Friday, June 5, 2009

A few more weeks to go...

She's 11 months old already. It's just pure craziness. Sweet little Reesie, believe it or not, has a mind of her own. She's in that phase where she doesn't much care for being corrected. I'm not sure if it's a girl thing or just a clark kid thing, but the past few weeks she has turned into a drama queen.

She's super interested in the stairs. I don't want to put a gate up so i have been diligent in teaching her to NOT CLIMB THOSE STAIRS. When she starts to climb, I go over to her and very gently say no and give her the tiniest little flick on her hand. Then she puts her head up and starts wailing!!! Not cool. Not cool, I say. She most certainly does not care to be corrected. (What do ya know, after 10 months with a peaceful, perfect in my eyes, little girl, it turns out she's completely human after all. :)

She's totally standing these days... cruising around on whatever she can lift herself up on. She has only four words, Mama, Papa, More & Siah (She actually calls him YiYa. It really is the cutest thing ever watching her crawl around the house looking for her brother and shouting his name over and over again, "Yiya, Yiya, Yiya!!!!!!!"

She dances. Yes, really! When we are driving she sits in the back seat and bobs her head to the music. (Which as a side note, she really does NOT care for being in her carseat. She spends most of the time pulling on her straps hoping with all her being that she will be able to pull them of of her chest.)

She still has the best laugh ever. She's super independent. Today I was making dinner and I realized that I hadn't seen Reesie for a few minutes. All the older kids were playing outside. Tara went out there to see what Reesie was up to. She was playing ball with the rest of the kids. She seriously plays for a long time by herself. I must admit that I really love that about her.



She went on her first camping trip this month and did better than awesome. She slept throught the night both nights and started to fuss around 4am. So I went and laid with her next to her bed and she fell back asleep till 7:30 both mornings. She played everywhere and jumped right in with the rest of the kids at the creek and on the grassy field. She played on the playground, and crawled around in the dirt. She was awesome and I was so proud of her .

Some other things that I love about her... she's so cuddly, she lets me old her all the time and she buries her head in my chest. She claps her hands on command now. She waves hi and goodbye (it's the same wave for both :).

She's such a treasure.

Until next month when we celebrate her first birthday!!!!













Friday, May 1, 2009

Who? What? How?

Who's turning TEN months old tomorrow??? What happened to bring us to this point?? How could all these months have already gone by?



Month ten was loaded with great and glorious things...

Our little Reesie
crawls,
claps,
says, "Papa," "Mama", & "More."




She gave us a little scare this month... But the Lord healed her in a day and she has been her sweet self ever since...





She only has two teeth that are all the way in... But she has four other teeth that feel like they have been "coming in" for weeks now... Oh well, I'm sure they will pop through one of these days...

I know that her teeth are bothering her & she is most certainly NOT sleeping that great during the day (fine at night though :)... But the strange but really cool blessing about the whole thing is that with baby number three, I know these hard phases will pass... there is an end in sight, and I must confess that makes it so much easier to get through each day with joy...





What can I say about Ressie...
At 10 months she weighs 19lbs, 2 ounces
She's already in 12-18 month clothes... She's growing a lot like Siah did when he was a wee lad... He was a BIG baby, but now he's tall and lanky...

She's down to 2 bottles a day... She totally knows how to drink out of a cup all by herself... So she drinks a lot of water throughout the day in addition to her bottles...
She seriously eats everything that I put in front of her...



She celebrated her very first Easter... She really wasn't that into the egg hunt, or even the delicious food... But she loved having all the people over at our house... She really does love people... But the past few weeks she has really been into her Mama... I must confess I kinda like that she likes me... :) Cuz I sure do like her to!!!!



It's hard to believe that in 8 short weeks we will be at the one year mark... What a day of celebration it will be!!!! This little treasure continues to bless our socks off!!!!
Happy ten months little love!!!!










Sunday, March 29, 2009

9 months and counting....



Hello... Yes, it's been NINE fabulous months!!!! I have a REAL treasure on my hands!!!

When I look at Reesie just in everyday life, I feel like she looks exactly like Josiah, except with earrings and pink clothes... But I pulled up some old pictures tonight and discovered that they are definitely related but they are not the twins that I sometimes picture them to be...

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Close up...


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Bath Time....


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Eating Time...


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Lip Biters...


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Big Eyes...



This month has been full of awesome accomplishments and milestones, if you will... I know that I say this every month but little Reesie lights up my life!!!

She is sooooo loud! She is LOUDER than any of the other MSC! She's a screamer... not like a tantrum or in anger... she just talk in one volume and that volume is LOUD! I think she just wants us to know that she is here... Mission accomplished!!!


I love the stage when you can give them finger foods... In so many ways it makes my life so much easier... I can feed her maily what I give the rest of the family now, I just break it into some tiny pieces, and with her two little teeth she manages to get it down. I think she likes the idea of feeding herself better as well. The other day she ate almost an entire meatball all by herself!!!! We also drove to LA last week to pick up a tripple jogger that I have been saving for for months! I found a used one on craigslist and it turned out to be even better than I thought it was going to be... Anyways, I am telling you all of this because on the way home Reesie started to get fussy and I had one of those teething biscuits with me so I gave it to her and she was QUIET as a mouse the WHOLE way home!!! Praise God for new phases! There is seriously something awesome about every phase of our children growing up. I am so grateful that the Lord is helping me to see the major blessing in the little things! As a mom the little things feel so big! This time of my life with my MSC is above and beyond anything that I could have imagined!! I am in LOVE!



Anyways, back to Reesie... She's not a speed crawler yet but she can definitely get herself where ever she wants to go... She's at that phase where she puts EVERYTHING in her mouth... I have got to get better at keeping an eye out for all those tiny things in the carpet that nobody can see but somehow Reesie manages to find them and eat them on a daily basis... I won't go into detail but she has had some interesting stuff in her diaper lately... yuck!



She's growing up... She's getting more independent... She's a total sweet heart! And I completely cherish every second I have with my little treasure! I have no idea what the number of herr days might be but I know that God has already used this girl for his glory... to draw me closer to him and to see that there is joy in everyday if only we will ask the Lord to help us see it!

Tonight as I was putting her jammies on after her bath, this overwhelming feeling of gratefulness came over me and i found myself thanking the Lord for the way that the baby lotion smells so sweet on her skin, and for the soft warm jammies that I could put on over her chubby little legs... which reminded me of what a blessing it is that I am able to feed my little treasure good food... several times a day... everyday... And as silly as it might sound, I got a little teary-eyed in the bathroom tonight as I buttoned her last button and swooped her up in my arms, and heard her precious little giggle in my ear. I'm just grateful that she's here... that the Lord entrusted her to Joey and I... And it is my privilege to teach her all about HIM!

Ok, I think I've gone on and on long enough... until next month...

Monday, March 2, 2009

8 Marvelous Months


Here we are again... Little Reesie is 8 months old today...

The exciting news is that she finally got her first tooth... I can't get a picture of it for the life of me but it's the one in the front on the bottom right... I was praying that she would get a bunch at one time so that we could get over the whole teething phase sooner than later... but no such luck here... She only has one lonely tooth with no other ones in sight...


Moving on... mmmm... Let's see... let's start with eating... she started smacking her lips while she eats... it's kinda cute...

Joey recently got a little video of how Reesie really feels about eating... she swallows every bite... but not without expressing how she feels...





She started saying "Papa" this month... If you listen really closely you can hear her say it once in the video above...

She's also on the verge of crawling... I posted a video of it on our family blog if you would like to check it out... she can push herself all over the place but she only goes backwards...

If she's on the ground, she's up on all fours... She's just not going anywhere yet... :)

Since she started getting her tooth she chews on her tongue all day long... it's her built in teether I guess :)

When Papa took her to the doctor a few weeks ago she weighed a whopping 17lbs 2 ounces, and was still 27 1/2 inches tall... She's in the 95% for both her height and her weight... it's fun how different each Kid is... Skyler is hardly the petite little girl that Hal was, and still is... Hal is a little over two years older than Reesie but she only weighs ten pounds more than Ressie does now at 8 months...

Ressie had her first Valentines Day party this February... She was an angel... she LOVED having all those people around... she let anyone and everyone hold her and she just kinda hung out and observed everything that was going on... I am convinced that she is a people person... we'll see how that pans out as she gets older...

Reesie and Mommy at the Vday party...

I think that's about it for this month....

Until next time...

Sunday, February 1, 2009

She's Movin On Up!!!

I love this picture of Reesie... what a face :)

Here we are at month 7!!!!! Holy Cow!!!! How on earth did we get here? I am sitting on the couch, Superbowl 43 is about to start, and Reesie is fast asleep upstairs... Sometimes I wonder what it will be like ten years from now with my little Reesie... I have this feeling that she will not be fast asleep upstairs... We are quickly discovering that she likes to be in the middle of everything and everyone... Put her in a room full of friends and she's content for hours. She LOVES people!!!

I have been putting her on her stomach a lot lately and she is trying SOOO hard to get herself over to where Josiah and Halee are playing... but she can only push herself backwards, which usually means that she is pushing herself away from her brother and sister... Once she realizes that she's further away she starts screaming! Not crying, but more like yelling, "What's going on? How the hec did I end up over here????"

She definataley knows how to hold her own... When she is playing with something and someone comes and takes it from her she starts that whole yelling bit again... and when they give it back she stops yelling IMMEDIATELY and gets a smile on her face! I know that it's not a good way for her to get what she wants but in all honesty I think it is hilarious! I wish that I could get it on video so that I could send it to America's Funniest Home Videos and win $10,000!!! But every time I pull out the camera she doesn't do it any more! Oh well...

In other news, she can totally sit by herself! And she LOVES her walker... she has this sense of freedom in that walker that she loves... Check out the video below and check out the smile on her face!!! She's freeeee!!!




Below is a little video of my Reesie sitting all by herself... you go girl!!!


Please excuse my commentary on both videos... I guess you're never aware of how you sound until you hear how silly you sound on these videos :)

I am not sure if she will ever officially have a name...We call her so many things but it seems that "Reesie" has been sticking lately... We'll have to see if we call her that next month :).
She's 7 months and has NO teeth!!! I don't even see any on the horizon! She is full of fun... She still laughs at the tiniest little things... I just love it!

She's easy going, almost always has a runny nose, sleeps 11-12 hours at night, takes two naps during the day, her goopy eye has magically disappeared, she's always covered in baby food or spit up (at first I tried to change her clothes often and always keep her clean, that lasted for about two days when I realized that all that was doing was adding more laudry for me to do. :) She's another Clark treasure!!!!


Here are some pictures of this month... Enjoy :)

Like I said, always snotty...

A total Reesie face...

Drool, drool, drool... always drool...


I love this hat... both girls have worn it and maybe one day we'll have another girl who can wear it too...

She sure does love this pacifier... And I must admit that I love that she loves it!

Like i said, this is what her clothes usually look like... covered in baby food and recycled baby food :)

Well until next month... maybe then we'll have a tooth or two :)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Look Who's six Months Old!!!

I know I say this every month but seriously where has the time gone???? My little Reesie is already half way though her first year of life... I can hardly believe my eyes... And my heart and my mind can hardly keep up on all the ways that she is growing up...

She's waaaaay past the newborn thing... that phase flew by with Reesie... even though she didn't sleep through the night until 13 weeks (3 weeks later than the other two kids), I finally (by the time the third kid came) put my heart and that newborn time in the Lord's hands and He just blessed me beyond anything I could have thought up on my own... He changed my attitude and my outlook towards all the difficulties of those first few months.... The nights were not nearly as painful as they were with the first two (not that they were any less exhausting, they were just conquered with a different perspective)... oddly, there were many nights that I found joy being awake with my little girl... It was the only time a day that it was just the two of us...

I soaked it up and now I'm thrilled with phase two... Sleeping all night, settled into her naps... eating four meals a day... rolling... holding and chewing on everything that she can get her hands on... full of smiles and laughter... hanging out in her walker... able to entertain herself for twenty to thirty minutes at a time... a chatter box who is constantly covered in drool!!! She is a LOUD talker... I guess being #3 she instinctively knows that you gotta speak up if you want to be heard... everyone has something to say and it seems that it all needs to be said at the exact same time... We are working hard with the older kids on respectfully waiting our turn to say what we need to say; key word, "working on!" Reesie on the other hand, has one volume... LOUD! We might have to work on that when she gets older!!!

Anyways... She has been quite sick this past week with a runny nose and a cough, some fevers and an ear infection... Besides the snotty nose and the dreadful cough you might not even guess that she was sick... She's sleeping like a champ and still loaded with giggles and smiles..

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Well here are the most recent glamour shots of our precious treasure...

She definitely has her own look... She is for sure a Clark but with her own special flare!


She still likes her pacifier but she has added her fingers into the mix...


You can hardly tell that she has been super sick this whole past week...


She loves this walker... She'll hang out in it for a good half hour...


Kindred Spirits!!!

Well, until next month... This is the Mama signing out...