I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Scarlett Kay: 2 Months Old





Weight and Height: 9lbs 10oz and 21 1/4 inches long

Diapers: Size 1

Clothes: 0-3 months

Eating: 6-8 times a day

Sleeping: 8-10 hours straight through

Sweet Scarlett is 2 months old!  She had a crazy month with her first Christmas and New Years!  She successfully slept entirely through both.





We're still breastfeeding strong!  I've got about 100oz stashed in the freezer for when I return to work next month if need be.  I'll probably have close to 150oz when I start back.  She eats first thing when she wakes up (0800), around 1000, 1230, 1530 and then sometimes cluster feeds in the evening.  I put her down about 8-9p and she sleeps through until about 5-6a then sleeps until about 8!  Again, we've lucked out with a great sleeper again.  My husband is convinced it's my super milk, but who really knows.  Hopefully it holds out for him when I start the night shift at work.

This month she started to smile!  I haven't been able to catch a good one on camera yet, but she has the cutest dimple on her right cheek.  No one in either of our families have dimples so it's naturally adorable.  She's started to coo at us and is very observant.  She favors laying on her right side so we're focusing her on her left and trying to strengthen that neck with plenty of tummy time during the day. 

This week we moved her upstairs but she had a bit of a low grade fever last night so back to our room until she feels better.  It's such an odd feeling having both kids upstairs sleeping.  Our room looks so much larger without the huge pack n play.  Next step is moving the rocker upstairs too once we transition big sister to her new bed. 

Scarlett naps anywhere (car seat, k'tan, ergo, swing) but doesn't nap long during the day.  She naps for maybe 45min to a hour at a time, but she's sleeping through the night so I can't complain.  She loves it when Norah talks to her.  She loves being carried around the house and is a fan of our singing voices.  She really enjoys standing up on her feet too.  Hopefully her legs get strong quick!

She is definitely the most juiciest baby we've ever had.  She is the spit up QUEEN.  Norah NEVER spit up.  Like ever.  Scarlett is such the opposite and there's no rhyme or reason to it.  So.  Much.  Laundry.  But she's cute so I guess we'll keep her.  She farts loud and proud too.  It cracks Norah up everytime she hears it. 

This next month we're going to try our first weekend away with all four of us!  Hopefully the road trip and few nights away from home go pretty smooth.  It's also my last month at home with her until I start at my new job.  We have her a spot lined up at the same daycare as big sister!  I'm so excited to go to work but I know I'll cry that first week when I leave her.  It's just so hard to leave your vulnerable little baby in the hands of others.  We can't wait to see how she changes and develops over the next month!

Pictures from this past month!










6 weeks old










2 month check up and shots





First big bath!











Monday, January 29, 2018

#Andieis30

Well the time finally came...I'm thirty years old!  It surprisingly feels great!  Honestly it doesn't feel any different than 28 or 29 but ask me in 6 months.  My awesome husband scheduled an amazing day for me.  First he let me sleep in!  Then sent me away in the afternoon for a few hours for a massage, nail appt and to a healthy new lunch place on Brookside.  It was an amazing few hours!  Then when Norah June woke up we sang and ate home made lemon blueberry cake! 








Then we got all dolled up and I mean dolled up!  Hair and nails did and a crushed velvet dress and heels!!  He took me to this semi-secret bar/steak place called Bull in the Alley.  Best steak we've ever had and definitely biggest dessert.  We sat at our booth, ate and drank for 2.5 hours and talked without interruption.  It was all I could ask for. 



Honestly I'm in such a great place in life right now that it's impossible to mope about being 30.  I have an amazing husband with whom I've built this rock hard, fun, adventurous marriage with who turns out to be the BEST father I've ever seen in real life.  I have made two beautiful children that we love watching grow, spending every day together and dragging them with us for all our adventures.  I've traveled abroad more than most have even dreamed of and done it all with my best friend.  I lived out my dream of becoming an officer in the military and cheerfully closed that chapter on my life.  I've now earned THREE college degrees (1 associates and 2 bachelors) with money left for my masters in the future.  I finally get to embark on a career that ignites my soul and I get to do it on my own terms.  Before I got pregnant with my second baby I was in the best shape of my life, at 29!  I know I'll be there again soon, and stronger at that.  I just really have zero room for regrets, saddness or take backs at this point in my life.  It all hasn't been easy or without sacrifice, tears and student loans but it's been 100% my choice and my path.  1000% worth it.

I have some big dreams these next few years and we have some hefty family goals as well to meet.  I'm so excited to see where this next decade takes me and my family.  Cheers to the best decade!

Happy 30th!! <3