Mr. Bentley

Mr. B is FOUR months old as of yesterday. I know the last post was about him, but he is just so cute. I took some four month old photos yesterday, and here are my favorite two. We are so happy he is in our family. I promise I'll post about the rest of us soon!

Playtime

He was simply irresistible yesterday! I just want to eat those big red cheeks.

HELP!

It's been a rough couple of days with Bentley.  He does not sleep during the day-which, in case you didn't know, makes for a very cranky baby...uhhhhhh.  I want so bad for him to sleep.  He is tired, and will fall asleep fine but then he only sleeps for a half hour.  Every Single Time.  Does anyone have any suggestions out there?  I lay him down tired, he falls asleep, but then wakes up a half our later.  I have tried to just let him cry himself back to sleep, but that doesn't work.  I have also gone in and put him back to sleep by rocking him then lay him down and he wakes up 2 minutes later.  It just seems like some alarm goes off in his head and he won't go back to sleep.  He sleeps great at night-there is no problems at night, this is all just during the day.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
After 2 rough days in a row I am pretty tired tonight.  I had a meeting this evening, and when I came home the kids were all in bed.  Halli was the only one still awake, and I went in to say goodnight to her.  While I was in there she asked me to tickle her arm, so I said ok and did for a minute.  Then I said it was time for her to sleep.  So I gave her a hug, kissed her, said I love you, and went to walk away.  Then she reached out for another hug-which is normal-so I gave her another hug and she held me tight and said "I really do love you".  It was a good day after all.

Halloween

The 1, 2, 3's of our Halloween

1 Baby who was having nothing to do with being put in a costume

2 adorable kids walked around for 2 hours trick or treating

3 kids I saw with the same costume as Carson

4 pumpkins our family carved this year

5 ideas Halli has already given me of what she wants to be for Halloween next year

6 streets we walked to collect candy

7  pieces of candy left in our bowl when the trick-or-treating was over.  I bought the perfect amount!

8 :30 is the time we got home from trick-or-treating

9 times I thought about cooking/roasting our pumpkin seeds, but I never ended up actually doing it...bummer, I love eating them.

10 pounds of candy (at least) I had to start carrying both Carson and Halli's bags because they were too heavy for them...that is when you know it is definitely time to go home!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Three Months Old!!

Sweet Site

I recently found an awesome website that give tips on sweet deals in stores and online. It is a site that I check a couple times a day now! Here is a link to the site-go check in out if you are into saving some big moolah! Thanks to this amazing girl I have purchased so many great deals. I bought a family members Christmas present just the other day thanks to some information posted (I'm not telling what it was or for whom because they read my blog and I don't want to give it away!).

Bentley's 1 month

Well time sure does fly by. Bentley is actually almost 6 weeks now. My sister took some really cute one month photos so I thought I would post about his 1 month information.length 23.5 (he's grown 2 inches!!!)
weight about 11 lbs (this is measured from me stepping on the scale with him...so it's approximate)He likes being swaddled to sleep
He doesn't like his binki much
He started smiling at us on his one month birthday
He is eating 4 ounces every 3-4 hours typically
He is letting us get a pretty good night's sleep. He sleeps about 4 hours at a time, wakes to eat, then goes right back to sleep.I feel like I am watching him grown and change before my eyes. With Carson and Halli I didnt' notice the change as much. I felt like I was looking at them all day, and I didn't notice how much they were growing and changing. With Bentley I literally feel like he changes as I am watching and looking at him. He has already grown so much! I feel like he is getting so big. I know he is still just a small baby, but he has changed so much in the past 5 weeks he has been with us.

Halli and Carson are really enjoying him almost as much as we are. They are such great helpers. They love to hold him and feed him. Just yesterday Carson held Bentley for about 45 minutes while I made dinner. He just held him and sang him songs-it was so sweet. Halli asks to help feed him almost every time I make him a bottle-which helps me out to be able to get things done. I feel so blessed to have such great kids! I love them all so much.