The Pontus Family

Monday, June 27, 2011

A Week in Pictures

Someone found her Jasmine costume and wanted to wear it...over her outfit.

Julian in all his glory, complete with spit-up stains.

The blur also known as Amelia entertaining Julian

Amelia & Julian playing Princesses

Tummy time. He gave up and decided to suck on his fist.

Princess Village

Amelia over-seeing Princess Village

Amelia puts her Minnie pillow over her head and sings, "M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!" Old school style.

Julian - 3 Months

Let's see if this works...

Woo hoo!

I've tried making this post several times but it would NOT upload pics. I'm glad it's working now.

Julian is 3 months old. We're not sure how much he weighs or how long he is because we don't see the ped until 4 months. We just recently moved him to size 3 diapers, and he's in 3-6 month clothes. He is |--| this close to rolling over, but just doesn't get all the way over. He still doesn't like tummy time, unless he's on someone's chest. Julian coos, babbles, and "talks" to everyone. He also laughs and giggles a lot. :) It's super cute. He loves standing and bouncing. He's starting to play with his toys now, and he's pretty good at grabbing things and hitting toys that you put in front of him.

Julian is a really good baby. He's generally easy going and happy. He LOVES Amelia and she is so good with him. Her newest thing is wiping his mouth when he spits up or has too much drool. She also likes to hold his bottle for him and help burp him. She's a GREAT helper!

Speaking of drool, we're drowing in it! I swear that I feel a bump on his lower gums, but nothing yet. I think Amelia got her 1st tooth @5 months, so we probably have some time but we're keeping an eye on it.

Julian is looking more and more like Amelia every day, but also more different than her (if that makes sense). For comparison, I give you Amelia @3 months old.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Blogging problems

Sorry for no new posts - I am having problems with the site. It's not letting me upload pictures. As soon as I have time to try to figure this out, I'll have new posts (I hope!).

Monday, June 13, 2011

A little bit of this & that

Just sharing a few pics of the kiddos from the past few weeks!

Amelia reading "Goodnight Moon" to Julian

Amelia looking out the window

Crappy pic of Julian on the video monitor - arms folded behind his head while he's sleeping

Giggles

Smiley

They're holding hands - SWOON!

The jungle gym is fun for both kids!

How YOU doin'?

Baby pool fun

Babcia, Amelia, Alex & Julian

Playing with the pool & little mister thing

Daddy & Julian

Alex, Julian & Me

Babcia reading to Julian & Amelia

My babies

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Stormy Weather

It's a fact. The St. Louis area gets crazy weather. We happen to live right smack-dab in the middle of Tornado Alley. I don't like it, but that's just the way it is.

This year has been especially brutal in the tornado department. Usually we have a few months to rest easy and not worry about tornados. Not so much this year. The tornado that hit nearby on Good Friday was a little too close for comfort.

Yesterday we had more severe weather. We knew it was coming, even down to the specific hour...3 pm. At about 2:30, I started dragging stuff down to the basement to prepare for our camp out. [On a related note, I have made it a priority to make & keep an emergency kit in the basement so that I don't have to drag so much stuff down in the future. It's just smart.] We headed down at about 3:15-ish.

**Another side note -- the excessive rain following the Good Friday tornado caused extreme hydrostatic pressure to build up under our house and resulted in wetness in our basement. We contracted with a waterproofing company to install a drain system around the perimeter of our basement to prevent this from happening again. The work started on Friday and was completed on this Monday. As a result, our basement is kind of a wreck. There is concrete dust over everything, and the carpet is pulled up where they did the work...and the concrete they poured isn't completely dry yet.**

Amelia had a blast playing downstairs, as expected. The basement had been off-limits to her for about a month and it was killing her. Julian did fine. He didn't get his nap in while he was down there (combination of Amelia playing with noisy toys & running around like a Banshee, and the computer streaming Fox 2 weather report loudly), so he was a little cranky.

Fortunately the storm wasn't really that severe. We stayed in the basement until about 5:30, mostly because Amelia was having so much fun playing AND because I didn't want to drag everything upstairs only to have to drag it back down if the weather got severe again.

I'm sick of this severe weather, but extremely thankful for the finished basement we have.

Guess who found the BeBe Pod and still fits in it

Mr. Julian needs a nap

Sleeping Beauty, I mean Amelia

Diaper change in the basement

Amelia and her train table

The current state of our finished basement

Our drain tile, drying concrete

"Geez, mom. Not another picture. This is embarassing."

Check out little man's neck control! :)

Lake Pontus [AKA our backyard when it rains hard]

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Our Princess

Amelia is constantly cracking us up. She is so funny! She's definitely 2 going on 18. We're so proud of her - she's handled moving into a new place and getting a baby brother like a champ!

Here are some pictures of her cheesing it up!

Modeling her underwear - OVER her pants