Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
7 Weeks old...
Rhowan wanting to help mommy garden...Little does she know mommy hates that and she'll need to go to grandmas house! LOL
Harloe 7 weeks old
Rhowan being her self! :)Wow, time flies. I feel like we are still getting adjusted and its already been 7 weeks. However, I do feel like I am starting to get into a rhythm just not for bed time or nap time...seems during those two times, the most important, both babies want mommy at the same time! TJ has been getting home earlier at night being able to help hold Harloe or put Rhowan down, but there are nights I am alone and it can turn into an hour to three hour process! Yep, one baby cries when the other is just about asleep. Harloe wants to nurse when Rhowan wants mommy to lay with her and sing twinkle, twinkle. I know we'll get there.
Oh and little Miss Rhowan has finally learned to crawl out of her bed and open her bedroom door to find mommy and daddy. Last night I went in the baby's room to turn on the night light before bed and I turn around to see Rhowan staring at me from the doorway. I said, "oh, hi, what are you doing?" I pick her up to take her back to bed and what do you know...Harloe starts crying in her bassinet! So, back to mommy and daddy's bed we go and little Miss Rhowan was a happy camper back to sleep in seconds. hmmmm, what have we created?! LOL...Oh well, can't sweat the small stuff as badly as I want her in her OWN bed and sleeping through the night, right now I just gotta focus on routine and not the details! I knew this day would come and she is now 21 months going on 5 with her chatty self and independence!
I am feeling in the need of an hour in the am or night to have some alone time, so I started setting my alarm and setting up the coffee maker to wake up and have a cup of coffee after I nurse Harloe and then waking Rhowan up at 8 so that she can have an earlier bed time then what we have fallen into (9ish, I want her back to at least 8 o' clock!) So like I said, we are getting there. Things were so crazy and hectic that it's time to start slowing down, staying at home more to prepare for earlier bedtimes and start enjoying my two babies because before I know it they will be in school!
So...Harloe is now 7 weeks old and already so strong. She is wanting to lift her head up for longer periods of time then what she realizes she can, I guess I have another curious one that wants to know and see all that is going on around her. :) She is already kicking those legs like crazy when I am holding her to push herself up when on my chest. She has already transitioned so well to taking a bottle of my milk to nursing and back and forth when mommy needs a mini break! She is just such a good baby. Still sleeping more in the day than night, but that is ok. She has started to sleep from like 11-4:30 am these past few nights (in her bassinet), so that has been amazing!!!! I feel so bad for that typical 2nd baby stuff that everyone comments on: how we let them fuss longer, hold them less, etc. I have so much guilt but can't help it because Rhowan keeps me so busy during the day. When it was just Rhowan I could hold her all day and God forbid I heard a peep I went running. I guess that just means Harloe will be a much better self soother! :)
Sadly, we had to give our dog Jada back to the breeder for a better home. I just couldn't walk her like I used to or give her the attention she needed once Rhowan came. Now with two I needed our backyard back so Rhowan could play with her set up back there and she was deadly scared of Jada and Jada was so hyper she would jump on everyone not being good for having little ones running around out there. It was very difficult (thank you mom and dad for taking her) but I know in the end she will be happier and Rhowan is already loving her backyard: her slide, her fishie pool, her jump house and even wants to help mommy get the back yard in shape with gardening (as you can see in the pictures I've posted!) It has been really nice just sitting out there so Rhowan can play or leaving the door open and being able to see Rhowan out there playing and having fun. Cheap and easy entertainment and Rhowan LOVES to be outside.
I have decided to take the extended 6 week disability for bonding time, being I am still feeling very unsettled and not ready to go back to working. I am not going to stress about anything right now but focusing on my family and being a good mommy and will worry about it when this 6 week is up again! :) TJ is very supportive, having loved that I was working and we had two nice incomes coming in to do all the extras we wanted and never having to worry about money like we used to but just enjoying our time and doing what we wanted when we wanted (to a certain degree of course!), but to me it is more important to raise our children and be here for them than daycare raising them. With TJ gone so much for work, he is a work horse, I feel like I need to be there for them that much more, you know? I can go back to work when they are in school, we can stand to be on a tight budget and one income again for at least another 4 years! That is unless we decide on more kids???? That's for another blog later! LOL.
Well until next time that is about all the updates I can think of for now, so I hope this finds all of you in great health and happiness and keep checking for updates on our growing two little babies! :)
Much love,
The Bruce's
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