Saturday, in the Park...

I'll give you a high five if you finish the sentence in the title.
Well, we are in our new apartment, but not everything is where it should be, so I'm waiting to post pictures until I'm satisfied. Suffice it to say for now that we really like our new place and we are settling in nicely. More to come on that later.

But for now, mostly just some cute new pictures of Gwen! She is about 5 weeks old now. She's sleeping fairly well, about 4 hour stretches at night, which is better than Miles did at this point, but I'm still tired. I feel like I'm running on half speed these days. Luckily, Richie is there to compensate for my lack of ____ (fill in the blank). She started smiling on purpose at 3 weeks, so we've been enjoying some VERY cute smiles and faces over here.





The weather finally decided to be nice to us and we've had 2 beautiful days here. About 50 and no wind!! Can you believe it?? It's hard not to spend every spare second outside, but it's still a little chilly and I get worried about the little miss who still has a stuffy nose on some days. But on Saturday with Richie home, we spent plenty of time at the park. Miles was in heaven and threw a major fit when we had to come inside. We got a double stroller and I'm SO excited to use the heck out of it! Anyway, I'll have some more themed posts coming up, but for now, that's what's goin on. Hope this post finds you all well.

A Bunch of Sick-os

This past Sunday, I noticed Miles had a runny nose. No biggy right? 2 year olds always have snot coming out of their nose. But later that night, when Gwen got stuffy and my throat got itchy, I realized it was more than just a runny nose. Richie has since 'caught the fever', so we're all just...sick. Bleh. Not tremendously sick, just enough to interrupt sleep and such. Miles' cough turned croupy last night, so here's to hoping a full blown croup session doesn't start. It's the worst on Gwen in my opinion. Her poor little nose is so stuffed up. However, she's adjusted quite well to the snot sucker! The worst part is that she was such an awesome little sleeper (some nights going for 6 hours in a row!! At 3 weeks old!!) And now it's back to every 2 hours and then staying up endlessly after a feeding and rarely sleeping any way but with someone. Needless to say we're a little tired over here.





We've been in the moving process all week, so the house is a complete disaster area. We'll be all moved out and sleeping in our new apartment by Friday night. It will probably take some time for me to post pictures though since we won't have internet right off. Just FYI. And just for fun, here's some pictures of Miles with his super cool spikey hair! :)

Adjusting

Everyone's been asking how things are going around here, and all I can think of to say is that we're adjusting. :) Things are going as well as can be expected. Gwen eats and poops like a champ. We're working on the whole sleeping thing, but for being a little over a week old she does pretty darn well. I thinks she changes every day! Just when I think I've got her looks all figured out, she changes. Miles LOVES his baby sister. He always wants to hold her, cuddle her, kiss her, tells her she's ok when she cries etc. He's a good big brother. I'm not gonna lie, he's been more difficult these days, but that's part of adjusting right? Richie's on cloud nine and I feel very blessed. Although...today is the first day without any moms here and I'm a little intimidated. Of course it will be nice to get into a routine, but they were more help than they'll ever know and they will be sorely missed!! They did all sorts of wonderful and magical things like...clean the dishes after each meal, fold loads of laundry, shined shoes, mopped the floor, made sure we had delicious food to eat at every meal not just dinner, gave Gwen and Miles lots of one-on-one attention and lovin, cleaned up poop after Miles decided to stick his hands down his pants, let Richie and I run errands without 2 children or let me go to play dates with just Miles. I could go on and on. Needless to say I'm nervous to be "on my own". Here's some picture of us... adjusting. (hope you don't mind moms if I steal some of the pictures you took while you were here!)

Richie doesn't look happy at all does he?


Gwen and Grandma Garner


We've brought out all the old baby gear and Miles would like to think it's all for him. Isn't he HUGE?? Holy cow, I never realized what a big boy he was until we got baby Gwen! The bigger thing goes for his diapers too, which tempts me to potty train him sooner than later! YUCK!


First Brother/Sister Bath! Miles, being the wise, all-knowing big brother passed on the first of many choice pieces of advice to Gwen that night. "No Poopy Tub!" (He thought her umbilical cord was poop. :)


Richie's all-time favorite thing in the world. He didn't have to adjust too much to love this.


Gwen seems to be adjusting just fine! Mom caught a smile on camera!


Sweet baby girl


Gwen and Grandma Crosby


Miles in his new "Big Brother Miles" shirt! Gwen has one that says "Little Sister Gwen"


Brother Sister Cuddle Time