Personal Goal...

I've been thinking a lot about being able to shed this baby weight. 6 week mark is tomorrow and that is about when they let you return to "normal activities". I honestly can't wait. Goals are terrific things and I decided that I wanted to up my previous goal of running a 5K to running a 10K (6.2 miles). I've already ran 3 5K's in the last few years and loved the feeling of being able to run across the finish line. So over the weekend I bought me a new pair of running shoes and I'm ready to go on Monday. I literally have 6 weeks before the 10K on June 6th so wish me luck! In other news, Lucas slept 6 solid hours last night and I'm hoping that keeps on continuing. I know it doesn't last forever and I already see changes in him. He definitely has gotten longer and getting a pot belly. Did I fail to mention he rolled over at 4 weeks? I thought it was a fluke at first so I put him on his belly again and there he went. He probably rolls over atleast once a day. I'm trying to get a video of it without him getting mad. Zachary is being Zachary. Definitely loves to go visit everybody. The cast definitely does not slow him down a bit. His newest thing is building a tent out of our dining room table. Imagination is alive for sure. Jason has been wonderful with everything and helping out as much as he can. Family is great! I truly feel blessed for what Heavenly Father has given me.

Easter pics

This year for Easter I found a Easter Egg stamp kit and a paint roller kit at Target. So we did it for one of our Family Home Evenings. I wouldn't have done it the egg dying way with Zachary because I'm sure Zachary would have tried to dye the house. Zachary dove right on in and we created some pretty eggs. Then our church had a Easter Egg hunt at the park that Zachary participated in. It's safe to say Zachary was strung out on Easter candy for a couple of days thereafter. We had a good time. I thought it would be fun to put Zachary's Easter basket outside his bedroom door that way when he woke up he would come out and see it. It worked, but not the way I thought it would go. Lucas had been pretty fussy that night and I just got to lay back down when 30 mins later Zachary woke up. I honestly don't remember a thing after that. I thought Zachary would come show me his basket, but he didn't. So I woke up to cleaning up a mess of Easter grass, candy and wrappers. Which in return made us late to church. Oh well better luck next time I guess. I hope everybody had a nice Easter.

This is what Lucas did while we were doing Easter Eggs.

Sleep deprived

Lucas is now a month old and we still have weeks to go for a good night's sleep. That is if he follows Zachary's pattern of 6 solid hours of sleep at 6 weeks. Definitely a lot more challenging having 2. We are hanging in there though. Zachary still is in love with "his" baby Lucas. Every now and then he gets mad when Lucas is crying in the car and won't stop. But that is after he has tried giving him his pacifier or singing to him. I really couldn't ask for more from Zachary. It's been a tough week though as Lucas has been pretty colicky. I'm not a big fan of a pacifier, but it's been a sleep saver. I'm hoping his colic doesn't get any worse. I have total pitty for those moms that have a really bad colicky baby. I haven't taken many pictures as I'm just plain worn out. Here are a few from today.

Thank goodness for hard casts...

Well Zachary was able to get a cast on yesterday. Yippie! He was very excited that they had his favorite color. Now we just have to keep it dry for 6 weeks and we'll be good.

Here are some more pictures of Lucas and Zachary.

What birthday?!

I'm not sure how I knew my birthday would suck this year but I've known it for months. I just figured I would be too tired to do anything anyway so nothing was planned. Which was fine with me as the older you get the less you care. My day started out with me waking up and realizing Jason hadn't said Happy Birthday to me before he left. Zachary was getting tired of sitting in the house so we left to go to Anna's house for a bit. House to house is about all I'm willing to do with a nearly 3 week old. Everything was going fine until we heard a loud thud. At first glance, I didn't see any blood and only a small bump on his forehead. Then he told me his arm hurt and sure enough HE BROKE HIS ARM AGAIN!! It's the same arm at the same place except instead of breaking both major bones he broke only one. We took him to the Urgent Care place. He did really good and didn't really cry that much. They did have to put him under so they could reset it. It broke at a 40% angle. I'm not sure how he could have broken it again as the Orthopedic said last time that the bone would be much stronger. Definitely a question I'm going to get an answer to when I take him back to the Ortho today. Here are the pictures of the x-rays the one from 2 years ago and the one from yesterday.

2 years ago:

Yesterday:

Luckily Lucas was asleep the whole time so I was able to hold Zachary in my lap. He really didn't cry that hard like you think he would have.

He may look awake here, but he's out cold. Ofcourse you can see me trying not to cry as the Dr. is setting his arm.

What a happy face I have on huh....

Awake and loopy. Ofcourse we brought the mask home!!

My most delicious birthday cake Anna made for me. I was just so tired at that point that I look completely crazy... Happy Birthday to me....

Motherhood rocks!

Twice blessed

Life at home is sort of settling in as much as it can with a 3 1/2 year old and a newborn. We definitely feel that we have been twice blessed with our sons. Even just saying "sons" still seems foreign. Zachary has adjusted just fine with Lucas being home and mama not able to do everything right then and there. It helps that he is independent and can get himself some snacks & etc. I'm healing really nicely and am able to move around freely. Sleep deprivation is getting easier to deal with. Nobody wakes up at 3am feedings, but me. Sure is boring at that time of the night. This last week we had my sister Heather & lot come down to see Lucas. It was just like 3 years ago that they had come down to see Zachary. Time does fly. Here are some pictures with the family and some new ones of Lucas.


staring hard at mama...

Here is my attempt at doing our own hospital photo. The doctors released me so randomly that the photo people didn't have a chance to come by our room. They upgraded their picture process and so it's like triple the amount we paid for Zachary's first photo. So we figured why not just try to do one ourselves. It's actually really hard to get him to look straight up...still thought these were pretty cute though.

We're Home!!

We thankfully got released from the hospital around 3pm on Wednesday. Definitely was nice to take a shower and sleep in my own bed! We are all doing great. Zachary just woke up from his nap as we were coming in the door. He was confused at first to see us home. Then he looked in the car seat and saw Lucas he was even more excited! He has been doing nothing but kissing his head, touching his fingers & etc. He has been very sweet and protective over his brother. He is ever ready to change a diaper, feed him a bottle or hold him. Even if that does change it has been nice to see Zachary interacting with him. Dogs have been somewhat of a pain. Every noise that Lucas makes they have to go check it out. They just want to lick and sniff him every chance they can get. No aggression has been shown. I honestly didn't even think about what the dogs would do. Cats ofcourse care less. Other than Ella thinking every blanket we put down is for her to lay on... We put down some of Lucas' dirty blankets & stuff for the dogs to sniff over. It seemed to calm them down a bit along with putting them on leashes. Here are a few pictures from Wed. before we left the hospital and once we got home.

I know this one is a bit dark, but I didn't want to flash him ;)

He loves to sleep all snuggled down deep..


Zachary ofcourse wanted to sit next to Lucas while watching tv. I'm sure at some point he will think that Lucas will want to watch with him too.


There is nothing like a nice warm baby to make you want to sleep too!

Zachary just didn't want to stay out of the picture so I told him to pretend he was sleeping too. With his pretending he had to start snoring and cracked us up.