Time's winding down...

Well, I officially have 2 days left of my maternity leave...BOO!!! I know I'm going to be a MESS come Monday, but I know I will make it. I've been preparing myself all throughout my maternity leave...and besides it's only 6 weeks til summer vacation! YEAH!!! I am kind of eager in a way to get back to school and see my students...when I went in to visit last week they have all come such a long way...they were using the words they knew in Spanish and trying to form sentences...it was GREAT! I just hope the last 6 weeks goes by quickly and that we don't have too many problems along the way! I also hope that I will be able to make it up on time to get Kyler and myself ready to go into Muskegon...I've been practicing all along so I should be able to do it...guess we'll see come Monday! Well It's only 9:30 and I am already exhausted...Guess I better head to bed now so that I can get some good sleep in these last couple days...oh and by the way, we have Kyler's baptism this coming Sunday at our church...that's another thing that I've been trying to get together and have been stressing about. Well, I guess it's goodnight for now.

and the Routines continue

So in my last post I was a bit frustrated...and am still a little frustrated, but things are getting better. We have successfully finished our second full week of our bedtime routine starting at 7pm with a bath, stories and singing around 7:30 and then in bed no later than 8:15 and asleep for the night. I'm still a bit frustrated about the fact that Kyler is NOT consistently taking long naps, but I've tried to keep a watchful eye as to his attitude throughout the day and he seems to be quite content...so I've come to accept the fact that maybe he's just a catnapper...which I guess is ok, it just means less sleep for me! In the beginning (like when Kyler came home from the hospital) I was doing a lot of sleeping when he was and catching up on my sleep...now even though I'm getting consistently 6 hours of good solid sleep at night (Kyler's sleeping about 8 at night now) I can't seem to feel well rested. Maybe that's because I haven't gotten into a good habit of getting myself out of bed in the mornings yet...but that will start tomorrow. Although I think it will be somewhat challenging, I think I can do it. I'm going to set my alarm tomorrow and do a trial week run for when I have to go back to school (which is coming up mighty quickly! boo!) I am pretty confident that I can get up, it's just a matter of keeping going throughout the day so that I don't just sit on the couch and fall asleep. I hope with some exercise and good meals I can make it to Friday, and still have enough energy to do my Bible study and get dinners ready this week. If I can't manage this week to make it to Friday night without napping, I don't know what I'm going to do come the following week when I have to go back to school. I feel more and more confident with Kyler's schedule as each day passes and I know things will get even more easy as the days go by, I just can't help but wonder how we'll get through it all. Once I do go back to school I know too that I only have 6 weeks of school left before summer...which I can totally handle...so....here's to a good week of goal setting and routine running and practice schedules. I know we'll make it.

GRRRR

Well, for the most part my baby is doing GREAT! We went to the Dr. on Monday and had his 2 month appointment...he weighed 12 lbs 7 oz. and was 24 in. long. He's in the 75th percentile for weight and 90th for height...holy cow! We also had shots which Kyler didn't enjoy and actually cried real tears for the first time that I've seen...Everything went great but Im kinda annoyed that I didn't get all my questions fully answered and feel kinda dumb calling the office back to talk to a nurse. I have been noticing that Kyler does NOT like to take naps lately. Mainly he falls asleep on my chest but as soon as I lay him down he wakes up and then wants to eat...crazy. Before we went to the Dr. Kyler was on somewhat of a little routine...he was eating at 4:30am, 7:00, 11, 2, 4:30, 7 and then all of a sudden it changed and now he's still sleeping at night, but his bedtime has gone back to 9pm til 6am (9hours of sleep...great for at night I know...but I wish he'd sleep some during the day!) and now while he's awake during the day he's eating almost every 2 hours. I don't know if I should just leave it as is and let him be...it's just frustrating as the time for me to go back to work is approaching (2 more weeks!ahhh). I hope even if Kyler decides he needs to wake up in the middle of the night that his days work themselves out and he can at least go 3 hours between feedings...every 2 hours is kinda crazy...although I suppose he could be going through a growth spurt...We'll see I guess. Anyways, that's my news/venting for now. I have to get busy on my Daniel Bible study lessons...I kinda took a week off since we had Spring break...now I gotta get back into the routine...hopefully Kyler will get into one with me!

Nathan, I'm proud of you!

Tonight (well actually the entire day...) Saturday April 4th, 2009 I am saying way to go Nathan! I had planned at the beginning of the week to head to Chicago with my parents to go and look at houses with my brother, however changed my mind since the drive would have been probably too much for Kyler. I had planned to give Nathan the time all day on Saturday to work on his homework/project for school...well, anyways, when I decided NOT to go to Chicago, I decided to go and get Kyler's pictures taken at Sears instead for his 2 months pictures. I had told Nathan about it on Friday night (after having dinner with friends) that I had planned to go the following morning to get Kyler's pictures taken. Nathan was like, oh, when did you decide to do this...I was like, well just yesterday actually. Nathan then decided to come with us to be in the pictures too. They turned out ok, but I think I could have done just as good on my own, but this way we were ALL in the pictures and we ordered prints for gifts too. After tking pictures, we headed home for lunch and so Nathan could work on his school stuff. Around 5 we started thinking about what we were going to have for dinner...Nathan wanted Chipotle so I said ok, I would go to Target and then on my way home stop at Chipotle and get him something. Well when we went upstairs and saw what a nice day it was outside, we decided to take a small walk. We did that and when we got home I was going to go get dinner for Nathan. Well, instead of having to take Kyler with me, Nathan told me to go ahead and he would stay with Kyler. I said are you sure and he was like yes. Go. We'll be fine here. I said ok, well call me if you need anything and I left. Not only did Nathan make it on his own while I was gone, he did GREAT! Kyler (although Nathan says he was fussing the whole time) seemed fine to me when I got home. I am so proud of nathan today that he took Kyler...he also helped give Kyler a bath even though he had lots of homework to finish...I love Nathan so much and I KNOW Kyler does too! The 2 will get along GREAT in the coming years...I can't wait to see the 2 grow up more together! For now, I've gotta get going to bed...it's almost midnight! ahh Here's a picture of the 2 of my boys...both rooting for MSU! YEAH! Go Green!


Go GREEN!

2 month pictures at Sears

well, Kyler is 2 months old on Monday...which also means shots..boo...but I decided that since I didn't get infant pics like I wanted to, I'd get 2 month pics done at Sears. I thought I was going to make out with a GREAT deal, but 150 some dollars later, I've got 2 month pictures of Kyler...Oh well. He's my first and I'm gonna spoil him! For his next photos I'm taking them at home...I think I could do just about as good a job as this lady at Sears did...anyways, here are some pics of him from the shoot! Enjoy!