sick

Ethan has a touch of the stomach flu - he's thrown up three times in the last couple hours. He seems fine now, and is back in his clean crib with a 3rd set of clean jammies on. Hopefully he gets some sleep and gets over this bug!!

Macie has been an absolute joy to have! She is so precious and I am just in love with her. She continues to sleep a lot and eat A LOT! She wakes up starving and will take around 4 oz at a time.

Ethan spent the day at daycare today. Daddy drove him the 30 miles there this morning, on snow covered roads . . . but it was really worth it. I got some much needed sleep this morning, and got some things done around the house, and of course, got to spend some alone time with baby. Also, daddy said Ethan was very excited to be at daycare with his buddies. Macie and I are going to go pick him up this afternoon. It's a beautiful sunny day with fresh snow on the ground and will be a good day for a drive.



I think we have a yoga instructor in our family!
On Monday, the same day we got home from the hospital, we celebrated my birthday. Grandma Mary made a delicious cake and supper and Aunt Michelle and Victor came over to help us celebrate.

Here are some more pictures of Macie. She is such a great baby! She's so content and just sleeps most of the time except when she is hungry. We are loving her so much!

Macie is Home!

Big Brother!

Well, Ethan is finally officially a big brother! He has been spending lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa lately while mom and dad are getting acquainted with little Macie Kate. Ethan has met her a couple times and always gives her big smiles and some happy babbling. Then, he likes to point out all of her facial features and clothing items. Tomorrow his baby sister will be coming home so it will be the true test of how he handles being a big brother. Since I'm still at the hospital I can't post pics quite yet, but I will asap. We are so delighted with our little family of 4!

On the way to the hospital . . . I had to wait until 2:00 to go and the anticipation has been torturous, but I passed the time getting a relaxing mani-pedi and going out for lunch with hubby. It actually ended up being a nice day. Now I'm off to experience the worst pain of my life . . . with the most joyous reward of my life!!

Whirlwind

Ethan is celebrating his last day of being an only child by being a total stinker. Luckily, (sort of) it's a stinker in a cute way (with a big smile on his face through every naughty thing he does) instead of in a whiny or crabby way. Here are some antics from this morning . . .

Mom was sitting on the chair in the in the baby's room talking to a friend on the phone and Ethan was elsewhere upstairs playing. Usually he can be trusted out of sight for awhile and he just plays with his own toys. Well, when I came to find him, he had pulled all of my jewelry box drawers out and had found my very fun and interesting bracelet that Grandma Mary had given me for Christmas. Before I could say NO he stretched it and it broke, which made beads go flying everywhere. He laughed with delight and began collecting them to put in his MOUTH! AHHHH! So I had to chase him around (keep in mind - he's quick - and I'm having a baby - tomorrow - mama's not so quick!) and take the beads out of his hands and mouth. He thought this was a great game while I was terrified that he was going to choke!

In other news, he is climbing up on everything which a lot of times results in falling and crying. Today it was climbing on his book basket to get a nuk from the top of his dresser which ended in falling and crying. Yesterday he fell out (jumped out??) of his crib for the first time. Today he figured out how to take his dresser drawer OUT of his DRESSER! Not sure if he was trying to use it for a step stool or what . . .

Of course, the thought that keeps going through my mind is, "What am I going to do when I have 2?????????" Wish me luck :)