More summer fun

Milestones

Another week gone by and more milestones for our family. A big milestone to celebrate is that I am now an official stay at home mom. Praise God that we were given this opportunity. I don't know how we are able to do it financially but through God all things are possible. Faith is what we are living on. I stayed home with Jeffrey during his first 5 months of life and went back to work up until Grant was born, so it has been at least 7 years in between that period of time. Wow...what an adjustment. Let's just say that I have so much respect for SAHM's (Stay At Home Moms). It is a 24/7 job but the rewards are way better than anything earned at a job outside the home. :)



Only about a month left of summer break and school will start again. I don't think either Jeff or myself is ready for it to start. It will be a challenge to get Jeff up for school while at the same time taking care of Grant. Luckily Jeff is old enough to get himself dressed but it takes some effort to get him out of bed. We'll see how that goes. Grant will be 3 months old so maybe it will be easier by then.



Grant's personality is really starting to come out during these last few weeks. He is such a sweety. Yesterday he giggled for the first time...while he was awake. He has been giggling in his sleep for a while (so cute!). And he sure knows who Mom is. If anybody else is holding him for a while and he finally sees me his bottom lip will pucker and he starts crying. Oh...makes me feel terrible. Our nights are not very restful right now. He wakes up every hour to eat! I hope it will pass soon! He now weighs a whopping 14 lbs; 95 percentile in weight. Pretty common with our kids. Jeff has been such an awesome big brother and a great helper to me. He and Grant like to 'talk' and Jeff is always commenting on how cute Grant is. Jeff isn't interested in holding him but he will sit and play with Grant.

I have some recent pictures to post and will try to get them on the blog when I have more time.

Misty

Summer family fun

Just wanted to share some summer pics. We are all having a blast seeing Grant do something new every day. Just this morning he looked right at me and smiled when he noticed I was looking at him. Made my heart melt.

We seem to have the reflux under control although it likes to show up even more at night. And who could have thought that a baby on mommy's milk could have colic? Jeffrey had a milk allergy and was on a special (and very expensive!) formula and we wanted to avoid that route with Grant. Sure enough he is also allergic to milk and soy and also has trouble with mommy's milk too. Not the milk itself but the speed at which it comes out. Here we are 7 weeks later and I'm still learning new techniques to get past this problem. I am ready for solid foods but at the same time I don't want my baby to grow up so quickly.

The boys and I stayed at Nana and Papa's house for a few days earlier in the week and we had a good time. It made me appreciate Shane and his help with taking care of the boys even more. Mom has back problems and cannot hold Grant for very long.

So far this summer Jeff has gone to a summer day camp that was offered to our neighborhood. It was an all day camp (8-5 pm) for 5 days. They had all kinds of activities from board games to swimming. He was exhausted by the end of the day and got the much needed exercise. He also started going to VBS at our church right after school was out for the summer but ended up getting sick after the first day. He was disappointed about not getting to go. I plan on getting him into swim lessons before the summer is over...he loves to swim. I think we may have found the one sport that he enjoys. Luckily the schools around here have swim teams and I hope that he continues to like the sport.

Here are some pics:

I forgot to turn the flash on in this pic but it is the first 'smiling' pic I have of him:

Hope every one's summer is going well.

Blessings,

Misty