4 Months!

Happy 4 month birthday Sara!  I can't even tell you how special the past 4 months have been having you with us.  You are such a good baby and your sweet little smile melts my heart.   Your brothers are still crazy about you and I really don't know how you tolerate all the attention when most of the time you end up getting squeezed, bumped, poked, etc.  I've enjoyed all the time we've spent together while I've been on maternity leave.  One more month to go and I'm going to be sad for it to end but happy I was able to be home for 5 months.

At four months you weigh 13 lbs 14 ozs and are in the 42nd percentile.  You are 25 inches long which puts you at the 71st percentile.  You love to stand up and your little legs are so strong!  If it wasn't for balance, you would be able to stand all by yourself.  We even tested out the exersaucer this month and you could play for a little.  You were doing really well in the sleep department and only waking up every 4-5 hours.  However, a couple of weeks ago when you decided that it would be more fun to wake up every two hours and have been doing it ever since.  The doctor gave us the okay to give you some rice cereal which we will be trying soon in the hopes that you'll start sleeping longer through the night.  You love to smile and giggle especially when you are getting your diaper change and you think your brothers are pretty funny some time.  Your little laughs egg them on to be even goofier in the hopes of getting some more laughs out of you.  You also discovered your voice this month and you love to scream loudly just to hear yourself.  You drool like a maniac!  There is not a fabric too think that you can't completely soak.  We go through at least 5 bibs a day.  You haven't rolled over yet but you can get up onto your side.  So I would expect to see some rolling pretty soon.  When you look a something intently, you can raise just your left eyebrow.  And one thing I'm most excited about is that your eyes are still blue!

Happy 4 month birthday!!

My three goof balls.

I love those little baby legs!

Christmas Day - Part II

After a good night sleep, the boys were re-energized to do some more present opening.  Surprisingly the boys slept in until 7am and then patiently waited to go downstairs until Sara was done eating.  I didn't get too many pictures this year since I opted for the video over the pictures.  It was really fun to capture Will's reaction on video as he opened the gifts.  He was too funny.   I was able to get a few pictures but they were blurry since they were tearing through the presents at warp speed.  

 Sara watching the craziness ensue before her.

 Once they were done with their gifts, they moved on to help Sara open her presents.

Later that morning, we hosted Christmas day at our house with the rest of the Dugas family as well as Eric's Aunt, Uncle and cousins.

 Stashtastic!

Nana, Papi and the boys!  But wait...how did I allow them to wear those outfits on Christmas day??  (the boys...not Nana and Papi :-)

 Boogie boards!  Even Sara got one.

Another hot gift item for the boys.  Both Will and Jack are in love with the ninja turtles.  Fortunately Uncle Jeff experienced a little Christmas miracle when looking for the turtle van and was able to find it despite every store being completely sold out of turtle toys.

 Kayaks for the boys at the cape.

Family photo.  Can you spot the pig in the picture?  Haha...

Christmas Eve - Part 1

Christmas came and went faster than I even expected it to this year.  The boys started talking about Christmas well before Thanksgiving and every day there were 101 questions about when Santa was coming, what he was going to bring, how would he get into the house and any other question a 3 and 4 year old could come up with.  I'm not complaining at all since it makes the Christmas season so much more magical, but it gets a little difficult after a while trying to come up with the "why and how" for these questions.  I have to say the most difficult to explain (and I'm still not really sure I did a good job) is why there were Elf's on the Shelf in boxes being sold at the store.  Hmm....I was pulling things out of the air for those questions when we encountered it one day in the store.  Stores seriously need to consider hiding those things to save parents from having to explain why they were sitting in a box and not at the North Pole with Santa.

A few days leading up to Christmas, the boys were bouncing of the walls in anticipation.  I was worried by the time Christmas came they would be so exhausted that they would be too tired to enjoy it.  Well I didn't need to worry about that.  Fortunately they had enough adrenaline to carry them through Christmas, just in time to crash the day after. 

Anyways, onto the pictures.  I'll be posting the pictures in installments since I have a lot.  Up first.... Christmas Eve!

Of course it wouldn't be Christmas (or any holiday for that matter) without getting a few photos dressed in our holiday best.  Poor Sara drew the short stick and had to wear the snowman costume to start.  She was a trooper for a few minutes...

...but decided very quickly that she didn't like being dressed up as a snowman and wasn't going to take it any more.

So we got rid of the costume to take a few more nice photos.  However, Sara was too into touching her dress to bother looking at that camera. 

Then I wanted to get a picture of the two boys together.  Surprisingly, they were willing to pose for me.

 However, it proved to be just too tempting....

 .......and ended up in a wrestling match which quickly ended the photo session.

Sara was in awe of her dress and was amused by the fact that she could pull it up to her face and put it in her mouth.  I couldn't get any pictures of her for a while because all she wanted to do was stick her dress in her mouth.

Next, we headed to my parents house for Christmas Eve.

I went a little overboard on the pictures of Sara but she was just so darn cute in her dress that I couldn't resist.

 One of my favorite pictures...

Before dinner, we got a visit from Santa!  Jack was so excited to see him.  The first thing he asked Santa as he was walking through the door was where his presents were.

Once Santa left it was time to open presents.  The boys were about ready to burst and weren't going to last much longer if we didn't let them start opening.  However, once the present opening started I don't think Jack said a word.  I've never in his entire 3 years of life heard this boy as quiet as he was opening the gifts.  I think he was so overwhelmed that he didn't even know what to say.

Sara and her stash of presents.

The favorite gift of the night...Leonardo ninja sword.  Will has been talking about this sword for 3 months.

 Swords in action...