I know, I've been REALLY bad about blogging the past month, but it's been crazy around here!! I've adjusted to having 3 kids all day, but Nicole is still adjusting to all that craziness and has a hard time napping during the day if she's not being held. I'm slowly breaking her of that, but it takes time.
So, at Nicole's 2 month check-up:
Weight: 10 pounds 7 ounces
Length: 21-1/4 inches
I was worried because to me she seems so tiny, and I was ready for lectures about feeding her more and all that. Apparently, she is average...yep, her weight in the 50% range - literally, she is average!!! It was odd to me, but we were so used to Karyl and Freddie who at their 2 month checkups were right under the 13 pound mark and longer. So, you could see why I would think she was so tiny!! I was VERY pleased to hear that she is growing just fine and that it's OK for me to let her sleep through the night (I had been waking her up after about 6-7 hours at night to feed her to make sure she was getting enough food), it turns out that she'll grow more when she sleeps and since she's growing and old enough to not worry about hypoglycemia, I can let her sleep all the way for the 8-9 hours that she wants to!! Yes, that's right we scored a third time with a child that by 8 weeks sleeps through the night!!! I have no idea why, but it's a blessing we aren't going to question!!!
On Sunday, August 7 Nicole was blessed and this was about the only picture we could get with all 5 of us!! The older kids just wanted to go run and play with cousins, so this was the best we could do! It's true that the more children you have, the less pictures you accumulate...not because you love them any less, it's simply because you don't have a free hand most of the time to take more pictures!!
And I know this is a random picture, but I saw it and had to put it on the blog....this was taken about 2 months ago, the kids went for a ride in Aunt Christine's new convertible. They LOVED it, but there is definitely something odd about seeing 2 car seats in the back of a sports car like that!!
Anyways....things are going good around here, we made it through a round of Strep when Nicole was only a few weeks old and so far have been healthy since. Nicole is an amazing little girl, despite her aversion to sleeping out of someone's arms. What's funny is that she sleeps just fine at night!! I am trying to take as many pictures as I can when I have a free moment so we can have a few to show her when she grows up. She is a gorgeous little baby, so different from the other 2 children. She has dark red hair (I think it's called Auburn) and in any type of sunlight it's a beautiful almost orange!! She has pink skintones like me so she'll be joining me in the SPF 99 category when she starts spending time in the sun, unlike Freddie, Karyl and Daddy who tan beautifully!!
It's amazing how even with her only being with us for 8 short weeks, I already can't imagine our family without her here...she truly is a blessing from our Heavenly Father and I know without a doubt that she was meant to be with our family. Karyl and Nicole are going to be best buddies once she is old enough to play, Karyl just adores her and always wants to hold her and feed her and just be in her face talking to her and loving her.
On a side note, this week we started school...at our kitchen table. I have been blessed to have the resources and opportunities to homeschool her and I was just as excited as she was. It will be difficult once I start back to work and trying to balance everything here at home but we know that we are doing what is best for her, and that's what matters. The whole point of homeschooling is to do what's best for the children, not for me...and even though it will take more time on my part for lesson planning and teaching, she will grow so much more learning at home and having the opportunities to explore learning from that perspective. In a few weeks she will be taking a few "workshops" at the local Charter School site and that will give her some time with kids her age and she will get to do things that not only would I not be able to do at home, but that she wouldn't even be able to do in public school, and it's awesome!! She is taking a Theater class that also involves dance and music, and she picked a class called "Digging for Dinosaurs" where she gets to learn, hands on, for 90 minutes a week about dinosaurs...with a small group of kids her age...how awesome is that?? She will also be taking a ballet-tap class in September thanks to Grandma and Grandpa that she is beyond excited for.
We are so blessed to have such wonderful children, and I am beyond words with how blessed I feel not only to be their mother, but their primary caregiver and teacher...that I can work from home and be able to be a "Stay at Home Mom" in a world where that title has been degraded. I prefer to call myself a Domestic Engineer because let's face it, I'm not just a mom...that is my first and foremost job, but equally important is my role as a wife...and beyond that I cook, I clean, I nurse sick children and boo-boos...I am a psychotherapist on call for when a nightmare strikes at 3am and a kid needs me to convince them that plants can't fly. I am so much more than just a mom who stays at home...sorry, I've been re-reading Dr. Laura's "In Praise of the Stay at Home Mom" and I've been reminded again as to how important my role is at home...a wonderfully empowering book for other moms out there!!!
Enough with the randomness...I will try and post again soon...hopefully with more pictures and more details as to our wonderful life!!
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