Shot through the heart!

Yesterday, Sulli and I took baby Ben to the doctor for his 2 month appointment. He is doing great as we expected. He weighs 11 lbs. 13 ounces and is 24 inches long. He is in the 50th percentile for weight and 90th for height. These are the same percentiles he was in at his 2 week weigh in. Now...compared to his brother??? Sulli at his 2 month appointment was 14 pounds 13 ounces. A whole 3 pounds more!!! And Sulli was 24 and 5/8 inches long. So length is pretty close. I have a string bean on my hands this time. I think I got a bit more Strand pumped into Ben.

Then came the dreaded time for the shots. I remember with Sulli that I held him on my lap and cried the whole time it was happening and for a while afterwards. This time, I didn't want that to happen because I don't want Sulli to be scared and traumatized. So I layed Ben down and walked away to sit with Sulli out of sight of the "pokers". It just ripped my heart out though when that little scream happened. Poor buddy! He quieted down fairly quickly though. He had some fussy times yesterday which I was attributing to the shots but seems to be doing just fine this morning.

I don't think that it will ever be easy to be with your kiddos and watch them get shots. Will forever pull my heart strings!

Sweet Boy!

Sulli wanted to hold his baby so I placed Ben on his lap. I quickly went to grab the camera for this photo op and returned to find Sulli trying to nurse Ben. At poor Ben's expense, I was laughing and taking pictures as he was being smothered against Sulli's chest. So funny! And so cute!

Day with Mom

I dropped Ben off at Mimi and Bumpa's this morning and Sulli and I headed off. I was excited about a few hours alone with my little man. Granted, it was only a trip to Costco for mom's eye appointment and some shopping, but I was looking forward to being able to just focus on Sulli for a bit. He was very well behaved during my appointment and enjoyed a sucker while shopping (my new found favorite distractor during shopping trips). We then went to visit Daddy at his office and found out that he had locked his keys in his truck. So our quick visit turned into lunch while waiting for the locksmith. Found out that we had free locksmith services through Geico (thank you God!). Ben had a good morning/afternoon at the grandparents. I arrived to pick him up and Bumpa had him sleeping sweetly on the ottoman on his changing pad. Too cute.

Later that afternoon and into the evening, my sweet Sulli turned into a tiny terror. But the time Evan arrived home at 9pm, I was in tears. It was just a long day full of "I want, I want, I want", "NO, NO, NO", crying, growling, waking the baby, scaring the baby, screaming at mom, more crying.........

You get the picture. I had just had it. I was done. I had one of those evenings. Now that my rant is over, I love my children dearly. I also love when my husband walks in the door as well.

Sometastic!

I just love the vocabulary of a two year old. Sulli says and does some darn cute stuff. We were driving in the car the other day and I pointed out some horses that were running. Sulli's response was "Mom, that's sometastic!" That is my word for the week...my life is sometastic! I hope that you have a sometastic day.

Doctor, Doctor!

I had my first check up since the delivery yesterday with Dr. Kelly Suidzinski. I still am just amazed that you give birth to a child, a fairly traumatic event. You walk out the doors of the hospital and they don't want to see you for at least 6 weeks. Are you sure? Do you know what I just did? Do you understand what just happened down there? And you really don't want to see me for 6 weeks? Crazy! But I survived and so does everyone else I guess. But just to put all of your minds at ease, I'm fine...the check-up went well. Now for the decision of contraception! Evan isn't going to let me pull the abstinance card any more.

This was only the second time for me to meet Dr. Kelly. The first meeting was in the delivery room. My doctor is battling cancer and was undergoing intense treatment during the time that I had Ben. Dr. Kelly was the one on call. She is great though and I will be transferring to her care as I don't think that my doctor will be returning. As a side note, keep Brenda Williams in your prayers. She is a strong lady but has been fighting a terrible battle for 14 years. Anyways, got a picture of Ben with the woman who caught him coming out of the chutes!

Girl Time

I had the chance to spend some time with some very important girls this weekend. Tracy, Kate, April, and I met up at Java downtown for some much needed chatting. It is so nice to be able to talk about anything and everything with these gals. And laugh...oh do we laugh! Our connection to eachother starting with our small group that meets on Thursday nights. But our connections now go way past that. We were missing two of our small group gals at this outing. Tosha had some last minute family arrive. And our sweet Danielle is representing our small group abroad as she teaches in Ecuador.

TWO MONTHS!

My little Baby Benny is eight weeks old tomorrow. I cannot believe how fast time flies. I can...but I can't. He is such a wonderful baby. Crabby at night but truly a pretty happy boy. He is doing lots of smiling when you baby talk to him. He also is starting to coo and goo right along with you. Sulli was taking a nap today so while we had some alone time I captured some of his funny faces.

He had enough of the paparazzi action and put an end to my picture taking. Such a popular little guy. He must get tired of all the attention! No more Mommy-talk to the hand!