My Main Little Man

 

Lochlan is 2.5 months old. :(  It happened too fast!

Here are some of the things we love about him:

          I insist on doing his hair after every bath. I don't get to put bows on him, so at least I can

         decide what his hairstyle is going to be! It seems only fair! The girls love to watch me do

          his hair.

        He has the cutest little smiles. He is definitely the easiest smiler we've had! He will be laying

        in my lap, and I'll look down and he's just grinning up at me.  Also, sometimes when he smiles,

        his ears move. I wonder if that means he'll be able to wiggle both ears. I've never noticed this

        on any of my other babies.

         He is quite the talker! He coo's and gurgles so sweetly. He has also started laughing!

        I can't get enough of all his noises.  Except for his crying, but he still doesn't usually cry

        a whole lot so I'm not terribly sick of it at this point.

        The girls love when I get him all dressed up in something special. They have lots of things

        to say about how handsome he looks.

         Mirren calls him "Buddy".  And pats him hard, pokes his eyes, and smacks his poor little

         tummy. Also, she makes his hands clap. LOL  But I figure it's better to let her feel a part of

         him and keep helping her learn about being soft than to keep her completely from touching

         him. She is still really good about him and loves him, but is still adjusting to not having

         Reed and I always handy to help her when she feels she needs it.

          His eyebrows and eyelashes are coming in reddish! I think his hair color may be permanent!

         He started being able to bat at things this week, and rub his eye with his fist.

         Reed gave him a bath today and we noticed that his ears stick out a little! I'm in cute stickie

         outie ear heaven! LOL  :) 

           TMI but hey my post: He is pooping once a week and has been doing this for at least a

        month. It's gross and I wish he'd just poop once every 2 days or something. Maybe soon.

          Some of his current nicknames: Lochie, Lochlan buddy, little man, Manny.

          He's pretty long. 24 inches at this point. He's in 3-6 month clothes, depending on if they

          are new or hand-me-downs and have been washed a lot.

          Lochlan is such a sweet boy. I love him so much! He is so loved by us all. I'm so grateful

          for his sweet calm happy spirit in our home and in our family. 

                                                                                     

         
        

Bronwyn in all her Glory

Have I mentioned our computer is still being dumb and won't let me upload pictures? Grrr....

Bronwyn is a sweet and busy 4 year old. Her most popular game right now is being a mom, with a doll shoved up her shirt because she's going to have a baby. She loves to pack a diaper bag with bottles and toys for her baby. She is a hard worker and best loves to organize things. She totally reminds me of myself.
      She and Aftyn have recently moved back into a room together thanks to Bronwyn peeling paint off of my beautifully painted bunk beds, so now she and Aftyn will sleep in our newer purchased off craigslist bunkbeds that have no beautiful paint to peel. Bronwyn likes this because Aftyn gets to have music to fall asleep to each night, so now she does too. Bronwyn wants to grow up as fast as Aftyn and do all the big girl things she can do and she is waiting impatiently for the time when she can do them by herself. LOL  Like going to school, or picking up the baby off the couch instead of just holding him on her lap. Bronwyn definitely struggles the most with not being allowed the same privileges as Aftyn.
       Bronwyn is the child most able to just play by herself in a space. She loves to go outside in the backyard and dig in the dirt, play some pretend game with sticks, or anything else. She finds friends everywhere we go and gives her heart very easily. She is so my child. She is so sweetly sincere in her intentions. She loves to do nice things for other people because that is how she shows love. She will help me do cleaning around the house with hardly any complaints but equally as likely to do something naughty as well.
        Recently because of her peeling the paint from her bunkbed, she lost her Halloween privileges, something that broke her heart and made mine sad too. But she plucked herself right up when given the job of handing out the candy, and she loved being able to be in charge of it and getting to be her own boss. She tends to thrive in situations where she is given a job that she completely understands how to do, with clear boundaries and knows what is expected of her.
      She also wants to boss people around and when pushed can be very sassy with adults, something we're trying so hard to teach her is wrong and that she needs to show people love by word and deed.  Bronwyn has a tough time because she has such a fun and playful personality, that people want to play with her and don't understand that if you give her an inch she'll take a mile. She tends to do better when playing with adults if they lay out the boundaries and rules for her first so she knows what is okay to do and what isn't and then she can have fun while knowing she is following the rules as well and won't get into trouble for something she didn't know she shouldn't do. Such as being sassy, jumping on people and hurting them, playing too rough. It seems self explanatory, but she thinks people want to play with her and that means she can do whatever seems fun to her without thinking of how it affects other people. In those situations when she's just playing and doesn't stop to think out the consequences of her actions and people get hurt because of her, it truly makes her feel so sad because she didn't know she shouldn't do something. I understand her personality so well because that was me as a child. I thought everyone loved me and so I could do whatever and people would still love me. Ha ha ha!!

     She truly has the best of intentions and the biggest heart. She loves to love people. If you are ever sick, Bronwyn is the one who will come and tell you a story to help you go to sleep. She is a girl who loves to sing, and dance, and color and play. She is such an important part of our family and I can't imagine life without her!

So I had a baby. . .

So I guess we all get the point that I had a baby since my last post has sat there for approximately 2 months.
   Thanks to some prodding from my sister, I am finally writing a new post.

     Here is an update on Mirren:
         
           Mirren has definitely hit the terrible 2's. Also, suddenly, her personality is blossoming from every corner of her body!  She has a loud voice, she loves to say "No!", and just for fun when she can she likes to run away from me but luckily those little toddler legs can only pump so fast. Toddlers run so cute. Her little run makes Reed and I laugh a lot. She's doing well with potty training and really tries hard in that arena. She has just started talking a lot, but also loves to spout complete gibberish as well, usually quite loudly with a smile on her face. She makes me laugh! For a girl who used to hate attention, she has become a very boisterous personality at our house. She recently loves animals that growl. Also, she has started loving to sit and play loudly by herself with animals, little people, babies with blankets, even inanimate objects. Her hair is still short and curly but luckily her curls have stopped looking so clownish and have grown a little longer. Mirren loves her baby, but gets frustrated sometimes when she wants my attention and I'm feeding him. She is always concerned when he is "drying" or crying and wants to make sure I am on my way to take care of him so he will stop. She still loves her binkies, and is especially attached to her pink baby blanket that she likes to drag around our house. I am always having to wash it because all of her love gets that blanket dirty a lot. I cannot believe her 2nd birthday is this week. She is a blessing to our family and we love her. I can't imagine having her stubbornly funny little self in our family!

Look forward to my next post about Bronwyn! Hopefully tomorrow!!

Post Edit: Mirren suddenly has so much to say and it's hilarious to follow her thought pattern. Just yesterday, the day after we celebrated her birthday, I woke up to the usual hubbub of my house, except this time Mirren was still super excited about her birthday and was playing with her balloon out in the front room. As I lay there just listening to her, I suddenly heard her say "Daddy".  Then "sleep" followed by the pitter patter of her little feet running down the hallway to my bedroom where I lay in bed sleeping just a few moments before. I lifted my head to see her sweet little smiling face at the end of my bed and when she saw that I was awake she happily cried "B'oon!!", holding up her birthday balloon by its string in her chubby toddler hand so I could see. Ha ha!! She still calls Reed and I mom or dad, doesn't seem to understand that there is a difference and it cracks me up.  She is so different from Bronwyn in her screamy happiness. Bronwyn does it to get peoples attention, but Mirren gets excited about things and is quite loud but it's not for attention, it's just genuine excitement. She was so excited last night to blow out the candles on her brownie, she just squealed and screamed on Reed's lap until we finished singing happy birthday and she finally got her big chance to blow them out. 3 tries later and she did it! She gets too excited when she gets to do the big girl things she see's her sisters do. :)  Oh my heart, she is so funny and sweet. "No" is her favorite word, but she just started saying "riddit" just like Bronwn did for frog sounds, loves to growl, insists on shoes and a jack jack (jacket) if she see's anyone even acting like they might be leaving, likes to watch movies especially Elsa, (Let it "go" with arms widespread). Her favorite church songs are Book of Mormon stories, I am a child of God, Sunbeam, Roll your Hands, the Duck Song "with the feather on its back", and probably any other song she's heard over and over. She likes to "sing" along to songs on the radio that I sing along to, and she is a girl who loves to dance to any old tune. Really! Her dances are so cute as most 2 year old dances are. ;)