November 29, 2010

Hold on to your boots, it's gonna be a long one!!

We have had SO much going on, and SO many changes lately my blog has been completely neglected.  I hate when that happens because then I have a lot I want to say and document and share and I forget half of it and the other half just gets condensed.  So Im going to just try to get it all out and not leave to much out while doing so.  :0)

What's the biggest change might you ask??  I mean I just had a baby, and I have a toddler- that's pretty big in itself so what could be bigger?  We moved to Colorado!  Yup, that was quick.  
Jason had a job interview when Lance was 3 weeks (maybe 4 weeks) old, he came up for an interview and a few days later had a job offer.  He accepted and his start date was 15 days later!!  We had to get the house on the market, and the house packed up with a toddler and an infant and move to another state in 2 weeks.  It sucked.  We hired movers to pack the PODS for us, that was such a help but a pretty penny too.  Though I know we just couldnt have done it ourselves.  Even without the kids in the picture, some of our furniture is just to heavy for just the two of to have handled.

We are staying with a friend up here until our house sells, all our stuff is packed into PODS and in storage until we can get our own place again.  We just cant afford our mortgage in NM, and rent up here.  It's just not possible.  Living with someone else without most of your things is really hard.  REALLY hard.  We have a curious, crazy toddler and an infant.  Need I say more??  Add on the fact that the friend we are staying with is a 30 year old bachelor who doesnt have kids, or any experience with kids and we're in a tight spot.  He just has such unrealistic expectations of the kids, especially Ethan.  We're working on it though and it is getting better so that is good.

Ethan is doing fantastic, no lashing out and even a transition period that I could identify.  To him it seemed like nothing changed, like we didnt move, like everything was the same.  As long as he had us and a bed and a few things he recognized, he was all good.  The kid is amazing.

Lance is doing awesome as well.  Still sleeping through the night 8-9 hours typically and happy as can be.  He is giggling now and it. is. SO. CUTE!!  He is just so dang happy it swells me with so much pride it hurts.  He's so perfect, and gorgous, and sweet, and wonderful, and... well he's everything, absolutely everything to me!  

Ethan is still doing great with Lance too, still no jealously or anything like that, he loves his bother.  He loves kissing on him and telling me what Lance is doing and trying to make him smile.  I cant believe how incrediably lucky I am.  I have two perfect sons, two perfectly happy, loving and beautiful sons.  How awesome is that?!

I wish I could share some recent pictures but I don't have anywhere to set up my computer (Im on my laptop now which doesnt have the space for uploading big picture files).  I have some cute ones of the boys and I feel the need to show off Lance's big baby blues!  Yup, his eyes are still blue and sooo beautiful.  The Dr thinks they may stay blue too just because of how they look, but we'll see.  Im hoping we can find a place to get my iMac set up so I can show off my babies but until then you'll just have to take my word for it, they are gorgous.  :0)

November 1, 2010

The second time around...

I cannot believe how much different having Lance is from having Ethan.  They are pretty much the exact same, Lance is Ethan's 'infant' spitting image.  Right down to the times Lance eats, how he acts, demeanor, temperament, everything.  Lance is JUST like Ethan was as a baby.  The only difference is Lance can latch on to breastfeed and Ethan couldn't, I had to exclusively pump for him.  
All that said, I am enjoying the babyhood of Lance SOO much more.  I'm not rushing things, I'm not wishing this time away in favor of solid foods, crawling and first words.  I'm loving every second of this and truly could not wish it away.  Even being up in the middle of the night I enjoy, I love watching him and holding him and having 'us' time.  I wish so much I didn't look forward to everything else with Ethan and would have been more in the moment with him, I'm doing that now, I'm not letting anything get away anymore.  I know the time goes way to fast and whatever is down the road will get here way to quickly and I need to enjoy the here and now because it'll be gone before I know it. 
Momma's hold your babies tight, enjoy them as they are now!  This time is gone so fast, hold on as tight as you can.