Snow day

Well we got our first real snow fall on Tuesday! 10in at our house! Liam would have played in the snow all day if he could have.  He played both Tuesday and Wednesday with daddy came home! I got to join for a few minutes each time after laying brother down for a nap.  Jeff had to shovel the driveway yesterday evening because if it didn't get done we would have an ice ring until spring! Our house is in the shade in the front so nothing ever melts!! Today it's -2!!! And of course Liam wants to go play outside.  After naps I'm hoping to take him on the deck and shovel the snow off.  

Sick kiddo :(

Nothing like starting my day out at 3am with a feeding for the little guy and than going straight to comforting the big brother for 2 hours because he isn't feeling well. 1 sick toddler and a newborn is a challange to say the least.  Trying to figure out how to juggle between the two is a work in progress, but having a toddler that wants to snuggle all day and running a fever.  Poor guy.  Happy it's almost the weekend so daddy will be around to help out.  Hoping this fever & cough goes away soon.  

You know your toddler is tired and feeling crummy when you find him in your bed sleeping @ 8am! (That never happens) 

Rough nights....

I have learned over the past 18 months that being sleep deprived is now part of my life.   But when you add a newborn to the equation, man it's even Harder!!! 

Liam: 18 months

I would consider Liam a great sleeper.  Don't get me wrong we have hard nights, but as long as he is healthy and not teething than he is great! Teething that's a joke, they teeth off and on until all 20 baby teeth have erupted! So be ready new and expecting moms!! It took sleep training starting at 6 months to get him that way.  Only about 3 days with lots of tears for him and I,  after that not so bad! 

We have a bedtime routine that starts at 6:30;  stories, bottle (no judgement we are working on that), brush teeth and than bed. Bed by 7pm sometimes 6:30pm if he is ready.  He goes down awake and happy.  Most nights he will sleep until morning; 6:30-7am 

Jaxson: 7 weeks

No routine yet.  He usually goes down about 7:30pm for his first stretch of sleep.  A few times we have gone 3.5 hours, but mostly he does 2.5-3 hour stretches.  We just moved him into his own room at 6 weeks.  That is making him and us sleep much better.  He is a very noisy sleeper so I was constantly checking on him which than would disturb him.   I'm breast feeding, but actually we are having a hard time with that.  Have the supply, but he is having a hard time seeming satisfied during and after a feeding. Work in progress.  

Back to the rough 

nights! Since bringing Jaxson home, Liam has been waking up 1-2 times a night for milk or me! Jeff will try and comfort him but he wants nothing to do with Jeff in the middle of the night.  Which than makes me jumping from room to room.  So if you think about the 2.5-3 hour stretch Jaxson does and than add possible Liam time I'm getting up every 1.5 hours or so! I'm exhausted! Jeff gets up for work at 4:39am so I try really hard to not have him get up with the boys past midnight, not always possible though. 

It's a huge adjustment for the whole family!! I guess I never really appreciated sleep before. I am learning that the laundry and dishes can wait and I nap when the boys do which is usually around noon if Im lucky enough for it to be at the same time.  

So worth it regardless of how many hours I sleep! Just thankful that I get to be home with my boys everyday! 

Monday Crazies

Happy Monday.  I started mine by getting thrown up on twice while snuggling with Mr. Jaxson.  Can't complain though! We are having a Pj kind of day, that's the normal at our house now a days! Had a play date planed at our house with 6 other moms, but with a fussy Jaxson and a few of the moms with sick kids, decided to reschedule for next Monday.  I guess the plus is I got my house cleaned last night! And a shower this morning before Jeff left to take his final test.  Speaking of it will be such a huge weight off his shoulders once this test is over. Won't know his results for about 3 weeks, thinking positive for him.  It's been a huge stress ball and constant thought in our house for the past 6 months.  

 

Enjoy the start of your work week everyone! I know I'm already counting down until Friday :) 

The Move

Well family and friends I have decided to start my blog. I can't promise that I will post often to start with, but that is my goal. I always lay in bed at night or "naptime" thinking of everything that I want to post! So its TIME!

I'm not a writer so please no judging on any errors!

Our move to Kansas City, MO

Not going to lie, when Jeff told me that we were moving to Kansas City, MO it wasn't at the top of my list. Don't get me wrong I knew what I was getting myself into when I told Jeff that I was fully supported of his decision to continue onto an Oral Surgery program after graduating from Dental school @ OHSU with his DMD.  It was a conversation that we had multiple times prior to him even doing the application part to 20 diffrent programs across the country.  I guess it didn't set in as being real until actually the day we were driving away from my family with our car loaded down and the Uhaul about 3 hours ahead of us.  Jeff's grandpa Chuck was nice enough to drive it for us. As I sit in the front seat of our car, crying and waving good-bye to my family that was watching us drive away, it got real. Very real and sad. I have never lived out of Oregon or this far away from my family.  I know people do this all the time, but me, never thought I would be more than a few hours away from my sister and parents. Especially with a baby.

I actually only cried for about 45 minutes the start of the drive. I was pretty impressed, as was Jeff! It took us 2 nights, 3 days to get to our new home in Blue Springs, MO! That part I was excited about, we were HOME OWNERS! Liam did amazing. I was very worried about the long drive for him only being 11 months old. We were on a tight schedule as Jeff was starting work in one week from when we left Oregon. Jeff tried to get Liam & I to fly to MO and meet him, but I knew that if I didn't get in the car with him, I'm not sure I would have gone at all. With my crazy fear of flying and to top it with not looking forward to moving, it was very iffy! :)

We had amazing help from Becky's  family once we arrived. They had a crew of people to help us move into the house. It was wonderful, with me being pregnant and a baby crawling around, Jeff needed the help. Even if he didn't want to admit it.  Jeff started work 5 days or so after we got moved in. I had tons of time on my hands to get everything organized and cleaned. It was a good thing to keep my mind off the move and Jeff working all the time. When I say all the time, I mean 100+ hours a week. Talk about a huge adjustment for me & still is.

I could go on and on about the first few months of being in Kansas City, MO, but honestly its just sad. I had very hard days adjusting to the life without my family and friends just a drive away. Lots of tears flooded my eyes for quiet some time. I sitll have hard days, but I will get to that in a different post.

I'm going to try and think of fun weekly post to do each week, so if you have any ideas or something you really want me to write about LET ME KNOW! This blog will be a lot of VENTING with memories for everyone to be apart of our cutie-patootie boys that have made our lives wonderful!!

                                                                   Liam 11 months old!

                                                               
                                                                We have a lot of crap!

                                                        My new "home" for 6 years. 

Love & Miss you all very much!