Bentley's 2 week appt(actually 2 week 5 day)

Today I brought Bentley in for his 2 week 5 day appt and he's weighing in at 8lbs 2oz which I'm super happy about! Presto was already weighing 9lbs 9oz at this time so Bentley is a little guy in comparison but we're so happy he's gaining weight!! He's such a sleepy head so it's hard to feed him even though we do all the usual things to try and wake him. Last night he slept from 9pm-3am and mommy needed this sleep soooo bad!!


Sophia LOVES her baby brother and she often says "it's ok baby Sophia is here to protect you". She's constantly giving him kisses and reassuring him "it's going to be ok". Note: bandaids are from a spill Phia took on Saturday at a b-day party. Since we're outnumbered, mommy was in the car feeding baby and Daddy was running after Presto so of course in a 5 minute window Phia falls down:( She's a trooper though!!

Halloween!

This year we did it all! It was of course super exciting because baby Bentley was along for all the fun(even though he slept through it all of course). On Halloween Leyla and I got the kids dressed up(Presto was Woody,, Sophia was Jessie, and Bentley was Buzz from Toy Story). and we went up to the mall and trick or treated at all the stores. We then raced back to the house(so mommy could feed baby) and got ready to head to the Halloween carnival at the park where we met The Petchenick's. Nana was nice enough to watch Bentley for a little while so we could all go to the carnival. We all came back to our house for food before heading out for trick or treating in our neighborhood. Preston and Sophia had a BLAST around the neighborhood. It was so fun to see their faces light up at each house. They got REALLY into it. Over the past few months we've gotten to know a lot of our neighbors and a lot of them have young kids like us so it was fun to see familiar faces passing out candy. On Nov 1(the next day) the Halloween festivities continued! It was Phia's school carnival, parade, and class party which mommy was in charge of! I was so happy to be a part of the celebration. I planned the menu, the carnival games for our class, and all the crafts for Phia's room. She was super happy to have mommy there and mommy was so proud of her little Jessie:)

Presto is our 22 month boy!

His language excelled the second we got home from the hospital. No more "ohh ahhs" for apples...he says "APPLE" loud and clear. No more "Tia" , it's "Phia" loud and clear and his new one is "Monsters Inc"....he says the "Inc" part at a higher octave which is hilarious. He also started singing along and calls "Twinkle Twinkle" "Up above" when he wants to hear the song. We can't believe he's almost 2!! He's also become VERY interested in the potty. Mommy is nowhere near ready for potty training again but his interest in it is a good sign. He says "potty" and runs to the bathroom and actually went pee in it yesterday with Daddy...eeks slow down Presto!
Presto's many faces:

Our 10 day old pumpkin:)

We got lucky and Bentley flashed us a little smile

We had a photog take newborn shots when Bentley was 8 days old and I completely forgot to have her shoot some of him with a pumpkin so we had our own photo shoot this afternoon. He loves being on his tummy and he loves sleeping so it's not too hard to get shots of him. He still sleeps about 23 hours a day which makes it really hard to feed him. I try everything...strip his clothes, lift him up and down, change his diaper multiple times and he just passes out immediately after into a DEEP sleep. He's pretty dreamy though so we think we'll keep him!! His last feeding of the night is at 10pm and he sleeps 'til 2:30 or later then eats and sleeps again 'til 6:30 or 7am. Not bad for a one week old! That's exactly how Preston was.



And a "just because" shot where B is saying "Look at me! I'm having a blast in my sleep!"