family...

Sometimes I take for granted all the family that lives around me, we are so grateful that both my sisters, their families, and my mom and dad all live in McKinleyville. I know most people aren't as lucky to have their families so close. Not only do we all live close, but we all get along great, yes we do argue, but usually one sister is the peacemaker(usually Janelle:)) and we quickly get over whatever the argument was. If we can't figure it out between the sisters, we all try to beat each other to call mom and get her on "our side" you would think by now we would figure out that she doesn't take sides, just tells us to get over it and move on.

Last night we had all the family over for dinner and it got me thinking how close we all are. All of us were planning on making our own dinners at our own houses, but how boring, right? Everyone just brought what they were going to make and we cooked it all at our house and had a feast and lots of fun. It is always a hoot to see all the kids play together and it makes the nights go by so much faster when they are entertaining each other. None them really fight, once in a while we have to make sure that they aren't being too big of daredevils!

Loving Life

So I made it through my first week with two little boys, and honestly it was much easier than anticipated. Bowdy has been on the very consistent schedule since birth, so I had the same plan with Carson. My only struggle with Carson was trying to plan how I wanted his schedule to be because I needed it to work with Bowdys so I wasn't running around crazy trying to please two children, I need some mom time as well!

Bowdy's schedule is:

8 am -Wake up... Milk and Breakfast

10 am-12 pm: Nap

12pm: Lunch

12:30-2:00: Playtime

2-4: Nap

4:snack

5:30: dinner

6:30: Bath

7:30:Bed Time

Carson's Schedule:

8am:Wake... Feed

9-11:Sleep

11:00: Feed and Wake time

12-2: Sleep

2:00 Feed and Wake time

3-5:Sleep

5:00:Feed and Wake time

6-8:Sleep

8:00:Feed and straight back to bed

11:00:Feed and straight back to bed

4:00 am: Feed and straight back to bed

8:00 am: Start it all over!

As you can see Carson pretty much sleeps and eats and when he has wake time it usually only last 30 minutes or so. I'm pretty happy with how both of their schedules align, but having them both wake up at 8 am is a little tricky, Bowdy usually sleeps till 8:15 or 8:30 so that gives me enough time to get Carson fed. I might have to start waking Carson up at 7:30 when I go back to work so I can get out of the house at a decent hour!

Anyway... I want to thank my sister Danielle for introducing us all to babywise, without her testing this philosophy out on her own children I probably would be going insane having two babies at home!