excitement leading up to it, we sure were gonna have some sad little munchkins if nothing ever came of it...Thankfully late that afternoon, the flurries began to fall and when they woke up from their naps, there was enough on the ground to have them erupt with squeals of joy! I can assure you there were no squeals of joy from the momma who had to find enough layers to dress them in & undress them from to go potty =) We just don't have those kind of clothes laying around. But we managed to grab enough mismatched items to bundle them up with and since there were no awards being given for the most well dressed children in the snow we were safe! Ha! I'm not sure who was more excited...the twins or daddy!?! He was like a kid in a candy shop ready to get out there and play! Glad that made one of us =) I assumed the motherly role and got the hot chocolate and snacks ready to go for when they returned. They had an absolute ball both the first day and probably even more the 2nd day when the sun was shining and they got to go sledding for the first time! I think they would have stayed out there all day if given the chance...what fun memories we hope they will have from their first snow at their new house as they still call it!

Day 1 Memories (January 28, 2014):

Day 2 Memories (January 29, 2014):

 

Officially Getting Closer to Having 3 Year Old Twins-2 Year 9 Month Happenings!

2 YEARS & 9 MONTHS OLD

Weight: Mak: ~28.5lbs; MG: 30.5lbs

Clothes: 2T

Shoes: Mak: size 6 ; MG: size 7

Teeth count: Mak: 16; MG: 16 still no 2 year old molars

Each month continues to bring more hilarious commentary from these two! And a few other milestones/memories from this past month (from 32-33mo)

-Ask to hold Ashton Kate all day long :)

-Mak scared of everything =( We remind her all day long that God protects us! She will shut every door wherever we are and has now begun to lock them too. She despises the dark and wants to "close" it off from her apparently!

-Name all their animals and babies (usually Ashton & Harper) but lately they are getting more creative in their naming!

-Play and talk to each other all day long-truly best best friends!

- With that comes them being very mischievous together! (we never know what we might stumble upon-stopping up bathroom sinks with TP/washing hands and feed in sink and adding hand soap to each other's hair/using 6 rolls of TP to make "blankets" for their doll house pieces and finding them wading in it just to name a few examples)

- Neither uses pronouns correctly....we hear a lot of  "Her is part of our family, her is crying, her is moving, her wants that"

-Other things we hear a lot of lately: "I'm busy right now, just a minute," "Can we can we?!?!" when asking to do something, go somewhere or eat something-hard to resists this cuteness! "I wanna go somewhere else when we're out and coming home" (MG), It’s “told” (cold-MG) & "Lets go do such and such okay mommy okay??....and "would that be ok? Ok thanks mommy" (Mak) & both will ask me regularly "What's your favorite thing!?" after I started asking them each night what their favorite thing we did today was...they definitely pick up on every little thing we say or do!

-Both will nurse their baby like mommy does!

-Favorite things to play-all things pretend-riding in a car, going to the grocery store, ordering in a drive through, having picnics, puppet shows, playing house with their babies-and they especially love using blankets for anything and everything and will get ALL of them out!

-Call their babies baby Ashton without the Kate

-Love playing in AKs car seat

-Want to have boo boos so they can get a band aid

-Want to know everyone's names and where they're going-very curious especially MG

-MG still cannot stand to not have things in order or if something is missing a piece it really bothers her-borderline OCD at times =)

-Moved into our new house this month and they love it! Talk about their new house and new room a lot =)

-Love playing with their cousins!

-they will tattle on each other but they also definitely look out for one another too!

-still love the “singing” movie and would watch it all day long if we let them…

-like having something in each section of their food plate at mealtime and will insist that each slot has something!

-Favorite foods these days: MG still LOVES all fruit and will devour it. Makenzie is obsessed with pancakes and I think would eat them every meal if we let her. She also loves bacon and will steal yours if you're not watching!

-MG has started talking in third person and will say Maddie Grace doesn't want to go night night or Maddie Grace is hungry. Cracks us up! 

-So the twins have changed things up on us lately and now Maddie Grace is our little talker. She will talk to random strangers and tell them all kinds of things and will also talk for Makenzie who has been very shy lately. With that has come some pretty hilarious things our of her mouth. (At the Christmas Eve family get together on daddy's side she opened up AK's present and saw there was a piggy bank-she tipped it upside down and asked "where's the money?!" and got quite a few laughs! Then with Aunt Kim & Uncle Nathan in Clayton, while mommy and daddy were unpacking boxes at the new house, MG said she wasn't wearing any pants, just had on her panties and then she pauses in all seriousness and says, "panties are my daddy's favorite!" Dear goodness, no idea where she comes up with these things! And one more good story was at Chrsitmastime she opened up her stocking and we said Maddie Grace what do you tell Mimi & Grandpa and she said, "I'm prob gonna want some more (referring to her candy in her mouth) She has kept us laughing a ton lately! She definitely has some good one-liners just like her daddy! =)