Busy weekend!

This past weekend was filled with Fun.  Peggy came down to babysit and Dave and I got to go out to dinner with Gary and Emily.  We always have fun when we are with them and are looking forward to our mini vacation with them in Baltimore this November for the USMC ball. 

Sunday we all visited the festival at Shakertown.  Brody was excited to see all the animals and loved playing on their obstacle course, and eating special treats from Grandma

Jett's 6 month Photos

This weekend we had photos taken to celebrate Jett's 1/2 Birthday. I can't even believe it has been 6 months already. Time is flying by so much faster with him than it did with Brody. 

We met at Camp Ernst Park to have them taken. Jett cooperated pretty well and we got a few really good photos that I believe capture his adorable smile. Brody ran around like a crazy kid but Leina was able to get some cute pictures of him too, which I will count those  as his 3 yr pictures. We tried to get one of them both but Brody wouldn't really cooperate and Jett eventually was over it. 

Jett at six months is still having belly issues and isn't taking to solid foods well yet. We will try again in a few weeks. He is getting up on all fours but hasn't figured out how to crawl. He sits pretty well unassisted, and has said his first word with meaning....."mama!"  He usually says it when he sees me walk into a room or when he wants to nurse. It's super cute. He still doesn't sleep well consistently and wakes most mornings around 4:30-5. We are trying a few things in efforts to get him to sleep in a bit more but we haven't seen it work to well yet.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game!!

Last weekend was Brody's first MLB game.  I knew this was something my Dad had been looking forward to for along time.  Dave even kept Jett so we all could give Brody our full attention.  Brody got the full experience.  We started by walking across the singing bridge, and through Smale Park.  We walked through the gates, Brody received a Pete Rose bobble head and we found our seats.  He sampled all the traditional baseball game foods and told us his favorite was the peanuts.  He didn't quite care about the game but what 2 year old really would.  It was definitely nostalgic for us as we all remember going to the games when I was a little girl. 

Little get away to Loisville

Currently Dave and I are driving home from our day and a half get a way from the kids. We started the day off yesterday by leaving early in the morning for Charlestown, In. I surprised Dave with tickets to play with tiger cubs. I had seen pictures/videos of a friend who went to this event and was super excited to try it for ourselves. The tiger cubs were 16 weeks old and very playful. We hung out in a room with about 40 other people while 4 tiger cubs jumped, pounced, and played with toys all around us. At one point one was laying on top of me playing tug a war with a flip flop. It was awesome but a little unnerving all at the same time. Unfortunately I also found out I am very allergic to tigers. Lol. We left, and headed to rite aid to get some Benadryl for me and went directly to our hotel in Louisville so I could shower and change clothes.

After showering Dave and I checked out a few breweries downtown Louisville. It was so nice to just get to sit and talk and to be on our own time schedule. We decided to do an early dinner at Doc Crows. I had the shrimp and grits which were unbelievable and Dave had a bbq plate that he thought was good but nothing special. I guess it was a mixture of one to many beers and total exhaustion because after dinner (around 6pm) we headed back to the hotel where I proceeded to fall asleep on the couch. Dave ended up carrying me to bed around 7 and he had to stay up by himself watching tv. When I finally got up it was 9:30am and I felt GREAT. I did feel bad that out night out together consisted of Dave sitting alone while I slept but I think I really needed the rest. Two kids is hard and I love him dearly but Jett is so difficult. He requires constant interaction and attention, and doesn't sleep at night. Hopefully this will improve soon, because it is exhausting. 

Dave and I really would like to get away like this more often but it's hard to find childcare. Plus I feel bad asking someone to come keep the kids when I know they are signing up for a sleepless night.  We do have a mini vacation planned in November for the USMC ball, which we are looking forward too.

Welcome Home Daddy

The last 3 weeks have been hard.  Dave has been in Hawaii with the Marine Corps fulfilling his reservist requirements.  I dreaded this period of time and didn't know how I would make it trying to care for two kids by myself.  It hasn't been easy but we made it!!!  Brody, and I were so excited for Dave to come home that we made him a Welcome Home poster and decided we would surprise him at the airport.  This is no small feat with with two little ones around bedtime but we made it there in time.  We strolled through the ticketing area waiting for his plane to land and when it did we hurried over to the area Dave would be coming down the stairs.  Brody was jumping around waving his poster and saying, "Is that Daddy?, NOooo."  Then all of the sudden, of course, in true toddler fashion Brody had to pee.  We hurried in the bathroom, Brody successfully touched every germy surface and peed in the potty.  I barely washed his hands in fear that we would miss Dave coming down the stairs.  We hurried back to our post and anxiously waited.  Once it had been 15 min or so and there had been no more people coming to the baggage claim area I called Dave and asked if his plane landed.... I knew it had but I didn't want to let him know we were there.. His reply was, "yes it did about 15 min ago.  I am almost home I grabbed a cab."  For lack of a better term I was PISSED.  I couldn't believe he grabbed a cab, we always pick him up at the airport.  I told him where we were and demanded that he turn around but he didn't want to do that.  Brody melted onto the airport floor when I told him we had to leave.  He just didn't understand that we had missed him.  He was so excited to see his Daddy and he thought we were leaving him there.  Looking back this is kinda funny now but I still shake my head and can't believe it all went down the way it did.

 

Starting Solids

Last weekend I decided to go ahead and try solids with Jett. He had become very interested in our food and even screamed at us while we are like he was trying to say, "give me some!"

Officially starting solids with him was kind of a spur of the moment decision. We were at Wallace Station in Midway with my parents and I let Jett gum some pieces of soggy bread from my Hot Brown sandwich. He LOVED it. 

The next day we went with a more baby friendly food....bananas. I let him self limit his intake by just smashing some bananas on his tray. He would smash his hand in them and eat them all over his face in an attempt to get them in his mouth. All seamed to be going well until the next day. Jett became very constipated, had terrible gas and had belly pain. I finally gave him a suppository and he pooped but we held off on anymore food until his bowels were back to his normal (which isn't very normal). Once he seamed to fully recover we tried peaches. Unfortunately this resulted in him screaming for hours in the middle of the night. The only way I was able to get him to stop screaming was to walk around the back porch. I felt terrible for him. He was obviously in pain and nothing I did helped him. He wouldn't even nurse. He just arched his back and screamed. I was never not able to comfort Brody and wish I knew what Jett needed or how to help him but he is more challenging to figure out.  For now we are shelving solid food. It was so traumatic I am not sure I ever want to try it again. Maybe I'll nurse him forever. (Joking). I am at least going to give it a few more months, and I plan on talking to his pediatrician about it in a few weeks. Hopefully she will have some insight.

Naked in the Library

So I'm just now getting around to writing about this but Brody had a pretty funny moment with Sara last week. 

Sara, Brody, Jett and Papaw were at the library getting books for the week. Jett was in need of a diaper change so Sara asked her dad to watch Brody while she went to the bathroom to change Jett. Brody must have been listening and after Sara left to change Jett he decided he wanted to go to the bathroom too. He darted away from Papaw and while searching for the bathroom he ditched his flip flops, shorts and underwear. When Sara exited the bathroom she found a certain little red head running through the library naked from the waist down. Luckily when she found him he hadn't pooped but who knows if there was a little puddle of pee somewhere. They quickly got him dressed and high tailed it out of there. I only wish I could have been one of the other parents in the library watching this all unfold.