Since newborn days are foggy and fleeting, I’m trying my best to remember this time around. In no particular order or coherent flow, here’s what life has been like lately. Thoughts are jumbled, just like my brain right now but at least it’s being recorded, right?
{One of my favorite candid photos – Ben was crying during his bath and Sky brought in the record player to try to make him feel better}
Ben is already a month old. WHAT? I’m already regretting not taking enough photos of his little tiny self in the early days. Other than the birth, I don’t think I have any of him and I together so I need to work on that. I THINK he is weighing a little over 7 pounds now but that’s just my estimate based on our home scale. He’s a tiny dude.
Life with two kids is…um…interesting now that Josh has gone back to work. I feel like I’m juggling 24/7. When one stops crying, the other starts. When one is sleeping, the other isn’t. When one has a poopy diaper, the other has just made a different mess.
Eating is a challenge. It never fails that as soon as I begin preparing any food that requires heating, someone starts crying or needs something. Once I finally get coffee made in the morning, I re-heat it no less than 5 times. It takes me hours to finish a cup. I’m resigning to the fact that I’ll be eating cold food or surviving on liquids for the next year. Right now, I’m just trying to eat ENOUGH to sustain nursing.
{Toys everywhere…all the time}
Speaking of nursing, within a 24 hour span, I’m spending about 8 solid hours feeding Ben. Half the time, it goes smoothly. The other half is stressful…kicking, and screaming…latching on and off 50 million times. We’re working on it. I feel like a cow and I’m constantly covered in curdled milk {ewww}. Ben is BIG on the spitting up and we might need to get it checked if it doesn’t improve. He absolutely cannot lie flat AT ALL anytime. Otherwise, everything comes back up. I’m determined to exclusively breastfeed at least 6 months and then will reevaluate. Hopefully by then it will be smooth sailing and I can go just as long as I did with Sky.
{All of my boys – Sky likes to hang out and play in Ben’s room when we change diapers!}
Other than kid care, my priorities right now are as follows: sleep, eat, shower/brush teeth, laundry, dishes, family time, and hopefully a blog post once or twice a week. Makeup, hair, CLEANING, decorating, and my vast to-do list are off the table right now and I’m trying to ignore them and not get upset over all the unfinished business but it’s hard when we are home all day and it’s all staring me in the face.
{Sky loves to take photos with his camera…a gift from baby brother when he arrived}
Sky has been a pill and a sweetheart simultaneously. When I’m home alone with him, he watches way too much TV but I don’t know what else to do while I feed Ben. He’s been fighting a nasty cold which has made him particularly feisty and there are some days I don’t want to even be around him he’s so cranky. Bring on the mom guilt. On the up side, he’s gotten a little more independent since Ben came along. He will play with his toys for longer periods of time and has started staying in his room at night. He’s saying hilarious things, being a helper, and showing more understanding and empathy when I need to take care of Ben. I know he’s just trying to adjust too so I’m trying to maintain patience.
{Sky playing in his new sandbox at Nana’s house! P.S. – did you know that he’s THREE?}
Ben is pretty chill and only cries when he’s poopy/wet, gassy, hungry, or wants to be held {which is a lot} but just in the past few days, he’s started to get more fussy and vocal {reflux? growing? gas? I don’t know…}. He’s still sleeping in our room and is waking up anywhere form 2-3 times a night. Ben had his first restaurant visit to El Toreador, also the first restaurant I ever visited all the way back in 1982. I love that it’s still around. It was here that I also had my first margarita in about 10 months – sooo very good.
All in all, we are hanging in there! I know for sure I need to be drinking more water and getting out of the house more. Even on the sunny days we’ve been having, it’s been hard to see the light of day or muster up enough courage to venture out in public. Hopefully it will get easier with time {although I remember people saying “it will get easier” with Sky and I never really thought it did….just different…but still as hard..hmmm}.
One month down, many many many more years to go!
It’s not very often I get to sit around and ponder what my “dream kitchen” would look like so I was very excited to get to partner with Electrolux to share my design inspiration with you! As many of you know, we are currently residing in my Grandmother’s 1970 rambler. It’s a great house but the kitchen is dated and not as functional as it could be. It still looks like 
