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Happy Monday to you all!

Workout of the day: Holding your head up

It's super duper hard work...

"mom can I just take a nap here?"

Even with a big brother to encourage you along

saying, "iss ok, Caveman, iss ok"

Poor kiddo has such a big head to hold up :)

Big brother spent his morning working on some fine

motor skills

Left handed?

Right handed?  

Guess the jury's still out on that :)

Hope you all have a great day!

If not I can send Lincoln over to ya 

so he can tell ya,

"iss ok, iss ok"

:)

caedmon {2 months}

Caedmon at 2 months...

-you love your swing (we've found out that the batteries last 8 weeks when it's run almost all day long)

-during the day you are still eating every 2-3 hours

-you take a nice long afternoon nap same time as your brother (most days)

-at night sleeping one 5 (or more!) hour stretch then every 3-4 hours after that
-you've found your voice and have started cooing, along with lots of grunting :)
-you've not found your thumb (thankfully) but you almost try and suck on your entire fist if I don't have the binkie there right away
-at night I've started "topping you off" with a bottle after nursing to help you sleep longer
-the spitting up has decreased, no longer thinking you have reflux
-I think your smiles will appear any day now
-you have rolls like Lincoln has never had - love me a chunky baby
- you love your car seat and fall right to sleep whenever we go somewhere
-you are seriously the best baby ever (knock on wood!) you only cry when you're hungry or have a gas bubble.
-you are getting really good at holding your head up

2 month stats:
weight - 10 lbs 10 oz. 20th percentile (huge jump up from being born at the 4th percentile)
length - 21 in.  - just like your fellow preemie brother you're short and not quite on the curve for length yet but that'll come!  Dr. said it usually shows up in a huge growth spurt around age 6.  Oh and she also did a little calculation to see how tall you might be and according to her calculations you will be 6'3'' I thought that was interesting.

Caedmon, I am truly so lucky to get to be your mommy.  I look at you everyday and think about the little miracle that you are.  It's been 2 months and they have been two of the fastest of my life.  I can't believe how fast time is going.  With your brother, being a preemie, I had that "newborn" phase with him for a long time and with you I feel you're already slipping out of it.  Makes me sad and excited all at the same time.  Sad that this stage of your life is coming to a close but excited for the next ones.

Here you are at 2 months

I misplaced your monthly ties for 2 and 3 months so I had to settled for photoshopping one it :)




And here are the out takes...

Look at that thigh muscle!

Getting so long!

And....here comes big brother...

sweet. sweet. dreams.

We all got to experience some sweet dreams last night

because we all had the opportunity to have a long enough stretch of

sleep to actually HAVE dreams!

Yep that's right, little C-man was a rock star sleeper last night, 

banking 7 hours all at once!  

Until you've experienced the sleep deprivation that comes with a newborn,

you don't fully appreciate a long stretch of sleep.
Seriously I was so excited when I rolled over and saw 4:30am on my clock
that I rolled back over towards Tyler, tapped him on the shoulder until he woke up and
did a little happy dance singing, "he slept 7 hours! he slept 7 hours!"
I know Tyler fully appreciated that, haha!  He proceeded to act excited for me and then
rolled back over and went back to sleep.  :)

Praying that this wasn't a fluke and that it continues!

And just because Caedmon is so cute (I'm not at all biased :)  )

here are a few more pictures....

and I can't leave out this cutie!

super grainy but I had to include it anyway because he's just so adorable in his

new john deere hat :)

Caedmon's 2 month post with stats will be coming soon.
I had to reschedule his appointment from last Thursday to this Tuesday because
I was too sick to take him in.  I'm so curious to see what he weighs.  I'm guessing 11 lbs 4oz.  We'll see.

old school photos

Here are a bunch of random old school photos that I just found the other day and they are NOT in order.

Hope and I before we got our hair cut

And after

almost 2 years old

Dressed up for a volleyball game my senior year

Home Ec did wonderful things for my cooking/baking skills :)

I was SO proud of this beautiful pie!

My little cousin Madison after one of my basketball games

You can't really tell but I'm holding up my awesomely HUGE bangs to show the "stitches imprint" I got from a softball the day before.  Sun got in my eyes during a game and it hit me straight between the eyes

First day of school maybe 5th grade?

Hope and I after a volleyball game with our little cousins Kinsley and Payton

Holding my cousin Madison (from picture above) with other cousin Karinne

My first Christmas 10 months

Hanging out with Jacob waiting for his little sister (one of my best friends) to be born

Club Volleyball

my cousin Zach helping out

Matt and Tyler came to Kansas City for one of my volleyball tournaments 

Wow I totally see both my boys in this picture

Spirit week at school

those were some awesome boots!

my bff Shannon and I

Sweet bangs!

a day in the life with two

Slowly but surely we are adjusting to our new normal and what that now looks like.

Now that Caedmon is giving me one longer stretch of sleep at night

I feel like I can function during the day and get more of a schedule 

figured out for us.

So here is what our days have looked like lately.....

{and I'm sure as soon as I post this, Caedmon will change things up on me....rude :) }

Let's see, I'll start from 12am

Usually we are all sleeping by now.  

2:30am : Caedmon wakes up to nurse, takes about 1/2 hour and then back to

bed for both of us.  He'll fall right back to sleep unless he's got bad gas bubbles, then I'm up burping him for another 10 minutes or so.

6am : Tyler leaves for work. Caedmon is starving again, another 1/2 hour to nurse him.  I then try and get him to go back to sleep so I can sneak in another hour or so of sleep before Lincoln wakes up.

8am : Lincoln wakes up (this is an hour later than his normal time and has only been since Caedmon was born) this has been so great!

We all get up, change diapers, and get some breakfast for Lincoln and myself.

8:30am : Caedmon is ready to eat again.  We all sit and watch one of the following to keep Lincoln happy and good while I sit and nurse.....Cars 2, Nemo, Super Why, Seasame Street, or Dinosaur Train.

9:30am I go upstairs and get ready for the day (this happens earlier if we have to be somewhere that morning)

10am : If we have plans that morning this is the time we are out and about, if not I try and get a load of laundry in, clean up the kitchen, spend my one-on-one time with Lincoln while Caedmon sleeps.

11:30am: Caedmon eats again

12pm : Come home if we've been running errands or at a playdate and eat Lunch.  Caedmon is ready to eat again too

1pm : Lincoln goes down for his nap and hopefully by then Caedmon is asleep too and mommy can lay down for a nap or have my quiet time.

2:30pm : yup feeding the Caedmon again!

4pm : Lincoln is awake by now and I start thinking about supper

5:30pm : If we're lucky, Tyler is home by now!

6pm : we all eat supper...including Caedmon

6pm-7:30pm : Time as a family playing with Lincoln

8pm : Lincoln is in bed

9pm : Caedmon nurses again and goes to bed for the evening

9:30-11pm :  Tyler and I try to spend some time together before heading off to bed ourselves

And then we start all over again!

It's tiring but I wouldn't change it for the world :)

Photo Challenge {days 10-20}

Day 10: Childhood memory

Hope and I before my first dance recital (4 or 5 yrs old?) Mom do you remember?

It was so fun looking back at old pictures, I'm going to do another post on the other pictures I found

(it's a pictures of a picture so that's why it's so blurry)

Day 11: Where you sleep

Yep, unmade bed and all....when I start getting more sleep at night I'll have the energy to 

start making our bed again!

 Day 12: Close up

Day 12: In your bag

My diaper bag stuffed with all things baby

Day 14: Something your reading

Awesome book on marriage that our small group is reading

Day 15: Happiness

Skyping with Grandma Hunni

 Day 16: Morning

Lincoln's newest request for breakfast each morning - cereal bars from Trader Joe's

Day 17: Water

I'm so sick of drinking so much water....but I really need to keep it up!

Day 18: Something you bought

This big vase with sticks was marked WAY down at Target and I couldn't pass it up

Day 19: Sweet

Day 20: Someone you love

Two "someone's" that I love