Happy Go Lovely: love times two

Life with two kids is so different. Adding a second child isn't as "shocking" as becoming a parent for the first time. No, life isn't dramatically different...but it IS a big adjustment. It's a challenge to give both children the attention they need and deserve. Most days I'm being pulled in two different directions and praying for Daddy to be home soon. I love being home, but when there are two parents for two kids it's obviously much easier. Some days all we do is feed kids, change kids and try to get kids to sleep.

ella

Miss E. has been doing tons of coloring and eating luncheables once a day. Thank God she thinks they're wonderful and doesn't know that we get them mostly because they simplify mommy's life! She is a great big sister. Our only negative is that she is a little too helpful - she sometimes trys to push baby brother a little too high in his swing or push his binky into his mouth a little too forcefully. She is currently VERY into puzzles, knows almost every nursery rhyme and serenades us at the piano. Her favorite shows are Max and Ruby, Super Why and Caillou...although she still watches Barney and Dora. Miss E. loves chocolate, her "special" water (sugar free kool-aid drop-ins) and mini-muffins. Potty training is still at a stand-still but she DOES like to sit on the potty and read books/sing...sometimes for hours. It's been fun to watch her with all her little friends. They are really starting to play together like big kids:) Miss E. is such a smarty pants and so funny. She makes everyone smile...except when she's beeing TOO sassy (she's discovered she does NOT like time-out!)!

evan

Little man Evan is such a cutie! I'm trying to soak up every single second I have with him. I want him to stay a baby forever and he's just getting too big! Much like his big sister, his first month has been spent in someone's arms - mostly mommy's. He LOVES being held and demands it. If we put him down, he grunts and complains until he's picked up. Then he wiggles around in our arms, sighs in content and falls right asleep...naughty boy! He is a very good baby - as long as he's being held. We put him in the moses basket a lot and he looks so adorable in there. Pretty soon he'll be too big though. He is a GREAT eater...and has been right from the start! He wasted not one second getting started nursing and we've had no issues. He has become a spitter though and how quickly we've remembered the fabulous look and scent of spit-up all over us. Our big boy has already outgrown newborn diapers and most of his newborn clothes...I can't believe how fast he's growing! We are so in LOVE with our little man and can hardly remember life without him!

With two kids, it's hard not to compare the two. We see so much of Miss E. when we look at our little man. It's been such a trip down memory lane - especially when Evan wears things Ella wore. It's like we have our baby Ella again...so weird!

ella