feeding time

When I sit down to nurse Everett Camille comes and sits next to me to, "feed her baby like mommy." She sits down lifts her shirt up and pushes her babies head into her. She really has never taken an interest in dolls until now. All the sudden she has a baby that goes everywhere with her and she has to sleep with it too. Baby Stella, named after one of her good friends that she has a typical love hate relationship that all 2 year olds have. Avery used to nurse her baby when I was feeding Camille. She has not done it this time. I keep waiting but so far no. Wonder if she out grew that?

Big boy

Everett's one month check up was this week. He is 10 lbs, 12 ounces. That puts him in the 75% for weight. He is 22 inches long which is in the 50%. He is doing great. MD was very pleased with everything.

Update

We are doing pretty well. Life is pretty much back to normal. We are just a family of 5 now. Camille has been a little jealous lately. I think the newness has worn off and sharing mom and dad with baby brother has set in. We are handling it though and it has not gotten that bad. Everett is not sleeping as well as he was. We had a week of him being up about every 3 hours which was a little much. He is back to doing a 5 hour stretch at night but then he follows it up with 2 hours which is hard. A normal night (for now) is him going to bed at 9 getting up at 2 and 4 to eat and then up at 7:30 for the day. For the first 4 weeks of his life he pretty much slept all day long. It was hard to keep him up. Now he is pretty much up all day. Hard to get him down to sleep a stretch of more than an hour. I took all 3 kids to the zoo the other day and he was wake the entire time. We were there from 11:30 to 4. It was a very pretty day and we had a blast. We all paid for it that night though. We were all over tired. Our other sleep problem is that Camille has hit a rough patch. She has been up at least once a night for too many nights. That is not normal for her at all. Plus the time change didn't help at all. She was up bouncing in her crib at 6 am most of the mornings this week. She has a cough at night and it wakes us all up. Can't wait for it to go away. They both still just love their baby brother though. They keep the kissing flowing and to keep them off of him is almost impossible. It's sweet but no wonder he has a stuffy nose. Breastfeeding is going great. I feel so lucky that it has been so easy. I love the time to just sit and cuddle with him. He is a very sweet baby. Camille was napping and Avery was having quiet time and I sat w him sleeping on my lap for 45 minutes. I just stared at him for most of it. Trying to memorize every sweet little feature that he has. So innocent and incredible. All too soon he will be a terrible 2's monster one minute and a 2 year old that just adores you the next. Right now he still thinks we hung the moon and I am going to relish in that as long as I can.

such love

I was feeding Everett and Camille said, "mommy hold you." I told her I was feeding her brother but to come sit next to us and cuddle. She didn't like that answer and started fussing. Av was standing behind her and said, "I'll hold you Camille." This is what came of that. SOOOOOO cute. I just love these girls so much!!!

a sleepy boy

A cute boy that was on the verge of sleeping until mommy starting snapping pics. Then he had to wake up and stretch.

Sparty

After Sparty beat Northwestern in that awesome game the weekend before halloween I was so excited for the team. My Sparty love came out and I decided I wanted to be a MSU football player for halloween. J was all for it and ordered me a MSU football jersy, socks and black things for under my eyes. Later that week we went to get football pants for me. I was very excited to wear it all. Yes I knew that they could lose to Iowa the day I had to wear it but my love for MSU is so strong that didn't bother me. What I didn't think would happen was the blow out that did. The 5 interceptions the QB threw were just icing on the cake. Of course it was the QB jersy we had ordered. Ugh. Yes I wore the outfit and yes I heard a lot of comments that night. After they lost I sent John out to the yard to mess up my white pants. Had to make it look like I had a rough night. I walked into that party and said, "Sorry we are late, coach gave me a good ass chewing. I need a beer!!" I got a lot of comments that night and had to defend my team. I love my Spartans and I will defend them proudly always. Win or lose they will always have my heart.

Halloween