More Pics and Less Time

This post will have few words, since I'm having a bit harder time these past few days finding time to get things done.  Reid has not been quite as content as he used to be.  He loves to be held and I'm not able to do much when he's not sleeping.  He hasn't been a big fan of sleeping this week, either.  He's up about 3-4 times a night (every 2-3 hours) and takes maybe one good nap a day.  The others are really short.  He is a piggy-piggy and loves to eat.  At his 2 week appointment he had already gained over a pound and grown and inch and a half.  Or maybe they just measured his length wrong in the hospital.  :)  Here he is snuggling with Mommy after his circumcision last week...

Here are the big boys having fun in a box...

Baby wanting to eat instead of getting a bath...

Jackson just loves Reid.  When he sees Reid, he almost always says, "Oh, wook at Baby Reid!  He's so cute!  I kiss him?"  Here they are hanging out together in the early morning...

 

Mini photo shoot with Reid and Jackson...

Jackson's saying here, "Wook at his tiny fingers!"  He loves Reid's tiny fingers...

Now it's Emmett's turn to try taking pics with his little brother...

 Here I said, "Hold on to him, Emmett!"  This photo shoot was obviously very short-lived...

Phil and I just love the funny faces that newborns make.  Here's a series of pictures I took of Reid.  We thought his expressions were so great!

The Days Are Long, But the Weeks Fly By

I heard someone say that one time about life with young kids and it's totally true for me.  I feel like the days are never-ending sometimes, but then I stop at times and think, "How have two weeks gone by already??"  Phil is back at work today and the boys and I are on our own! He left me a sweet note of encouragement on the microwave this morning and so far things have been going okay. I've managed to fix breakfast, do some laundry, and unload and reload the dishwasher.  And I got Reid to take a nap in his crib, so I was able to spend some time building puzzles and reading with J and E.  Now I just have to make it through lunch and few hours after naps and the day will have been a success!  We still have dinners coming from our kind friends in the squadron and that is such a huge help.  I have to say that the hardest thing about having this baby so far is keeping the older boys entertained while trying to keep the baby at home and out of the yucky weather.  Here are some things we've been doing... 

I only have one picture of Reid this post... I promise to take and post more soon.  He was sleeping like this the other day and I thought he looked like an orchestra conductor...

Jackson's "new" bike totally fell apart the other day.  He was riding it down the sidewalk and had turned around to come home when he started yelling for us to come help him.  I thought he was just stuck in a flower bed or something but then I saw him pedaling furiously and not going anywhere.  The chain had fallen off its track and bolts and ball bearings (sp?) were all over the ground.  Phil looked at it and determined it was not able to be saved.  We had bought it around Christmastime and, of course, didn't have the receipt anymore, so we just had to chuck the bike and buy a new one.  This time Phil took J to a real bike store in town and bought a bigger, better quality bike.  It fits Jackson much better (we actually thought the old one was a little too small) and should last for a long time (hopefully through at least two boys!).  Here's the proud big boy with his new bike...

Didn't the groundhog say it was supposed to be an early spring this year??  Where the heck is it??  It cannot come soon enough for me!  We keep talking to Jackson about fun things we're going to do this summer and he asks every morning if it's summer yet.  I wake up hoping for summer every morning, too!

More Reid Pictures :)

I'm finding it hard to put this baby down! I just want to hold him all the time and soak in his smell and newborn snuggliness.  I'm really trying to savor every moment with him since this is our last baby.  He really is such a sweet, good baby so far!  We're still working on getting nighttime sleep down, but other than that he's been really easy so far.  He has started going back to sleep at night after I feed him and lay him back down in the crib, but he's been waking up again after about an hour or so.  Although last night he did sleep for a two-hour stretch at one point!  Phil sleeps at the beginning of the night, and then gets up around 4 or 5 to let me sleep for a little bit.  I'm really hoping we can get Reid to sleep in bigger chunks at night before Phil goes back to work next week.  Here are a few more pictures of Reid...

He has such long, skinny feet and toes.  He curls them up all the time like this.  The doctor said they were probably curled up like that in my belly and that they'll straighten out over time.  They're so cute!

Jackson just loves him.  He always comments on how cute Reid is and how little his fingers and toes are.  

Here's J with his "my-noculars" searching for animals to rescue (just like Diego)...

And here's a quick shot of Emmett... always on the move!

Oh, those baby feet!!  I'm obsessed...

Poor Phil... he went to Australia when Jackson was about 15 months old and bought this little hat for him.  Unfortunately, he way underestimated the size of Jackson's head and the hat did not even come close to fitting.  We forgot about it when Emmett was born and by the time we remembered it didn't fit Emmett, either.  Phil remembered the hat just the other day, right after we came home with Reid and was excited to try it on him... sure it would fit this time.  It doesn't!!  It's still too small!  We had a good little laugh over it.  

And lastly, here's a way overdue picture of Jackson with his "mailbox" that he made at school to collect his valentines.   And my pain pills in the other hand.  :)