Hunter and the Three Dwarves

Today is Hunter’s first day at his new school, Lakewood Montessori.  He was so excited that he woke up around 3 AM chanting “I want to go to school, I want to go to school.”  Thankfully, he went back to sleep when I picked him up from the floor and put him back in his bed.  Here are some first day pictures.

                  

I didn’t get a picture of his new backpack unfortunately – it’s Lightning McQueen and he picked it out this weekend.  He was SO proud of it.  We got to school right before Hunter’s friend Landon came in, so Landon’s mom (who I was very happy to see again) came in to say hello and then took the two kids back into the other toddler room where they eat breakfast so that I could talk to Hunter’s teacher.  When I finished and went back to the other room to say goodbye, he was sitting quietly at the table with his new friends and Landon, eating his cereal and drinking his milk.  He gave me a kiss goodbye and off I went.  No issue whatsoever.  Hopefully, I hear that he had a terrific day and made lots of new friends!  Will find out soon enough!

And here are some pictures of Miss Jenna at 4 weeks, with captions telling you which dwarf she was trying to look like…

Sleepy

Grumpy

Sneaky

Uncle Brad came into town this weekend and got to meet Jenna and get some good playtime in with Hunter.  (Thanks to Uncle Brad for the blanket used above as Jenna’s backdrop.)  Here are a couple of pics from that event.  If anyone knows a good way to get rid of glasses glare in pictures, please let me know.  Tried to retouch with Picasa and couldn’t get anything to look good…

 

And how precious is this photo shoot?  This was last week, Friday, I think, and she’d just had her bath and was very alert and pleasant, so I took full advantage of the opportunity.

 

   

Thanks to the Fowlers for that Princess towel.  A very nice prop and backdrop for Jenna’s photo shoot.

Jenna – 3 weeks

(Make sure to scroll down past this post for a post on Hunter - I don't usually post two posts in one day, but his post was giving me a hard time yesterday, so I didn't get it taken care of till today. Had to switch to You Tube for videos too, so let me know if there is any trouble seeing the videos.)

Looks like she’s saying “How YOU doin’??”

Not sure what that face is saying – maybe “get that camera out of my face please.”

The two pictures above remind me of the pictures in People magazine where they tell you to find the 10 things that are different between the two pictures – same exact pose, eyes, etc, but obviously she’s covering up her mouth in the second one. hehe

Gotta love sleepy smiles!

And tummy time turned into naptime…this baby sleeps a TON!!!

I’m the Big Brother!

Here are a couple of videos of Hunter, the Big Brother.  He really is doing great with Jenna – very helpful.

And a still shot for those of you without video access – isn’t his hair cut adorable?

The next one was taken while I was nursing Jenna, if you can believe it.  I set the camera on the back of the couch and hit record – amazing what you can capture with both hands full.  Hunter was doing this all weekend – putting his blocks in order and “counting” them.  And yes, when he gets to ten, what follows is “eleven, thirteen.”  Sometimes sixteen or seventeen pop in there, but not in this video.  :)

We visited Hunter’s new school this morning.  September 1, he starts at Lakewood Montessori.  I have mixed feelings about this.  For once, I am excited about a transition for him instead of being a nervous wreck, but Daddy has gotten into my head a bit and there is some anxiety that he is going to miss his friends dearly.  He has been in Kids R Kids since he was 3 months old – two locations, but the same company, same building setup, same format, etc.  When we moved to Cypress, that transition was a breeze – he was only 13 months old though.  Now, he comes home every night with another story about one of his friends – Bobby, Brody, Hudson, Hayden, Ainsley, Daniel.  I was concerned about this right up until we walked in the room at Lakewood Montessori this morning and saw his old friend Landon from Kids R Kids!!  I had noticed Landon was MIA at Kids R Kids probably about a month ago, but hadn’t thought to ask anyone where he’d gone.  Now I know!!  Hunter sat down for circle time by his friend Landon and settled in nicely.  I think he will do great when he starts next Tuesday.  He didn’t want to leave when I said it was time to go, and he actually cried when I dropped him off at Kids R Kids afterwards – this has NEVER happened before!!  Crazy!

Jenna – 2 weeks

Miss Jenna is doing very well after 2 weeks of life.  She weighed in at 7 pounds and 11 ounces today, so she’s up half a pound from her birth weight, which is fabulous!  Expectedly, her head circumference is in the 75th percentile – I make big-headed children, what can I say??  But it sure is a cute head!!!

Again on white…                                    …and again on pink…

One of those (probably the one on white because I did some corrections on that one to make the white whiter and all that fun stuff) will probably be used for the birth announcement.  I think I took about 20 of them, so be grateful I only posted three.  :)

Thanks to my cousin Heather for this adorable Texas A&M outfit.  Ironically, Jenna actually looks kinda like Alison’s kids (Alison is Heather’s sister) in this picture, at least to me.  I obviously couldn’t get Jenna to keep her eyes open today, which means I probably won’t get much sleep tonight.  Hopefully this isn’t a sign that our baby girl doesn’t like the Aggies, but she had her first blowout diaper in this outfit today, and also threw up on the shirt.  Poor thing!

I also have a cute video of Hunter “reading” to Jenna from this past weekend, as well as some baby pics of me and Brent that look a lot like Hunter and Jenna.  I’ll post these tomorrow or whenever I find some time.