Bailey's 3rd Birthday

Birthday: March 15, 2008

Bailey's Profile at age 3:

Favorite Color- Purple

Favorite Outfit- her pink and green stripped dress

Favorite Song- Coldplay, the Scientist. Each instrument comes in one at a time and she counts down and names which instrument comes in. (She did not learn this from me!)

Favorite Show- Go Diego Go!

Favorite Movie- Snow White

Favorite book- Children's Bible Stories and Fergus (which she will "read" to you due to her impressive memorization skills)

Favorite animal- baby animals

Favorite Bug- Lady Bug

Favorite Musical Artist- Jana Alayra

Bio:

These days Bailey likes to do everything herself and questions how things work. She is insistent in learning how to do things and can be difficult when it's things like using scissors or lighting a match which she is not ready for. We are very proud of her for her independence and confidence in her abilities. We admire her positive persistent attitude that we hope to guide in a positive direction. I have been amazed to watch her walk into a class of children and interact with kids and instructors, sharing, using manors, and making conversation. I have to hold myself back because sometimes I forget she can communicate her needs, make friends, and play without me. It's a proud yet sad feeling for me. Our little girl is her own person. And that is why age 3 is as old as I want her to be. haha...I love this age and having been feeling some sadness at her getting any older right now. I realized this is my last year before she is in pre-school. Ahh..this killed me! Where has the time gone! She even asks when she can go to school! So proud of who she is and who she is becoming.

Bailey loves the outdoors and adventure. She is really into Diego which supports her love for animals, outdoors, and adventure! She often is Diego saving baby animals, or hunting for bugs outside. She memorizes facts about animals and bugs and loves to teach you about them. She is very animated and talkative. Bailey also enjoys the Disney princess movies and has some of the dresses that she wears around and likes to re-enact when the princesses run away from the witch or the Prince and she hides away until we come save her. She likes being the damsel in distress- adventure. But she'll never neglect the "and they got married!" She makes couples out of everything. Everyone is a princess or prince and she often asks, "are they going to get married mama?" Recently she has been interested in Brandon and I's story about how we got married and how we had her after. Brandon enjoys to tell her how "right after we got married, you were in mommy's belly." Really annunciating on the "right after" or more like next day part.

Bailey continues to bless us with love and joy. She challenges Brandon and I to be better people and parent's and reminds us of self-sacrificing love and forgiveness. It melts our hearts that when we apologize to her for over-reacting or being frustrated, she says, "that's ok Mommy, I forgive you," and gives me a hug and kiss. She teaches us patience and humility. The Lord is perfect in his design of children for they are constant reminders of how God loves us and how we are children in his eyes. Bailey is very loving and nurturing, especially to Jaemus. She is such a great sister and I am so proud of seeing there love for each other.

Happy 3rd Birthday Luvies!

Jaemus is 9 Months Old!

9 months is such a milestone age of babble words, crawling, teeth, laughter, personality...

I keep wondering where by baby went! Especially since Easton was been born I feel like Jaemus was never and infant. It went by so fast and it has been so much busier. My baby is nearly a toddler! Well, at least in size and by hair cuts; he just had his second hair cut.

Jaemus is getting around but not by crawling. He scoots on his bottom or lunges forward to his belly to get where he wants to go. Just the other day he learned to push himself from his stomach to his bottom. So great! This kids hates being on his stomach (hence the bottom scooting) and so now that he has the control to get back to a comfortable position he fusses much less. He is about to crawl any second! He rocks on his hands and knees and crawls backwards.

He has two more teeth coming in (top and bottom) which will make 7 total. I am hoping this has been the reason for his crazy sleep pattern the last month or so. 8 months was loss of my sanity. He was up two times a night and for the day by 6 am. I hit my wall of sleep deprivation and felt stuck in a cloud and was beginning to forget what sleep felt like. His sleep has been tough for longer than a month, but this month is when it really caught up to me. Lucky for him he has been super cuddly, happy, and playful which melts my heart to patience. Other wise, you may have seen him packed and ready on our lawn with a "For Free" sign pinned on him. The true love of a mother huh? haha

Like I said, his personality is really beginning to shine. He laughs really easy and is always smiling at whoever grabs his attention. He does great with strangers and enjoys being held and introduced around. Jaemus likes being out and about but in his heart, he is a home-body. I have seen him squeal with delight when we walk into the house and he gets to have his floor time in peace. He is great at eating of solids and loves feeding himself. His eyes grow wide over bananas, apples, and sweet potatoes. Puffs are an in the purse necessity as well.

Jaemus has also started dancing! Brandon plays guitar a lot for Bailey and she dances, runs around, or joins in with another instrument. So, Jaemus has now joined in too. As soon as music starts he begins to rock on his bottom to the music and smile, wave his hands and squeal. It is so cute and I love our family music time.

All in all, this little guy is perfect to us! I can say this with a well slept mind of 4 full nights of rest, but really, he brings us all so much joy and laughter. I treasure my alone time with him and rocking him to sleep and letting him sleep in my arms. He has a peaceful nature and loves our attention and affection.

Easton Michael Bair

My nephew Easton was born Saturday March 5th at 9:46 p.m. He weighed 7.13lbs and was 20 1/2 in. He is healthy, tiny, and so so sweet!

I was very honored to watch the birth of Easton and it was so exciting!! I was thrilled to be able to actually "watch" a birth. You don't exactly see the baby come out when birthing one. So, having had two babies come out of me, I was ready to appreciate watching a birth. Tawnia was such a champ and made it look so easy. God 's design of pregnancy and birth is pretty incredible and all the sacrifice and pain involved is such a great picture of how Christ has sacrificed for us and continues to show us grace.

First time in Dad's arms.

Easton with his big brother Caden. Easton is very lucky to have Caden to look up to.

Bailey adores how tiny Easton is and is excited to have another cousin.

One day old.

Valentine's Day

There may have been a lot of snot and coughing but there was still lots of love.

Bailey's finished Valentine for daddy. Such a good attitude when she is sick.

Brandon surprised us in the morning with baby pink roses for Bailey, red for me, and a potted plant from Jaemus. Brandon made us homemade cards as well. We also made Brandon homemade cards and a new framed picture for his office of the kids.

That night we got take-out Rutabegorz and played the Sigur Ros DVD and pretended to be apart of their marching band. Bailey was on the harmonica, Brandon on the penny whistel, and we all wore bucket hats. Jaemus and I mostly watched in entertainment at Brandon and Bailey and captured some quality video footage.

Such a fun family I have and a great husband that makes me feel very loved and cared for.

Thanks for a great Valentine's Day husband.

8 Months

First off, this month has flown by! I hardly remember him being 7 months and I keep reminding myself that he is now 8 months!

Poor baby is experiencing his first sickness. Bailey has had a wretched cold all week and now Jaemus has it. It has been a really long week of coughing, snot, fevers, sleepless nights, Diego, and Imagination Movers. Last night perhaps was the most memorable of nights and I hope to always remember it. Poor Bailey was really achy and could not sleep and at about midnight she was really losing it. So, we took her into the living room and she was coughing so hard she was gagging and snot was just pouring out of her nose. She was nauseous and so tired. Once we got her calm Jaemus woke up clearly feeling similar. He was coughing and crying. Brandon and I took turns as we cared for out babies. He made Bailey toast while I nursed Jaemus, then Brandon played guitar for Jaemus until he fell asleep and I snuggled on the couch with Bailey until she was tired enough to go to bed. By 2:30 am we were climbing back into bed praying they will sleep. We made it until 6am- then Jaemus was up again. =)

However tiring that was, it was also sweet and special in that needy sick way. I love that Jaemus will fall asleep to Brandon's singing and music; and that Bailey will still snuggle in my arms and tell me she loves me and thank me for making her toast. I love that Brandon and I will both get up without hesitation to nurture our kids, and that Brandon and I get to share these moments together.

As for Jaemus' last month, he was grown in his two front teeth! These ones have made him ravenous for chew toys. He has been like a puppy biting everything he is near. His high chair tray, my chin, Bailey, and his favorite is apples in his pacy bag.

More of his personality is coming out as we have discovered he is a very happy morning boy. He wakes up ready to play and laugh. He also always wants something in his hands. While he eats he holds an extra spoon, in his stroller or car seat usually Sophie the giraffe or his lady bug. Going to sleep he holds his taggie blanket that he snuggles his face in and flips the little tags.

He is taking 2 naps a day now and sleeping from 8 pm to about 6 am. Really liking his sleeping routine. He usually goes back to sleep after his 6 am feeding and this gets me up and going so I get about an hour and half to myself in the mornings! I usually can get about an hour or two in the afternoon too.

He is rolling around more and getting warmed up for crawling. Jaemus rolled from his back to his tummy and now has figured out how to get from his bottom to his tummy. He has become frustrated in his desire to follow Bailey around or get to toys- all good motivation to crawl. He is very vocal and conversational and this makes for fun yet noisy meal times and we are all trying to talk. Jaemus learned to do raspberries from Bailey and it is really funny to watch them because they just laugh at each other.

Bailey and Jaemus' relationship grows richer each month as they create their own ways of playing and interacting. Bailey loves rolling Jaemus around and nothing makes him light up more than Bailey. Jaemus and Bailey create a really fun atmosphere.

Bailey's classic choke hold.

Convenient yet hilarious

The Bouquet

I brought my bouquet home from the wedding I was in last Saturday and I had not foreseen what a big hit it would be for Bailey.

When she saw the bouquet she lit up and said, "is that for me? Can I hold it and get married!!?" Oh, my - I was not expecting that. I laughed in surprise at how much she has quickly caught on too. All those disney movies and a summer of weddings.

This entire week she has been carrying the flowers around. She has kept them in a vase next to her bed and she sings disney songs and carries it around all smiles. When the petals fall off she takes them outside and makes a little pile "for the bees." She does this often. Bailey picks flowers on our walks and throws the petals around for the bees so they can make honey. She also pulls grass and leaves and makes a pile for the birds to make their nests with. Bailey takes such good care of the animals.

This morning Bailey and I did a finger painting project. I knew today needed to be the last day of the bouquet so instead of throwing it out when she was in bed, we incorporated it into our finger painting.

We used the petals on our pictures and with the remained of the roses Bailey pulled off all the petal, placed them in a bucket of water and made soup. Then she placed them in a large pile for the bees.

One of my favorite times with Bailey. Watching her get covered in paint, making little hand prints in her paper, and watching her imagine grow with her prized bouquet. I sure love my little girl.

And because he is so cute in his new chair. Easiest boy to get a smile out of.