a saturday afternoon hike

what a better way to spend a saturday then snugglin'

while hiking up a mountian

on a beautiful fall day

with you favorite friend

and some chocolate milk

discovering cool things

and climbing trees

with those you love the most!

a new playgym for bubba bear

While visiting super dad's hometown a few weekends ago, some sweet friends of ours blessed us with a babies r us gift card for bubba bear. Being he is number three, we don't need much as far as baby gear goes so usually gift cards get used on essentials like pacis, wipes and baby wash. I decided to treat bubba bear though to a new activity gym. He deserves to have at least one thing that no one else has used and spit up on! Our old activity gym wasn't cute, the bar stunk at staying up and good gracious if I had to hear those tunes it played again I might have to have myself committed. So tonight I had to run to good ol' BRU for saline drops and menthol baby wash as croup and colds have hit our house and since I had no little bitties with me I took a few quiet moments to peruse the store and see what I could find for mr. bear to entertain himself with. I stumbled across this super cute playmat. You can't tell from this picture but the fabrics on it are very Amy Butler-ish and super cute! Besides chocolate brown, turquoise and orange are my favorite color combo right now and polka dots are always a hit with me!. I love that it also folds up easily so I can stash it out of the way quickly and pull it out when needed. Seriously if you are on the hunt for a play mat or a baby shower gift check this on out on amazon and zoom in on the cute prints! Things sure have come a long way since bubbie was born 5 years ago and everything was either pastels or primary colors! Oh and I will mention to that it's a good bit cheaper at BRU than online!

two months old

Each of my kids have a special friend that they sleep with. Bubbie has "monkey", Sass has "bunny" and now bubba bear has "mr. giraffe". Mr. Giraffe is going to help us see how Bubba bear grows each month! Look how he has changed already!

1 month old!

2 months old!

Bubba bear's 2 month appointment was last week. He was 11.6 lbs (70%ile) and 24 inches long (90%ile), a perfect string bean!He is super smiley now right after he eats. He is gotten into a good routine of eating, being up about an hour and then napping until his next meal which occurs every three hours right now. He takes his last feeding of the day around 9pm and then sleeps until 3ish and then hopefully until 7ish, although the second stretch of sleep is never as solid and peaceful as the first. We have just moved up to 3-6 month clothes, though some of our 3 months still fit, mr. long boy is too long for a lot of it now! We finally started his vaccines this visit too. We declined Hep B in the hospital so he hadn't had anything yet and we are doing a delayed schedule so this visit he got the first dose of rotateq and his DTAP. We will go back in a month or so for another vaccine.


For comparison to his siblings; Bubbie was a whopping 15lbs and 24 1/2 inches at 2 months and Sass was 11.9 lbs and 23 1/4 inches at 9 and 1/2 weeks. And before you are too impressed that I actually know this I will share my secret.... When I was pregnant with bubbie a friend gave me a great medical journal at one of my showers. I took it to each of his dr visits and recorded all the important info in it such as stats and vaccines received. I also would write my questions for the dr in it ahead of time so I didn't forget to ask him anything and I tried to record milestones in it. It's the closest thing to a baby book my kids have! I then googled it when pregnant with Sass and ordered her one. The one they have is no longer in print I discovered while pregnant this time around, but there is a new edition which I ordered for Bubba bear and his soon to arrive cousin. This is one of my favorite gifts to give now! I can only find them on amazon, so check it out if you are interested!

read bubbie read!!

I am so proud of our Bubbie! He has taken a huge interest in reading and is really soaring! This morning I remembered about starfall.com. If you have a preschooler or early elementary child in your home this is a great website to learn everything from letter recognition to word families. Bubbie thinks it's super fun and is learning a lot. It's so fun to see him become an emergent reader!

wordless wednesday- mr smiles

xsmall diapers for sale!

Our little bubba bear is getting big quick and these are some great diapers that have barely or not been used at all! Hopefully they can go to a good home! These all come from a pet free, smoke free home. All prices include shipping and paypal fees! If you are interested you can email me at greenkiddos (dot) com @ gmail (dot) com. I will sell the whole lot for $130 or prices are listed below!


xs thirsties fitteds 6 periwinkles, 1 white, 1 celery
EUC, most of these have just been washed, a few were used once or twice. Retail is $14.50 a piece. $12 ppd or $85 for all 8!

Covers
NWT white xs thirsties cover $11.50
baby blue and sage green thirsties covers xs EUC $9 ppd
Imse Vimse farm cover preemie GUC $6
white prowrap sm GUC $4- SOLD
lamb litewrap newborn $5
or
all covers minus prowrap $44

meal plan monday

I'm back and going to try and blog more regularly again! So here is my menu for the week! (which also means I'm back to cooking dinner... guess I should get on that now that we are 8 weeks in!)

I am trying to use up surplus food this week with out over shopping so here is what I've got!

Monday- chili stuffed baked potatoes using left over chili from halloween

Tuesday- hot dogs (also left over from halloween), baked sweet potato fries and baked beans

Wednesday- spaghetti w/ meat and vegi sauce (left over and in freezer), salad and bread sticks

Thursday- crockpot BBQ chicken sandwiches, onion potatoes and corn