Grateful for God's Beautiful Gifts: My Big Boy....and my Little Preschooler!

Lucas is about 18 weeks now, or 4 months and 1 week. We have had a few big achievements over the past 2 weeks.

#1: We are finally sleeping! He takes 3-4 naps a day and goes to bed between 7-8 at night. For several nights now he has slept from bedtime to 2:00! Then he wakes up between 6:00 and 7:00! It's GREAT!! I have to pump after he goes to sleep or I wake up overflowing...

#2: He is sitting up. Yes, that's right. My baby boy is sitting up, on his own, without support, at 4 months old. I still cannot believe it! I'm scared he will be walking early too!! He has been trying to sit for about 2 weeks now but in the past few days he has really gotten it down and can sit for 10 minutes or more without falling over. Leyla didn't sit until 5-5.5 months and walked at 10. And I thought she was advanced...

I FOUND MY FEET!

#3: He is now eating breakfast and occasionally lunch. I still want him to breastfeed for most of his calories, but want him to try a variety so that by the time I go back to work, he has good eating habits/ a routine for the babysitter. He has rice cereal in the morning and avocado or carrots for lunch. I want to move into some fruits for breakfast, starting with bananas. I want to freeze some mango purees too before mango season is up, since Leyla loved them! Then I'm going to get some zucchini squash and see what other veggies I can find for him for lunch. I don't know why, but I really enjoy making my own baby food so I am excited to make and freeze a ton of purees :)

Leyla is growing up FAST! She is such a little girl now, not a baby :) She is learning to draw and write her letters and numbers!! I can't wait for her to go to preschool, I know she will love it, and I think she is ready.

Her drawing skills are great! I love to watch her draw, and then tell me what she drew. This is a family, mommy, daddy, a little girl, and a baby :)

We found the gameboy and Leyla LOVES it. It is so cute to watch her play, and she is actually figuring it out!

Another one of her drawings :)

We went to Tegus to get Lucas a permanent residency in Honduras and we spent some time at the mall. Leyla was so good and ate all her lunch (she has been eating really good lately) so she got some ice cream. She wanted the footprint. It was vanilla ice cream covered in white chocolate. When it started to melt, mommy got to eat it :) It was really good!