35.5 Months and 1 Month!

Well, my boys are keeping me very busy!  We have settled into a pretty nice routine, half way through my maternity leave, and we are finding fun things to do with ourselves every day.  I have not gotten the courage to try to take both of them somewhere on my own though, so I am very thankful that Baba, Aunt Becky, and Uncle Joe are around during the day to do stuff with us!  We have been to playgroups, shopping, the pool at Grammy's, and even a festival in the last few weeks, and I am looking forward to doing more of that, plus a trip to Ohio in the next three weeks before I go back to work.

The first 2-3 weeks with Tyler home were pretty trying, and very tiring though!  He is still exclusively nursing and that really took all of my determination and lots of encouragement from friends to keep up with, it hurts at first!  It also made me feel a little helpless, because no one could help me feed him, I am pretty good at asking for help when I need it, but I was on my own with this!  Thankfully, we seem to have it down now, and I am very glad that we stuck with it.  Losing all of my baby weight before he was even three weeks old helped me along too!  ;)  I am happy to say that all of the maternity clothes are already put away, I had to force myself out of my maternity jeans when Timmy turned 3 months old!  Tyler is still wanting to eat every 3 hours on average, I am looking forward to that stretching out a bit as he gets older!

The strain of nursing is the ONLY complaint I have about having a newborn again.  Tyler is an incredibly content and easy baby.  We have been greatly blessed for the second time!  As long as he is not hungry, he is happy!  At night he goes immediately back to sleep after eating.  And he is quite cuddly!  He is a wiggle-worm, which I could have guessed from how active he was in my belly!  He's always kicking his legs and flapping his arms around.  He makes lots of squeaky noises too, we have decided he sounds like something between a chipmunk and a dolphin!  :)

Timmy is a wonderful big brother and is really enjoying his new role!  He looks for ways to help and he talks to him all the time.  He likes to tell him, "You're such a wiggle worm Tyler!" and sometimes he just calls him Ty, which we haven't done so I found it interesting that he gave him a nickname on his own.  He loved helping give him his first bath too, and Tyler seems to enjoy baths, which baby Timmy did not!

PS~ It only took me a full week to write this post ;)