Kayley: Cora: Rex:
12 lbs 8 oz (50%) 10lb 10 oz (15%) 15 lbs 15 oz (61%)
24 in (50%) 23 1/2 (50-55%) 25 3/4 (72%)
So, he is my biggest baby yet, but I guess I'm glad it's him and not the girls since he is a boy! As mentioned on an earlier post he can roll over and he is getting so close now to rolling over back to tummy. He smiles at anyone who smiles back at him and is such a happy baby! He has a great interest in watching us eat now, so I'm not sure if he'll make it another two months before we start solids with him! And as his weight shows, he still eats like a horse!!
Here's Cora's 3 year portrait. She is my little trickster, inquisitive girl! She asks me about things all the time. The other day, she asked me what police do. I told her they help take care of people...that wasn't a good enough answer cause she then asked me what it means to take care of people. Another thing she does is pay attention to detail in what you say. A while back she was saying 'stupid' when she was playing. I told her we don't say that word in this house. She then asked me if she could say it outside of the house. Then a couple of months ago we went to St. Louis to go to the Temple, see extended family, and do some other fun family stuff with just our little family. We stayed in the hotel for two nights and the girls loved it and begged to go constantly after that to stay in another hotel. Cora would ask why we couldn't go to a hotel and I would tell her that hotels cost too many moneys for us to go all the time. Well, a couple of weeks ago, we went to St. Louis again to attend the Temple and we went and stayed in a hotel. When I told Cora we were staying in a hotel, she asked me if hotels were free now? She sure is cute! 
Here's Kayley's 5 year portrait. Too often than not it is very difficult to think that Kayley is already 5 and going to preschool!! Kayley loves school! She has already had two boys give her things to take home. One day she came home with a handful of flowers that were picked from weeds from a boy. Then later that week she came home with a pine cone that she said one of the other boys in her class gave her. She also loves to play dress up and pretend a lot. She probably changes 5 times a day because as soon as she wakes up, she puts on dress up, then she has to get dressed for school. Then as soon as she gets home from school she is getting other dress up clothes on up until we're ready to get PJ's on for the night. She is trying to learn how to read, and I think she is slowly getting it. We are doing some reading lessons and she is constantly asking me what letters spell what. I know she is just SO close and the breakthrough will come anytime now! 
As mentioned earlier, a couple of weeks ago we went to St. Louis. On the way we stopped to see our new niece Ruby Ellen in Columbia. She is SOOO cute!! I just couldn't get over how tiny and sweet she was! They just grow so fast it's hard to believe that Rex was close to that size (he was bigger), but it was weird to see how big he is now and how tiny Ruby was. The girls just loved getting to hold her and Kayley said that Lauren would be really glad her name was Ruby because it was like Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers. (Lauren and Kayley are BIG fans of Dorothy and she just loves that they share that in common with each other!) Cora continued to ask me after seeing Ruby and even before, "Mommy when are you going to have a baby girl in your tummy?" Not for a while Cora!! :) 
More pics of cute Ruby...
Here are the pictures from the hotel. The girls just love that they get to share a bed with one another. THey also loved being able to swim in the hotel (but what kid doesn't love that!?) I personally LOVED the hot tub...it was huge!! We didn't get to swim that long though since we had stopped to see baby Ruby. But the girls had a blast swimming and then coming back to the room and taking a bath and then playing restaurant with the ice bucket and cups. The next day we got up and took our time getting ready then headed to the temple. I was able to do a session and then I came out only to find out that Nick had a fever. He was going to try to do a session since we had traveled 4 hours and it had been a while since we had gone...but he went in and was barely able to do initiatories...so we just did that and headed home. A couple of days later Nick went to the doctor and found out that not only did he have strep throat, but he had scarlet fever as well. Pretty crazy, but luckily no one else got it! 
Here are some pics of Rex just being cute. It is getting easier to get him to smile in pics, but it's still a struggle because he gets caught off guard with the flash of the camera. But there are a few smiles in here. My fav pic though is the one on the bottom left..."what are you doing to me Mom!?!"
The same day I was trying to clean up stuff while Kayley was in school and Cora was already down for a nap. He wasn't quite ready for a nap until later, but ended up falling asleep on the floor while I was cleaning. Silly boy.
Nick was playing with Rex the other night with his hat. He looks awful cute. Rex has his own hats, but I think he looks the cutest in Daddy's!!
