January 2011

This month was pretty uneventful for us. We had a new sitter start and Gavin loves her. She is our friends, friends mother and Gavin learns a lot during the days she comes to our house. Indie stays with me in my office at this point because most of the time she sleeps, although I do know that will be changing soon.

Gavin has his ups and downs adjusting to life with a sibling and less attention on him. He is doing great though and just needs a little more love sometimes as well as a few more time outs. Mom and dad need more date nights and we are working on getting some set up so we can feel normal again.

Indie is growing like a weed of course. She weighs 14 lbs. I had to weigh her twice because I didn't believe it. She is 11 weeks old, so that puts her in the 95 percentile for her age. She is tall as well. I am not sure if this trend is temporary or if she got her genes from Ian's side of the family because my family are all munchkins lol.

Milestones:
Gavin - he can carry on a conversation with you, he is very smart, he never pees his pants or has accidents and he loves to learn. He also loves Dora and Diego, which is great because he spends a lot of time with them these days.

Indie - you would never guess she is 2 months old (almost 3 months). She can pick up her head, move it around, shake a rattle, jump a little in the johnny jump up and can sit up with assistance. She is very strong and very motivated to move around and do new things. She loves watching her brother and that seems to keep her entertained.

Here are some recent pictures

Starting Fresh for New Years - 1/1/2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 is here!

I have decided that my new years resolution is to start fresh with the blogging and do a great job with it for the sake of my children to one day read it in a book format and for my family and friends who want to know what is happening with our family. So cheers to the New Year and a new beginning with actually documenting our busy life! Sarah Mixon and Amy Weber - you are my family blogging inspirations :) Please keep me in check.

Our life:

Indie is now 8 weeks old and her schedule is still very unpredictable, however we are getitng better at managing her needs. We are hoping to get her on a schedule soon so we can feel like our lives are not so crazy.

Gavin is almost 3 and talks like a normal child now instead of with a strange inflection on the wrong syllables. He now says "who" instead of "whoewew". He is very good with his new little sister and always gives her kisses. So many kisses that we have been restricting his over loving :) He is a good kid, very honest and giving, however right now he is feeling attention deprived and is throwing more tantrums than usual. He spends a lot of time in time out. We are trying to curb him of the 0-60 crying fits that come out of no where. Gavin talks in full sentences and you can actually hold an entier conversation with him. There isn't much he doesn't understand or doesn't comprehend. He is very smart and very athletic. He can hit a baseball out of the air, golf, play tennis, basketball.. you name it, he enjoys doing it. He is newly into his roller skates he got from Santa.

We are trying to manage with me back at work and 2 kids at home. We have our friend Amy watching Gavin 2 days a week and a new sitter/nanny coming into the house 2 days a week. Fridays we figure we will manage on our own, possibly switching our work schedules to accomodate. We haven't figured it all out yet, and I am sure when we do, life will change again and we will have to re-figure it out. I am starting to realize that there are no permanent solutions, only temporary ones. Never get to comfortable because things will change again.

Being parents of 2 is harder in some ways and easier in others. Its much busier and time management is KEY. But this time you go into it knowing what to expect. You have already been broken down, already know you aren't going out, that you won't sleep much, your house will be a mess and that little tiny babies take up way more of your time than you could have ever imagined. Nursing and pumping rules your life and you just know to expect to spend 5 hours a day doing one or the other, if not longer. So I have to say although its much busier with two, already being parents makes a big difference.

I will leave you with a picture of Indie and Gavin