4 months old!

Our sweet Stella is 4 months old! Wow, she is growing so fast and I hate that! Once you get past those first, long two months it really starts to fly by! If I didn't have to do those first few months and send my babies to daycare I would have more. Yes, I said it!
I love this age. She is smiling all. the. time! She is rolling from belly to back, she is sleeping AWESOME! I could not ask for a better baby. I say she rivals Nora for best baby. I can't decide who is better. So with that being said we will not try for number 3 and jinx that goodness! We went to the dr. this morning for our 4 month check up and here are her stats....

Weight 14 lbs 12 oz.  68th %ile
Height  25 1/2 inches  85th %ile

The nurse practitioner said she is growing exactly the way she is supposed to be. I was worried a little about her nogen, but that has rounded out nicely and she said I don't need to worry. We are going to be starting cereal in a month when she can sit up a little bit better. Stella did really well considering she got two shots today. She only cried after the second one.

The girl absolutely loves the jump a roo! What a great invention. She just bounces and bounces and bounces and giggles and bounces some more! Nora plays with her while she is in it too. I think Nora secretly wishes she could get in it as well. So here is our sweet baby at 4 months old!

Stella's Baptism

Stella was baptized this weekend. It was a beautiful yesterday for the baptism. Crazy February weather, it was in the mid 40's. Stella was baptized at Concord Trinity. This was the church we got married and and also joined this weekend. We changed from Zion because we wanted a little more and they offer a ton of activities and I really like the pastor. I can say that I get something out of every sermon, which I like. We also had visitors in town this weekend! Of course Grandma and Grandpa came into town, but we had other visitors who haven't been to St. Louis in a few years. It was so fun to have them come into town as well and hang out with us!!! It was also our niece, Naomi's, first trip to St. Louis. Tim, Candace and Naomi stayed with us and Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Karen, Uncle Rich, Uncle Dan and Aunt Alice stayed at hotel close by. Nora LOVED having her cousin spend the night at her house. I cannot wait until the little girls get a bit bigger because I think they are going to have so much fun together.
The baptism was Saturday morning. Our pastor did it on Saturday since we had the out of towners here. Kiki and Zach were so nice to have everyone over after for a nice lunch. We then came back to our house and hung out with the Reid's. We then went to church this morning and were accepted as new members and the pastor introduced Stella to the congregation. It was such a nice weekend! Here are a few pics! Stella did wear the same dress as Nora.

So of course I had to change the theme of the blog as soon as Valentine's Day was over! Our favorite holiday is coming along with our anniversary!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

The Reid girls are wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Nora just LOVES Stella and made sure i knew it when I was saying who I loved this morning! How blessed we are!!!!

This is how we roll

She did it folks!!! It sure was a slow roll, but a roll none the less. Nora had to get in on the action too!!!

3 months old

I cannot believe our sweet little Stella is 3 months old already! She is doing fantastic. We all are settling in nicely to me being back at work. It took a little while for Stella and Mimi (Rebecca) to find their groove, but the found it this week.
I am so lucky to have such a great hubby that helps out so much. Peter gets the girls to Rebecca's every morning. I get Stella up, he feeds her, I get Nora up and ready and off they go! I get the girls after work everyday. Yesterday was the first day that I worked out since July! Wow, that was a long time. I joined Club Fitness. Not too impressed with Club Fitness, but it will do. I changed because Gold's Gym made me mad and I have multiple friends that work out at Club Fitness, so it seemed like a good fit. I did the step class and totally had to modify, but that first time is always hard. I am ready to continue going and cannot wait to start jogging/running again!
Anyway, back to Stella! She is holding her head up really well, but she HATES tummy time. She sits in her bumbo and loves to watch Nora play. She is eating like a champ! She gets 4 bottles a day. 3 6 oz. bottles and 1 7 oz bottle. She eats at 6:30 am, 10:45 am, 3:45 pm and 7:20 pm. I don't know how, but we have been blessed again with another good sleeper. She doesn't sleep as long as Nora did, but I am not complaining by any means! Believe me! She goes down at night around 8:15 and sleeps until around 6:15. She grunts for her bink around 5:15 am, but then will stay asleep until 6:15. She then naps at 9:00, 1:00 and 5:00. She takes two 2 hour naps and then a 1 hour nap. She is just a sweet little thing. She doesn't cry or fuss. She is smiling more and more and smiles the most at her big sis! They took a bath together for the first time last night and she actually giggled at Nora!
I took these pics this morning!

First Snow

Well if you can call it that. It caused all kinds craziness on the roads today. People DO NOT know how to drive in the stuff. Major interstates were shut down and we only got maybe an 1". So I woke Nora up this morning and told her it snowed and the first thing she said to me was, "Can I put on my snow pants santa gave me and play?" God I love that girl! I said no, but we can after I pick you up from mimi's and she was fine with that. She insisted on wearing her snow boots to mimi's though.
So when we got home she said where are my snow pants mom! She also said she was so glad santa brought her snow pants and asked where mine were. I think i probably should invest in some snow pants and good boots since she now likes to play in the snow! Here are a few pics I snapped. I am so glad that I have this new camera! I have been experimenting and I love the pics that I am getting. I love that I can now blur backgrounds!
Anyway....I hope that we get at least one more snow day to really play in!