Happy 6 Months Liam!

I cannot believe that Liam is 6 months already. Time sure is flying by. He is almost ready to crawl. He gets on all fours and moves his legs until he does his nose dive to the carpet. I would think it will only be a matter of weeks before he is full force getting into everything. I guess I need to start thinking about baby proofing the house. I think Jaiden is liking him more and more now that he is getting mobile. This will probably last until he starts getting into her things :) then she probably won't like him so much anymore :) I really am going to try harder to keep this thing updated. Until next time.........

3 Months Already

I am a slacker at posting and right now I cannot find my camera cord but I snapped a picture of Liam to post with my phone. I cannot believe he is 3 months already. He is growing so fast. He is a whopping 15 pounds already. He rolled over for the first time last night. Being a stay at home mom is great. Although I think he is going to be a mama's boy because of it. :) He loves to be held!



He loves to be outside. Here he is in his stroller just chillin.

The Wubbanub

I absolutely love the wubbanub. I was bored last week and searching amazon and came across this.


This is the wubbanub. Liam loves his passy and I am glad he does or he would be eating every 10 minutes! He constantly wants to be sucking on something. Jaiden never took a passy but was very content all the time unless it was feeding time. The passy is sewn into the monkeys mouth and by the way you can get other animals and other passy brands. But you know how newborns cant keep a passy in very good they suck and it shoots across their body and lands on the floor etc. Well this stays put. He can spit it out whenever he doesn't want it and then it is there when he does. This has really came in handy at night. And when they get a little older they can feel for the monkey in their crib at night and know that it is the passy. A little easier for them to find. Here he is using his wubbanub today. I think it is adorable :)

So Much For Tummy Time

So they say your supposed to have tummy time with your baby to strengthen them. Let's just say Liam is not gonna be early at holding his head up... :) Get's him every time.

A Little Jealousy?

So apparently Macy really enjoys the boppy too. She is always on this thing and it makes me so mad. I am thinking that we are going to throw away her doggy bed and buy her a matching boppy. And we thought Jaiden was the one that was going to be jealous of the baby but Macy has been something else since we brought him home. She is actually really good with him but she is a nervous nelly if she doesnt know where he is at.

Liam Reeve Root

I am finally getting around to posting that Liam has finally arrived. He was born March 27, at 4:47 p.m. He weighed 8lbs 8ozs and 21 1/2 inches long. Jaiden is really enjoying having a little brother. She loves feeding him and tonight changed his diaper for the first time by herself. At first I thought I was crazy starting the whole baby thing over again after 6 years but now that he is here and Jaiden loves helping it is kind of nice having her old enough to be able to help out. Here he is minutes after he was born.


His face was a little bruised when he came out but now he is perfect in every way. He is a wonderful baby. Here he is saying good morning yesterday. He was having a hard time waking up :) Still yawning.


I am hoping that I will be updating this blog a little better now that he is here. He has his 2 week checkup on Friday and I am anxious to see what he will weigh in at. He loves to eat!

Pedicure Anyone

Since I can no longer paint my toenails (without cutting off my breathing) I decided to let Jaiden give it a try. She didn't do too bad and she even made little puppy paw prints on my big toenails :) It seemed to take her a long time but she really enjoyed doing it. She called it Jaiden's pedicures.

3rd Times A Charm!

FINALLY! They are pierced... She has chickened out 2 other times and I just figured she would never get them done. Last weekend she wanted some stick on earrings so we went to wal-mart to try to find some. We couldn't find any and ended up getting nail stickers and were going to use them as earrings and I told her no one would know the difference. She threw a little fit and said they would fall off and not stick. I told her that all stick on earrings fall off the only way to have earrings stay on all the time is to get them pierced. Then she wanted a DS game and Eric told her that if she gets her ears pierced then he would buy her the game. She thought about it on the way to Evansville and when we got to the mall she said she was gonna do it. Yeah we heard that before... But when we went into Claire's she hopped right in the chair and put her hair behind her ears and was all smiles and ready to go. She picked her earrings and they marked her ears and she was good to go. At this point I think I was more nervous for her than she was. When they did it her eyes got as big as baseballs and she looked like she was going to cry but then at the same time realized that she did it and it was over so no tears were shed :) Then she says okay let's go get my game... All in all it was a great weekend!

A Little Update

Since it has been forever since I have blogged I thought I would give a little update. We found out in November that we are having a boy. We are all super excited for him to get here. Jaiden wasn't real excited at first about a brother but when I told her now she won't have to share her toys she perked right up and decided a brother wouldn't be too bad. I only have 7 1/2 more weeks left. This pregnancy has just flown by for me.

And finally, we sold our house in Iowa. We closed last Friday the 12th and being homeless has never felt better :) So now we are house hunting. We had a house found but it sold before we closed on our house. Looking is usually fun for us but since Eric is only home on weekends it is hard to get that into our schedule. And with the baby due in 7 1/2 weeks it is kind of stressing us out and we are afraid we are going to jump into something we don't really want just to get a house bought and moved into. Oh well eventually we will find something.

Other than that not much else is going on. Eric is working in Kankakee throughout the week until the end of April so me and Jaiden are couch buddies every evening. Good thing American Idol is on twice a week :) I am really going to try to keep this blog updated a little better. I have really been slacking but when you spend the days at work and the evening vegged on the couch not too much happens... :)

Where Has The Time Gone?

So I have really been a slacker when it comes to blogging since we moved back to IL. It seems like we are always on the go. Jaiden started Kindergarten this year and she loves it! Jaiden was getting up all on her own and in a great mood every morning. She was upset the first few weekends we had because she didnt get to go to school. My dad kind of joked and said "do you think this will last for the next 13 years?" Let's just say now it is hard to get her up in the mornings but she still loves school once she gets up and going.




Our house in Iowa still hasn't sold and it is really getting old paying for a house that you don't even live in. We are so ready for it to sell.



Most of you probably already know, but we found out that we are expecting and due April 12th.


I know it is a little late at posting this but I have not had energy to do anything. As soon as we get home from running, I just want to go to sleep. Here is a picture of the little one.

Jaiden is so excited to be a big sister. She doesnt care if she gets a brother or a sister just as long as she gets to pick out the baby clothes to buy. She is a shopaholic!

Hopefully, I will be able to keep this blog going again. I really do enjoy posting and sharing with everyone :)

Another New Addition

Congrats to my brother Mark and sis-in-law Ashley. They had a baby girl Saturday July 25th.

Adalyn Marlee was born at 12:35 p.m. and weighed 6lbs 11 oz.

Jaiden is pretty excited to get 2 new cousins just 15 days apart. All are doing well.

Introducing Mr. Gavin

I want to introduce our new nephew to the blog world....Gavin Thomas Root. He was born yesterday July 10 weighing 7 lbs 8oz and 20 inches long. He is such a handsome little man. Congrats Kendall and Tonya!!!!!!

Here is Jaiden holding her first boy cousin...She thought he was pretty neat.

It's Been A While

I know it has been a while since I have blogged but really I don't have much going on. Jaiden is with Eric in Newton and so it is just me and the cat. Still trying to sell the house. Had an open house yesterday and today so hopefully someone is interested from that. I have been packing and cleaning and that is about it.

While I am sitting here waiting for people to show up, I captured Bat eating again. I have posted before that Bat is a pretty lazy cat. He usually lays down to eat but today, he was laying down and pawing his food out of his bowl onto the floor and then eating it. You would think that this would be more work? He has been keeping me pretty entertained!

It's Official

I know most of you have heard by now but we are moving back home. Our house officially went on the market today. Here is the link to our house listing.

http://www.iahomesforsale.com/listingdetail.asp?Listing=3288

So for everyone from Cedar Rapids area that reads my blog, tell all.... :)

Eric and Jaiden moved back June 1 so we are all hoping the house sells quick so I can move too!

Jaiden's Graduation

I know I am a little behind, but last Friday Jaiden graduated preschool. We were all so excited about it.
I think the cake was her favorite part.

Fun In The Sun

Well kinda... We drained our hot tub a couple of weekends ago to do some cleaning on it and Jaiden thought she was hot stuff posing in the empty tub. We don't really use it in the winter because 1) It is way to cold to go outside to get in the hot tub let alone get out of it and in the cold again when your done. 2) We really don't want to have to get our snowsuits on to shovel our way to the hot tub and then get our swimsuits on to get in it :) We do enjoy it from about May-Sept/Oct.

Sesame Street Live

Last week we went to Sesame Street Live. Jaiden loved it. I thought maybe she would have been a little old for it but she really did enjoy it. I think she liked it because it was something "new" for her. It is just weird that I grew up watching Sesame Street and didn't even think that she really didn't know what it was. When I told her about it she was "fake excited" and then said "mommy I really only know who Elmo is" and kind of turned her nose up. But we ended up going and she had a blast. (and I did too! :)


Our neighbors went with us and here is Jaiden and her buddy Austin

Our Newest Addition

Well, I said it would be a long time before we did this, but....... we got another dog. This time a lot smaller dog and only 1. We got a wiener dog. Her name is Macy and she is black and tan. She is soooooo in the puppy stage. I really hate that part of getting a new puppy. But I just keep telling myself that she will outgrow it. Hopefully! Her and the cat get along great. It is so much fun watching them play. Her is a few pics of her.

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy mother's day to all! Jaiden gave me a lovely flower (not sure what it is, Krista maybe you can help me out with this one :) in a pot that she decorated at school. I love it and she was so excited to give it to me. She also made a card for me but I forgot to take a picture with her and the card but here is the beautiful mother's day present I got.

Wake Up Call...

So it is Saturday morning at 7 am and I am blogging. Why you might ask? Well my husband called me at 6:17 this morning. I know I have mentioned before that he is an early bird on the weekends. We were out of coffee this morning so he went to Wal-Mart to get some and took my small list of the usual- coffee, toilet paper, laundry detergent, etc. He called 4 times in 20 minutes asking what kinds of stuff we bought and then was wheeling and dealing with me on the phone about prices and the more for your money thing. At 6:17 in the morning I really don't care about anything so not real sure what I told him to get. So I am anxious to see what he brings home. Oh well it saves me a trip to the dreadful Wal-Mart on a Saturday :) Oh and make that 5 calls now. He called again while I was typing this. I wonder if that was his way of getting me out of bed early so we can get stuff done around the house today. Or I wonder if he wanted to get away by himself to get me a mothers day present? Nah, we know it's too soon to buy a mothers day present. He is a last minute shopper and mother's day is still a whole day away :)