My laptop is finally fixed!! Now I can get back to providing updates and posting pictures. I have a backlog that I will work on over the next week or so when I have some time.
Paul and I are healthy again.... a little tired at times for sure but thank goodness for caffeine. Joshua is still getting nasal congestion out of his system. He doesn't like the saline spray and booger suctioning but it works and you can tell he is a lot happier once he can breathe easy through his nose again. Jakey has an ear infection and roseola... poor guy. Though roseola is harmless and doesn't make him feel sick. It just looks bad. I tried to take a picture of the rash to share but it didn't come out too well. He's had it before so I figured that was what it was as soon as I saw the rash appear on Saturday but we took him to the urgent care clinic on Sunday just to be sure. But he is having a rough time with the ear infection and he's had a pretty high fever since last week. He's been a little fussier than usual and just more out of sorts. I used to get ear infections all the time as a kid and I remember how painful they were. Plus he is not digging his amoxycillin so we're battling twice a day just to get the medicine down him to make him feel better!
(Needless to say, I don't want to see another doctor's office or hospital for a really long time!)
I can't believe Joshua will be 4 weeks old on Thursday (and a month old on Sunday). This first month went by so fast. It was all about trying to figure out how to adjust to our new lifestyle. I will be the first to admit that it's been tough at times. Anyone who tells you differently is lying! Having one child does completely change your life but a second child brings a whole new dynamic to routines and emotions. You don't necessarily get a break when the baby is sleeping because you have another little one who needs your attention! (Plus can I just mention the massive quantities of laundry that come from having two kids?!?) Jakey is also going through terrible two's which is a challenge sometimes. Paul and I are figuring out how to discipline and do timeouts and be consistent about it at the same time that we're juggling a newborn. And let's face it, a two year olds tantrums aren't exactly the most fun thing in the world :-) Lucky for us, Jake is a very sweet little boy in general and his tantrums are relatively short. It's not too hard to distract him with something else. I think he will be a little more laid back again once he is feeling 100% and has caught up from his lack of sleep lately. I gave myself this first month to be a little emotional and figure things out (with a lot of support from Paul, my family, and his family). The "mommy confidence" (as I like to call it) is returning and I'll be out and about with these two boys in no time.
Joshua continues to thrive. At night he has done two five hour long stretches of sleep (in his bassinet!!). During the day he asks to eat every 2-3 hours still. He thoroughly enjoys sleeping next to me in bed (which I sometimes give into because we both inevitably end up falling asleep while he is nursing in the middle of the night) but he does pretty darn well in his bassinet and car seat too. I swear he looks as big as Jake was when he was about 2 or 3 months old! He loves the bath and he's had quite a few "real" baths in his infant bathtub. (Though I will be honest and say that when Jake was a baby, I gave him a bath every day since I had the time. Yah, don't have that kind of time now! But he is still clean and smells like a yummy baby!) He is definitely focusing on faces a lot more now and will stare into my eyes and I feel like we're on the verge of a smile! He makes cute little baby noises all the time and he's is very gassy and poopy just like a typical newborn!
Lots to do, never enough time to do it, more soon!!
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