Eavesdropper

We must have a little eavesdropper on our hands...because without any action on my part, little C bear slept for 10 hours last night, had a bottle, then slept for 3 more...Huh?? He must've heard me talking about him and decided to shape up!

Happy Friday I guess!

Sleep woes

It's really hard to be mad at someone who is this cute. Ok, I'm not mad at him, but this sleep thing is killing me! Coen was quite a hungry little man from day one. For the first 10 weeks of his life I fed him, no lie, every 2 hours around the clock. Looking back, I'm not totally sure how I pulled it off and still made it to all of our daily activities / walks / playdates, kept the house (somewhat) clean, cooked dinner, played with Hadley etc. etc. etc. I think I was just barely making it to be honest. Then, at 10 weeks, it's like something clicked and suddenly this little person went from waking every 2 hours, to sleeping between 10 and 12 hours straight. It was magical! I thought we had cleared the hurdle, I thought we were on the upswing...Well, I was wrong! I don't know what happened, but the last few weeks (at first I blamed a growth spurt, now I'm not so sure) he has been waking up close to 10 times a night. If he wasn't so cute I'd probably consider sending him back to God with a little thank you note!

So I've decided that tonight we are going to make some big changes (no binky falling out and waking him up etc) and attempt to get this kid sleeping again. I am cool with one, even two wake ups for bottles or whatever...but ten, no can do, Coen, no can do!

Wish me luck blog friends.

Falla Falla

I can't wait for FALL to finally be here. Until today it's been 75 & sunny here in Walla, however, it's October so I thought it was appropriate to start decorating. So many fun things to look forward to this month...the Corn Maze & pumpkin patch, The Marianis coming to visit, Bloktoberfest at Ryan & Michelle's house, and of course, HALLOWEEN and our kids in matching cow costumes.

Hadley is practicing her Moo already.

"Little" Brother

When a new baby joins the family most parents can't wait to take that token picture of the proud older sibling tenderly holding their brand new baby brother with a beaming look of pride.  Andy and I, having a 15 month old that thought her new brother was akin to a stuffed animal, were not those parents.  We are finally in a place where we could get that photo, so instead of Hadley holding a newborn, this is Hadley holding her 4 month old brother...It is quite hilarious given that I think his head is actually already bigger than hers. There is a 4 lb disparity between them...I wonder how long it'll take to close that gap, I'm thinking before long, we can just call them twins.  I can't wait to show this picture to the kids some day when they are older.

3 Peas

When we moved to Walla Walla, I was really excited to live closer to Andy's big family, but in many ways it was also a lot like moving to Zurich for me. I was once again moving away from my girlfriends (and let me tell you, I have some wonderful ones!). Those first few months in Zurich were very tough for me (poor Andy, he had to entertain me a lot!) but someone very special eventually came along, and her name was Anna. Well, when we moved here we kept joking about how long it was going to take to "find my Anna". While no one will ever compare to Anna, I did finally make some friends here in Walla Walla. Two of the gals in particular have been really wonderful and the best part is that they are both named Stacy/Stacey. Andy calls them "the Stacys" of course. The other great part? We all three have daughters born in February of 2009. That's them up top - the first pic is Hadley & Juniper (Junie) and the bottom is Sophia (born 2/3/09), Hadley (2/12/09) & Junie (2/25/09). We have already started brainstorming for the triple birthday party we're going to throw....I'm not gonna lie, a blow up castle has been mentioned! Something tells me these three girls are going to be friends for many years to come.