12 Months of Oaklee// Month 4

Weight: 11 pounds 4.8 ounces - 4th percentile

Diapers: Size 2, but mostly because we ran out of size 1s and I kept forgetting to buy more and we have a lot of 2s on hand.

Clothes: 0-3 months/3 months

Sleeping: Oaklee sleeps swaddled in the Moses basket for naps and nighttime. She has already hit her 4 month sleep regression and has been up once if not twice every night for the last week or two. We just finished her crib last weekend, so she will be moved into it once her sleep normalizes again. She usually takes two-three naps a day with her second nap always being a few hours long. She sucks on her binky to fall asleep.

Eating: She eats 3 ounces of formula every 3ish hours during the day, and has a bottle when she wakes up at night.

Milestones: Plays with toys, got her ears pierced, first giggles

Likes: binkies, but only when she is falling asleep, grabbing my hair, play mat, jumparoo

Dislikes: baths

Between the 4 month sleep regression and her having a minor cold right now, she is currently a smidge harder than normal. Which basically means in the last few days she's been occasionally fussy and is taking shorter naps than usual. Overall, she is still pretty darn easy and happy almost all the time. 

June 2020

We worked hard to finish up some big projects before the baby came.

We ordered 7 cubic yards of river rocks and filled the playground with them. We also filled around the garden boxes and a strip across the back of the yard.

We had just enough left over to fix some of our "RV pad"

Avery was the messiest helper with these projects.

I went to the last few appointments of the pregnancy which involved more non stress tests and an ultrasound at every appointment.

  

Oaklee Jean joined our family!

Labor and delivery went pretty smoothly, and we were excited to find out that she was a GIRL!

Read all about her birth here.

lots

and lots 

and lots

and lots of baby snuggling happened.

I helped coach the kids' tee ball team.

The first game was at a week or so postpartum, so it wasn't without popping some ibuprofen before each game haha. BUT we all survived, and they both had a great time. I hope it's something they remember forever.

quite a few games were spent like this, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.

First picture as a family of six!

My mom came for a visit for almost a week.

She came out to meet Oaklee and help with the craziness.

She accompanied us to a few t ball games, took a trip to the lake with us, and spent lots of time hanging out in the backyard while the kids played.

  

We spent some time at Rigby lake.

It is one of the kids' favorite things to do in the summer.

  

We spent a lot of time in the backyard. The kids pretty much lived in their swimsuits all of June.

Oaklee met her cousin, Chloe. They are exactly one month apart!

May 2020

  

We got a little bit crazy again, and built a deck!

It basically wa the project of "I don't know. We'll figure it out"

There weren't really tutorials online for exactly how we were doing it, so we weren't exactly sure what we were doing. Thankfully, it all ended up working out and the deck turned out pretty darn good.

The kids loved getting to help and were such good sports about the time we spent on the deck.

  

We tilled up about 2/3 of the backyard and layed down new sod, and by we I mean Taylor.

The grass that was there was spotty at best, full of weeds, and just wasn't improving as fast as we would have liked it to or really much at all.

Taylor, his dad, an uncle, and one of his cousins helped us lay the sod.

We loved it so much it made us wish we had spent the money to do the entire yard.

Mother's day

Taylor spoiled me by spending the day doing some big home cleaning projects for me that we had been putting off.

These cute girls learned how to ride their bikes without training wheels!

They just happened to learn about a day apart.

We were really impressed with how fast Ella caught on, and now she zips around on her bike all day every day.

Macey had a birthday!

1 whole year old.

Macey's best friend is Winnie and in that picture is Winnie's mom.

Winnie sent over some birthday treats for crazy Macey.

We paid someone to do the framing on the unfinished side of the basement.

It was totally worth the money because there was so much detail framing that had to be done.

Having it done in 3 nights versus the 3+ weeks it would have taken us was amazing.

  

We went on lots and lots of walk to help with gestational diabetes and also to hopefully give my body a little motivation to get the baby out sooner rather than later.

We got a freak snowstorm late in the month.

Of course, it happened on the day we had planned a Costco trip to stock up on things we needed.

It made for a less than pleasant drive.

And here you see the first time the kids wore masks. Little did we know it would be the first of MANY times they wore masks.

After we finished the deck, I decided it needed a place for the kids to sit and eat at. 

That led to my next project... I built a picnic table for the kids!

It was a fun, simple project.

Popsicles. tons and tons of popsicles.

We had a game night at our house with our little group of friends.

I started doing non stress tests to monitor the baby in the last few weeks of pregnancy.

I really loved getting to hear her heartbeat for so long and see how it coincided with her movements.