Baby Love

Am I obsessed with taking, sharing pictures of my babies?
Yes. Yes I am.
Do I have to show off every single shot?
Yes. Yes I do.
I can't help myself and quite frankly I don't want to change. There is just something unique about each picture. The smallest change in angle or gleam of the eye. I love each and every one!

Maren's 3 month old pictures taken by my awesome friend Nickie (just like all our other photos cause we LOVE her!)

She is my precious little angel.

Maren loves to eat her hands. She is really loving her big brother, smiling sqeaking, and giggling when he talks to her. She loves big sister too but is a little bit more wary of her still. For the first few months of life she wanted nothing to do with her binki but it turns out she has changed her mind and is all for it now. She is a happy cheerful baby, she sleeps and naps well, eats well, she's healthy and strong and we all love her very much.

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Here we are 3 Months Old

Finally get the blessing pictures in and now for our 3 month old update!

Maren is getting so strong! No more wobbles for this girl (well almost).

We happened to get a shot of her rolling over (which she has done a few times, probably out of luck.)

Maren really is such a happy baby. She is so patient. She sleeps through the night pretty well for the most part. If she wakes up she usually only cries for 15-30 min and then falls back to sleep. I decided that I should try to give her the binki all of the sudden and she took right to it! She has been a joy to have in our family. She 'talks' all the time and gave us her first laugh on her 3 month to birth date. What sweet little sounds!



Nicknames for Maren right now 'peaches'

and the kids call her their own versions of Maren.

(oh and they know how to say her name the right way, they just choose not to.)

Marrianne - which is just a different name entirely

Mar-ee--o-n

Or Embrie just likes to say - baby Mare

Maren's Blessing Pictures

Better late than never right? These are some of the pictures taken of Maren the day of her blessing. What a little Angel!

Mom Chsonicles #3

Nigh Owls

12:00am - I hear crying as I come up stairs. Husband emerges from kids
room claiming to be innocent of the crime of waking up a child. Innocent until proven guilty I suppose.

1am - Finally get Embrie settled down after a tantrum due to being very tired
and needing to go back to sleep.

2am - I wake up to see Garrett standing at the side of my bed. He tells me he
has peed the bed in his sleep. I tell him that this is why mom and dad tell
them they should only have one small drink before bed and that they
should stop sneaking them. Clean up him and his bed. Return to my
room.

4:30am - I wake up to see Embrie standing at the side of my bed. She tells me
she has peed the bed in her sleep. I tell her that this is why mom and
dad tell them they should only have one small drink before bed and
that they should stop sneaking them. Clean up her and her bed. Return
to my room.

5:30am- Maren starts crying down the hall. First night in her own room.
I check on her and go back to bed. Although she hasn't had a night time feeding in a long time I think about going in and feeding her, maybe she isn't used to waking up in there and I don't know if she will wake up the other two.

7am - wake up Maren is crying. I worry thinking that she might have been crying all this time because the last thing I remember is thinking about going in her room an hour ago. -Call Brad. Apparently she stopped crying around 6am when he got up to get ready for work. Phew. I'm tired, but I still love them.

Going UP

The Up House has been only 5 minutes away since this summer and it wasn't until recently that I found out you could go inside for free.

We'd driven past of course and the kids loved it from the outside already. So we went to see what is in Mr. Fredrickson's house!

We signed Ellie's adventure book

found a secret room upstairs, hidden behind a book shelf

And I even found some things I wish I had in my house!

look at this awesome blue - oldschool fridge!

I really just have a thing for style of older generations, but who wouldn't want this huge claw tub?

and this was just plan cool.

It was fun!

Random stuff

Isn't this a cute little family I have!

look at how long Embrie's hair has grown!

my little super heroes Batman and Batgirl

Trying to see who Maren looks like most.

used to be Garrett but she is looking more like Embrie now

Notice our little peach here has her hand in her mouth and look what just happens to be discarded near by. I gave up on the binki a long time ago but now I am wondering is it too late???