6 weeks

It doesn't even seem possible that Brandt will be 6 weeks old this week.  In some ways, it feels like it has been the fastest 6 weeks of my life.  In other ways, not so much!  He still struggles with gas/stomach pain/reflux/we don't know why he's screaming, but he gets a little better every week.  At his one month appt, he weighed 9 lbs 3 oz (30th %tile) and was 21.5 inches long (50th %tile) . That is quite a weight gain from his birth weight of 6 lbs 11 oz!

Here he is at 1 month:

We are still trying to figure out who he looks like, but there are times when I see Ben in Brandt.  I found this picture of Ben at one month, just for grins...

Ben's Birthday Bash

Ben has basically been celebrating his birthday all month!  His actual birthday was a super busy day with the first day of Pre-K, first soccer practice, and a small family celebration at home.  Then, we had his bowling bash this past weekend.  He had a blast!!

Changes

Don't you just love the new look!?!? We received a blog makeover as a gift from a dear friend. It has been so fun!! And, Kristi did a great job. There is a link to her website on the side.

To go along with the new look, we are going to be changing blog addresses, so please update your readers/links, etc.

Our new address will be http://theschribtribe.blogspot.com/

I will be changing it over on Monday-ish.

"It's hard to have 3 kids"

Today, as we were driving to McDonald's, Ben asked if we could eat at the restaurant so he could play. So, I explained to him that normally he could, but we had to get back home to get Lindley down for a nap by 12:30 so she would be awake by 3:00 so we could take Ben to his friend's house to play. Ben's response? "It's hard to have 3 kids." Amen to that!!

The one word I would use to describe having three kids is "circus."

Some other highlights from this past week:

- At this point, the baby pretty much goes wherever I go. One thing about him is that when he decides it is time to eat, there is very little lead time and soon becomes an emergency. So, I went to get my hair cut yesterday and took the baby with me. He decided to wake up about halfway into the hair cut and also decided he was hungry. Despite my attempts with the pacifier, I ended up feeding him in the chair with the cape as my cover.

- Ben accidentally locked himself in the bathroom when I was here by myself with all three kids. It was really hard to coach him on how to unlock the door, and I couldn't get it unlocked from the outside. Luckily, he finally figured it out.

- I also took the kids to get pictures made. I was really just wanting to get newborn pictures, but went ahead and took Ben's 5 yr and Lindley's 2 yr pictures because I decided we weren't going to make it back for those ;) It is pretty much impossible to get a good picture with all three. Here are a few of what we did get.