Sunday, July 05, 2009
Happy 4th of July!
Yeah, I know I am one day late, but so be it.
Carson is at that age where memorable quotes occur almost daily. Yesterday morning as he sat at the breakfast table contemplating our plan to visit friends for the 4th he remarked, "I don't like visiting your friends, I just like visiting my little friends."
Yeah, I know I am one day late, but so be it.
Carson is at that age where memorable quotes occur almost daily. Yesterday morning as he sat at the breakfast table contemplating our plan to visit friends for the 4th he remarked, "I don't like visiting your friends, I just like visiting my little friends."
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time to exhale
A rare completely quiet moment at home allows me to try and catch up on a little blogging. Both kids are sleeping and all is peaceful. There have been many of milestones, big and small, around this house over the past few weeks.
I am not really sure how to balance my writing with two kids, so here goes my best shot. Lets start with Carson since he is the oldest and the oldest always receives preferential treatment anyway. Carson has jumped right into his role as big brother. I must say, he has been awesome as a big brother. He is very gentle, caring, and loving with her at all times. One of my favorite things that he says about her is, "Her so small, her so cute." In this role as the older of the two, he gave up his pacifiers earlier this week. He asked Trish if he could have King from the movie Cars and she replied that King is a car for big boys and if he wanted King, he would need to give up his pacifiers. Carson immediately bought into the logic of that and traded his pacifiers for King. Trish gave him the option of sending the pacifiers to babies in Chapel Hill, West Chester, or Spokane and he chose Spokane. They dropped them in an envelope, wrote Spokane on said envelope, and mailed em off. It's been five days now and he has only whined for them once. But, and this is a big but, he is now sleeping less!!! He does not fall asleep until somewhere between 9 and 10 and then proceeds to wake each day by 6AM or earlier. This is brutal and leaves me wanting my own pacifier. Hopefully, he will go back to sleeping until almost 7AM soon. Carson also appears to smell some blood in the water. He recognizes that mom and dad are occupied at times with Annalea and he has taken to the practice of ignoring us as he chooses. This is becoming a bit of an issue around these parts and will be fodder for another blog entry.
Annalea is a great baby 95% of the time and the other 5%, she acts, well, like a baby. She is sleeping for longer stretches at night (yeah!), having more alert time during the day, and smiling. Her smile is really cute, except when it turns into a cry. She really does make some of the strangest noises I have ever heard, there's nothing quiet about a baby. I sort of remember Carson making some strange noises too, but I think Annalea edges him out on this one. She still has her dark hair, although it is lightening up a bit and has thinned some. There's not a whole lot more to day about her since she is just a wee baby and all, plus we have not had to take her to the doc recently so we don't have any new impressive stats. Gotta run, house is awakening.
A rare completely quiet moment at home allows me to try and catch up on a little blogging. Both kids are sleeping and all is peaceful. There have been many of milestones, big and small, around this house over the past few weeks.
I am not really sure how to balance my writing with two kids, so here goes my best shot. Lets start with Carson since he is the oldest and the oldest always receives preferential treatment anyway. Carson has jumped right into his role as big brother. I must say, he has been awesome as a big brother. He is very gentle, caring, and loving with her at all times. One of my favorite things that he says about her is, "Her so small, her so cute." In this role as the older of the two, he gave up his pacifiers earlier this week. He asked Trish if he could have King from the movie Cars and she replied that King is a car for big boys and if he wanted King, he would need to give up his pacifiers. Carson immediately bought into the logic of that and traded his pacifiers for King. Trish gave him the option of sending the pacifiers to babies in Chapel Hill, West Chester, or Spokane and he chose Spokane. They dropped them in an envelope, wrote Spokane on said envelope, and mailed em off. It's been five days now and he has only whined for them once. But, and this is a big but, he is now sleeping less!!! He does not fall asleep until somewhere between 9 and 10 and then proceeds to wake each day by 6AM or earlier. This is brutal and leaves me wanting my own pacifier. Hopefully, he will go back to sleeping until almost 7AM soon. Carson also appears to smell some blood in the water. He recognizes that mom and dad are occupied at times with Annalea and he has taken to the practice of ignoring us as he chooses. This is becoming a bit of an issue around these parts and will be fodder for another blog entry.
Annalea is a great baby 95% of the time and the other 5%, she acts, well, like a baby. She is sleeping for longer stretches at night (yeah!), having more alert time during the day, and smiling. Her smile is really cute, except when it turns into a cry. She really does make some of the strangest noises I have ever heard, there's nothing quiet about a baby. I sort of remember Carson making some strange noises too, but I think Annalea edges him out on this one. She still has her dark hair, although it is lightening up a bit and has thinned some. There's not a whole lot more to day about her since she is just a wee baby and all, plus we have not had to take her to the doc recently so we don't have any new impressive stats. Gotta run, house is awakening.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Video of the little one
Carson and Annalea Meet
Annalea Four Days Old
This is not the most exciting video in the world, but if you have not met Annalea yet, you can get a glimpse of her in awake mode. I will try and get some new video of her up soon.
Carson and Annalea Meet
Annalea Four Days Old
This is not the most exciting video in the world, but if you have not met Annalea yet, you can get a glimpse of her in awake mode. I will try and get some new video of her up soon.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Adjusting to Two
Here we are, about ten days into the parenting life of two kids. Surprisingly, it has gone quite smoothly. As Trish and I look back on Carson's first month of life, we realize that his hospital stay coupled with our first time parent anxiety did not allow us to really relax and enjoy the initial days of parenting. This time around, we are much more relaxed and having a blast. That is not to say it's all easy, Trish still has many late night feedings to care for and we are both constantly busy with one of the two, but it is easier this time around. The beautiful weather has helped too. We are in the midst of seventy degree weather with no real end in sight, if you believe the weather people.
Annalea is now above her birth weight, which is a great thing. She weighed in at 8 lbs 8 oz on Friday and measured 21 inches long. The weight percentile was just below 50% and the length was around 70%, but none of these numbers mean much at the moment. Her belly button is legit now, no more umbilical cord scab. She has gotten into a pattern where she likes to be held all the time and if you put her down she will wake up within ten minutes. However, she appears to sleep fine if you put her down in her car seat, we'll see if that continues. Carson continues to adore his sister. I am trying to work on him that her name is Annalea and not 'baby sister', since we called her baby sister all those months of pregnancy, he still calls her that. He knows her name, but just does not use it much. By the pics, you can also see that the alert moments are more frequent. There are more pics in the flickr account, enjoy.
Here we are, about ten days into the parenting life of two kids. Surprisingly, it has gone quite smoothly. As Trish and I look back on Carson's first month of life, we realize that his hospital stay coupled with our first time parent anxiety did not allow us to really relax and enjoy the initial days of parenting. This time around, we are much more relaxed and having a blast. That is not to say it's all easy, Trish still has many late night feedings to care for and we are both constantly busy with one of the two, but it is easier this time around. The beautiful weather has helped too. We are in the midst of seventy degree weather with no real end in sight, if you believe the weather people.
Annalea is now above her birth weight, which is a great thing. She weighed in at 8 lbs 8 oz on Friday and measured 21 inches long. The weight percentile was just below 50% and the length was around 70%, but none of these numbers mean much at the moment. Her belly button is legit now, no more umbilical cord scab. She has gotten into a pattern where she likes to be held all the time and if you put her down she will wake up within ten minutes. However, she appears to sleep fine if you put her down in her car seat, we'll see if that continues. Carson continues to adore his sister. I am trying to work on him that her name is Annalea and not 'baby sister', since we called her baby sister all those months of pregnancy, he still calls her that. He knows her name, but just does not use it much. By the pics, you can also see that the alert moments are more frequent. There are more pics in the flickr account, enjoy.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Annalea
Loaded a bunch of pics into the flickr account, here are a few of the good ones. Day three of her young life is going quite well, she has lost a little weight, but nothing of concern. She did not sleep so well the first night, but did fairly well last night. Here's hoping that tonite is even better, we'll see. Aunt Christi and Papa Wayne are around for one more night and then we are on our own tomorrow.
Loaded a bunch of pics into the flickr account, here are a few of the good ones. Day three of her young life is going quite well, she has lost a little weight, but nothing of concern. She did not sleep so well the first night, but did fairly well last night. Here's hoping that tonite is even better, we'll see. Aunt Christi and Papa Wayne are around for one more night and then we are on our own tomorrow.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Annalea Grace
Today at 9:06 AM, Annalea Grace arrived in our world. Trish was amazing, no other word to describe it. After watching two childbirths I have come to the conclusion that no child has the right to say one mean word to their mom.....ever!
Annalea weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and measured 20 inches. We could not be happier.
Today at 9:06 AM, Annalea Grace arrived in our world. Trish was amazing, no other word to describe it. After watching two childbirths I have come to the conclusion that no child has the right to say one mean word to their mom.....ever!
Annalea weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and measured 20 inches. We could not be happier.
Monday, May 11, 2009
And then there were two?
Not yet, just playing the waiting game as of Monday. Trish feels like the baby could come any day now. In fact, the due date is May 23rd, but Carson arrived a week early so we feel like we are fully in the baby zone at the moment. Pics and info will be out shortly after the birth.
And no, we do not have a name yet.
Not yet, just playing the waiting game as of Monday. Trish feels like the baby could come any day now. In fact, the due date is May 23rd, but Carson arrived a week early so we feel like we are fully in the baby zone at the moment. Pics and info will be out shortly after the birth.
And no, we do not have a name yet.
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