updates on my boys

Our little Ashur dasher turned 4 months this week! He is really a wonderful baby and him and Eli get along wonderful! I could ask for anything better- except maybe a little more sleep lately. Ashur started life out on a great sleep schedule- I mean beyond amazing sleep schedule- 3 weeks sleeping from 9pm-8am! Well it didn't last forever :( End of Jan, beginning of Feb I had a breast infection and his sleep/eat schedule got alittle off, he started waking up at 5am for a feeding- no problem, this is pretty normal baby schedule. 9pm-5am nurse, back to sleep til 9am. That was fine until the last couple weeks of waking up at 1am, 3am, 5am, 8am. blah. Not so good for me or the cranky man in bed with us. Hope this doesn't last long, could just be a growth spurt. fingers crossed.

As for the cranky man, he is busy right now. He decided to graduate early and has to finish up the rest of his classes in the next 3 weeks, as well as finish up ROTC courses, drill 1 weekend a month and work 40 hours a week! On top of that play army with Eli, get snuggle time in with Ashur, kiss his wife and of course do the dishes. He's alittle stressed, but alot of that will go away when he graduates/Commissions in March. He will graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Liberal Studies from Portland State University and commission as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Army at the end of March.

So, thought I'd do alittle baby update of Ashur at 4months:

-Weighs 15.4 lbs

-24 inches long

-laughs and coos a lot

-trying to sit up and roll over. so close!

-pushes himself up off the ground

-loves to jump in his exersaucer

-can grab toys, and bring them to his mouth

-his days lately:

8/9am wake nurse

9-11 play with brother, tummy time

11 nap

1 wake-up, nurse

1-3 play with mommy while Eli is down

3 nap

5-9 awake, nurse, maybe 20 min nap. play. nurse a couple times between 7-10pm. Sleep.

And just so he doesn't get left out, This is what Eli is up to at 2 1/2:

Weight 33 lbs

Height 35 inches

-talks alot!! He's a smarty, he speaks very well and has a huge vocabulary!

-the kid loves all things Army, refers to himself as "a good soldier man" and replies to us with "sir yes sir"

-loves tractors, and construction equipment. Loves to go to grandma and grandpas to play with his digger. " I'm a 'truction man, and I drive a 'truction truck!"

-His favorite movies are Toy story, bob the builder, and Thomas the train.

- He loves dressing up. He has alittle soldier uniform he wheres EVERYDAY, a huge collection of hats. Loves gloves, helmets and shoes- his favorite are his rubber boots!

-He loves to sing songs, Itsy bitsy spider, Lords Army, The green baret song, twinkle twinkle and anything to the tune of Jingle bells.

-He is very very outgoing, will approach anyone and ask " whats your name?...oh...nice to meet you."

The kid is a ton of fun right now!!