henry is six weeks and rolling over!

 sweet henry is six weeks old today

it seems like sooo much has happened since he's been here

but i'm also loving his newborness still

he smells so good and is so sweet

and he's getting big! a week ago he weighed 10 lbs at the doctor

 i put henry on his tummy for the second time today and he immediately rolled over!

what an over-achiever! he is the earliest roller in our family for sure

(noah was 5 months, hazel 7 months, olive and eleanor 2 months)

henry has given michael and i each unsolicited smiles once

but he hasn't smiled at either of us yet

so we're in competition to see who will do it first 

we are so happy henry is sleeping well 

only waking once or twice a night

and crying less and less

henry is a doll

it was a good day

we have been super busy packing, cleaning, taking care of things before moving

but today we mostly just had a fun day

after we ran an errand we took the girls and henry to lunch at cubby's

i laughed out loud when i walked in and saw olive's socks and sandals

 the girls

 henry

 then we ran hazel to school and took the three youngest to target

they all fell asleep on the way home

and olive was sleeping with her feet up wearing her new boots

(boots i had to buy so she'd stop wearing mine!)

 then we came home and waited for noah and hazel to get home

then we went to DI for a bit

before heading to the food truck round up in provo

it's so fun

 we got the kiddies snow cones

 michael and i ate kababs

and admired our names on the plaque of the pound it kebab truck

because of a donation we made to their kickstarter

 michael with his kebab and the sun shining behind him

 hey-o

 we all shared a waffle, too

eleanor was pretty mad it wasn't just for her

 the kids thought it was too cold so we went into the open building where you can eat

and hung out for a bit

 it's such an awesome building

 look at this cute guy

it was a seriously fun day

we're trying to squeeze in all the fun we can before we leave utah

and i think we're nailing it so far

henry is the cutest

henry had his first real day at church on sunday

and looked so cute in noah's 8 year old handmedowns 

 aww, so cute

 mom, dad and henry

 henry was sleeping on me yesterday and kept laughing out loud

i guess he was having a hilarious dream

look at that smile! 

 later i decided i should give tummy time a try

he immediately scooted like 6 inches

and got super close to rolling over

 he didn't hate it the whole time

just most of it

 he lifted his head

 and then got really mad

 and a picture of him sleeping in his cradle

we just love this sweet boy

he'll be six weeks on friday!

yesterday and today

 yesterday michael went on noah's field trip to the local library

we figured he should take advantage of not being in school or working

and he had a good time being with noah

he also snapped a picture of the inside of noah's desk

what a slob! 

henry is the cutest grumpy baby

 we had to "show" our house to prospective renters last night

so michael stuck around and i took all five kids to target by myself for the first time

(just typing five kids almost gave me a panic attack)

it went surprisingly well!

hazel and olive fell asleep on the way there so noah and i rocked out to weezer together

when we got there i bought each of the kids their own small icee

 and they thought it was so cool not to share (we normally get one large one for everyone)

the kids were seriously great and stayed in the cart the whole time 

until we got to the toys and i let them out

and then they each got to pick a toy for $1.00 and they were happy about that

henry hung out in the ergo on me the whole time and was happy, too

and just in case you think i actually have it all together

here's a picture of my puffy eyes from crying a bunch last night

because having 5 kids can be hard

and we've been through a lot in the 5 weeks since henry was born!

plus sleep deprivation...

 today we went to chipotle for lunch

and then ikea for possibly the last time before we move

can you believe they don't have ikea in idaho

or 7 ELEVEN! i'm not sure how we'll cope..

michael and i have found that wearing our babes is most effective when we go to stores

so i wear henry in the moby and he wears ella in the ergo

works like a charm and they both slept while we shopped ikea

the big kids were at the play area so it was pretty much a date

hot!

this afternoon michael took noah, hazel and olive to the provo rec center to swim

and i stayed home with eleanor and henry

who both napped and it was amazing

henry's first ER visit...

starting a few weeks ago, henry has done this terribly concerning thing

where he goes from being fine one minute

to arching his back like crazy, getting really upset and not really breathing

and even turning blue the next minute

and it lasts probably 1-3 minutes

i've almost called an ambulance on more than one occasion

but it's pretty short from start to finish 

and after the episode, he's upset but back to normal

and he stays alert the whole time

so i can't tell if i'm crazy or it's an emergency

thursday night when he did it, it was one of his worst episodes

and we took him to the ER right away 

they checked his vitals first thing

and since they were good, they let us sit in the waiting room for over an hour

as if it wasn't an emergency

 we eventually saw a Dr who thought it sounded like reflux 

but he doesn't have all the signs of that

and the turning blue thing is not a normal sign of reflux

but rather than doing a full work up of blood and x-rays, 

he told us to go to our regular pediatrician the next day

so friday we went to the pediatrician and he thinks it's reflux, too

so he prescribed medicine that will hopefully help

although so far it doesn't seem to

and he said if in a few weeks (after we've moved) he doesn't improve

and/or keeps having these episodes, we should talk to our new Dr about home monitoring

so hopefully things improve soon

it's so hard to say if this is related to his milk protein allergy or not

henry is a really fussy baby and i'm sure he's in pain a lot

it doesn't surprise me if he has reflux but i'd like it taken care of sooner than later

and i hope this medication starts working

one last trip to the hogle zoo

our zoo pass expired in april so we took the kids one last time 

yesterday right after school

  there were some super cute baby geese hopping up after their parents

and the littlest couldn't make it so it walked all the way around

 and met them on the other side

it was really cute

  

 it was the perfect afternoon to be at the zoo

it was warm enough to be without jackets

but not too hot

and there was hardly anyone there

sadly they've been re-doing the zoo the entire time we've lived here

and we're missing all the cool new stuff by a matter of a few weeks

oh well, we hear the zoo in boise is nice

one last cute picture of eleanor from after we got home