One week till Christmas!

Last weekend my parents took Brighton to visit my grandmother in Warner Robins GA. They had a great time, and said that Brighton was very good. He sang his Christmas songs the entire time. I doubt any of them will need to hear it on the radio after that weekend! Ha, they said that it was constant singing!! He came home with a brand new tricycle from Grandmother.

This is Brighton in his new Santa shirt. He claims that he wants a whole Santa costume. This might be as close as we get though. The hat has nothing to do with Christmas, they just picked it up when they had lunch at The Varsity (YUM, I'm envious)and that thing over his shoulder is his "Sack". My dad says he looks more like a Shriner here than Santa!!

Little Baylor is currently obsessed with his hands. He loves to look at them and study them. He does this ALOT! Also, the past two nights he has slept for 5 to 5 and a 1/2 hours!! This means that we have gotten more sleep than we have been used to in 3 months!! I am crossing my fingers that this is the start of better sleeping habits for all of us! Merry Christmas.

Santa Baylor

Haaa! I love this picture. These are not really Baylor's legs, but a double wine caddy that look like Santa legs that Baylor is inside of. Funny right?!

Christmas Parties on Lake Norman

Last weekend Jason and I had 2 Christmas parties to attend. 1st was the Anderson Landscaping party, which we go to every year. Chris is Jason's longtime friend and he out does his own party every year!We always look forward to it.

Then it was on to my friend Billie's party. She and Todd through a beautiful party, and it was so fun to see my girls.

It was really the 1st night that I have gone "Out" since having Baylor. Gigi stayed with the boys, so that was really nice. Getting dressed up and going out sort of made me feel like my normal, old self again!!

Bye Bye Batman...

and hello HoHo. Oh the magic of Christmas! Brighton has put his Batman obsession on hold as it has been replaced by his Santa one. He loved his HoHo's last year (remember the potholder that he would not let me put away and STILL has to sleep with) Well that was just icing on the cake for this year.

Brighton gets into Full On Santa mode and pretends to BE him. He stands by the fireplace with his finger on his nose, pretending to go up and down the chimney. He tells me to "sit on his lap" but really sits on mine instead, and asks me in a deep voice what I want for Christmas. He is LOVING Christmas! His teacher told Jason the other day that he has been teaching Christmas songs to all of his classmates! It is really funny. I know all children love this time of year but I have really never seen anything like this. He is already worried about putting everything away (decorations and Christmas toys) after Christmastime, so this could be detrimental to him! Good thing he will have a birthday right around the corner to distract him.

Saturday we went to the Denver Christmas parade. The Sunday before that we went to sit on Santa's lap. I have been busy trying to get my shopping done. Almost there!!

Baylor is doing well. He is showing signs of dropping one of his night time feedings (just not the right one!) so that is a start. After 10 weeks of maternity leave, I am about to start back full time at work. 10 weeks is almost as good as working for Corporate America benefits! I will be sad but I remember with Brighton, it was the hardest thing in the world, but got a little easier each week.

Michael is 2!

My baby niece has turned 2 years old! I will never forget the day after Thanksgiving, 2 years ago, watching the Alabama/Auburn game in the waiting room of the hospital, waiting on her to be born. Gosh has it already been 2 years since then? She is just precious and saying really cute things lately! She has been very into babies/dolls, and probably more so after seeing her new baby cousin. She is always playing with Baylor's car seat/carrier and wants to hold him. This year she got her own baby doll carseat/carrier, diaper bag and accessories. It is funny to see her make a fuss over them.

Christmas already???

It sure is at our house! I have two guys at home who get all kinds of giddy when it comes to Christmas. Jason and Brighton. They love the decorations, hoopla, and most of all, the music. I am not a Scrooge exactly, but lets just say that I usually listen to a lot more CDs at Christmas time in my car than I normally would! Not my boys though. Last weekend Jason got out the tree and all other decorations and had most of it up by the time I got home from a day of shopping. Christmas shopping, that is! I knew that if the tree was going up then I had to have something to put under it!! See, I am at least trying to get into the spirit!

Brighton is quite happy with all of his "Ho Ho"s, Christmas books and music. I have been trying to squeeze in some Thanksgiving lessons, although it is hard for him to get to excited about that with Santa on the brain! Speaking of Thanksgiving, I am thankful this year for so much. I am very thankful for my husband, who is a great father, Christmas decorator, and such a hard worker. I am thankful for both of my boys who are healthy, amusing, so sweet and the light of my life!! I am thankful for all of my family members. Sisters, mothers, fathers and aunts, uncles, grandparents to my children! I am also thankful this year for a very special boss who has generously given me an extended maternity leave and for my mother and sister for assisting in making that happen! I could just go on and on...

Baylor is 8 weeks old! He is doing pretty good. His cradle cap got better thanks to the prescription ointment. He has been eating well and spitting up less. I love this smiley picture of him!!

Side by side pics of the boys

Just for fun I thought that I would post these. Jason and I have been amazed by how similar the 2 boys look from when Brighton was a baby. The 1st 2 were taken when both boys were 2 weeks old and the 2nd set were taken when they were 1 month old.

The above is Baylor. Below is Brighton.

The picture below is Baylor and underneath that is one of Brighton at that age.

November!!

Wow here we are in November! Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away, I cannot believe it. I am getting into the Christmas spirit. I have gotten started with a few things. Jason is already wanting to decorate and put up the tree soon, since Brighton is so enchanted by it all, he wants him to be enjoying it. Brighton has his own tree for his room this year so he is going to be thrilled about that. He is also excited about going to see Santa and sitting on his lap along with his little brother! I cannot wait to take him (them) to see Santa. It is going to be so much fun this year. Collecting those pictures with Santa has to be one of a mother's greatest joys, or at least this particular mother's. Those pictures and seeing his excitement are priceless to me. Brighton's Christmas clothes are so cute this year that he should be hitting the Christmas party circuit, and Baylor's aren't to shabby! Can you tell I am excited??

Baylor is doing well. As you can probably tell from these shots he healthily gaining weight! He is sharing smiles with mommy and daddy daily. He does have some fussy times each day, and is not showing any signs of sleeping through the night, but we are working on him...!

We are having another baby!!

No not me! Our family is expanding though. I am thrilled to announce that my sister in law Kelly is expecting. She and Craig will have their 1st child at the beginning of May!! We are all very excited.

Most of all Baylor as he will have a cousin to boss around!! (Sorry Kelly!)

Fall Updates

Jason, Lacey, Mickey and I took the kids (minus Baylor) to Redwolf Farms Pumpkin Patch again this year. The weather was perfect and we had a great time! The day included a tractor pulled hayride up a windy hill, to the top, where they had a large pumpkin patch, huge playground with big corn bins for the kids to squish their feet around in, a petting zoo, toy tractor races and a corn maze. At the end we all got to pick out a pumpkin, of course.

Here is Brighton with one of the pumpkins that we carved. Yes, those are Christmas pajamas. I TOLD you that he was ready already!

Halloween

This year the kids went as Peter pan, Tinkerbell, and Captain Hook. They looked really cute and all had fun with it. Michael was "eat her up" cute in her costume!! Poppi made a hayride for them and they suffered through the cold to Trick Or Treat!

I know this is not the greatest picture but we had trouble getting a good group shot of the 3 of them. Tink must have put some pixie dust in Peter's boots because Michael kept dashing off as soon as any of us tried to take a picture of them together!

On a sad note,

Jason's grandfather "Paw Paw" passed away on Oct. 28th. He had been in the hospital for a while, 2 weeks before Baylor was born, so he had a rough time. Most of the time in the hospital he was not really awake though, and then was getting better so this was sort of a shock as we all thought he was on the mend. Paw Paw was quite a charactor and will be greatly missed.

Baylor Update

Baylor is doing pretty good. He has a real strong neck and we have started "tummy time". On the fence about putting him on acid reflux meds. He seems to be in pain about half of the time that he is being fed so the last time we went to the Dr. we discussed and I decided to wait two more weeks to see if he grows out of it. I hate to put something into his body that could be all for nothing so I am willing to wait. He is growing and eating good, and stopped the vomiting. Poor thing got a bad dry rash all over his face which the Dr. said was "Cradle Cap". Brighton had The Cap too, but his was on his head, not his face. She prescribed an ointment for it and it seems to be clearing up. He is still waking up to eat every 2 to 3 hours in the night though, so with going back to work soon looming over my head, that is scary. On a sweet note, he smiles a lot and it is very cute!!

Hi Just a small update. Baylor had some trouble keeping his formula down so, after an unexpected trip to the Dr. after a very bad night he advised us to go on soy formula. Lets just hope that he is not allergic to milk like his brother! Only time will tell. He has gotten a little bit better but I am not quite convinced that solved the problem, or was the answer. After what we went through I was more than willing to try a change though!! In other news, Brighton is getting geared up for Halloween, and more importantly, Christmas! He cannot stop talking about it. He is very concerned with Santa "breaking" our fire place upon his entry! To cute. I will try to get some pictures of the two boys together for my next post. Brighton is still being a very good big brother.

Just a quick update

Nothing much to report but I did want to add a couple of new pictures. Everyone is doing good. We went to the Dr. this week and Baylor now weighs slightly over 8 pounds, so he is growing!! Jason and I got out Brighton's baby book and could not believe how much that they look a like at this age! Of course, lack of sleep is getting to us a little bit, but that is normal, and other than that we are getting along good. Brighton does not act jealous, so I am thrilled about that!!

Baylor is such a good baby and Brighton is a good big brother. We are very proud right now :)

Baylor Tide Flowe is here

and no, his name has nothing to do with college football! I wanted to incorporate my maiden name into his 1st name, so that is where that came from. Anyway, he is simply PEREFECT in every way. He weighed 6 lbs, 14 oz. and was 19" long. Born at 12:40 PM on Thursday, September 20th, 2012. Mother had a pretty easy time and everything is well!! He is sooooo tiny, I cannot believe it. He sleeps all of the time, waking up only to eat and is eating well too. We just LOVE him.

Brighton came to meet him at the hospital on Friday. It was very sweet. He was really excited and just thrilled that this baby that we had all talked about for so long was actually real.

Delivery was once again at CMC University, and just like the 1st time there, Jason, baby and I loved our stay. They were very good to us there. I know some people find this hard to believe but we almost did not want to leave. We were ready to get home to Brighton though, and start our new chapter. We left the hospital on Sunday. The weather had changed since we had gotten there and the day was perfect for going home. Almost like fall had arrived while we were there.

Here is Baylor Tide on Going Home Day

So, on Sunday, shortly after we got home, Brighton did too. He could not wait to see his little brother. He wanted to help Mommy feed him. He loves giving him kisses on his head. It is really sweet. For being such a good big brother, we gave Brighton a little play kitchen to play with. It is outside on our porch. Brighton loves to know what I am doing in the kitchen when I am cooking and likes to play in my utensils drawer so we thought this would occupy his time quite nicely, at least for a little while.

I am really enjoying being at home with my new baby. I love him more than I ever thought was possible. He just completes our family and I could not ask for a happier time in my life than now!! Baylor is a sweet pea and I am not even minding the long nights! Jason has been very helpful with him and we try to work out feedings times that work for both of us so I am very thankful to have such a supportive and helpful husband :) Also, Brighton has not yet asked us when we are returning Baylor to where he came from, so that is good too! I will add more to this blog as I can. Sweet Pea is sleeping and coo-ing right next to me as I post this.

Ticking away, the moments that make up a tall day.

One last time I am blogging. This one will be much shorter than the last couple. We are literally counting down until the moments that we check in to the hospital. Brighton is going on the world tour of grandparents while we are there, so he will be quite happy. I am packing his bag tonight. I am getting very emotional over parting from him to go and do this..like there is any other way. Last weekend was the last weekend he will be an only child. Oh I get teary eyed thinking of it, but I know once his brother is here I will not look back and will be so happy that he is here, completing our family!! I am not sure when I will be able to add anything to this blog for a while, but will probably be posting Facebook pictures sooner since I can do that from my phone much easier than I can add to this site. Goodbye for now and wish us luck!!