Update on nose sucking and more!

It's still happening. The noses are running wild here! It's finally letting up since Brian's cold is going away. Nathan still has his cold. I took Nathan to the doctor today since his eyes were getting all goopy and nasty. I was worried about pink eye and didn't want that going to Brian. Dr. Ballard checked him out and she thinks that he is fighting the cold and it's leaking from his eyes. No big deal. Here is the most shocking part of my day! Nathan was weighed today and he weighs 9 pounds 13 ounces! He is only 4 weeks old! 15 days ago he weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces. 23 ounces gained in 15 days! I really can't believe it!
Upate on the car....
It's fixed! The Silver Monster is running again! Dean really gave it his bes,t but when it came down to the last thing to fix, he just didn't have the special tool. Oh well. It took the dealership 5 days but works now!

Thank You!

Thanks for your votes! Nathan made it into the Winner's Circle! There is a final vote in April so vote again. Don't worry I'll give you notice! Thank You!

Vote for Nathan

Nathan is in a Binging Home Baby contest today. If you'd like to vote for him, go to the link I will provide. It's only valid today (SUNDAY). There is only a handful of babies in it today, so I feel confident!
http://www.whattoexpect.com/photo-contest/photo_details.aspx?contestId=15&contestantId=12268

nose sucking...

I am so tired of sucking noses! I've been doing it around the clock since the middle of the night Tuesday. Huge nasty snot boogers everywhere. It's amazing that only the kids are sick and not Dean and I. I just wanted to get that out.

St. Patrick's Day and Dr. Appointments

No, I didn't take any pictures of the boys in green on St. Patrick's Day. Yes, I am a bad mom. I fully planned on it but I really didn't have any motivation to get both boys dressed in clothes. They were way to comfortable in their jammies. We weren't going anywhere and it always seemed like someone was asleep or eating every time I thought about it. I told myself that I would just take the pictures in the morning and post them. What's a day late? Well, Brian woke up in the middle of the night with flu like symptoms. 100.6 fever, shakes, chills, racing heart, and snot covered. We were up with him until about 2am and then I was up every two hours to feed Nathan.
The day after St. Patrick's Day came and I didn't feel like getting Brian out of his warm jammies and torture the snotty boy with sitting still for a picture. Plus, I was exhausted. Thursday (today) rolls around and I had to take Brian for his routine 15 month well child check-up. I dressed both boys in green and took the picture. Neither is looking at the camera and Brian barely sat still. But I challenge you to get a good picture of a three week old and a 15 month old who wants to poke his brothers eyes out. Good luck!
Eventually we got to the doctor's office and except for the little cold he's got, everything looks great. He weighs 21 pounds 12 ounces and is 31.5 inches tall. He got two vaccines and he didn't cry at all! That is a first for us! He usually cries and screams all the way to the car but not today! Not even a tear! We go back in 3 months.

An update 3 weeks after baby

So it has been three weeks since Nathan joined our family and boy is life just a tiny bit hectic! Where do I start?

Brian is so smart these days. His sign language has exploded and he points to the banana in his book and says "nana, nana"! I think he says "nana" more than "mama". That kid sure does love bananas! He's also become even more of a daredevil. Didn't think that was possible did you? He's advanced from climbing gates and cribs and has moved on to standing up on the seat of his bike. I haven't been able to get a picture of his standing all the way up just yet (I'm scared the flash will make him fall) but I will post a picture of him getting ready to stand up. He is starting to act out more, especially when he sees me nurse Nathan. He knows I can't do much to stop him so he really pushes the buttons.

Nathan is still a baby. He sleeps, eats, and poops. He is starting to make cooing noises which I think is really cute! He hasn't peed on us in almost a week now! Whoo hoo. Some of you may know that he would pee on us almost everytime we changed him in his early days. I guess he was making up for the fact that Brian rarely did that. It's amazing how different these boys are already.

Dean returns to work on Friday. I am not excited about that at all! In fact I'm dreading it just a little. He is ready to go back to work. I do have to say that he has been pretty awesome the last 3 weeks. He's been cooking and helping me clean up. He's also been great taking care of Brian.

I am doing well. I tried on my pre-baby jeans 11 days post-partum and they fit but were to tight to wear in public. I tried them on again today and I could probably wear them to the grocery store if I wanted to! I'm really excited about that. We are planning to start going to the gym together in a few weeks. I still have to be cleared by my doctor first. I guess that's about it for me.

As a whole we are doing well. Thanks for reading!

Brian getting ready to stand up on his bike.

More Please!

Brian's learning has really taken off the last couple of days. He is starting to really soak things up now. He can now point out his nose, eyes, ears, mouth, head, feet, tummy and hands. Some of those things we never even taught him! Here is a video of his sign language. I introduced the word please to him last week but didn't really use it very much. I remembered yesterday and told him to say "please" and he actually did it back to me! It took us so long to get him to say "more" and "eat" and he got "please" right away! I'm so proud of my little boy!