One Month

Holy moly, we are one month into our new lives with two kiddos! It is a crazy kind of wonderful. We had our son's weight checked today. At 4 weeks old he weighs 10 pounds 10 ounces! Yay! Must mean Mommy's doing something right with nursing. He has started giving Mommy (and Daddy) at 3 hour stretch of sleep at night, which has been WONDERFUL! Daddy is so very supportive of this breast feeding Mommy. He gets up with me (when I ask him to) and changes a diaper so I can get ready to feed him.
Our daughter loves being a big sister. She especially loves when her little brother's eye's are open. For the first few weeks it seemed all he did was eat and sleep. She gets so excited and says, "Look Mommy his eyes open!" She is still learning to share all of the toys. Its been fun to see her get excited about all the "baby" toys that have been put up for so long. Its been like Christmas all over again.
A few weeks ago, our daughter saw a Disney commercial on TV. It shows kids at Disney World meeting the characters. She recognized the castle right away. Mommy and Daddy told her that when her brother gets a little bigger, she would get to go to the castle. (This summer we are going to Disney World.) Oh my, she has NOT forgotten this. Every time she sees that commercial she tells us about how she will get to go to the castle and see all the princesses. Poor girl has to wait about 5 months, but oh boy is she excited! When we drive downtown and she sees the tall buildings she calls them castles. Some mornings she wakes up talking about going to the castle. I can't wait to see her reaction to seeing the castle and meeting the princesses. I'll probably cry!
For those of you that know us, you know that we thrive on a schedule and with routine. Thankfully we've managed to keep our daughter in her normal routine and we are working very hard on getting our son to blend into our existing schedule, with his own routine. I'm sure this will get easier as he starts sleeping more at night.
It "snowed" this week. Meaning we had some flurries that were visible. G was so excited! She saw the snow flurries and asked to put on her boots to make a snowball and Olaf! We've only had one measurable snow this year. I thought for sure we'd have at least one more. G would love to play in the snow. Mommy on the other hand is ready for spring. I need warmer temperatures. I'm ready to get my babies out of this house.

Mommy's best friend had a little girl 4 days before Mommy had her baby boy. We visited this week, finally! Both of these babies look like their Daddy. 

Great Grandma with my babies!

hanging out

So excited for the snow!