Finally an Update

We're sloooooowly getting settled into our house.  I'm realizing it takes FOREVER with two little ones since I can't do any unpacking when I'm home with them during the week.  And by the time Abe gets home and we get the kids to bed all we want to do is sit and relax!  Mira's room is unpacked, which, let's be honest, really is the most important so that she immediately felt comfortable in the "new house", as she still calls it.  The kitchen is mostly finished, which is great too since that's my least favorite room to pack and unpack.  In the meantime, we're realizing we don't "need" as much stuff as we actually own...and then there are the times when we wonder where in the world something could possibly be packed.  Like all my clothes...what did I wear two summers ago anyway? (last summer I was preggo and already wearing maternity clothes).

Isaiah had his 4 month check-up this last week.  Can you believe he's already 4 months??  He's in the 10th percentile for weight at 12 pounds 3 ounces, which shocked me since he's been eating like a little piglet.  In fact, around 13 or 14 weeks he went through the biggest growth spurt on the planet.  Nursing and then also eating a bottle.  He ate all the milk I had frozen and I had to start supplementing.  His eating slowed after the week of the growth spurt, but is still more than what I make, so I've had to supplement ever since.  Which brings me to a tough decision that I made today.  I realized that nursing and also having to make a bottle, while caring for a two year old is just too much.  Double duty just to feed the little guy.  So I think I've decided to wean him.  It's not a decision I thought I would ever make at 4 months, but it seems like the least stressful decision overall.  My plan was to sort of cold turkey it with him and just pump when I needed to until the milk was gone.  He often refuses to nurse but is willing to take a bottle, so I figured he would be cool with that decision.  I just don't have the connection with nursing this time like I did with Mira because Isaiah seems to prefer a bottle.  The thought of weaning is a little sad, but if that's what he prefers, then I'm cool with it.  However, tonight when I put him to bed I tried to give him a bottle and he cried and cried.  I nursed him and he was happy as a little clam.  So, the new plan is to give him bottles during the day and nurse him at night until my milk supply decreases and I can get him to take a bottle before bed.  I'm also hoping that more formula during the day will encourage a full 11 or 12 hour sleep at night.  He's currently steping 8 to 9 hours at night, which seems pretty great!

Mira's enjoying the new step-stool I bought her this week, which now means she can reach the bathroom faucet.  Here she is enjoying the most favorite morning of her entire life...playing in the faucet all by herself.  Filling bowls...mixing water...dumping it out...over and over again. 

Here's my sweet little guy smiling at mommy.  We were playing outside, enjoying our covered patio, and Isaiah was hanging in his bouncer.  Sweet sister shared her toy with him and thought it was hilarious that he was holding it!

Isaiah started eating cereal this week.  Today was day 4 of the cereal and he loved it!  It took a few days to get the hang of it, but now he's almost a pro!  He also rolled over for the first time today!  Yippee!  I've been TERRIBLE at tummy time.  You know how they say they should have tummy time at least once a day?  Weeeeelllll, Isaiah got tummy time about once a week.  Yikes!  I decided I needed to step it up, so I laid him on his tummy today and he immediately rolled over.  I guess he was ready!  Since then, he rolls over every time I lay him on his tummy!  Smart little guy. 

I love this sweet little cuddly face!!!