Thomas is 3 Months Old!

Yesterday marked Thomas’ 3 months of life. He doesn’t have another doctors appointment until next month, but he is doing well. He’s sleeping better. I can usually get five hours of sleep at night before he wakes up, so I’m not complaining! The picture above shows how he likes to lay, upside down! It’s weird, but he will often calm down if he is fussy if we put him in this position over the couch.

He’s such a wonderful part of our family and I couldn’t imagine life without him.

We have a thumb sucker. We’ve tried to get him to take the pacifier, but if that thumb is closer, he will take it!

He’s smiling and was trying to laugh the other night. We tried to capture the smiles, but didn’t get any really good shots. I was making him smile and Kyle and the camera were in the other room. By the time Kyle got in the bedroom, Thomas was slowing down and wasn’t smiling as much. As soon as I get some better pictures, I’ll be sure to post them.

Gordon’s 4th Birthday

This year Gordon’s birthday was on a Wednesday and we had planned on having a small party with some friends on Saturday, which worked out perfectly because the boys and Kyle all had strep throat, so it was definitely good that we waited until Saturday to give them all time to recover.

Gordon asked for a Captain America cake. Some day I’m going to learn how to decorate cakes and make them look great, but for now, I just make due with what I have and know. I made a Captain America Shield cake because I figured I could do that with little problem. Gordon loved it and was so happy it was Captain America that he didn’t care what the cake looked like!

 

He just had his four year old check up on Monday. He is doing great. He is in the 47th percentile for weight and 50th percentile for height, which means he is right one and doing well. The poor boy had to have three shots in the leg, but he’s all caught up and doesn’t have to have any more immunizations for a long time, so we’re all happy!

I just love my Gordon Boy. He’s a sweet, caring little boy who loves to climb, jump, ride bikes, dance, swim, pretend fight, play with cars and anything else that will keep him active. His favorite things is anything to do with cars, sports, or The Avengers. He can pretend to be Captain America one moment and then take off his shirt to become the Hulk the next. He has found things around the house to help in his transformations such as a hanger turning into a bow for Hawk Eye and a plastic fireman hatchet for Thor’s hammer. He loves when someone reads to him and absolutely ADORES his little brother. He has started Sunbeams this year at church (the class that I teach) and since he is the oldest in the class, he is the only one that really sings or answers questions. He is sure cute in there though and I look forward to teaching him this year.

Christmas at the Hunter Home!

Christmas this year was very quiet, but nice. We had to really work on coming up with new traditions. We spent a lot of time on Skype on Christmas day, and the kids loved being able to see and talk to their cousins and grandparents.

Here are some pictures from our Christmas this year.

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Eddie got reindeer food at school (oats and glitter), so the reindeer would see the sparkles and stop at our house. It was so cute watching him spread the food around in the front yard on Christmas Eve before bed. Yes, I even put a picture of me in there in my pajamas playing on my new tablet. That was my Christmas, so I had to throw a picture in! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas because we sure did!

Eddie’s First Concert

I always love going to the kids’ concerts at school. They are always so cute. The winter concert this year was supposed to be at the school, but they asked us to send in a form stating how many people were planning on coming for each child. When they discovered that there would be over 500 people coming to watch the kids, they had to scramble to find a larger place. Thankfully, there is a local Baptist church that was willing to let us use their church building. I’m not sure there was still enough seating for everyone, but it was definitely bigger than the school gym, so everyone was happy!

We got a little bit of him singing on camera, but it’s hard to hear. Their concert celebrated all of the holidays in December, so he now knows songs for Christmas both religious and commercial, Hanukkah and Kwanza. I loved it! They did so well and it was so fun to listen and watch them.

 

Because of the way they have the music program set up, Celeste won’t get to sing in a concert until the spring, so we’ll get pictures of her when the time comes!

Happy 6th Birthday Eddie!

For Eddie’s birthday, he wanted a Power Rangers cake, so this is what I was able to do with little time. Of course, this was for his actual birthday, so it didn’t get eaten by friends because we had to reschedule his party, but he loved it once he could eat it!

The night before Eddie’s birthday, he asked me again if he could have a bike for his birthday. We knew he wanted a bigger bike, so we already had purchased one for him. In his words, we are “The best parents EVER!” I loved how happy he was. We gave it to him on his birthday, even though he was sick. We let him ride around the block a few times as well to test it out, but then he ended up sleeping the afternoon away because it took so much out of him!

We FINALLY had a party for him a week later when everyone was well. He wanted games with prizes at his party, so that’s what we did. We have the best stairs for a bean bag toss and Kyle did a great job on it. 

We also had a balloon popping contest. Kyle also invented the balloon pieces picking up game after they were done. We weighed how many balloon pieces each kid had and the winner got a prize based on the weight. It was wonderful because they picked up any garbage they could find to try and win!

Because we had cake the week before when Eddie was sick, he just wanted ice cream with toppings this time. He has a couple friends who were disappointed that there wasn’t cake because they don’t really like ice cream, but over all, it was a big hit. Eddie wanted chocolate ice cream and I had it scooped into balls ahead of time, so we just gave them each a few balls and they went to town on the toppings. Eddie also asked for Italian cream sodas. I don’t have a picture, but the kids loved being able to choose their flavor and have whipped cream in their drink.

I can’t believe my little boy is six years old now and as he keeps reminding me, only two years until he gets to be baptized now!