Getting in the Swing of Things

This kid.  He is very vocal about his dislikes in the world.  He doesn't like getting his diaper changed, clothes changed, being bathed or being set down....but one thing he does like are walks in the front carrier with his mama.  He's wide-eyed and calm for our 1 mile strolls around the neighborhood, or as Evangeline likes to call it, the big O.  One of my favorite things to do in the whole wide world is to take walks with my babies. 

 

Nights are still challenging, but we are getting used to it.  It's not quite as painful as it was a few weeks ago.  As I mentioned, he does not like to be put down.  So it usually goes like this....I go to bed around 8, or shortly after Evangeline does.  Kyle stays up until about 1:00 or so, then comes to get me.  I feed him off and on pretty much the rest of the night out on the couch until around 5:00 or 6:00, then Kyle relieves me so that I can lay in an actual bed for an hour or so before it's time to get Evangeline ready for school.   I'm a very grouchy zombie with a sore neck and back each day, but I try to look at it this way, I'm getting lots of snuggles and cuddles in with my newborn in this time of his life that changes in the blink of an eye. 

We visited Granny one day last week and she enjoyed holding him for a few minutes. 

Evangeline had a half day last week.  The stars aligned and both kids took a nap at the same time.  I got a good hour of speed cleaning in, which was much needed. 

This is Evangeline before school.  She's so stylish, let me tell ya.  She loves to wear her shades to school.  Mrs. Crumrin told me that one day last week she looked up from Heggerty (a phonics program we do with all the kids on the rug) and there was Evangeline just a sittin' there with her big pink sunglasses on.  Mrs. Crumrin told me she had to hold the giggles in because it was so cute.  So I've had to remind her a few times that she can take her sunglasses, but she can only wear them at recess....What a stinker.

Oh Jed,  you are one persnickety little feller.  He does everything loud...eats loud, burps loud, toots loud, cries loud....he's all boy.  He can't get enough to eat.  I am nursing this little dude anywhere between every 2 hours to every 45 minutes.  It's his favorite thing to do.  He's so animated about it too, grunting....cooing....kicking.  I fear there will be no discrete nursing in public places under his little nursing apron.  He will let the whole world know what's going on. 

 

Evangeline's been a little boy crazy lately.  I'm not sure I'm ready for this.  She claims to have not one, but two boyfriends.  She told me she likes the handsome boyfriends.  Shane is the name of one of these boys.  Kyle asked her what Shane was like and what kinds of things he was in to.  She told him, "he likes boy things, probably likes the color blue".   The kids got sorted into their reading groups this week.  Evangeline told me that she is in the same reading group with this little Shane guy.  She said that when Mrs. Crumrin announced that they will be in the same reading group her "heart started thumping a little faster".  Oh brother.  At least she's not at all shy about talking boys with us.  I hope it stays like that. 

 

Evangeline still loves sleeping in her old fashioned nightgown.  Many times her nightgown paired with the stocking cap I knitted her years ago.  It hangs way down in the back and kind of resembles the nightcap that Ebenezer Scrooge wears.  It just cracks me up at night when she comes stumbling into our bedroom in the middle of the night with this get-up on.  The below pictures are her eating breakfast in the morning before changing for school. 

 

We had an appointment last Friday in Urbana to see an orthopedic surgeon about Jed's lip tie.  We got so many different opinions from so many doctors, we ultimately decided not to do anything at this point. 

 

Oh my goodness....these two little people.....I'm so richly blessed.