Life with two...

Boy oh boy...two kids is alot harder than one. Everybody says so but it is. Especially when your oldest is having some adjustment issues. Micah still loves Sadie Jane...but he also loves to pitch a good fit. Like in the middle of playing or being completely happy. I have joked but counseling hasn't been ruled out. I guess that is his problem. He can't communicate how he feels about all this change so he gets some attention by going completely (I mean, completely) nuts! Here he is holding the bottle that only a woman who had birthed a baby would recognize:)... don't judge me, we payed for it, might as well get some use out of it, right? I have to be really resourceful at how to keep him occupied when I am having to deal with a newborn most of the day at the same time. Micah has spent as almost as much time in timeout as Sadie Jane has spent nursing...she's already 11 and a half pounds so you know that is alot! Today though at the end of time out I went to remind him why he was there and I talked to him about obeying...I asked him what the Bible says about obeying because we go over that alot...and he said "Children, obey your parents...that is your mommy and your daddy." He memorized his first scripture verse! I was proud and frustrated all at once:) Then at the end of the next session...he started singing Jesus Loves Me, apparently he realized the spiritual card got him out faster. Oh boy, what a strong willed and smart boy we have.
I thought I would make a list about all the good and the bad again for memories sake:

The good things about having two kiddos:
~ Love is multiplied not divided.
~ The way Micah sings and talks to Sadie Jane.
~ Seeing Mick continue to be a superdad.
~ You let so much stuff that bothered you with one go right out the window.
~ There is so much I thought I could never handle/do/believe but when there is no choice I've made do.
~ You are no longer afraid to ask for help.
~ Having a boy and a girl is definitely a gift.
~ Entertainment for both.

The bad (or difficult) things about having two kiddos:
~ Everybody goes to the bathroom at the same time.
~ But they never nap at the same time.
~ Time is divided not multiplied.
~ Tantrums!!!
~ When you are watching one child the spouse no longer gets a break...they get the other child!
~ Nursing takes lots of time and seems a lot longer when you have a toddler destroying your home.

There are so many more I have thought of but no time to write them down.
Truthfully it is hard but I do love how complete our family feels. Sadie Jane seems like she was made just for us and even Micah seems to recognize the gift. Mick and I haven't spoken very much to each other directly but I know that we will soon. We are extremely blessed and I am well aware, I just thought I would share these things mainly for humor so don't go thinking I don't know how truly good we have it.

Sweet Sadie Jane...

has turned into Sad Sadie Jane these last few weeks. We discovered a week ago that she had acid reflux and have been battling it ever since. We just spent a week on Zantac and went back today because instead of improving she was worsening. Got a prescription for prevacid and we are praying that it does the trick. She is such a sweet girl but it is hard to see her personality through the tears and writhing in pain she's been doing. Today she started refusing to eat and when you are breastfeeding that is just exhausting...and I think she has started corelating that when Momma feeds me I hurt. So she is like could you please get that woman and her breasts away from me! Which makes me so sad too. These pictures are of her in her favorite place and the only place she'll sleep other than her carseat. It is the beloved bouncy seat. Oh how we love thee! I took these because she had gotten her thumb in her mouth, wriggled completely out of the swaddle and one sock. Silly girl! We actually just got her to take a paci yesterday which helped immensely with her screaming bouts. So funny how things change - I fought giving Micah a pacifier for weeks...with SJ we are cramming it down her throat. Ahhh, the joys of the second. Even with all her issues we love her so much. She started talking today, cooing sortof, it is already getting to be a blur. Maybe that is just sleep deprivation.

Oh and Micah got bit at school today. He came home with a note about it but didn't say anything. When I asked him, he said oh yeah, a girl bite my shirt, but I'm all better. Glad to finally be on the receiving end of the biting spectrum. No judgement from this Momma for sure. I hate that he was hurt but wonder if he was taking someone's toy or what he did to provoke a chomping? Fortunately he was completely unphased by it. He is so funny these days. I have got to make a post about that in my spare time.

Please pray that Sadie Jane is better soon!

Harvest Party 2009

All the kiddos plus the two of us who couldn't put our babies down on the floor:)

Jake, Paxton and Micah...

Jake was the only one in costume.

Right after Mick stopped taking the picture Amy got one with all of them smiling and looking!

My two sweeties! Yeah for a picture with both of them.

Amy and Rex and I...Rex was way past ready to go home!

Uncle Mick Mick with Sadie Jane! So cute!

All the girls! Yeah for girls! Love these ladies!

Nasty armpit and Mick...he was the only adult dressed up. He was Larry the Cable Guy. Not a far stretch dear.

Val, the lone adult in a room full of wild indians...see below....

Nice.

Two cutest ladybugs in town!

We hosted our annual Harvest Party for the third year in a row. For those that don't know I don't really like the premise of Halloween, etc. so I call it Harvest to make myself feel better about throwing a party:) I wasn't sure we could pull it off this year with Sadie Jane being so little but we did! I usually don't enjoy parties at my house because I worry about if everyone is having fun, etc. But tonight I didn't really worry and I actually had fun! There were again lots of hands to hold Sadie Jane and Micah actually played well, shared and didn't bite anyone (he hasn't in a long time but you never know). So, I get to visit with friends and talk which was such a treat. It was so rainy that we didn't take the kids trickortreating but they didn't seem to mind or notice. Near the end I let them go out and ring our door bell and trickortreat at our house....nice...I know. Sadie Jane was so good and slept through most of the party and nursed and cried a little but it was fun to be around so many friends. Thanks to those who came and if you didn't and you are in the neighborhood next year stop by!

Who am I? I am really loosing it. But I had fun tonight and Micah never put on his costume, Sadie Jane had on a onesie and no hair accesories and I didn't get any pictures of them in costume. Instead of being upset with myself I am proud. Maybe I will loosen up a little yet. Oh, who am I kidding...I am sure it was just a lapse I'll be back to my nonsense tomorrow:)

Lunchtime Halloween Party!

Dracula. Ahhh!
Trying to be Dracula...

Nana, Pops and all the Grandkids. Either we have to stop having kids or Pops has to get a bigger lap:)

Nice. I know, I know not a good thing to put baggies on their faces...we went over it after the pic.

Sadie Jane with her hairbow...she kept getting mistaken for a boy. Boo hiss.

Nana did not like the bow or the fact that it was upsetting her sweet grandbaby!

Lining up for the pinata. Wendy is brave to have the pinata at all her parties.

All smiles for Bay. So cute cousins. You can tell SJ already looks up to Bay.

So sweet.

The only two pictures of Micah in his pumpkin costume.

Our pea in a pod. This is the only pic of her in costume too.

We partyed it up all day long for Halloween. Micah I think thought it was someone's birthday. We went to Aunt Wendy and Uncle Mick Mick's for a party at their house. It was packed with kiddos but lots of fun. Good food and lots of things for Micah to do and lots of hands to hold Sadie Jane. We headed home from there to clean our house and get ready for our annual Harvest Party. Thanks Wendy and Mickey for a fun afternoon! Great Job!

Fall Party at School

Micah sat and obeyed the whole stinkin' time I was there...whose kid is that?
saying the blessing the way Mrs. Mann does it...

showing me what Mrs. Mann does:)

Getting a picture of 2 year olds not so easy.

Micah wasn't real keen on getting to close for a picture after the kid next to him had just almost puked on him.

So today was Micah's Fall Party at school. I haven't mentioned much about it since my many worrying posts. I went with Micah today to the party and we had a great time and it was so fun to see how he acts in a different surrounding. Unfortunately about 2.5 minutes after we arrived the kid next to Micah puked everywhere. Now, while I feel very sorry for that boy and his momma it totally consumed my thoughts the rest of the party. I worried that somehow he breathed Sadie Jane's way or that Micah was in turn going to get it. It was a year ago that we all got the stomach virus in this house...and you all know how dreaded it can be. So while the party was fun my worrying has just begun and will continue til we are out of the window of opportunity.

Enough of that, my momma says I should think positive and think that we will be fine...but then it would catch me off guard and you all know how I need my expectations to be ready and on target. Anyways, I said enough...

I thought I would let you know that aside from the sicknesses that we are picking up from Micah's class it has been a great thing thus far. Micah loves school and is learning alot. His teacher is a really godly woman and makes it much easier to leave him. He loves her so much and talks about her alot. It is so hard to figure out what goes on at school though because these are the only things that he tells me about school:

~ Mrs. Mann and Hannah were the only people in his class.

~ They had peanuts for snacks (almost every day)...no worries, they never actually have.

~ They go to the playground when it is raining.

~ Someone bit him.

~ Someone pulled his shirt.

~ Mrs. Mann says a better blessing than we do.

Apparently they are teaching kids to lie at the baptist preschools.

Seriously, it has been a blessing to have a little bit of time to spend with Sadie Jane and to have Micah do something other than watch tv while I nurse her. I also can make it to the store much easier with one child. Micah hasn't picked up anything noticably worldly or changed his attitude for the worse, my main concerns. And all that time I thought I would be able to devote to homeschooling etc, just isn't there right now...prayerfully it will be in the future. But for now and this season, school has been a blessing for us and obviously a way for Micah to learn more about Jesus which is most important to me. (Not that we aren't at home, but the reinforcement doesn't hurt a bit.) So to most of you thanks for the push to let him go...unless we get the stomach virus...then the thankfulness will be hard to see through vomit.

MMC Party!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Party! Just thought this was so cute. The only time Micahbird sits still is when the Mouse is on! He also loved the treat of eating in front of the tv, something we don't let him do usually:)

oh dear, Jesus...

Micah had such a good day yesterday and today. He is starting to adjust I think and needing to show out less and less for more attention. We'll see if it lasts for the long haul. After much talk with other momma's I think Sadie Jane has reflux. She hasn't been herself since the night before we went to Columbus. Lots of spitting up and crying...like she's in pain. So the only appt I could get today is at 230. Micah's nap time is 2 or 230...and we are all going to the doctor solo. Holy moly...please help us Jesus. I hate that Micah has been so good and I am now setting him up for a good spankin' because I know the combo of doctor office and napneeding is too much for anyone to handle. So if you read this soon...pray hard. Also pray we figure out what is wrong with SJ and that we don't pick up the swine flu in the process!