Solids

At Myles' 4 month check up he weighed in at 14 pounds 12 ounces (smaller than I thought he was) and 26 1/2 inches long.  So he a tall skinny boy.  He's doing so much better with his MSPI, or I guess that I should say that I am doing a much better job of eating only what I should so he is also doing so much better.  His pediatrician gave us the green light to start solids with him, I just have to be super careful and read and reread every single label to make sure that there is absolutely no dairy or soy in what I give him.  That means no Gerber cereals.  I had the choice of supplementing with vitamins and iron or giving him fortified cereal to make sure that he gets the iron that he needs since I am breastfeeding.  Vitamins give him terrible reflux on top of the reflux that he already has due to MSPI so I didn't want to give him the drops. So I choose cereal, he already wants all the food that we eat already so I was pretty sure he would be ready to eat solids.   I had been slowing buying baby food when it has been on sale for the last couple of months so we were ready to start.  Last night we were eating dinner and Myles would just not stop trying to get at our food so I decided to go ahead and try feeding him some cereal.  He absolutely LOVED it.  He ate most of what I made for him.  

Common mom feed me faster!

Today I tried again and he loved it even more and ate all that I made for him.

I get to eat food again!

Put the spoon in my mouth!

Stop taking pictures and just feed me already! I think I might have created a monster...

I LOVE cereal!

My Gerber Baby

What a difference a year makes...

This was what we were doing in March last year...

notice the capri's and sandals

it was in the 80's and wonderful.  Beautiful start of spring.

Contrast that with what it looks like today...

We just got a few more inches on Monday.  And it is freezing cold.... 18 but feels like 4 (its noon) 

Spring where are you?

Katliss

Abbie got a cute vet kit for Christmas and she has been playing with the kitty that came with it a lot lately.  She informed me the other day that said cat's name was Katliss.  Yesterday while I was in the shower Abbie had a mini photo shoot with Katliss, as you can see Katliss was a very good subject.

Abbie said she was a princess and had made her that crown to wear.  Once I was ready I had Abbie pose with Katliss for a few more pictures....

She really loves that cat.

Myles' Blessing

We blessed Myles Kelly Lars Christiansen on Sunday, Feb 3, 2013.  It was a really good day and Jake gave him a nice blessing.  It was hard being so far from loved ones and not having any family there to share our big day, but still it was good.  And we have made enough friends here that it was still good and felt almost like family were there.  One nice member of our ward was kind enough to write down some of the things that Jake mentioned in the blessing which I was grateful for.  I am going to write it all down in his baby book so that we will always remember it.  I wish I had something similar for the other kids, but I don't.  And I don't really remember either so I can't go back and add it.  It is something I would like to do for others sometime.  Here are a few pictures from the big day.

getting ready

with Daddy

all my sweet kids

Mommy and Myles.

More Myles

Are you sick of seeing my adorable baby yet?  I hope not because I have more posts all about him,  here is the first one.  I finished his baby video, it made me really sad when I was making it that no one got our video camera out at the hospital.  Not once, I guess there just weren't enough hands during the delivery and I felt terrible the day of my surgery (the day after he was born).  Poor little guy, oh well at least we have some pictures.  Anyway here is his video.....

Making his video and watching it over and over again while I was editing it made Abbie and Ashton want to watch their videos.  It was fun to go back and watch their videos (which we haven't watched for WAY too long)  and talk about the days that they were born.  I love that having a new baby had led to so many chances to talk about what life was like when the others were babies.  It has been really fun.

MYLES

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Life...

Things at the Christiansen house have been super crazy! Life seems to be going at the speed of light.  Jake worked outage schedule (75 hours a week) through the first week of the new year, and I stayed busy figuring out how to take care of 4 kiddos and getting the hang of my new calling.......... Primary President.  I was sustained as the new primary president when Myles was 4 weeks old-right before Christmas.  To say we have been busy in almost an understatement.  Oh and don't forget that we needed to celebrate Christmas too!  I am tired just thinking about it.  Oh wait I am always tired lately..........to many middle of the night wake ups for this momma!  Although Myles is sleeping much better this last week or so, sleeping from 10-11 to 3, then awake to eat right back to sleep and them up when my alarm goes off at 6:30 to start getting kids ready for school.  But you probably didn't come here to listen to me complain about how busy we are did you?  I can't say I'd change it though even if I could.
Jake has had the whole last week off and has helped me get caught up on a bunch of stuff that has been piling up around the house , and I finally had my whole presidency at church together for the first time since getting put in so I feel my stress level going down and I can finally get this blog caught up.  I recently printed off the first two years into a book that my kids have LOVED looking through, so much so that I printed 2011 off and we got it this last week (kids loved that one too).  I want to make sure that I get everything that I want documented so I am going to go back and do some make up posts for things that I just never got to so that last year has everything I want in it before I print that year.

More Myles

Here are a few shots of Myles to show how much he has changed since he was born.

3 weeks old

1 month

with Abbie and Ashton

hanging out in his swing

with Ashton- they were both wearing socks on their hands and hats because it was cold.

5 1/2 weeks 

6 weeks

Two Tired Guys

This was how I found Jake and Myles last night after dinner.

This was after a LONG day of work for Jake.  Man, I am so thankful for how hard Jake works to support our family.  His hard work and super long hours sometimes lets me stay home with our beautiful kids, a job I LOVE.