Time is flying!!
Tenny is 5.5 months and we are a busy family of five. There are so many milestones I want to record so that we never forget. Tennyson was rolling over at 3.5 months, rolling front to back and back to front at 4 months and sitting up almost unassisted at 5 months. She is so strong and will be on the move in no time. She giggles at everything her brother and sister do. She is a great sleeper, despite all of the noise in our house. She LOVES white noise. It will instantly snap her out of whining or tiered fussiness. She went on her first flight accross the country to South Carolina in October at 3 months old and did amazing aside from a couple of blow outs! She is such a happy baby, great nurser, chubby and healthy. She loves to play in her excersaucer and with toys on the floor. We are about to start baby led weaning with her to introduce her to solids. We are in no rush since it is one more meal to make and feed her as we are constantly rushing out the door but she is grabbing at all of my meals so shes showing signs of being ready. She is just such a trooper running all over town for her big bro and sis, in and out of her carseat a million times a day. She has a great temperament and disposition, a lot like her brother did as a baby. She will let anyone hold her and will even let almost anyone feed her. She has also found her lungs. Mostly in the morning and evenings she talks, screams and yells.. she is one loud little human. Shaun always responds to her jabber with "sing it sista!". I think she is just trying to keep up with the noise around here.
Quick update on the other two.. Trenton goes to school everyday and is loving it. Loves his friends, his teacher, Mrs. Redanz and learning in general. He is doing so well academically, Kindergarten is going to be a breeze for him. He is now sounding out words and reading! And we finally gave in and put him in sports, other then Taekwondo. He will be starting baseball in a couple of weeks and we are really excited. Trenton loves to have a baby in the house again and is so sweet, gentle and helpful with his baby sister. Trenton and Tayt are the best of friends, but they can fight like cats and dogs as well. They even had a haircutting party together.. right before christmas pictures!! ugh.
Tayt is a little fashionista with quite the sassy, outgoing personality. She changes dresses multiple times a day, will only wear dresses (even when its 50 degrees out) and loves to dress up and put on make up with mom. She notices everyone's outfits, hair, makeup etc. Looks are very important to her these days. She tells funny stories and talks and talks all day long with her little lisp. We had a tour of a Christian preschool closer to home for Tayt and we both fell in love. She is so excited to go next year. I can't believe my little Tayt is already almost school age. She is so social and outgoing like her brother she will have a blast and make friends everywhere she goes. She does not love learning as much as trennton and much more enjoys the social aspect of things but she is very smart and knows her shapes, colors and most letters already. Tayt finally got rid of the 'BB' or pacifier as well. That was a big day. It was affecting her teeth and she was addicted for sure but we cut her off cold turkey just as we did with Trenton, by telling her that the BB fairy took them all away to kids who don't have any BB's and she left her a little toy of course. She did great, its been a month or two and I have already forgotten all about it. She goes to TuTu school (ballet) with Gigi on Wednesdays and really loves dancing and singing. More importantly she gets to wear a tutu and leotard. She is having a lot of fun with it and it is one of the cutest things on the planet.
It is January 2nd so we are just coming off of the holidays. Tennyson loved the lights and wrapping paper this year and the kids loved everything about the season, naturally. We had such a fun holiday season but WOW did it fly. It snuck up on us, not allowing us to hit many of the traditional places we go to annually then boom, it was gone. Now its a new year and what a big one it will be. My parents bought a lake house in Idaho that we are hoping to visit at least twice this year,, my brother and sister are both getting married and we have two other friends weddings! Plus all that comes with family weddings; bachelor/ette parties, showers etc. We are all in both weddings and the kids could not be more excited to walk down another isle after doing it at Rachels, it is their favorite thing to do. And of course, tayt just wants any excuse to wear a big fancy dress :) Trenton does love getting all 'fansome' as well. It will be a packed year and im sure it will fly even faster then this year did. I can't even imagine when all of the kids have their own lives, teams, schools etc. How did my parents do this?!
