Thumb Sucker #2?

We might just have another thumb sucker on our hands…

She was just a few days old here and already working on that thumb.

This was just last month, she is getting better at it :)

The evenings of her first month of life she was often in the Baby Bjorn.  We hadn't figured out her reflux at this point and she wanted to be held full time.  Pretty sure at this point I was praying for her to suck her thumb, poor girl needed something to soothe her and she wouldn't (and still really doesn't) take a pacifier.  Why can't I have a pacifier baby!???!!

I have such a soft spot for a thumb sucking baby after Cooper.  Now that I know I can break a kid of it (or at least I have success with one), I wouldn't mind one bit if she sucked her thumb.  Only time will tell…

As I type this, she is in the swing next to me snoozing and sucking her thumb :).

Oldest Sibling

My sister bought this shirt for Cooper and it has survived all 3 kids.

Cooper, our smallest baby

Laney

Piper

Piper the Patient

Cooper and Laney love to play Doctor and their favorite patient is Piper.

I am often reminding Laney to not put the thermometer in Piper's mouth and just pretend.

Big Girl Bed!

Last Fall, Adam and I were talking about Laney and knew we wanted/needed to tackle one of two things before the baby arrived.  It was either potty training or big girl bed.  We went with big girl bed and then all of sudden she started potty training herself!  So we shifted gears and went all in with potty training.  It was so much easier than we anticipated and she is still doing awesome.

Then in November when we found out we would be moving, we decided to put the big girl bed on hold until the new house.  Nothing like wrapping up a couple big changes (new house, new bed) in a big red bow for our sweet girl!

 So the first day she was in our house, this is where she napped!  And she did awesome!  Her and Coop  slept on our floor for the first few nights.  

 She was excited about her bed-no special sheets yet or even furniture in her room!  She literally had her bed and a rubbermaid container.  

 Sunday naps.  Almost every time we lay her down for nap or bed, she says, "lay with me."

 And then about a week later, the honeymoon period of her sleeping in her big girl bed was over.  Almost every single day about 5 minutes after I put her to bed, she sneaks out of her room and runs across the hall to Cooper's room.  I hear the door shut and then lock.  They giggle, chat and play until I break it up.  I want to be mad but they are so stinkin' cute and think they are so sneaky and hilarious that it's all I can do not to laugh with them.

And then she often tries it again one.more.time.  Seriously the girl is running my patience ragged at nap time.  Cooper totally spoiled me!  That boy always (and most days still does) just went upstairs, laid down and didn't get up for at least a couple hours.  This girl of mine usually takes an hour to finally fall asleep and has mastered every stall tactic in the book.

Our New Home!

We drove up to Kansas on Wednesday and closed/moved into our new home on Thursday!  This is the 5th house Adam and I have lived in together, hard to believe!!!

No pictures of the outside of the house but many of the inside.  I want this place documented how it looks sort of empty and clean ;).

 The toy room before the kids and toys arrived.

 This is the view when you walk in from the garage.

 This is where we will spend most of our time.

 Piper's swing was one of the first things up!  Our backyard was still a muddy/icy mess.

 Our bedroom

 Laney's room

 Piper's room

 Cooper's room

 Reunited with all her books!  No idea why this basket of books was in the bathroom??

 The toy room after the toys and kids arrived ;)…this is like 1/4 of the mess.

 My sweet Dad had Welcome Home flowers sent…that I gave all the credit to my mom for, sorry Dad!

It snowed on move in day, boo!!!!!!

 2nd Day, starting to come together and thankfully all our furniture fit perfectly!

 She's out of a crib!!!!  The kids napped on the floors of their rooms for the first few days and slept on our floor at night.

See the kids makeshift beds on our floor?    Total chaos.

Yes the kids were sleeping on our floor and our house was utter chaos but 48 hours after moving in, we were here.  My happy place.  It was so great to escape the house stuff to hang out with The Stauffers and watch our Hawks!  

Adios Texas!

Ok- promise this is my last 'goodbye Texas' post!

I can't believe I almost forgot to post this!  Our last couple weeks in Texas we had many final dinners/playdates with good friends.  This night was with the Fimmen family!  When we moved here Matt was younger than Lucy and I only had Cooper!  Cooper has adored these kids since day 1 - he has had some of his biggest tantrums leaving the Fimmens' house!  I can't blame the kid, they are great people and their house is always full of fun, we sure are going to miss them! 

The week of our move the weather finally took a turn for the better…it was a long, cold winter in Texas!  You can only spend so many hours packing boxes with an infant before you just have to get out of the house.  So me and my little lady hit Southlake Town Square for one last shopping trip at our favorite place in the 70 degree weather.

This was the day before we moved.  I was beginning to wonder what we were thinking, especially since KC was forecasted for snow in just a few days!

Moving Day!  We packed everything up and then had movers come and transport it all into the moving truck that Adam would be driving.  

This was our upstairs bonus room/toy room.  This is what was left after all the furniture was gone.  This just cracks me up because it is soooo us to always have stuff under the furniture and I found a few toy parts we have been missing for a loooong time!

After a tearful goodbye to our old home, we hit the road around 3pm on Wednesday, February 20.  Piper, Lola and I were in my car and Adam drove this beast!  It was originally just to be the UHaul truck and then halfway thru the packing process - we realized we would definitely need more room!  A huge shoutout to Adam for having the ability to drive this ride!  Besides Piper projectile vomiting on me at a stop to feed her (gotta love being soaked in baby puke the first hour of a 8 hour drive!), the drive was pretty uneventful and we got back to my parents around 12:30-1am.

We were closing on our new KC home the next morning at 9am!

Goodbyes - kids last days in Texas

I hate goodbyes and really thought we would have more time to hit up our favorite spots one last time and knock a few more items off our Texas bucket list.  But the house sold so fast and the next few weeks were like living in a tornado.  So we didn't do everything I wanted to but I did sneak in a few simple things.

 One day this boy skipped nap so we went on a walk while Dad stayed home with the girls.  I told him that when we moved into this house he was our only kid, he couldn't believe it!  

 One last walk around the block that we have walked hundreds of times.  This is where Cooper learned how to ride his bike, where we lost (and found) Lola twice thanks to good samaritans, and Laney strolled her babies just like I used to stroll her.  

Love, love, love this sweet boy of mine!

 We came to Texas as a family of 3 1/2 (Laney Faith was a bun in my oven) and left as a family of 5!  It was a busy 3 years.  We made the best memories in this home, the best being bringing home our 2 girls here.  

Yep, this home was really good to us which made it hard to say goodbye!

The real craziness began on the Sunday before we were moving (that following Wednesday).  Adam packed up a load including 2 of our most prized possessions and headed to KC.  He was going to do our final walk thru at the new house and flying out from there for a meeting in Miami.  The kids tagged along to stay at Grandma and Grandpas so that I could finish packing.  I quickly realized it was going to be next to impossible to do with these 2 unpacking just about the same pace I was packing.  So they left on Sunday morning and I had 3 whole days to pack up the rest of the house with just Piper.  Did you hear that???  3 whole days to myself with just my baby!  Yes, I had so much to do and was totally overwhelmed but it was so awesome!  And I am so thankful for my parents taking on these 2 kids for several days -they aren't exactly easy!