August Check In

Things are okay here. Ana is 3 1/2 months now, hard to believe. She is sleeping through the night in her crib (hooray!), but we do have her crib set up in our room next to my side of our bed, but still. She's been regularly sleeping from about 10:00 pm to about 7:00 am, so I can't complain. Sometimes she wakes a bit earlier, so I bring her into bed with us while we wake up and she smiles and chats with us. She's eating pretty well. Her four month appointment is on her four month birthday (the 20th). It will be interesting to see how she has grown. We kind of weighed her here at home on our scale (with us holding her, subtracting how much we weighed by our selves) and she was about 14.5 lbs. She isn't a super chunk like my son was at this age, but she is crazy tall. She's probably a good 26 inches at this point, but we haven't measured her height since her appointment in June. She is a happy baby. She only fusses really when she has a need to be met or she's overtired. We took her into the pool for the first time yesterday and she loved it. Our son is working really hard on his swimming so he could be on the league swim team next year, so we took her out while he was doing his laps at the local pool and I had her in the kiddie pool. It was fun. Right now, she is sleeping on my chest and not feeling very good. She was doing well, but ended up throwing up probably three ounces about an hour and a half ago while I was shopping for groceries this morning, so I have her home sleeping and wrapped up in a blanket. I will give her a good bath when she wakes up, I hate to wake her when she's tired and not feeling very well. This isn't all the time, but I give lots of snuggles when we have days like this. Overall, she is doing really good.

In other family news, my DS is starting 4th grade next week, so we're getting him set up for that. DH is getting ready to start his second year in his MA program in a few weeks, so he is gearing up for a lot of writing in his classes. I started back to work on June 18th part time from home until the end of last month, then I started working a full 8 hours mostly from home. Ana will start day care in mid October, so I have both kids home. I'll tell ya: working full time and being a stay at home mom at the same time is not fun at all. With Ana sick right now, I called in and told them I was taking half a day off to take care of her and working my four hours after DH gets home and I'm enjoying the non-chaotic atmosphere right now.

I can't believe summer's more than half gone! We haven't done alot, I stay home with Kingston and we mostly hang out. He'll be 4 months on the 17th, it feels like he should be older, most people that see him think he is. He's not that big really, about 14 lbs but he's tall. He has his 4 month appt. on the 22nd, so it'll be cool to see how he's grown since his 2 month appt. He still doesn't sleep through the night, he was doing good with 4 to 5 hour stretches, but for the last week he's been wanting to eat every two hours. So maybe a growth spurt? I just go with it, I'm still breastfeeding him and will be for another 2.5 months probably. I like breastfeeding him, but I'm really wanting my birth control pill hormones back! I have PCOS, and my skin's getting really bad. I know the pill will clear it up (but not the mini pill I'm on now) but it will also dry up my milk, so I'm holding off as long as possible. I have nothing against formula, but I think breast is best whenever possible. Kingston's starting to be a loudmouth! He coos and babbles alot, and if he's hungry he makes this really cute "rawrr!" noise (think of an older kid making monster noises) and tries to shove whatever's close into his mouth. We got him a jumper and he really loves it, I think he figured out how to push the noise making button already, but it could just be a coincidence. It's really fun watching him change and grow!

We haven't done too much this summer...not as much as I had wanted to do. We finally went to the beach this past Sunday. My DD had a BLAST and Noah did pretty well. He doesn't sleep much if at all when we're not home. He's afraid he's going to miss something. He was addicted to sleeping in the swing, just like my DD was. I thought it was going to be so hard to transition him out of it and into his crib, but he's doing fantastic!! He's been sleeping through the night for awhile now and usually goes to bed no later than 9 or 9:30. I've stopped pumping and my freezer stash is almost gone. But we've been mixing BM and formula and he seems to be fine with it. Overall he's such a happy boy. He's always smiling and "talking". My DD is so in love with him and constantly gives him kisses. I have the greatest kids! I couldn't be more blessed.

Im here...

I think I have the most dreamy baby. She is so laid back and calm it's amazing.

Its been crazy here. I think im looking forward to school starting in someways.......in others I love the help. Even if I have to beg for it.

Garnet is still EBF and I will continue. Been looking at child lead weaning and im not sure that's for me. But i am planing till 15 m.

She is still so freaking long.....the comment I here most is "wow is she long". Dh is 6'3.... I think she is taking after daddy.

Still co sleeping. Love it.

Hopefully this board will pick up in the fall. Summer is just so busy!!!!