2 months

My sweet Pyper girl, yesterday you were two months old. Where have the last two months gone? I feel like it should just be two weeks! You have brought so many smiles and lots of joy to our family! 

2 months old today!

At 2 months you are sleeping through the night. You go to bed at about 10:30 or 11 and sleep till about 6:30 or 7. We are fixing to start pushing your bedtime back and putting you in your own room soon. I've waited as long as I could but seeing as how I will start back to work next month it would be wonderful it we could get you sleep trained soon. Your brother started going to bed on his on at 2 months and sleeping from 8 to 8 so we will see what you do. 

Just waiting to go to church!

You are such a little snuggler, I LOVE It! What I love even more is that you only want to snuggle with me! Sometimes you will just cry until I pick you up and lay you down next to me, then you nestle your head down into my neck and fall right to sleep. If I move just an inch you move with me. I just love it! 

Not sleepy!

You love your Daddy but you're still not a Daddy's girl yet. If you are upset I'm just about the only one that can get you calmed down. There have been many of nights I've been reading to your brother and you cry and cry for your Daddy and as soon as I come pick you up you stop crying and go right to sleep. This really frustrates your Daddy haha! Again, it makes Mommy feel good to know you already love me so much!

You are in a size 1 diaper and eating about 3 to 3 1/2 ounces every 4 hours. Sadly, we stopped breast feeding and pumping at the beginning of this month. As much as I loved it, you were getting more fond of the bottle and it was getting harder and harder to nurse. And about the time I would sit down to pump your brother would need something or you would start crying. You got a good 6 or 7 weeks. I felt so guilty that first week but I had to remind myself you got the important stuff. 

Brother wanted to hold you while Mommy got ready!

You love your swing. If you are really tired we just lay you in it and turn it on and you're as happy as can be! You are loving your play-mat more and more. You have started trying to bat at the toys hanging off of it.

Not sure what's going on here!

You smiled at me for the first time on June 27th and I've looked forward to those sweet smiles everyday since. You're the happiest in the morning so we get a lot of those cute smiles then! Just this past week you have really started cooing and trying to talk to use. It is the sweetest sound. 

My happy girl!

You still hate tummy time. Some days you just refuse to lift your head up at all so I have to help you out. We cheat some and lay you on your boppy pillow which seems to help. I set you up in my lap a lot and you will hold your head up more that way. 

Fell asleep watching cars with Wade while he recoups from surgery!

You LOVE your brother and he loves you. You like for him to lay in the floor and talk to you. Lots of times he so sweetly grabs your hand in the car and holds it the whole car ride. It is the sweetest thing. 

Sweet brother, holding your hand!

You eyes are staying blue, we really thought as dark as they were that they may change to brown but they haven't. Your hair is starting to lighten up just a little. You haven't lost any of it but you haven't grown any more either. 

Me and my girl ready for church!

We love you so much Pyper girl! This is all going by too fast for Mommy! As sad as I am that you are getting so big, I love each new phase we encounter and look forward to all the new things you are learning. We can not even begin to tell you how much joy you bring to our little family. We can't wait to see what this month holds! We love you baby girl!!

Sweet Sleeper

Surgery

This sweet boy is having his first surgery tomorrow. At 7:00 am tomorrow he will be having his tonsils and adenoids removed and tubes put in his ears. 
 

Poor baby has always battled ear infections. He got his first one at about 6 months, I remember it was right after he started getting teeth. I had several people tell me their kids started getting sick once they began teething. The ear infections weren't too bad a first. The would clear up quickly and stay gone for a few months. This past winter though they began to get more frequent. The doctor felt like it could be the cool winter months playing a role so she wanted us to wait it out till the spring. Well, Spring rolled around and the got worse. Since February, we have been to the doctor with ear infections, strep, tonsillitis and most of the time a combination of ear infections and tonsillitis at least once every 6 weeks. That's A LOT!!!!
 
Needless to say, Wade is tired of taking medicine, to the point that he just won't take it anymore, which means we have had to start asking for shots, which breaks this Momma's heart. 
 
So Monday, we saw an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. They did a test check the movement of his ear drum which showed NONE! Meaning, there is a lot of fluid built up behind there. They also checked his hearing which was delayed and below average. They felt like it wasn't permanent and would be 100% once they got the fluid drained off. They said everything he hears right now is very muffled and probably distorted a little. Which would explain his delayed speech. He is talking but it took him a little bit to really get going on it and he seems to have trouble with some beginning and ending sounds. I know he can't hear an F sound because he calls a fox a "box". So hopefully, with improved hearing will come improved speech. Don't get me wrong 90% of the time people can understand what he is saying but the other 10% of the time people look to me for translation. 
 

Dr. S took one look at his records and ears and throat and decided the sooner we could get all this taken care of the better. He actually wanted to do the surgery yesterday but seeing as how that was two days after we saw him we thought Friday would give us enough time to get things ready and in order. 

We just hope this keeps him well and improves his health all around. We have to be at the hospital at 6:00 AM in the morning. Miss Pyper is going to stay with her Nonnie and Papaw for a few hours this evening while Brody and I take Wade to dinner and to a little amusement park for a little fun. We also have to tried to explain to him what will happen tomorrow and why, that is probably going to be the hard part. 
 

Please lift our baby boy up in prayer in the morning, and this Momma! It's hard enough seeing your babies get poked at the doctors office but to have to start an IV and put them under is going to be hard.  

What we've been up to (hodge podge post)

I've had good intentions to blog but life has just been a little too busy around here the last few weeks to do so! Here is what we've been up to! 

We've built forts to watch our movies under and eat our snacks!

 We've had many a lazy mornings in our pjs just loving on each other!

Sweet brother and sister love!

 We've gone to church on Sundays! Have I mentioned we LOVE our church and church family!

Pretty girl, all ready for church!

 We've been swimming! Wade is such a little fish! He is fearless when it comes to the water. Now I just need to get him to swim lessons!

Sister just shade bathing in her swimsuit!

Our little fish!

 We spent the fourth with our family and friends! We swam that afternoon and then had Brody's parents and sister and brother-in-law over for a cook out and fireworks! The cousins have SO much fun together!

pretty!

Our little firecrackers!

 On the fifth we loaded back up and headed back to Grammy and Poppy's for the weekend! We took Wade to the rode which, he loved!

Headed to Grammy and Poppy's!

Popcorn, Juice, and a movie! That's how you travel!

 This week I decided it was time to get in gear and start working on my room at school! It's coming together little by little!

Mommy's school helper!

Some of my cute Mary Engelbreit border!

 Wade loved this kitten at Miss Aaron's house! He wanted to take her home!

"here kitty, have some chips!"

Baby girl started smiling a few weeks back! LOVE that sweet grin! 

 

 

 

And wade helped Brody mow a few weeks ago! He wanted to be just like his Daddy, right down to the shirt off, sunglasses on and a pair of flips!. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wade helping Daddy mow!