Beast

Beast: this is what we affectionately call Isadora these days and for good reason!

The girl is something else.  She's like a little tornado.  She comes crawling (yes crawling, ok?  she's totally on the Lincoln walking schedule!) into the living room and destroys it within seconds.  We always find her in the cat toys.  We even moved the cat toys under the table and she's always going under the table to get at the cat toys.

And she loves climbing.  Oh my gosh does she love climbing!  On anything and everything.  She claims onto the ottoman and will try to stand.  If she's not strapped into her high chair, she'll stand up.  We have two kid size chairs in the living room and she's always climbing into both and just sitting there for a few seconds before she's on the move again.

One of the chairs is right by an end table.  B showed us her mad climbing skills a couple days ago when she got into the chair and climbed onto the table.  I'm clearly very close to her so don't freak out!

We are busy right now with two of my favorite things: potty training and teething. For real?  Potty training?  and teething!  Will it ever end?!  We've made a lot of progress with Lincoln and even made our first venture out into public just wearing undies last week.  The hardest part is getting him to tell us he has to go when he's having fun.  My new alarm clock is Lincoln in my face saying, "Mommy, I have ta go poootty".  It's really awesome.  Especially the days it's pre 6:00 am.

And teething.  Oh my gosh, teething.  Talk about never ending.  Isa had the same four teeth for 5 months and now they are all coming in with a vengeance.  Holy cow.  My nights now consist of being up with B at least once and pumping her full of meds and then a wake up call bright and early from Lincoln.  Kirk and I have both been walking around like zombies for the last couple weeks.  It's all temporary, it's all temporary...

Can you see the teeth?  And do you see the curl?!  The lone curl!!  I hope there are more!

Being the genius that I am, I decided to take both kids to the mall on a rainy day to get haircuts by myself.  Holy cow.  That was a chore!  I even took them to Olga's.  That was a disaster especially when I was talking to the server and looked back to see Isa nose deep in the almond butter.  She had an allergic reaction on the way home.  Poor thing was itching her eyes and had a rash all over her face.  I raced home and gave her some Benadryl.  She took a good long nap and was as good as new.  So, I guess she still has a dairy allergy.

Here I am trying to get a picture of B.  The girl can move.

Oh, this box is my creativity at it's finest.  Thanks to Pinterest, I found this pin.  We took a big box, put holes in the top and put Christmas lights through the holes.  It's totally fun!

Let the holiday season begin!

Halloween

Can you believe this was Lincoln's 4th Halloween?!  Fourth!

Lincoln has been obsessed with robots lately.  They made robots out of boxes and aluminum foil at preschool and now they're his thing.  Or should I say this week they are his thing.  Next week his thing will be sharks or something.

Needless to say, Lincoln was a robot for Halloween!

How annoying is the under bite smile?!

Funny story about Isa's costume: I had gotten her a Minnie Mouse costume.  I went to try it on her and it wouldn't fit over her head!  She doesn't have a big head or anything, I think the costume was just small.  I made a trip to Target to pick out a new costume and the only one left in her size was a pink dinosaur.  Sooo, she was a pink dino.

Not the ideal costume, but she rocked it.

We attempted a picture of the two of them:

This is the progression of pictures.  Impossible!

This was the first year we carved a pumpkin with Lincoln, or should I say Kirk carved a pumpkin with Lincoln.  These pictures were mostly for show.  He wasn't strong enough to get the seeds out of the pumpkin.  They slipped right through his little hands.

He and Kirk did a great job with the carving.

 And the final product!

We had every intention of carving 2 more pumpkins, but we didn't cause we're lazy like that.  And it's a lot of work taking the seeds out of a pumpkin and deciding on a face.  And carving it?  Forget about it.  Just one of those things that was a lot easier when we were younger and our parents were doing half the work!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!  The holiday season is upon us!  Bring on the Christmas music!

Lincoln's Three Year Visit

So, I didn't update the entire month of October.  Wow!  Our life is THAT exciting!

Last week we finally took Lincoln in for his 3 year well-child check.  It's so hard to believe he's 3.  How many more times can I say that?

It's no surprise to anyone that Lincoln is small, but we were surprised he wasn't in a lower percentile.

Height: 36 3/4 inches (23rd percentile)
Weight: 29 pounds and 8 ounces (23rd percentile)

He's gained about 5 pounds and grown 3 inches in the last year.

They took his blood pressure (98/52) which I thought was so weird.  Funny to see your toddler getting their blood pressure taken.  He regularly takes our blood pressure with his play blood pressure cuff, but he's never actually had his blood pressure taken.

We talked to the doctor about his eating because he is so picky.  I feel like we did everything we could to feed him well and we cannot get him to eat.  The doctor recommended a book called Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter.  Anyone heard of it?  I'll let you know if it's any good.  We can't be the only ones with a picky eater!