27 February 2014

Family of four

2:54 PM Carlie: Amelia, family, henry, motherhood No comments

The past few weeks have been a crazy stir of emotions as we adjust to being a family of four.

I have lots to say, and I promised I would be a better blogger once I had all this ~~free~~ time on maternity leave. But I simultaneously have a bazillion free hours and absolutely no time to do anything.

It's weird.

Speaking of weird, check out Amelia's awesome outfit. Hoodie (I made it!), diaper and Mary Janes. Awesome.

She is quite the silly girl these days.

Most days we start off just hanging out in bed. For soooooo long. It's wonderful. Until I start to feel mommy guilt for laying in bed while my toddler watched the 10th episode of Curious George on my iPad. Oops. But the cuddles are soooo good. And my bed is comfy too.

We are getting some sleep around here. Kinda. I'm ok with waking up to nurse Henry a few times until about 5am, and then I just get cranky and want to sleep and I start to get all dilerious and can't remember if I fed him, what time I fed him, where is he!?, or who I am...ya know, dilerious. It's great fun.

The hardest part of all this... is the mommy guilt for not going out and being active enough with Amelia. I try not to sit around and just hold Henry all day, but it's freaking hard to do much around here. There has been literally like two days in February where it didn't rain (really, I'm not lying) and we took full advantage! We soaked up that sun, even though it was barely 50 degrees and still freezing. We went to the park one day and Amelia dominated the slides. Another day I went for a long walk with a friend and her kiddos.

All in all, we are settling in well. It helps that Dan is the most amazing husband ever. He cleans the house, does fun projects with Amelia, makes me meals, etc. I am too blessed. And he does this all while juggling graduate school and the ubiquitous world of fine art. Someone needs to just smack me next time I give him crap about whatever the heck I give him crap about. He seriously is the best man on the planet.

I also think Amelia is adjusting well to Henry. She seems to truly love him and gives him kisses ALL DAY LONG. Sometimes we have to tell her to stop giving him kisses. And she says his name in the cutest sweetest way. Whenever we come into a room she asks where he is, she likes to ~~forcefully~~ give him his pacifier, rock him in his bouncer, asks me to lay him down or pick him up, notices when he cries and will give him random toys. Is this going to last, because it's precious? She's also become very fond of milk these days...it's pretty funny. She has to have her own milk whenever he's eating. Haha!

So I leave with this....

On some days...