Second Week!!

Today Ethan has his 2nd week drs visit.  I was looking forward to seeing how much he weighs because he's been eating so much and getting thicker.  Sure enough, he's from from 7 lbs 2 oz to 8 lbs 1 oz in just one week... that's pretty good!  He's been feeding for about 10 minutes every 2-4 hours which is awesome... Trey would take and hour to eat and sometimes wanted to every hour or two.  Ethan also grew 1 cm taller.  Still smaller than Trey was when Trey was born though;-)  However Dr. Rahman commented that she thinks he will end up being bigger than Trey once he catches up!  Ethan is also able to follow things with his eyes and will try to grab them still with his hands, which is great.  He without fail will turn his head when he hears our voices, which is sweet!  He is still the easiest and most laidback baby ever... is almost always content.  The only problem is that he likes to be held alot and doesn't always want to be put down.  Eventually he will have to learn to live with that, but right now I'm carrying him around in the Moby Wrap, which has been a big help to me, especially when dealing with Trey or doing housework.

Yesterday was my drs appointment and my doc gave me the go ahead for regular activity, so I'm allowed to drive, pick up Trey, steps, chores, etc.  I just have to take it easy and work my way back to normal.  This morning was definitely crazy and part of me wondered how I was going to do this each day.  I woke up at 6am and got a shower and then at 7 both boys woke up, Ethan screaming for nursing, Trey calling me for milk and cereal and Barney and the dog clearly needed to go out.  And I was still in a bathrobe with a towel on my hair.  LOL!  Somehow I got it all done, but I wasn't able to get my much needed coffee until three hours later.  Oh well!  Atleast I got it eventually:-)  I love being at home with my boys, but wow, it is hard work.  I've decided from now on when I fill out forms where it asks if I work full-time, I'm going to check yes;-)

Pj has been SUPER busy at WCA ever since school started up.  He's been pretty much a ghost around here, which I know is hard on him because he misses his boys.  But hopefully after this week things will start calming down.  He took a half day (sort off... turned out to be more of a quarter day) off today to relax and this weekend he doesn't have much of anything to do too.  I can't remember the last time he was this free!  So we're planning on lots of sleep, movies, relaxation and family time.... we've been needing this for so long!  In fact, as I write, Ethan and Daddy are both asleep on the couch while "Fight Club" is playing on blu-ray (Daddy took no time introducing Ethan to his favorite guy movies;-)).

Trey has been developing so much lately!  He surprised me this morning while I was bathing Ethan by singing almost the entire song of "Twinkle Little Star", all the words, by himself to soothe crying Ethan.  He also can sort of sing the ABC song.   He can name most of the letters now.  If he has a bunch of different colored blocks, crayons or pencils, he will sort them by color and put them in a row.  He sorts everything!!  He uses sentences all the time now, sometimes very long ones... its crazy that we are able to have real conversations with him.  That being said, sometimes we have no clue what he is saying!  He's been an awesome big brother as well.  He always comes up to Ethan every day a couple of times to pat his head and put a blanket on him or brings him a toy.  He gets very concerned when Ethan cries and will tell me "Mama, Baby Etin cry!" to make sure that I know and will go over and pat his head.  It's sweet!  I hope they will be close.  Of course, I know they will fight too like all siblings too.  But hopefully not too much .

So that's it for us for now.  We're slowly getting used to the new life with Ethan!  Here are pics with my grandfather and Pj's grandparents!