1 or 2 Pics

People say you take fewer pictures of each kid, and I've noticed lots of families have a baby book for the first kid, but none of the others. I've made sure to be good about the baby books, and I've DEFINITELY taken plenty of pictures of all of them. In fact, I think we have the fewest of Paige, because we had a junky camera at the time. But there are still hundreds of her as a baby. Ha. Anyway, I'm proud of Jess and myself in that area. For example, I took over a hundred pictures of Neely just TODAY. Haha. I'm crazy. Plus, oh my gash, look at her:
She's fantastic.
She also had to officially move into 6-9 month clothing last night. More proof she's gonna grow up, just like they all go and do.
She has her own way of talking to us, and it always sounds the same. She puffs her lips out and tilts her chin up and goes "OOO OOO OOO". Sometimes I think it sounds like a gorilla, so we call her gorilla girl, and other times it sounds like an owl. If you do it to her, she'll almost always do it back. This is the face that goes along with it:
I'm een loooove.
And finally, my favorites:

Hot Dog Presses

Paige and Cason wanted hot dogs with their hot tea today. Awesome combo. Anyway, they also wanted little coffee stir straw things to drink their tea. Then they put their hot dog slices on the straws and said they were "exercising". Haha. They're hilarious.

Chest Press:
Poor Caso's face is bright red from his nose running constantly for a week now.

Bicep Curls:

Strummin' His Shirt

Now that everyone's MOSTLY healthy we actually did something besides cuddle on the couch tonight. Paige and I played memory, and then she and Cason and I played Caso's fishing game for quite a while. They love it.
And the baby bee is still feeling good.
SO glad.

When those Old Navy shirts came in the mail for the girls, Cason asked which guitar shirt was his. I felt bad and promised to make him one. So tonight I finally did, and he was satisfied. He even tried to strum it after he put it on. :) I should make a playable guitar shirt. Ha.

Contrast

I don't like comparing babies. I think people put too much stock into milestones and all that. Like if their baby talks early they're automatically smarter, or if they don't talk until later they might end up being dumb. Ha. I think there's a lot more to it. Paige for example, learned a bunch of words really early, but then quit using them suddenly and used her own made up language until like 2. Then Cason came along and started pretty much using full sentences around 18 months. But there are lots of other ways they show intelligence, and I never felt like Cason was smarter because he talked earlier. He just liked it more. And of course, I think all 3 of them are brilliant. :)

HOWEVER, I DO like to go back and look at pictures of them at the same age, and see their similarities and differences.

At almost 4 months:

Paige:
Cason:
Neely:
All bald, all fat, all sweet and happy. But they definitely all have their own individual look. I love them.

Now then, just wondering. It went fast enough with our first baby, why does it have to go faster with each baby? Do you WANT me to need to have a million babies? Huh?!

They're on the Mend!

Paige and Cason were already mostly better on Thursday, but Neely was VERY fussy (for her) on Wednesday and Thursday, and felt really warm.
Actually that picture is from one of her better moments, she spent half the day crying/moaning/fussing/squirming uncomfortably.

But I thought her cough sounded better. So we took her to the doctor to check for an ear infection, and sure enough she has one. So we started antibiotics yesterday and already this is her today:
Honestly, she WORKED RSV. It's supposed to be much worse for infants, and the ear infection definitely had her upset, but she's a hearty little lady. She did kind of lose her voice though, now. She had a sweet girly voice like Paige, but right now it's all hoarse. It's so cute. I kept saying it reminded me of someone famous, and Jess says it's Brittany Murphy. Haha.

By the way, one time she had been crying pretty hard for a good 10 minutes. I was walking her, which usually soothes her, with music playing. Nothing worked, so eventually I put this video on. She immediately stopped crying to watch her boyfriend sing. I'm not even kidding, she loves him, no music helped until it was Paolo.

Paige spent those two days sleeping all day long on the couch, and when I finally went to give her a bath when she felt better, her hair, from sleeping restlessly all that time, looked like this:
I had to put SO much conditioner on it and slowly try to comb it out, but it was no picnic. Ha. It was practically matted like cats get.

Babylegs

Cason still has the cough, but he seems to feel pretty good. He took a long nap, but other than that he's been up and playing like usual. He doesn't feel as warm, although his cheeks still look a little rosy. :) That's cinnamon all over his face. I kept finding it smeared on Neely's head where he was kissing her.
Paige slept ALL DAY LONG, so hopefully she'll be a little better tomorrow.
And Neely is really stuffy and coughing, but also really cheerful.
And busting out of her 3-6 month clothes already. Guess we'll be moving up another size soon. :(

I made her a pair of babylegs tonight, out of a pair of my socks I never wear. They turned out pretty good, because the real babylegs are a little too tight on her thighs, and these are perfect.

Pockets on His Body

Cason seems to be on the mend, Neely's about the same-still coughing but cheerful, and Paige seems a little worse today. There's a chorus of coughs pretty much at all times.

Yesterday on the way into the doctor's office Cason got excited and started yelling "I have a POCKET on my body!" He had noticed the pockets on the back of his jeans. I realized he has mixed up "body" and "booty". Haha.

:(

Well, Cason was STILL warm when we woke up this morning, and couldn't stop coughing for the first hour or so of our day. Neely was sounding kinda weezy, although she's in a happy mood. So we went to the doctor, and these two...
and
...both have RSV. Probably Paige too, although she's just got a little cough now and feels fine. Cason also has an ear infection. :( Say some prayers for them please.

(I chose the old picture of Cason because Neely has started sticking out her tongue a lot like Caso did as a baby.)

Quarantined

This weekend's weird. Cason is still sick. I thought he'd wake up happy yesterday, but he still felt really warm, and was still coughing. He slept most of the day on the couch.
Poor buddy. So sad. Even his bath didn't make him much happier last night. But he was really cute.
He's about the same today. Paige was fine yesterday. We went on a date in fact. She wanted McDonalds. It was packed, but we found a table.
She had more fun than it looks like. Ha. She got her own ketchup. Haha, it was so hard for her to push it down.
She borrowed my phone to text people.
She's funny. She'll tell me what she wants to say to someone, and I tell her how to spell it. She'll randomly throw in happy faces and stuff in the middle of a word.

But now she spent a couple hours throwing up early this morning. She hasn't thrown up for a while, and seems to be in a good mood, but she's relaxing on the quarantine couch with Cason, anyway.