Prayers Needed!

Baby Maggie has been back in the hospital since Saturday. On Saturday she stopped breathing and turned blue for a couple minutes before her great Aunt resucitated her. She appears to be doing just fine and they are continuing to run tests to rule out anything ongoing. They are hoping to be leaving the hospital today. Please keep them in your thoughts!

Catch Up

We have had such a busy week. Monday wasn't too bad during the day, but then I went out with some other moms to the Cheesecake Factory! YUM!! Then Tuesday we went to the zoo.
It was so beautiful out. But it also made me start thinking about a double stroller.(this is how Carmine saw the zoo). I found one at Babies R Us that has every feature that I really like except that it would be $300 when it is all said and done. So we will see. But I just don't know how long I would be able to carry one of them and push the other all day long. Then yesterday we went and got Carmine's 2 month pictures taken. We were there forever. Then last night I had a partylite party. And Rece had his first gymnastics class. Unfortunately I couldn't go because of partylite, but daddy took him and said it went pretty well. Then today I hosted recipe club for mom's club. My house is a disaster and laundry needs done and I need to exercise but I don't feel like doing anything!!! Oh well. I don't think we are going to do anything tomorrow!

And the newest thing Rece has been doing, is when I go in the morning to get him out of bed, he wants to hang out in there for a while. He just wants me to sit in the rocking chair and he hangs out in the crib. We sing and talk and play games. It is kind of funny, but hey he wakes up happy so that is all I care about.
This is him showing me his nipples :)

And Tony and I have a question for all you readers out there. We have differing opinions on this. We just recently put this window picture frame on our mantle but now one of us thinks it should stay as is(propped up) and the other thinks that we should actually hang it. What do you think?

So many things

We took Rece to his first movie yesterday. We saw Happy Feet! It was cute. There were a couple parts that scared him(for good reason). But overall he did really well. He would never sit and watch a movie at home but I think just with the size of it all he was in awe. He fell asleep toward the end but it was a really good experience.
And tonight Rece fingerpainted for the first time. I hadn't done it with him yet because he still puts everything in his mouth. But he really needs some craft and activity time. He is starting to get very bored during the day, so I said oh well if he eats it and just did it. It went great. He put his finger in his mouth at the very end while I was cleaning up and that was it. The only thing we had a problem with was that he started shaking his hands to paint went flying, but only a little. And he kept wanting more paint, but other than that he had fun and we have 4 masterpieces to show for it!


Ok, now I am going to b!tch and moan a little bit. But I think for good reason. Carmine's face is all scratched up. Rece has been hitting him a LOT!! I feel so bad for Carmine. He sees so much of the pack n play it isn't even funny. But the hitting happens generally when I am holding Carmine. But half of the time Rece just randomly walks up and smacks him and the other half he comes and gives him hugs and kisses and then hits him. Either way I am caught off guard and I am at the end of my rope with Rece. I just don't know what to do. I can give him 50 time outs a day and it doesn't seem to phase him. I don't want to spank, but even if I would consider it, I just couldn't hit him to teach him not to hit! It doesn't make sense to me so I am pretty sure it wouldn't make sense to him. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! I know eventually he will get used to Carmine and will grow out of it but poor Carmine suffers in the mean time. And it isn't just a jealousy thing because he does it to other kids. We are lucky to get invited back to playgroups. I don't even feel like I can be a good mom to either of them at this point. Rece, cause I have lost my patience with him with the hitting and don't know how to handle it. No one can give me advice, it seems like I am alone with the hitting. I know other 2 year olds hit, but where are they??? And even so do they do it for absolutely no reason and so often?? And Carmine, because he spends so much time in the pack n play. I can't put him on his play mat, swing, bouncy seat or anywhere else without very close supervision and even that doesn't even really protect him. I dont even see it coming when Rece hits him. I am at a total loss and all I could do today was cry to my sister. In the coming weeks I am going to try to get Rece involved in a couple of things, like gymnastics and I am going to start trying to do some type of craft or activity almost daily. But if anyone can offer any advice on how to make this easier on everyone please do.

POOR CARMINE!!!!