Lee Family Happenings

Friday, March 5, 2010

Where did February go...

and how in the heck did it get to be March so quickly?! A bout of strep throat (Nathaniel) and colds (me, Nathaniel, Brian and Grace) kind of ate up the month. And it's late now and Nathaniel just came wandering in (it's 11 pm...he wasn't crying or anything, so it wasn't a night terror...most likely just woke up. do I drag him back to his own bed or just let him sleep in here...he'll keep me warm since Brian is gone for work this weekend...). Anyway, we're all doign well...Joshua lost his second tooth last weekend. Grace is still working on cutting her first tooth.

She mastered rolling from her back to her tummy today and every time she does it has a look of total amazement and shock on her face.

I was scanning some old pictures today and found one that is of me at about age 2...and as you can see...I can't deny that Nathaniel is my son...he didn't totally inherit his famous cheesy, silly grin from his Daddy, that's for sure!

Me - age 2 (fall 1975 or so)

Nathaniel - 3 years old...Aug 2008

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Just stuff...

January 21st

January 29th

Still haven't gotten around to posting Christmas pictures - maybe by Easter :)

Here are a few pictures from the past week...Grace is progressing in the food department. So far I've made all her "squishy" food...pear sauce, applesauce and sweet potatoes. The only pictures I've taken are of the sweet potatoes because it photographs so much better :) She's loving it. And she's a much happier baby with food of substance in her tummy. At her 4 month check up last week the doctor said she was perfect...she's gained almost 5 pounds since birth and grown a little over 4 inches. She rolled over (back to tummy) for the first time this past Saturday. She's full of smiles all the time...Nathaniel says that she ate up all of her smiles (this was said on a day no one could get a smile out of her)...so I guess now she's releasing them all. The smiles are surprising at times though...her front bottom teeth are getting very very close to the surface...did I mention she's not quite 4 1/2 months old!

Yummm...sweet potatoes!

My daddy is silly!

So is my big brother, Nathaniel!

Nathaniel is having fun with preschool. Unfortunately, his crazy parents gave him one heck of a name to spell...and we haven't even attempted his middle names, but he's doing pretty well with his first one! Today we did Fruit Loop math and he enjoyed it.

Joshua has started basketball at school 2 afternoons a week and really likes it. Little League sign-ups are next week...though they don't start actually playing until April I think. He's pretty excited about that as well. He got to babysit Grace one day last week - for about 10 minutes while she was sleeping. Nathaniel was sick (strep throat) and I had an appointment to take him to the clinic in town at 2pm...which is when Grandma has her lunch break. But she doesn't get home until a few minutes after 2 usually. It was raining and I really didn't want to deal with all 3 of them at the clinic...I'd done that a week before when I'd had all three of them checked for strep since Joshua was sick and it's going around the school (none had it then). So I left Grace sleeping in her crib and Joshua with strict orders to not take her out of the crib if she woke up, but to entertain her until Grandma got home. She didn't wake up and Joshua was a great babysitter...Nathaniel had left him with the parting words, "Joshua, you protect Grace because I'm not home to protect her!" I don't think we'll have to worry about her too much as she gets older if her brothers are already prepared to protect her at this age!

And that's about all for us right now...

Friday, January 8, 2010

Firsts...

I've had good intentions for the past 3 weeks to update the blog with pictures of Christmas, etc. but just haven't gotten to them. So I'm going to preempt those and post a few firsts...

Joshua's FIRST lost tooth - yes, finally at 7 years, 2 months (exactly) Joshua lost his first tooth. The adult tooth is coming in behind it...went to the dentist to have it pullled and the nice dentist freaked him out by telling Brian that it looked like things might be cramped so it might be best to pull all FOUR lower front teeth and then grind down the eye tooth a bit. Needless to say, he didn't get it pulled and he and Daddy worked on it for a few days and the evening of Dec. 30th out it came!

Nathaniel's firsts was his first official day as a Sunbeam in Primary at church. I have a hard time believing that he's old enough for it...so does he, he misses the Nursery way more than Joshua ever did, but he's enjoying singing with the big kids and having a class. He's the only one moving up this year...and they way they've divided the classes here, he's with kids that are turning 5 & 6 this year...big difference!

Grace's first has no picture...she started eating some rice cereal this week and is seeming to enjoy it. We're hoping it helps her to sleep better because our sweet little princess that was sleeping all night long for so long has suddenly, in the past week, decided that waking Mommy up every TWO hours or so to eat is fun. No, it's not, I can assure you. And here's a picture of her anyway because she's too darn cute to not put a new picture of her up!