Long overdue Update!

Not sure what we were looking at but this pictures is so FUNNY. Love the expressions.




Ok so I know I haven't posted in FOREVER...so if I have any blog readers left I'm gonna update. Lots has been going on at the McCarver household lately, I'll give updates on each of the kids first:

Hannah: I love this girl! I was talking to Jeremy the other day about her personality and character traits that I"m noticing. She really is very patient and doesn't really ever get too frustrated. Of course there are sibling issues but for the most part she is really easy going. For example in the mornings she wakes up early 7am...our routine is for daddy to go get her "set up " in the living room which means, drink, dry cereal to snack on, and puts in movie. She will watch while we got totally back to sleep. But lately if it's TOO early we say go sit on the couch and wait. She will sit patiently and entertain herself for 30min sometimes. Sometimes she colors, or she'll just sit and play with her baby. Such a good girl! She is so sweet..I'm so thankful for her.

Caleb: Ball of energy! He loves to run...fast, and throw things, especially balls. Total boy and I love that I get to experience both a son and daughter. This week we are potty-training and he has done SO SO well. We started on Tuesday morning, and today NO accidents and he pooped in the potty twice...AMAZING! Such a funny thing...tonight when he pooped well you know we make a HUGE deal about it, dance and jump up and down and everything. This is what he said, "Good Job, poo-poo in the potty, Shout to the Lord". SO SO funny. Don't know where the "shout to the Lord" came from but it was priceless. I think I may have said "PRAISE THE LORD" earlier when he went because I was so excited...so who knows.

Jacob: Oh such a precious baby. The past week and a half we have had "sleep training" for him. He has NOT been sleeping well at all, waking up every 2hrs most every night. Not necessarily wanting to nurse, just wants me to hold/rock him. So after talking to my friend Amber I just felt I need to do this now. With Hannah we waited until 11mos and it was really hard, she cried and it took 3 full weeks to get her trained. With Jacob he cried for 2hrs the first 2 nights...I would go in and pat every 10min, but after that he would sleep. He has done AMAZINGLY well. Really he sleeps all night now no more waking up, no more nursing in the middle of the night. We are all much happier around here. Anyway, besides sleeping, he is just so happy, smiles and laughs a lot...loves to watch Hannah and Caleb run around, they totally keep him entertained. I started baby food right at 4mos (in hope to help his sleeping), we have done rice cereal, greenbeans, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, applesauce, bananas, pears, peaches...pretty much everything but meats. He eats 2 meals a day and does great. At our 4.5mos checkup he weighed 16.8lbs. Growing well and he does NOT SPIT UP. This is so new to me. My others spit up for the first year, so I'm loving this!

I was thinking I haven't posted since the end of october, so since then we've had Thanksgiving AND Christmas...we went to Waco for both holidays and spent time with family. It was great to see everyone.


Now for some pictures...these are just random pics from things we've done the past couple of months. Thanks for reading. I would say I'll try to be a better blogger...but really maybe not. I"m just busy...and I'm actually on facebook more these days but don't post pics there. SO my blog will be for the pics. Thanks for reading...hope you enjoy!