Team Mousser: April 2012

April 25, 2012

2 weeks

Scarlet had her 2 week Dr.'s appointment last week She was exactly her birth weight again, but had grown 1.75 inches...whoa! maybe somebody mis-measured...nope...the nurse checked it twice. Sheesh! She's looking huge to me! She sleeps like a champ still and is such a sweet, sweet baby! She's starting to be alert more in the day, which is so fun, and Max and Ivy love to hold her and talk to her and give her kisses. She's such a good sport! we love scarlet! {she still looks like a mini-max}

We celebrated earth day on sunday by making our traditional earth day cupcakes...woo hoo! The kids loved them!

Ivy is such a good big sister...she is such a good helper to me while Max is at school!

April 19, 2012

Ivy said:

Mom, I wish I was a flower so you could pick me!
I wish I was a big bear so I could scare you all away!
and then I wish I was a shark so I could eat you all gone!

{where does this stuff come from?}

April 17, 2012

Sneak Peek of Scarlet

My good friend Kim flew down this weekend to take picture of Scarlet...

and she just posted a little sneak preview of the yumminess...

go check out her blog!

http://www.tickledpinkstudios.net/2012/04/16/sneak-peak-of-sweet-baby-scarlet/

April 16, 2012

Picking up Max

Today was my first day picking up Max from school with both Scarlet and Ives...One of my friends was nice enough to drop Max off all week last week, and then we had spring break, so I didn't have to worry about it.

Anyways, the doors opened...and out poured 31 kids, and they all crowded around the stroller to see the baby they've been waiting for since school started!

I thought I would have been hovering and over-protective, but no one touched her, they all just peeked...so fun!
I've been volunteering in Max's class twice a week since the beginning of school, and it's been fun hearing what the kids have to say about my growing tummy. Now they all finally have a little baby to show for all of their questions and curiosity.

S'meeps

(s'mores - marshmallows) + peeps = s'meeps

We've been saving our leftover Easter peeps for this:

(Max & River)

(Trey, June, Ivy & Max)

s'meep feast (Ivy & June)

April 14, 2012

Saturday

Here's some pics from the weekend...

first and foremost...Scarlet winking...haha

Grandma and Aunt Becky drove the two big kids back from their Spring Break in Arizona...so they could meet little miss Scarlet. We only got them for 2 half-days, but we loved having them here!

Grandma and Scarlet

Gram, Becky and Scarlet

Aunt Becky and Scarlet

...and Becky's a genius, and always has great ideas...like taking a family picture for the first time! We're a rag-tag crew this morning, and after about 20 pictures of various crazy faces, this is the best one!

we're a family of 5! (yikes)

April 10, 2012

Easter 2012

We had a little bit different Easter than normal this year!

We woke up and did the same thing...egg hunt, etc. BUT we weren't going to have an Easter dinner, so we had an Easter Breakfast...which in our family means hard-boiled eggs and Pull-Aparts! YUM!

But, the tradition is, that on Easter, you only get to eat an egg if you crack it on somebody else's head...we all picked to crack it on Jeff's head...

he loves this tradition, I know it!

Then we got the kids ready for church...just these two crazies, with Scarlet not even a week old yet, she and Mar Mar and I stayed home from church.

They sure looked cute in their Easter get-ups!

After Sacrament Mtg, they came home and changed clothes, kissed Mar Mar goodbye and drove off into the sunset with Jeff to meet Grandma for a Spring Break in Arizona.

A fun week with one Grandma, and then off to another fun week with another Grandma...how lucky are they?!?

I did get choked up as they were pulling away...but let's be honest, a week alone with a new baby is like the best gift ever, right?!

I miss them, but that's good! I'll be all ready and geared up for real life on Monday when Grandma goes home, and school starts again.

sigh

should I start crying now?

Curly Hair

Fresh out of the tubby, Scarlet's got some seriously curly hair!

I thought I'd put some pics up for our families to see...

This is just toweled dry..nothing in it...seriously curly

... it dries straight but has some wacky cowlicks. whatever. haha

Scarlet and Mar Mar

I've been so lucky for the past 10 days for my mom to be here with us!

She entertained Max and Ivy while I was in the hospital, and was so helpful once I got home, I can't even believe it!
I didn't originally think she'd be able to come because she takes care of my Grandma up in Washington, but I'm sure grateful that it worked out for her to be here!

I have the BEST mom!

April 5, 2012

Scarlet Evelyn Mousser

She's here, and we're home!

I thought I'd finally put all the pics up that we've taken over the last few days!

Here's one of her first shots...screaming like a mimi; she actually sounded like a ticked-off cat. She had the cord wrapped around her neck 2 times, which was totally scary, but all was well once she got everything suctioned out and working.

This is after I got to hold her for the first time. Love her! She looks exactly like Max did when he was born. We've been calling her Maxina.

She was 8 lbs, 6 oz and 20 inches long. at 4:43PM on April 2nd

Lots of dark, dark hair and dark blue eyes

{Her middle name is from Jeff's Grandma}

That night, Max and Ivy and Mar Mar came to visit us at the hospital and meet their new little sister. They loved her and were curious about everything!

me and my 3 kids (whoa...!)

little chubby cheeked thing

Here's the view from our room...this room was so much nicer than when we had Ivy! It was a beautiful day and we had such a good view!

The Proud Daddy...oh, he's so cute with her!

...and she LOVES him.

Going home in our California shirt at 8PM on April 3rd (she was just over 24 hours old)..are we crazy...I think so!

Mar Mar and Scarlet

First tubby the next morning...not her favorite activity!

eww, gross, pardon the no makeup, but we have this picture of each of our kids, so we had to take this one, too!

Ivy and Max both love to hold her...and ask all the time.

Max came home from school yesterday and jetted right into my room to say hi to his new little sister. He's so cute to her and wrote her a fun little note about how much he likes her!

We're so glad to have her in our family! She sleeps all the time, and is such a good baby!

April 1, 2012

April Fools Day & Ivy's Birthday

Holy cow, I'm sitting here right now thinking that this morning, we had a tent set up in our living room so that we could watch conference, which immediately turned into birthday present central and I feel like we've done a ton today! Sheesh

After watching the entire morning session (shocker!!!!) Jillonnie and her kids came over and brought Ivy a really cute birthday present: an empty puzzle box. All wrapped up nice and pretty. Ivy actually liked it. ha ha.

Then, she got doorbell ditched several times minutes after they left with a couple of balloons each time filled with goodies...including all of the missing puzzle pieces. Fun little April Fool's and Birthday trick! she loved it! Here is her popping her balloons:

Then, Jeff was planning on going to work, so we did 'partial birthday'...and she got to open her presents!

Which was an extreme case of rip open a package, squat & drop, and then move on to the next one...didn't matter how cool it was, there was no opening and playing involved between each one. Whatever, dude. She got a lot of fun things!

She got a fun new book, that I'm going to need some tutelage to read properly, but it's super cute!

That trickster, Jillonnie, then brought over special juice for my kids to drink with their lunch...she felt bad for them that I never give them juice, and they were pumped!

it turned out to be un-suckable Jello...awesome!

Here's the newest 3-year-old on the block!

and then, because I tried to burn down the house by making a princess-castle shaped bundt cake, we resorted to good ole Albertson's making Ives a princess cake...which she probably like better than she would have liked my other one!