Milo's favorite toy.

Milo loves to kick so I went and picked up Eve's old kicking toy from storage and he loves it but he gets upset at the end when he kicks it too far away. Eve likes to play with it too.

A day in our life.

Most days having 2 kids is pretty much the same as having 1. There are times that having 2 kids can be difficult though.

Today I thought I still had some time before Milo woke up from his nap and decided to quick take a shower. I asked Eve to come tell me if Milo started crying so I would hurry and end my shower. She is usually really good at this. Today I get out of the shower and I hear him screaming. I asked Eve why she didn't tell me and she said she was being lazy and that he had been fussing since right after I got in the shower. Nice. So I quickly dry off and throw on my bathrobe and go make a bottle for Milo and then go to change him. So I have just taken Milo's diaper off when Eve comes running through the living room and trips over my yoga mat. She is bawling on the ground. She has become such a klutz these days it is ridiculous. I ask if she is ok. She cries but I am in the middle of changing Milo's diaper so there is not much I can do for her at that second. By the time I finish changing Milo and am about to go tend to Eve I realize she is standing at Milo's doorway in tears and holding her elbow. I set Milo down and try and substitute his pacifier for the bottle he really wants. Take a look at Eve and realize that her elbow is bleeding. I am now freaked out that she has a broken elbow or has massively screwed it up on the inside since it is bleeding and she fell on a yoga mat so it isn't like there was anything to make her bleed. I clean off the blood and realize it is from a small hole in her arm. By this time Milo realizes that he is sucking on his pacifier instead of his bottle and lets both of us know he is not happy about it. Eve is still bawling hysterically. I have her practice bending and unbending her arm. She seems to do it without wincing in pain although she still is crying nonstop. I now need to decided who to take care of...do I...1. comfort Eve or 2. Feed Milo? This is a hard one to decided. So I start by cuddling Eve figuring if I get a minute of really good snuggle time in she should be ok and then I will be able to reassess the arm situation on whether it deserves a call into the Dr. So as I am holding her (Milo is still crying) and ask her to explain what happened. It wasn't the fall on the yoga mat that cut her arm it was the tacks that hold the carpeting at a doorway that had stabbed her. After initial fall she was army crawling towards us and hit her elbow just perfectly on the tack. After she told me the story she stopped crying but still wanted to be held. So I picked up Milo with Eve still in my lap and somehow managed to feed him. Everyone was happy in the end but dealing with this made me wonder...How do people do this with more than 2 kids or people who have kids really close in age where both kids are needy all the time. I am in awe of those people because that is a lot to handle.

*Between the first fall and when Milo got his bottle was only about 5 minutes so it wasn't like I was neglecting him.

Cranker McCrankerpants

That shall be Milo's new name. He has taken to fighting naps during the day. Once he takes his nap he is awesome but getting him to fall asleep is a total chore. At least he still sleeps well at night.

2 months and 4 year visits.

So we took both kids to the Dr. yesterday. Eve had her 4 year appointment and got 4 shots. She did amazing at them and only cried at the end which made me get a little teary. Milo got 4 shots and one oral vaccine. So we had 2 kids and 8 shots. They both were pretty good last night and we promised to take Eve to build-a-bear today as a special present for being so good during her shots. I happen to have $20 in free coupons for there so it was the perfect way to bribe her. Milo is bigger than Eve was at a year. At a year Eve was 13lbs 3oz and 23.5 inches.

Milo
Weight: 13lbs 3oz
Height 25 inches

Eve
Weight: 31.6 lbs
Height: 39 inches

Singing

Last weekend when we were at Adam's parents house they wanted to know if Eve wanted to sleep with them. She didn't want to while I don't blame her because she isn't super close with them this coming from a kid who always finds ways to scam her way into our bed or into my parent's bed ALL.THE.TIME. I knew it kind of hurt their feelings and since I am trying to help her become closer to them I struck a deal with her that if she slept with them this one time I would let her spend the night in our bed when we got home for one night. She agreed as long as I also sang her our song. Not a big deal right? Well I go to put her down and Adam's parent's bed and my mother-in-law laid with her. So Eve is like sing my song now mom. So I had to sing the song in front of my mother-in-law. I have a TERRIBLE singing voice but I did it even though I was super embarrassed and she spent the night with them and all were happy.

So here is our song sung by the person who should sing it to her every night because I am going to make her tone def with my singing.

4th of July weekend.

2 months!

What happens when you wait until 8:00pm to take pictures of your son?

He gets tuckered out after 2 pictures.