Thursday, March 31, 2011

Birthdays, a Farmer and a Bear

A couple weekends ago the kids and I headed up to New Richmond to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa and Lauren's birthdays. It was a nice weekend to go up there and relax, especially because Eric was in Florida for work, and had been all week. Here are a few random pictures from the weekend. Lauren turned 3! Leyton loved her Mickey Mouse cake...A trip to NR means a trip to the barn...Cant forget Cal, happy in his bear jacket!

Alligator Experiment

Aunt Kelly got Leyton this Alligator that you put in water for a week and it grows... Leyton was amazed by it, but it also took a lot of patience on his part! He would constantly pull the chair over to the counter to look at it, and we'd have to explain that he couldn't take it out of the water yet because it wasn't done growing. After a long week, he was super excited to play with his much bigger Alligator! Its hard to tell from the first picture how small it was, but it was really small compared to the end product!


More Matching

These are Leyton's favorite pajama's (because of the cow), and now that Cal's fit him, he loves them even more! He thinks its pretty funny when they both happen to be wearing them on the same night. I love the saying on Leyton's shirt- "Pasture Bedtime"!

Friday, March 25, 2011

Splish Splash

When I was giving Cal a bath this week, Leyton asked (again) to get in the tub with him so I decided to give it a shot. It actually went really well! Leyton liked rubbing Cal's belly with the washcloth, and washing his hair, and Cal didn't seem to mind!


Cal's 4 month checkup

Cal had his 4 month checkup this week, and everything looked good. The nurses commented on how easily he smiles and what a happy baby he is- right before they poked him with shots on each side! Poor Cal cried so hard for so long- definitely more sensitive to the shots than his big brother was! Besides turning 4 months, Cal had another big milestone this week- he rolled over for the first time! He went from back to stomach first, which is the same way Leyton first rolled.

Here are Cal's 4 month stats:
Height- 25 1/2", 68th%
Weight- 16.4lbs, 63rd%
Head- 42 1/2cm, 55th%

And a couple photos of Cal sporting his hot pink band aids after his appointment:


Thursday, March 17, 2011

4 Months and a life update

My peanut at 4 months: We've been so busy at the Bostow household lately that these past 4 months have absolutely flown by. Here's a little update on what's new in our lives:
I spent most of my maternity leave getting the house ready to put on the market. It was stressful and exhausting, but also exciting at the same time! Our good friend Andrea who sold us our house, took mom's in motion classes with me, had Izzy 2 weeks before I had Leyton, walked with me all summer to lose the baby weight, lent us storage space, (the list goes on and on) listed our house through Potterton Rule in mid February. We've had a handful of people look but no offers yet.

Onto the reason the house is for sale; Eric got a new job! He will still be working for Lands' End doing sales, but instead of National Sales he will be a Field Sales Rep for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area! Since this is by both of our families we are thrilled and of course nervous and excited all at the same time. Nervous because I have lots to figure out still... such as where I'll work, where we'll live, when I'll move up there, etc. For now the plan is for me to stay here working until the house sells (unless it takes forever to sell- not sure how long I can do the single parent thing while still working full time without going crazy...), and we'll travel back and forth on the weekends. Eric will also be in Dodgeville every few weeks for work at the office so that will be nice. He starts his job up there end of May/early June.

Cal and Leyton are doing great. Leyton is loving this warmer weather we've been having. He gets to ride trikes a lot at Julies, and go for walks. Cal and Caitlyn (born 2 days apart) both got to experience their first outdoor walks this week too, and Cal seems to love sitting in the front of the double stroller in his snowsuit! Another first this week... we had our first sitters for Cal! My cousin Max was nice enough to ask if we wanted him and his girlfriend Maria to come and watch the boys so Eric and I could go out, and we couldn't pass up the offer! Max goes to UW Madison, and Maria was here on Spring Break from UW River Falls. It sounds like both kids did great, and Leyton was really attached to Max! Tonight when I picked him up from daycare I was telling him how we were going to make popcorn and play and watch Wisconsin play tonight and he said "who's going to play with me?" And I said mommy and daddy, and he said "no! who's COMING to play with me?!" And I laughed and said "do you mean Max and Maria?" and he got a huge grin and said "yeah, I want max and Maria!" Sorry guys, this may need to become a regular thing... for Leyton's sake, I swear ;).

Day at the Museum (again)


We went to the Madison Children's museum again the other weekend, but what was different this time was that is was Cal's first time there! The last 2 times Leyton has gone it's just been him and Dad while Cal and I opted to stay home and relax. Leyton's been asking when Cal and mommy were going to go so he was pretty excited when I said we were coming this time. He ran around showing Cal everything and telling him about all of his favorite things. It was pretty cute! And since the museum is right on the corner by the capital there was a little extra excitement (?) with all of the protesting going on...

This picture makes me laugh... The museum was closing so Leyton was pouting that he had to stop playing with the blocks, and Cal was crying because he was one minute past eating time-when he wants to eat, he wants to eat NOW!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


My little Leprechaun came home from Julie's today excited about his St. Patrick's Day "crown", and with some other fun projects, including this cheerio-painted shamrock. (dont worry, we rememebered to wear green today, this was just taken after baths and jammies!). Also, happy birthday Ali! :)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Sweet Baby Boys

Some of my favorite pictures from this weekend:

Friday, March 4, 2011

Cal - 3 1/2 months

Just wanted to share some photos of Cal from the past couple weeks. He seems to change everyday!

He's started to grab at toys more now when I give them to him, which is always fun! (sorry, I have no idea why this picture wont go in the right direction...)

Visitors!

Leyton taking his turn bowling!Cal did great hanging out at the Dodgerbowl... he slept the entire time!
Maria and her son David, with Leyton and Cal. Leyton loves David, and David was nice enough to play with him pretty much the whole time they were here!

Bryan, Elena and Cal:

Last weekend Jessie, Dan, Lauren, Ella and baby #3 came to visit us in Dodgeville. They came down to see Maddox's new sister Cecelia for a couple days, and then stayed at our house for a couple days. We took the kids bowling for the first time and I think they really liked it! I know Leyton especially enjoyed the deep fried cheese curds :). Unfortunately I didn't take hardly any pictures all weekend so I don't have much to show for all that we did, and I have none of Ella Bella! So sorry honey!
The weekend before they came down, we got to see one of my best friends, Maria. Her daughter Elena and future son in law Bryan go to UW Madison so she was up visiting them from St. Louis and stopped by on Saturday. It was so great to see them!