Henry's 1 Month Old!!

Can't believe my sweet baby boy is a month old already... yep on Friday, March 12 Henry hit the one month milestone :) He is such a good baby... and has been such a blessing to our family!! I am lucky that he is already on a decent schedule. Henry is up to 3 ounce bottles and feeding every 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours depending on his mood... there are times he acts like he can't make it past 2 hours without feeding again and other times he is content for a full 3 or 3 1/2 hours. He is a very good sleep as well. He usually is taking his last feeding at 8 and in bed by 830.. he usually doesn't wake for his first feeding until midnight then again at 230-3 in the morning then again at 530 then he is typically up by 7 or 730. So yes he is still feeding three times a night but with 2 1/2 to 3 hour stretches between feedings I get a good bit of sleep. During the day, he usually takes a good morning nap with some cat napping in the afternoons... its still hard to get a firm afternoon schedule since that tends to be our out and about time especially if Peighton has school. I can't complain though he is very content and happy baby. He is getting longer and longer it seems... he has such long legs and arms unlike Peighton... it cracks me up how different shaped they are. Henry is becoming more and more alert... enjoying his time on the floor and listening to Peighton read books to him. I am looking forward to seeing him change and grow over the next month :)

another week down...

Well we did it or should I say I did it... a full week of just me and the kiddos. Last Friday, we had to say another goodbye to Brandon as he left to go back to Afghanistan... much harder this time to see him go... we are so grateful for those two weeks!! Then we had to say goodbye to Mimi who headed back to SC on early Tuesday morning... Peighton had the hardest time with that one... she misses her buddy and asks me daily when we going to go to Mimi's house? So now its just the three of us and luckily, we had a successful first week! The weeks are always the easiest to get through... its the weekends that are tough... I am use to handling the day to day stuff but by Saturday I am ready for some reinforcement, ha! Peighton had her typical routine this week with school on Tuesday and Thursday. She was happy that Henry had to come with us this week... she was excited to introduce him to her teachers :) Henry and I enjoyed it just being the two of us during those few hours. We made a commissary trip on Tuesday and had lunch with a friend on Thursday. We are so happy that the weather has been beautiful these past few days and have taken much advantage of it. On Friday, I took the kids to Chickfila and Walmart ( I really should just say I took Peighton but Henry was in tow even if he just slept most of the time). Peighton got a mini golf set, a jump rope and some sidewalk chalk... all great supplies for a weekend outside! Let me just tell you, we had a blast Friday afternoon... our whole front walkway is filled with colorful chalk drawing via Miss Peighton... and who knew jumping rope was such a workout?!? Needless to say, we all were tired that night... Peighton fell asleep on the couch watching her movie. Even Henry enjoyed the sunshine sitting in his bouncer on the front porch :) Saturday was another fantastic weather day... and we headed to the big park on Post. It was very crowded but Peighton still had lots of fun!! And for today, I have an FRG meeting this afternoon... then the weekend will be over/another week down. Its weeks like these that make it seem possible to survive the rest of this seemingly LONG year. But if I look at the smaller picture, it seems even less daunting. The kids and I are headed to SC for Easter and Peighton's spring break. Then Brandon will be home for his R&R sometime around the end of May/beginning of June. Then back to SC for summer vacation... time really does fly!