My Favorite Day

The best times that I have now are when Michael is home and we have special time together as a family. Last Friday was one of those days. After a spectacular breakfast of blueberry pancakes, bacon and eggs, we went to the California State Train Museum in Old Sacramento. What a fun day! Lucas really loved seeing all of the train stuff, especially the toy trains, Thomas the Train play area and the sleeper car that you could walk through which moved and sounded like a real train.

I love all being together, getting out of the house for a change and seeing the world through the precious eyes of a child.

Tummy Time

These two definitely look like siblings, don't they?

I had Emily on her tummy for exercise and she was holding herself up. I told Lucas to look at what a good job Emily was doing on her tummy. He lay down next to her to show me that he too could push himself up.

Mama is Funny

At least someone thinks so.

Emily is becoming more and more precious and aware every day. She greets me with her beautiful smile every morning when I get her out of bed. Most infants scream to be fed first thing in the morning. She wakes up happy and content around 7:30 am after sleeping all night long!! That is better than her almost 2 year old brother does. He has been a crazy morning person lately, awakening sometime during the five o'clock hour much to our dismay.

The dietary restrictions may be a big pain in the rumpus, but Emily sure is a sweet, easy going kid to make up for it.

Question of the Day

Why is the W not called the double V? Or why doesn't it look like UU instead?

These are the depths of my thoughts when my social interaction is with a one year old and an infant all day long.

In high school, I was accused of being not very deep by a boy I liked. Well, look at me now, Julian. I am renaming letters. How dumb does that make you feel?

Day Trip

We went to San Francisco for a day when my family visited over the holidays. Katie was the only one who remembered her camera, so thanks to her and her artistic eye for these great shots. I love Lucas' modeling picture and the one of three generations (me, Emily and my parents). Lucas and his daddy feeding the birds is pretty precious, too. It was a really special day. We have to get out like that more often.

The Kiddos

Emily is getting so big. At 3 months now, she is rolling over, smiling like crazy when she gets attention or is looking at the fan, squeals and "talks." I think that she is well on her way to laughing soon, too. Can't wait to hear it and see who or what causes it. I think that either Mike or Lucas will get the first laugh.

Lucas is growing up so quickly, as well. He is still pretty finicky with food and seems to prefer snacks to meals. He also likes juice more than milk and dessert more than real food. I guess that he is probably pretty normal like that. It stinks, though, because he is still skinny and small and often doesn't eat much of what I prepare for him. Like today for example, I gave him a super lunch of mac and cheese with ground beef, strawberries, beets (all his favorites or at least very well liked), milk and juice. He sat there just drinking the juice and not eating anything else. Seeing this, I took the juice away. He protested for awhile and finally ate one slice of strawberry. And that's it. "All done. ALL DONE!" he kept yelling. And then he wanted a cookie when I ate one. I said, "No Way." Oh, why do I bother most of the time? So stinkin' frustrating sometimes!! I wish that I could not care, but it is hard when he is not normal sized. I know, I know...he's fine...but still...

Big Boy

Perhaps it was a fluke, but this morning, Lucas went pee pee in his potty. Maybe this is the beginning of potty training and soon diapers will go by the wayside. How nice it would be to only have to change one kid's pants!

Diet

I am not enjoying my dietary restrictions and am starting to get pretty discouraged with breastfeeding. If I was limited as to what I could eat, it would be tough but tolerable, but Emily continues to have blood in her diaper and a rash. So basically, I can't eat anything good and my little girl is still having problems.

Her pediatrician is sending us to a GI doctor. The same one that put me on the even more restrictive diet with Lucas-the hellish one where I couldn't eat dairy, soy, wheat, eggs, citrus,nuts and berries. I'm looking forward to seeing her again...let me tell you.

This diet makes me very food obsessive,too. When I come across something I can eat, I gorge myself. Yesterday I downed 1/2 a Trader Joe's dark chocolate bar with raisins and pecans. Yum. And then I ran 4 miles in the rain to make up for it.

New Years Day

We went to a park on New Years Day and enjoyed our last day of Mike's vacation as a family. It was beautiful out and Lucas had a ball sliding, swinging and finally exploring the nearby field with his Daddy, while Emily slept the day away.