Celebrating St. Nick Day

Our Christmas family tradition is to celebrate St. Nick Day each year.  St. Nick Day is usually around December 6th.  This is the day that Santa fills the kids stockings and we watch the Veggie Tales St. Nick DVD.  Then Christmas Day we focus more on family and our Lord Jesus.  Santa tries to make sure the kids are filled with fun gifts for the holiday season.  This year they got christmas pjs, a christmas shirt, a christmas book, ornament, and some other fun goodies to play with.

Christmas Decorations

Our new stockings

Brotherly love

Sweet miss Codi

Connor and his stocking

Caden and his stocking

Caden checking out his loot

Spider-Man ornament - no way!

Jake and the Neverland Pirates ornament!!

Connor and his loot

Daddy and his loot

Codi is so excited!

Codi checking out her loot

Smiley Faces

We are just full of smiles lately!  Melts a mommy's heart and there is definitely alot of mommy joy!

Trick or Treating with Friends

For the past two years we've spent Halloween trick or treating with friends.  Lets just say there is about 15 kids and a bunch of adults enjoying trick or treating and eating candy.  The kids were Spider-Man, Woody and a Halloween princess.  Codi rode in the stroller the entire time, but Caden and Connor enjoyed going house to house getting candy.  This was Caden's first year to trick or treat and he sure caught on fast.  He had so much fun and even thought after getting his candy he could then go into these people's homes.  We quickly learned that was not what you do, lol.  He got excited over the scary decorations and saying "HI" to everyone.  Connor thought it was a race and wanted to run to every house.  I was glad when Nick arrived from work to help out!  It was a lot of fun, but maybe next year we might just roam our neighborhood - less cars and crowds.  Still deciding......

All the little kids before we set our on our adventure

Woody

Trick or Treating

Addie, Rylie and Connor

Tired! but still eating candy

Trunk or Treat

Our church puts on an event called Trunk or Treat each year to invite church members and outside guest to celebrate Halloween in a safe and fun environment, but also an environment for people to come to know God.  Our Life Group this year had three vehicles we decorated and handed out candy to the little ones.  It was huge turnout and lots of fun.  Connor was Spider-Man, Caden was Woody and Codi was a cute Halloween princess in her tutu and purple witch shirt.

Spider-Man pose

Daddy and Woody

Halloween princess

loving on the candy

Woody still eating candy

excited for some fun!

4 months old!

Codi is already 4 months old and showing more and more smiles and laughter daily.  We love her to pieces.

Four months:

Weight: 14 pounds 2 ounces

Height:  24 inches

Eating: 8 ounces every 4-5 hours

Sleeping:  cat naps during the day and all night!

 

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Blue

 

Clothes size: 6 months

Diapers: cloth diapers


She is laughing and smiling all the time.  She coos and loves to make sounds.  She loves her feet and is almost rolling over. She can definitely roll to her side.  She loves when her brothers talk to her and play with her on the floor.  She loves looking at the t.v. and sitting in her bumbo chair.  When she cries she has that girly high pitch cry/scream.  She loves her bunny and sucking on her hands.  She loves cuddling with blankets near her face. She loves going for walks.

Here is a picture of Connor, Caden and Codi all at 4 months.  Caden has the #4 on him in orange, Connor is in the Astros outfit, and Codi in the red!

They are starting to look more and more like each other

Connor, Caden and Codi Bryan at 4mths

 

3 months

I'm a little behind on this post, but I wanted to post it before Codi turned 4 months in about a week.  Here is all my babies at 3 months.  Caden is holding the flag, Codi is in the blue dress, and Connor is in the blue and green outfit.  Codi is going to the doctor for her 4mth check-up in two weeks.

Here is some new stuff she is doing:

Eating: 8 ounces every 3-4 hours - I think cereal is just around the corner

Sleeping: less during the day and from 8:30pm - 8:00am

 

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Blue

Clothes size: 3-6 months

Diapers: cloth diapers

 

Codi is loving life right now.  She loves to smile and laugh and definitely be talked to.  Her favorite thing is to snuggle right now and hold her little rabbit and rub it against her cheek.  She loves blankets and soft animals against her cheeks, so we have to watch her like a hawk, but it soothes her.  She hates her carseat and doing better on tummy time.  We love taking walks and once we are in the car and settled she is a great sleeper. Overall she is an awesome baby and her brothers love her to pieces.