Twins :)

Sorry, bad quality here.  It's in a picture frame.  This is Nolan at 3 months.  Kinda looks similar to Parker in the picture below, ya think?

2 Month Check-Up

Today was Parker's 2 month check-up.  He's 21 1/2" long and 9 lbs. 15 oz.  He's in the 1% for his height, 4% for his weight and 59% for his head.  :) So, he's a little on the small side, but the Dr. says he's proportionate and following the curve he needs to.  He didn't care for those nasty immunizations and cried for a few seconds and then looked me square in the face and just told me all about it in his sweet little complainer voice.  He forgave me though. 

Smiley Face

I could just stare at this face all day! His smiles and coos brighten my day.  At night, sometimes we just sit on the bed and talk to each other for a couple of hours before I decide it's time for bed.  He is so much fun.  Today we took Parker to the metabolic center for hopefully the last time.  The doctor wanted to do the enzyme test to make sure he doesn't have VLCAD.  The doctor is really kinda funny.  He's not like any other doctor I know.  He doesn't seem to ever be in a hurry to get out the door to the next patient.  He likes to explain things and make sure we understand what's going on.  He has a funny sense of humor.  We talked for a while about how in 30 years down the road, things will be so advanced to where we could pay $150, or whatever to have our whole chromosome/gene information analyzed for us, so we know which ones are mutated, etc.  Kinda funny.  As funny as he was, like he said, he is not the type of doctor we want to get to know.  :) Hopefully, the last time we'll see him.  I can't believe how well Parker did.  Again.  When they drew his blood, not a peep came out of his mouth.  He just goes with the flow.  Thursday we have to go to the regular pediatrician.  Already time for his 2 month immunizations.  Oh boy! :(

Talkin To Brother

He was starting to coo and talk to me in Relief Society today.  He's already 2 months old tomorrow.  I can't believe it. 

I Love Her Being 3!

 

She has been an angel all week. 3 must be the magic number for her. I have struggled with this girl for the past 6 months. Lots of battles over EVERYTHING.  Tantrums left and right.  When she has her mind set a certain way, there is no changing it! I had her pretty well potty trained before Parker, but the last two months she pretty much wet herself every time! Didn't even bother her! She has done so well this week.  Not perfect, but a HUGE improvement! She'll go all on her own again, which she refused to do for the last couple of months.  Sometimes I still remind her, but can't give it too much attention or I'm afraid she'll go downhill again.  She has to decide that she's ready and she can do it! Her strong personality amazes me! When she gets to talking at the dinner table or anywhere, her voice drowns out anyone elses.  I can't even explain how crazy the bedtime battles have been.  Sometimes I'm surprised that the police didn't show up at our house with how loud she would be screaming.  I consider myself a pretty patient person, but she sure knew how to test it! As long as I give her some unwinding time and snuggles, she goes to bed very well now.  I know I shouldn't hold my breath, but I am!
I still have to blog her birthday, but we got her a little nursery set for her babies.  She LOVES it! I would have loved something like that when I was her age.  She is such a sweet little mommy to her baby dolls.  She is such a good little helper with Parker too.  This week she was "babysitting" Parker while I was in the shower.  I told her if he starts crying to put the pacifier in his mouth.  I put him in his little jungle gym, play mat thingy.  When I came out, he was as happy as could be.  She had gone to get his blanket and had him all wrapped up.  So sweet.
I told Annika when she turned 3 we would get her in gymnastics like Nolan.  She's had to watch for the past 3 years and now it's her turn.  I've had to stall this last month, but now Adam's back to working 6 nights a week, so maybe starting March we'll sign her up.
The weather's been so nice lately, we've been able to get out more and more.  Annika loves the park! I think she could stay there all day and still not be ready to come home!
Remember my last major project of making those ruffled bags? I ended up having to make one more.  Well, I thought I had caught a break, but nope! Not a week later, I'm now on to making around 300-400 bows for a store.  They're just simple small ones, but this should keep me busy for the next couple of weeks.  I am so grateful to have this hobby that's not only fun and pays for itself, but is now keeping me as busy as I really am capable of being, on top of doing hair, and I'm earning a decent amount of money for trying to stay at home and take care of 3 kids at the same time.  I've really been getting a lot busier with hair appointments too in the past year! I am soooooooooooooooooooo grateful that I was able to go to cosmetology school while I was in high school so I could have this way of helping bring in $ and doing what I love to do! Not only that, but the money we've been able to save by me being able to cut Adam's and the kids hair have been so worth it! Thank you to my family for helping make that dream possible!

8 weeks old

I can't believe he's already 8 weeks old! But then again, I forget what my life was like without him! I love this little boy.  He's been giving me more and more smiles each day.  And more and more burp ups as you can see from his shirt.  :P When he gets too excited, up it comes! Whenever I heard moms tell stories about their babies sleeping through the night by 2 months, I thought they were kidding.  How could that be? Nolan was like over a year before he started sleeping through the night.  Well, this past week, I've been getting some good sleep.  At 7 weeks, he slept through the night two nights in a row.  A good 6 hours the first night and close to 7 or 8 hours the next night.  The next two nights he only woke up once and then the next night he slept another 6 hours straight.  Last night he woke up once.  Amazing! He's definitely growing.  Almost out of his newborn clothes.  :( He has incredible strength in his legs.  He just loves to stand and has been for the past month.  He holds up his head very well too.  Why does my baby want to grow up already? He needs to stay a baby forever! :)

We received some good news today.  The metabolic center called and told us Parker doesn't have 2 copies of the mutated gene, but just one copy.  So, he doesn't have VLCAD...probably.  BUT, they still want to do the bloodwork for the enzyme test to make sure of something yadayada...UGH! But, we can almost be certain that he doesn't have it. 

3 Little Angels

Close your eyes, Parker! Haha.  Maybe we'll have to try again tomorrow...