Keanan's Two Month Stats

Our little guy is two months old already! It’s just so hard to believe…especially since he’s the size of four month old. But it’s true and it seems that we’ve turned a bit of a corner – he’s crying less and smiling more – which means that I’m also crying less and smiling more. Bedtime is still a bit of a challenge because he often goes to bed before the big kids, and his big brother has NO inside voice – everything is said at full volume and repeated…a LOT! Luckily, I haven’t had to manage bedtime for all three of them on my own in a couple of weeks, and I’m hoping that we’ll somehow settle into a routine quickly.

So now the exciting stuff…

Weight

• Keanan weighs 14 lbs (88th percentile)



• Ellie weighed 12 lbs, 3 oz. (85th percentile)



• Charlie weighed 11 lbs, 9 oz (40th percentile)

Length

• Keanan is 25 inches long (95th percentile)



• Ellie was 24 inches long (95th percentile)



• Charlie was 23.5 inches long (62nd percentile)

Head

• Keanan's is in the 76th percentile



• Charlie's head was in the 59th percentile

So Keanan is the biggest Hirst baby by far, which seems to make him a better sleeper – he’ll usually sleep for a nice 9-11 hour stretch at night and will often sleep until after 8:00 a.m. – if it wasn’t for the older two who wake earlier, I would be the best rested mom of a newborn ever! He's just such a sweet little guy and there is absolutely no chance that he's not going to be spoiled rotten -- his big brother and big sister both love loving on him (sometimes a bit too enthusiastically) and Mom and Dad are smitten too. I just can't wait to see his little personality continue to develop.

Two year old problem solving

This morning, Charlie walked away from the breakfast table with a pancake.  I told him that he needed to get back up in his chair and finish eating.  He said “no” (he is really embracing this two year old thing).  I asked him if he was done and he said “no.”  I said “okay, then you need to get back in your chair and finish.”  He said “no.”  I mustered my most authoritative voice, got down on his level and said “Charlie, your options are to get back in your chair and finish your pancake, or be done.”  Charlie came up with a third option – without breaking eye contact, he slowly (pointedly, even) stuffed the entire pancake in his mouth and said “all done.”

Amimals

The other night, Ellie asked me to send Daddy in to give her an "amimal" kiss...

Me: Amimal?
Ellie: Yeah, an amimal kiss.
Me: Animal?
Ellie: Amimal.
Me: Animal?
Ellie: Amimal.
Me: Animal?
Ellie: Amimal. You know, like the farmer has amimals?

Silly Mommy.

Fall fun at the park

The weather has been so nice lately and, with Gaga and Papa here, we've been able to get out and enjoy it more than usual. I love watching the kiddos play at the park...almost as much as they love playing.

Our little rock climber...

Charlie kept telling Gaga that he was "too 'mall" to walk across the balance beam.

I asked Ellie if she wanted to swing like a spider...she's now very curious about how spiders swing, why they swing, where they swing, if they like swinging, if she can watch them swing...

Happy Halloween!

On Sunday, we packed up Cinderella, Prince Charming and a little mouse/cat and headed to the pumpkin patch.  It was a beautiful day and so fun watching the kiddos looking for the perfect pumpkin.  I wasn’t totally sure that we would be leaving with Prince Charming – the teenage girls who were working at the pumpkin patch wanted to take him home.

 

 

Gaga and Papa are here on their way to Mexico – we just love having them here!

Today, we carved one of the pumpkins…the bumpy one was as hard as concrete so Charlie worked his magic with markers.

 

Checking out their jack-o-lantern (doesn’t everyone do that in the bathroom?)

 

Tonight, we had a little Halloween party and the kids were in heaven!  The volume level was unbelievable, but it was so fun to see the kiddos so happy.  After playing on the driveway for a little while, the kids fueled up on mummy hotdogs, pizza, and fruit and then hit the streets.  They LOVED trick-or-treating and it was so fun watching the six big kids tearing across the lawns.  Sweet Prince Charming was always about one house behind, but he didn’t mind – he was just thrilled to point out every “Halloween punkin” and the moon (about 3 dozen times each).  And Keanan slept through the whole experience while in the baby carrier.

Keanan's sweet giggle

There is no doubt that this tiny little man has me wrapped around his little finger!

New(ish) pictures

Keanan is so very sweet and has been sleeping well at night, but he can’t/won’t sleep for more than 3o minutes at a time during the day (really, you can set your watch by it – 30 minutes after his head hits the crib, pack ‘n play, bouncer, swing, carseat, etc., he will be wide awake).  This would be fine if he was happy when not sleeping, but he gets overtired very quickly and by the end of the day, we’re both complete wrecks.  Oh well, he’ll grow out of it.  In the meantime, my picture-taking and blogging are suffering – I’ve been using the 30 minute “breaks” to do silly things like feeding and caring for Ellie and Charlie, doing the bare minimum cleaning, occasionally feeding myself, and going to the bathroom.  So, pardon the lack of narrative, but here are some pictures…

6 days old:

8 days old:

18 days old:

One month old:

5 weeks old:

6 weeks old:

7 weeks:

Daddy’s method of getting Keanan to nap: