5 months

really. 5 months already.

it has gone by so fast!! like super duper fast.

weird to think next month he will be 6 months old.

i've been thinking about something lately.

looking back at emi's pictures a majority of emi's baby pictures

are from our cell phone pictures.

then we got a nice camera and the quality is so much better.

well i have been following that same pattern

most of makai's baby pictures are from my cell phone.

i am trying to remember to take more pictures with my camera.

with that said...i've taken over 100 pictures with my camera in 24 hours.

these are just a few.

mr. makai loves baths and basically hates showers

if he takes a shower it is usually with eddie

and he acts stiff as a board and just plain unhappy

different story in the bathtub...he kicks and kicks

splashing water everywhere. he is way too big for the tub too.

so it makes it challenging to keep things dry.

i sometimes will wipe everything down and then later 

sometimes even days later

will open the cabinet below and water will spill out.

seriously so much water gets splashed around.

makai is such a light sleeper.

he can sleep through the vacuum and any other weird loud noise

like the crinkle of a chip bag or dropping a sturdy plastic bowl from a top shelf

but the second he hears emi, he wakes right up

poor emi is silenced when makai is sleeping in the swing

he is very specific in how he likes to sleep

one he must be swaddled. must!

if not swaddled he will wake up within 10-15 minutes.

unless he is being held, then he will sleep.

so the sleeping routine is, using a swaddle me that velcros

he sometimes breaks out of it but can't go back to sleep until re-swaddled.

he also loves that blue blanket and if being held will immediately close his eyes

he also can't sleep without a binkie.

makai is a watcher. he loves to watch emi.

which is nice since she likes to run circles around him. literally.

if he is nursing emi has to be out of the room 

or he tries with all his might to bend to see her.

he also thinks she is hilarious when she says boooooooo! long and deep.

emi loves playing peek-a-boo with him.

makai can roll both front to back and back to front

he is hit and miss with tummy time.

sometimes he doesn't make a peep

looks around and plays with whatever toys are within reach

but every once in a while he fusses right away 

and will just lay his head down like he is refusing.

other times he rolls back and forth

and just recently in the last week or so he has been scooting around

he will move like 180 degrees if he wants a different view.

for the past month he has really been into that teal teether.

i actually bought a second one in case that one was misplaced

he can hold it with both hands and goes to town.

he also enjoys sweatshirt knots, like the end of the string of a hoodie.

makai is also addicted to tv and cell phones. he reaches for my phone constantly.

makai is generally such a happy baby 

and smiles at whoever is paying attention to him.

in the last week he has gotten to be a mamas boy

he will cry for no reason if i leave the room

i thought it was because he was teething and didn't feel good

but the last two nights i've had some errands to run and he's been home with eddie

the second he hears me he starts crying and gets all happy when he sees me

if i go out of view he starts crying again

and it's a super cry, almost like he is hurting.

eddie has to stand in the same room with me while i finished a project

just so he would stop crying...separation anxiety already?!?

poor makai. emi is starting to "do mean things" to him.

this happened while i was in the shower.

he is generally very happy and usually laughing while in the jumperoo

well when i heard him 'yelling' his warning before his cry

i knew something was up. and of course i had to get a picture first.

makai's hair. will only go straight up.

i have tried numerous times to comb it over and it won't stay.

it will barely go into a foe-hawk.

unless we go to church or somewhere "special" i usually don't do it.

he has a bad cow-lick on the back and his hair goes one direction

but the front hairs go the opposite direction.

so i think that is why it just goes straight up.

i'm wondering what it would look like if i had never cut it.

makai is such a big boy. he wears 6-9 months clothes

and he is almost too big for them. 

at his 4 month appt he was 16 pounds 13 ounces

so i am sure he is at least 17 pounds by now.

he is wearing size 3 diapers.

he feels so heavy in his car seat, even eddie complains.

makai doesn't suck his thumb but he chews on the tip

it is usually a last resort cause he has nothing else to chew on.

we haven't started him on solids yet and probably won't until he is 6 months

he has been teething so he has been a horrible nurser the past week

having crying fits every 30-60 seconds. so annoying.

emi never bit me but i have a feeling he is going to.

as he is already biting me with is gums.

i flicked his cheek as i heard and read that is what your suppose to do

he cried and emi came and yelled at me:

mooommmmmmyyyyyy!!! (in her long deep voice) be nice to my brother!

i explained he bit me, she said it doesn't matter you don't hit

shocker she does listen to what i say.

we use to have a biter in nursery and she would hit in when he tried to bit her

so i had explained you don't hit, just walk away.

i finally got a shot of his new tooth he sprouting yesterday.

his chin is a little red from all of the drool.

but other than that he has been a perfect baby.

he fussed a little two nights ago and i gave him some medicine 

why do my babies have to get teeth so soon.

emi also got her two bottom teeth at 5 months old.

a close up. for the grandparents.

this is makai's pre-cry face.

he yells as a warning he isn't happy about something.

usually he is sleepy. 

9 times out of 10 if i give him a binkie 

and wrap him in his blue blanket he will go to sleep.

sometimes i say ut-ut-ut...and he will stop.

weird that he totally understands.

 our daily routine is usually the same daily.

sometimes he wakes in the middle of the night

between 2-3:30am...and will just nurse from one side

which is super annoying. i should pump the other side but i am too sleepy

i am hoping he will cut out that feeding soon

as i'd like to sleep for than 3 hour chunks of time.

every once in a while he will sleep until 5ish.

if he wakes up around 2-3:30am, i will put him back in his crib

where he will wake up again around 6:30am

if it's the fluke feeding at 5ish. i will put him in the swing to go back to sleep.

if he feeds at 6:30 he will go back to sleep for an hour then take a nap by 9am

usually sleeping until his next feeding. 

if he goes into the swing and isn't disturbed by emi, he has slept as late at 9:30am.

we basically have two different type of schedules.

both schedules he eats every 4 hours.

he will eat around noon

stay awake for a little bit. or take a nap. i never know.

and it's so annoying cause emi was a eat, sleep, play baby

he will also eat around 4:30 pm, staying awake for little bit

then will take a nap from 5-7, usually.

i then try to wait to feed him at 9pm

then he goes straight to bed, without a peep.

every once in a while he isn't ready. he never cries

he just talks, yells...says, i'm not ready for bed.

we will put his binkie back in and eventually he falls asleep.

i should go to bed by 10pm but i have yet to do that.

some nights are bad where he wants his binkie re-inserted.

i am not brave enough to make him cry it out, in fear he will wake emi up

so i replace his binkie . some nights it's often, other nights it's not at all.

he is so inconsistent, opposite of emi.

i love this picture.

he puts his legs together to scoot.

he is always clothed so you never really see how rollie pollie he is.

he still doesn't have thunder thighs like emi did

but he is a chunk. one solid boy. line backer :)

he will only grab his toes if he is barefoot

which i think is super weird.

every once in a while he will grab them, but only to pull his sock off.

either he isn't very flexible or his tummy is too big

but he can't put his feet to his mouth.

makai is almost sitting up on his own.

he will sit up for a long time but if surprised by something 

he will lean back real quick. so i put the boppy around him

he doesn't use it all for support, but a cushion to leave back into.

i can't believe he is growing so fast. 

emi sat up before 6 months so i won't be surprised if he does too.

a few days ago i felt a little sharp thing in his mouth.

he wouldn't let me get a good picture of it.

i thought it would be a few days. nope...it popped through a few days later.

so he rolled off the couch.

he was in the far corner, with a pillow in front of him.

i had just placed him there and stood up.

i was re-doing my messy bun as i turned around to watch him

in what felt like slow motion his do a somersault off the couch.

i was just out of reach. he cried. i think more shocked than anything.

i checked him over, he was fine.

but the next day i noticed a scratch on his hand. no idea where or how it happened

so i am blaming it on the couch fall.

phew! i'm sure i could go on. 

he melts our hearts.

emi cried bad every time i tease her that i'm gonna give him away.

we are getting use to him crying constantly in the car.

i feel like the last few months have been a blur 

but i wouldn't want it any other way.

 

weekly update

these next two weeks will be a little crazy 

so i am trying to stay on top of everything.

and blog "on time".

i tried giving makai a bath in the sink this week

it sort of worked out.... less water on the ground

but he was super slippery, especially when soapy.

there is a possibility that we may be moving by late spring.

the people we rent from, their son is getting married in april/may

and might want to move into where we live and live rent free

i can't blame them, but it sort of is putting us out. oh well.

so i have been hesitant to buy a bath sit up bath thing for the sink

 since we have one for a tub already

problem is we don't have a tub...boo!

oh emi. i totally fell off my rocker when i saw this

i noticed emi looking through her autograph book from disneyland

and the next thing i notice she is writing in it

i snatch it from her, thinking she was coloring in it

nope...just writing her name 

cause they forgot to write her name since she is in the picture with them

i understood...but it still made my blood boil for some reason

like she ruined it or something.

she only wrote her name on 2 pages but still

maybe in 30 years i'll treasure it.

emi loves buttered popcorn. loves it.

which is funny, cause i hate it.

anyways i was eating lunch when emi came to throw the popcorn bag away

and i noticed she had "butter" all on her cheeks

she explained she licked the bag. sick.

fast forward a few nights later.

we have been so so so so lucky!

i can't even remember a time when emi has thrown up.

this is how my thursday night/early friday morning went

i went to bed about 11pm, 11:20 i think is when i fell asleep

cause i was on my phone.....and 11:20 was the last time i remember

11:33 emi cries out for me. 

me being the mean, tired mom i can turn into after a long exhausting day

said: what? all annoyed cause i felt like i just went to sleep

 i looked at the clock and realized i in fact did just fall asleep

then she shrieks and yells for eddie

who is dead asleep! and doesn't hear her.

but by her tone i knew something was terribly wrong.

she had thrown up all down her bed
like she threw up, sat up and threw up again

luckily she didn't get any on the carpet.

i quickly realized this was going to be a two person job

as she had throw up all in her hair and down the inside of her pajamas

i woke eddie up, he gave her a shower while i put the first

of eventually 6 loads of laundry.

so throw up doesn't gross me out. yes it's gross but i am normally fine.

imagine after smelling it and looking at it...then a huge glob of it falls 

onto your barefoot, seeping between all your toes. i almost threw up.

she threw up about every 20 minutes until 2:30ish

awe...i finally went back to sleep....only to be woken up by makai

to nurse at 3:30. lucky me.

this mister is about to get his bottom two teeth

and i am so sad about it.
i felt like emi grew up super fast once she got teeth.

he is acting fine, but i will miss is gummy smile.

all this week i have felt a little sharp thing

but today you can see them just under the surface.

makai had been sleeping on me and decided after an hour

he didn't want to miss any more of the movie peter pan

the next night, friday night

tanner needed to be picked up from wrestling

i was heading out the door when eddie pulled up

i handed over the kids and explained where i was going

and emi wanted to go and get out of the house

only to fall asleep for the night while waiting for tanner

we were literally in the car less than 10 minutes.

saturday morning she was back to her cheerful/sassy self

i love when she asks me to take pictures of her.

she is seriously such a stink.

every one i talk to, says her behavior is normal.

i hope they aren't just saying that to make me feel better

but emi will seriously roll her eyes and her head if you say hi to her

and she doesn't want to be spoken too...

if i make her say hi...she rolls her eyes and says hi through gritted teeth.

makai is addicted to cell phones and tv

and sweatshirt strings and pulling hair

emi laughs when he pulls her hair and thinks it's funny

me, not to much.

emi's idea of babysitting.

i asked her to watch him while i went to the bathroom or something

i don't think he had his binkie in when i left and he wasn't crying.

i love when we are driving and makai is crying

and emi has been shh!ing him over and over without being asked

then she goes: ok mom your in charge of the baby

as if she is done trying to make him quiet even though nothing works

makai was dressed so cute today for church

i made him a bow tie from felt, as my fabric scraps are packed away

he also has suspenders on and his grey sweater.

should of gotten a picture. oh well.

as we got home from church and i was changing him

i put his bow tie on as a bow. to me he looks nothing like a girl

maybe because i obviously know he isn't a girl

emi thought it was hilarious. eddie not so much.

last night we made a quick trip for milk

we were by trader joe's so we went and again emi wanted her picture taken

is like the same exact spot as last weeks.

my next few updates may be late or short

as i have the cub scout blue and gold dinner next week

followed by an enrichment activity the next week

all of which i am in charge of with little to no help.

maybe it will be a good thing if we end of moving.

get me out of my 3 callings :)

weekly update

well, well, well...another week has flown by

my mornings usually look like this

emi dressed for the day but hair isn't done

makai in bed with me, while i try to catch a few more zzz's

usually doesn't happen but i try :)

 not because i can't go back to sleep

but because well makai is awake for one thing

but miss moo bear is wide awake and usually acting crazy.

finally a nice picture...

notice her rubbing on his ears

her daddy does that too :)

we decided to meet eddie for lunch

and check out the double bob stroller at rei

not only do i want one to exercise

but i also need a double stroller

because this is usually how we roll, pretty ghetto

and it's hard to steer with 40 pounds in the front.

 

makai liked it. so, i'll take it.

now i just need to convince eddie the double stroller

comes before the ipad :) 

emi our grew her piggies and had to get new slippers.

our house doesn't have a furnace or a/c

so we use a/c units and heaters to help us during the winter/summer

so unless your in front of the space heater, it can be freezing

i have a rule, either socks or slippers since her feet seem to be cold always.

i found this and about 15 other pictures on my phone from her

i'll spare you the 15 others :)

speaking of picture taking...her leap pad has a camera

i spent about an hour one night deleting about 200 pictures of 

nothing just blurry or really dark pictures.

i snuck a picture of emi in one day at a stop light

she has so much "spunk" lately it's driving me bonkers.

what happen to my happy, ok mommy child?!?

her current favorite game is olivia the pig

she loves to cook and cut and measure.

and some game where she washes dogs and cats.

if my mornings aren't spent in bed

they are usually on the ground or hanging out with makai.

he loves to watch her.

i wish this was clear.

and no i am not a hoarder, mom....

i just live in a tiny 'apartment barn'

and sometimes we have too much stuff for the storage we have.

i always keep at least 2 water bottles out, so i can remember to drink water.

he is totally too big for his bath, but isn't quite sitting up alone yet

so i will continue to get soaked for now.

and the tile in front of the sink will get mopped for sure every other day.

i had to document him sleeping in his car seat

he is entertained some what with toys but if he is tired

there's a good chance he will cry the entire time until he is let out.

which is super weird to me cause emi never cried.

he won't even take a binkie...it's lovely.

once the car stops he usually wakes up. 

every so often he will stay asleep until we get upstairs and then he'll wake up.

he slept for about 10 minutes this time.

just enough time, yet not long enough.

another huge thing. my organic fruit and veggie eater

has never been willing to even try lettuce

we went to costco for a few things and lunch and she wanted a taste of my salad

i had to take a picture. she wasn't sure at first.

then i sat for the remainder of lunch breaking off lettuce and feeding her.

emi loves trader joe's because of the small cart.

well after costco we were suppose to go...but you know who was crying

and my brain was about to explode so i declared mommy nap time

she cried the whole way home...it was great.

went home, makai slept for 4 hours....i slept for 2

who knows what emi did during those 2 hours.

snuck fruit snacks (fruit leather), chocolate chips and orange juice

all while reading books and coloring pictures i'm sure.

well, eventually she came and got into bed with me and fell asleep!

she never naps, ever! well, she ended up sleeping for 4 hours.

so we ended up going to trader joe's after all with eddie.

which is right next door to home goods. 

remind me to ever bring eddie with me...i had things in my cart

after i was done taking emi to the bathroom, my cart was empty.

and everything i even slightly looked at....he said: we don't need that!

makai and his fluffy hair.

he loves this chew toy santa got for him.

so much he yells and practically cries if he can't get it in his mouth fast enough.

music makers is during his morning nap

which by the way, i would have never done something during emi's nap time

but emi needs the social interaction.

he is trying so hard to sit up.

if he is on his back, he rolls over

then eventually cries cause he doesn't like to be on his tummy for too long

if i lean him against something, he arches his back

and eventually slouches down and tries to 'sit up'

so i've been encouraging him to sit up on his own.

he does best without any support

i use to put the boppy behind emi. he just leans back into it if it's behind him.

this picture has two meanings for me.

one he spots his shoes and is like, what the heck?

i specifically put those on him so his socks will stay on.

but secondly i was thinking, i need to find a brick wall somewhere in town

when he can sit up and take his pictures

when it dawned on me! duh! we have brick in our house. ha!

i tried having him sit at the other end.

which was worse, he kicked more because he was so happy to be sitting up.

and this might be inappropriate. but his weenie is totally inverted looking.

he has one, hiding...but is that normal?

i'm thinking he has a small weenie or he didn't get enough cut off.

it really doesn't matter but certain people in my life...mom!..

make me feel like it's teeny weenie peenie.

emi use to be all rollie pollie...where he is just a chunk.

sad to say his 6-9 month clothes are getting tight. what the heck!

i just bought them. and won't he just get more big with solids. sheesh.

ugh. my weirdo child.

she wanted to wear all pink...and have princess fiona hair

wish i had a picture of her whole outfit.

she has think hot pink sparkly tights on.

glad we didn't go anywhere that day.

and she is insistent on dresses....every day!

friday emi had a dentist appt.

and this time eddie came with us.

he took friday off so he could have a 4 day weekend.

she was the only patient for a while.

she had the same hygienist again, so that was nice.

eddie thought it was hilarious

that she just laid there watching the movie.

once again she is in the cavity free club.

she held onto the chair the entire time 

and squirmed a little, just moving her feet when they cleaned her teeth.

after the dentist we hit up the other, nicer mall

since we swung by hobby lobby

they disney store is so much nicer

and they have way better store than our local mall

might be worth the 45 minute drive.

the center mirror talks as you stand in front 

and says something about you being the fairest one of all.

you can see eddie on the top right

watching the disney shows with mr. makai in tow

 

sunday emi wanted her hair straight like mine

i've been trying harder to actually do my hair.

i am 30 and can't wear a messy bun my whole life

so eddie says :)

but i don't like how huge my hair feels when i wear it curly

and it takes 2 hours to straighten it.

anyways..she looked super cute

and wanted me to take a picture of her before church.

this was the first time her virgin hair has ever been touched by heat

i have never even blow dried it before.

i surprised myself by flat ironing it.

after church i took my 3rd...yes you read that right

my 3rd nap of the weekend.

thank you eddie!

makai takes 4 hour naps in the afternoon

so i could easily take a long nap every day if i needed one

but a certain someone can't seem to be away from me for very long

eddie usually says he had to fight her off with a stick

to keep her out of our bedroom.

she came in to wake me up.

if she doesn't nap, no one naps is her motto.

so she started taking pictures of me.

so i took some of her.

a majority of the pictures where her smiling huge

cause she doesn't even know how to fake sleep.

today we went with tanner and eddie to the pizza buffet

proof she is eating salad! not to mention she loves beans 

and her most favorite is the hard boiled eggs.

she just picks the toppings off the pizza

as she still refuses to eat bread!