Birthdays!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOMMY AND DADDY!!!

And Happy 8 Months to Carmine!
More updates later, I am tired!

Maggie Rose

WELCOME MAGGIE ROSE!!!!
Joey became a big brother yesterday at 11:56 am. She was 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 19.5 in. She is beautiful with lots of thick black hair!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHASITY!!!

Sleep

I really can't complain about Carmine's sleeping. He is a wonderful sleeper. I can safely say now that he is sleeping through the night. And on a normal basis he takes 2 naps. One is usually about 2 hours and the other is 3 1/2 to 4 hours! The only small issue we are having is that he just doesn't seem to want to go to sleep between the 8 and 11 hours in the evening. It is not so much a problem now, but if I don't get him on that schedule it will be a problem later on. He is a people watcher just like his brother! He doesn't want to miss anything. Last night at Rece's gymnastics class, Grammy was holding Carmine while Tony and I were in the class and Tony got in Carmine's face to talk to him and he got upset cause he wanted to watch the class!!! So when the 8:00 hour rolls around he do his whole bedtime routine and we put him in bed. If he starts crying we let him cry for 10 minutes or so. Then we try the pacifier, but he has pretty much decided that he doesn't have a need for it. And when he cries for another 10 minutes or so we pick him up and try to get him to sleep that way. He is WIDE awake when we do this. After I feed him at 10:30 or 11 he is out for the night. Eventually I know the solution will be to let him cry it out and I truly don't think he will even cry for very long, but I am just not ready to do that yet. He isn't even 3 months yet. And just like with Rece, I probably won't be ready to really let him cry it out until around 4 months. Really though, I am not complaining just noting this so I will remember this with the next baby. Actually nowadays I have 2 great sleepers!

Yesterday I don't know what was going on, but Rece slept in until 1:30 pm from the night before when he went to bed at around 9!!! He obviously didn't nap yesterday but he went to bed again at about 9 and is still sleeping at 8:20. Do they still sleep more during growth spurts at this age?? And Carmine yesterday only took one long nap from 10:15 to 4:30. What is going on in my house?? I am sure not sleeping that much!!

This is how Carmine is usually sleeping during the night, with one arm hanging out. I think we will be moving him to his crib as soon as we get the new windows in our house. Right now his room is just a little too chilly for him to be sleeping in there at night. But now that he is sleeping through the night with no help there is no reason for him to be in our room.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALISON

Carmine's Baptism

Carmine was baptized today! Afterwards we had a little reception in our church basement. My mom made the cake and the day turned out to be pretty successful. Carmine was very quiet during church. He fussed a little when the water got poured on him but liked it even less when the pastor put his hand on Carmine's head to bless him :) And of course during the children's message the pastor pointed Carmine out because the message was about baptism and I was breastfeeding. The same exact thing happened with Rece!

This is Carmine with his parents and Godparents, Annie (friend) and Keith (my brother).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE TOM!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVERIE JEAN!!

I know it was yesterday, but we were so insanely busy yesterday that I didn't even have a chance to get on the computer!! So, Happy 2nd birthday Averie and I hope you had a really good time at your party! We missed you and wish we could have been there.

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT TERI!!!!

G.G.

This is Rece and Carmine's Great-Great-Grandma! Not many people can say they have one of those!! She is turning 90 this year and while she isn't exactly running around I think she is doing pretty good for a 90 year old. Her mind is still very much there. But this week she hurt her leg. She has already broken this leg 3 times. But she is getting out of the hospital soon, maybe today. And she is going to be moving into an assisted living facility. For the last few years she has been living with my mom and then for the last few months, since my mom moved in with us, she has lived with my grandma and grandpa. So really all of this is a blessing in disquise. She will be so much happier in an assisted living facility with people around her own age.

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY CONNER!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

HAPPY BIRTDAY KATHY

1st Babylegs!

Carmine finally kind of fits into the babylegs! There is still some room to grow in there but he can wear them now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETH!!!

Bath Time Fun

His hair is in need of a cut!

Him saying all done to the bath cause I kept pouring water on him.

Happy Birthday Grandma M!

I swore I would never do this....

I can't believe I dressed them in matching outfits. But the outfits were too cute and it was really Annie's fault!

We had a really busy weekend. Annie and Brandon came down this weekend. Annie actually came down on Thursday night and just left this afternoon. So we hung out and shopped on Friday. Then Brandon came down Friday night. On Saturday we just hung out until Tony, Carmine and I went to a wedding. Thanks to Annie, Brandon and my mom for watching Rece! The wedding was an hour away and we weren't planning on staying long at the reception, plus with Rece getting over being sick (hopefully) we just decided it was better to leave him at home. Plus Annie and Brandon got to spend a few hours with him! Then Sunday we had a 1st birthday party and we went to lunch. And while we were at the mall having lunch, we finally did Rece's build-a-bear that he had a gift card for from his 1st birthday! I will post a picture of that later. Right now it is in Rece's crib with him napping! Brandon left after lunch on Sunday. Then Annie went to lunch with me, Carmine and Rece before leaving today!

Sick

Can't we all just be healthy in this house!? First Rece then me then my mom and now Carmine and Rece are both sick! I hate that Carmine is sick so soon but it is just congestion and a cough. No fever yet. Fever is basically the only way the doctor would want to see Carmine this young cause they won't give him medicine yet. But does pneumonia always come with a fever? The cough is worrying me a little. It keeps us both miserable at night. Last night he technically slept through the night for the first time, but everytime he would cough he would cry. So I would be up with him even though he never woke up. He nursed at 11 pm then not again until 5 am. And at 5 am I woke him up and he only half nursed on one side. Then he didn't nurse again until 8:30. I had to go pump at 5:30 because I was so uncomfortable. He has had this cold since Friday and partially because of that Carmine has slept in bed with us more in 3 weeks then Rece has in 2 years! Rece was always calmed by walking and a pacifier when he was this young. Carmine doesn't really like the pacifier (which is fine by me) and all he wants when he cries is to be held. I don't like getting into that habit of him sleeping with us but I can't let him cry this young especially when he is sick! Him sleeping with us makes me nervous when he is this little too. Last night we tried the swing, because we thought maybe him being flat on his back in the cradle was making the drainage worse but it didn't really help either. I guess me being a sleep prop for Carmine is no different then Rece's pacifier and Rece's pacifier was gone by 5 months. Hopefully once he feels better he won't cry in his sleep as much. Don't get me wrong he is doing great at night for a 3 week old! And I think it is safe to say that Rece is not disturbed at night by the crying!! We were a little worried about that. Of course we will have to see once Carmine is in his own room sharing a wall with Rece's room!

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY GAGE!

Our new toy!

This was Rece's "Birthday" gift. We really bought it just cause it was the right price at the right time. We can't wait to test it out. Rece saw it and said SLIDE!