A rough day for Lucy

Anyone out there who has experience nursing will understand this and for those of you out there with no experience I will explain. Right now Lucy is busy building up my milk supply. This requires her to nurse almost constantly for about 24 hours. It is tiring, frustrating and exhausting work for both of us. The end result will be fine but until her goal has been achieved it will be super frustrating for both of us. Today she has spent most of the day crying or nursing. Then taking a cat nap which she wakes up from irate and seemingly inconsolable. Only I will do for her right now and a bottle isn't an option. Otherwise my body won't respond to her needs and we will start the weaning process. I think this is hitting both of us by surprise to some extent because she really didn't do this at the other times she was supposed to. Babies usually go through this 4 times. 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months. My boys hit every single one. Lucy coasted through the first two but this one is about ready to do her in. I am just praying that we will be done with this by tomorrow because multiple days of this is for the birds!

Walking in a Spring Wonderland?

What is up with the snow? I thought we were supposed to be firmly in Spring by now. At least the kids think it is fun and I suppose it is quite pretty!

Look what Lucy found!

A Thumb! A Thumb!

All my babies have sucked their thumb at one time or another. I even have ultrasound pics of Lucy sucking her thumb in my belly. She found her thumb before Zane but after Andrew comparatively. (because I know you were curious) I think that it is funny that all my kids have had a love affair with their thumb. It must just run in the family although neither Eric or I ever sucked ours. Still, I know the babies are mine when the thumb sucking starts! Now I have to remember to feed her though. She is so content with her thumb that she forgets she still needs her mommy. Trust me though, mommy's body doesn't forget!

Checkups for two

Today Lucy had her 2 month checkup and Andrew got his kindergarten booster shots. Lucy is doing great and has gained some weight. She is currently 13 pounds and 12.5 ounces. Pretty decent size but not as big as either of the boys at this point. Maybe she will be dainty after all (ha ha!) Lucy is also 24 inches long which means she should stay in this size clothes for a little bit longer. (Current size fits up to 25 inches) There were lots of shots at the visit today but they always seem to knock her out. I don't know if it is the shots and the upsetness or the Tylenol I give before hand but my kids sleep, sleep, sleep after getting shots.

Like I said, Andrew got his kindergarten boosters today. He is so goofy. He woke up this morning and came into my room and told me he was sooooooo excited to get his shots today. He was an absolute champ getting them too. He didn't even cry. I think part of his excitement was that he thought he was going to start kindergarten tomorrow. We had to explain that it wasn't until after we got done with the summer first. I think that was ok with him too. Now I just have to make an appointment for Andrew to register and we will be all set!

Curriculum Night

Tonight was curriculum night at the high school for Crystal. It was my first experience with a parent/teacher conference and it was a pleasant one over all. All Crystal's teachers had good things to say about her and more than one informed me that they didn't even have to look at the grade book, they knew she was getting an A. I took that to mean that all her hard work was paying off, including all those 1 and 2 am study sessions that she does. I don't know how she does it, I wouldn't even be able to tell someone my name if I was up that early let alone complete essay questions and multiple choice. Andrew seemed to think it was a lot of fun talking to the teachers too. I think I could have just sent him with Crystal since he did the majority of the talking. Now I just hope that my experience will be just as pleasant once my kids hit high school!

Easter Egg Fun

We dyed Easter eggs tonight. Here are Andrew and Zane's Easter egg instructions:

Step 1: Place egg in cup and stir with spoon.

Step 2: Lift egg periodically to check for color strength and vividness.

Step 3: Fall off stool and bonk head (photo not included). Have a quick snuggle with daddy and giggle while he dances to the bowm-chicka-bow-bowm song. Eggs dry in the meantime.

Step 4: Put stickers from package on eggs. Maintain very serious expression entire time. You wouldn't want anyone to think you were having fun. Scream bloody murder when anyone touches your eggs or suggests that if they were to be spun around you could put stickers on the other side.

Step 5: Show them off in great excitement.

I hope you have enjoyed Andrew and Zane's demonstration. There were no children punished or permanently injured during the recording of this event. Mommy and Daddy are glad that it only happens once a year though!

Pictures for Cale

We just found out last night that our nephew Cale got in an accident at work and lost 3 toes (yikes). The boys decided to color him pictures. Andrew took much longer to color than Zane did but they both did a good job. We are going to go and see him today at the hospital. They say he will be alright but his foot modeling days are over!