6 month and 2 year stats...

Izyk is 27.25 inches long and 20.1 lbs.


Charley is 32.5 inches tall and 26.8 lbs.


Little brother is catching up.

Happy Birthday Charley man!!

Days like birthdays are when I wish we lived closer to family. Not that his birthday was BAD, it's just that immediate family wasn't there. We had friends over. Played, ate food, cake, and ice cream. My boy is 2 years old. Fastest two years ever and I'm told it only gets worse. So I gear up and prepare myself mentally. :P

Charley man is boy boy boy. Loves his trucks and cars. He's a spaz but super intelligent (as all parents say about their own kids!!!)...some days picky, some days not. He will urinate all day long in the potty...as long as he's naked. He still sleeps like a champ, dotes on his little brother. He talks and walks in his sleep. He's starting to put sentences together but still uses some sign language. He climbs everything and loves to read. He likes to tumble. Some days he looks like my dad and some days he looks like Ryan. He is such a goofy, little boy. He will still choose fruit over candy. <--- so not complaining. He loves "buh-bos." Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated my little man into toddlerhood.

Randomness #5

Izyk has been waking at 4am...regularly. Not sure what his deal is.

Snow is still here. The mail guy finally decided to come down our street. Trash guy, on the other hand, avoided our street.

I don't like 30.

Interesting point: While I was pumping in the Mother's room at work, I was glancing through this OLD Parenting magazine from like 2007. Saw a tidbit on weight loss and sleep. According to the magazine there was a study done that found that women who got 5 hours or less of sleep were three times more likely to retain the baby weight until the baby's first birthday than those who slept 7 hours or more. And then it said it was like an 11 pound difference. Not sure where that number came from but still. Those 7 hours of sleep doesn't necessarily need to be all at once. It can be from cat naps too. So I guess my weight loss isn't ENTIRELY genetics and breastfeeding. I can now blame it on sleep! Hahahaha!

I'm thinking about starting Izyk on rice cereal. Not sure yet. Dragging my feet.

I have a noticeable increase in my pumped breast milk when I eat oatmeal in the mornings. I had done research while I was breast feeding Charley and remember reading that but never tried it. To keep up my milk supply, I find myself eating when I'm not hungry and drinking when I'm not thirsty. I eat lots of everything...just to keep my calorie intake up. It's kind of a drag having to force myself to remember to eat. That doesn't even sound right but that's what I'm having to do. I know a lot of people hate me because of it too.

Charley turns two next week...sad panda. He's getting so big. He also got a hair cut last night by Dad. That was fun. It included suckers covered in hair and Charley saying "Ew" every 10 seconds. By the end, Mama was covered in sticky sugar and blond hair.

Cold Stone RULES.

Izyk is a pro at exploding through diapers...and not because there is a lot of poop. His crack is ssssoooo high, you can see it at the top of his diaper. I'm only slightly exaggerating, actually I'm not. His crack IS that high.

Izyk is in 12 month clothing. I'm pretty sure that this kid CANNOT get as big as I keep thinking he might. There's no way.

Looking forward to picking up the house...in a sick therapeutic kind of way.

LOVE our new space heater for the rec room...best fifty bucks we've spent in a long time!!

Both of our cars need tires. Just in time with Christmas and a slew of birthdays. *thumbs up*

Snow Day!

Yes, the whole of Huntsville and Madison are shut down.
Yes, we only got 6 inches of snow.
Darn straight, we all slept in until 10am.
Happy Birthday to me! :)

More random December pics

Month of December

December went by awfully quick. We flew to California (Christmas gift - Thank you to my favorite Dad-in-law!) with my two little cherubs. The flight TO Cali went superbly. They both fell asleep on the last 3 hour flight from Houston to Ontario. Charley had a bit of trouble falling asleep but when he did, it was bliss. Izyk fell asleep at the same time. We had great fun in Cali. We left the mountain TWICE. It was nice not to have to leave. There was lots of rain and some snow. Roads were closed due to mudslides and roadways being eroded away. The last night there Charley got to put on his snowsuit and boots. He went sledding with Uncle B, Uncle Scott, Aunt Molly, and Aunt Sarah. Tried some hot chocolate. He wasn't a huge fan but that's okay. Charley got to meet a whole lot of cousins, aunts, and uncles...great aunts, great grandpas, great uncles. Izyk did too. Izyk and Ryan got sick the second day we were in Cali. Izyk developed a double ear infection. He finally finished off his medicine yesterday. Both slept well at both grandparents' place.Charley talks in his sleep A LOT. All those times I thought he woke up and talked to himself were actually him talking in his sleep. He's a big twitcher too. We are back to square one with potty training. We decided it'd be in our best interest to just stick to diapers on this trip. Mama failure - I took like 2 pictures. My battery kept dying and I kept forgetting my camera. So the few that I have are posted below. I will have to get some from my mom and Pam. Traveling with two infants is actually harder than I thought it was going to be. We didn't bring strollers, we wore both kids. That made it easy. The flight back to Huntsville was very STRESSFUL. We have decided that flying after the first nap is the best way to go. Charley fussed the entire trip and he refused to sleep. It was AMAZING. He was so exhausted when we landed as were his parents. The two days following the return to Huntsville, we all slept in until 11am and that's with a normal bedtime. EXHAUSTED. Anyways, see the ONLY pictures I got on this 2 week trip. :) (And I just noticed that the majority of the pictures was when we visited the fire station...haha! Oh well...more to come...eventually.)

Cancer free is the way to be!

I had a dab of basal cell carcinoma removed on my forehead. It was outpaitent and they did a local. Ugh. I don't want to have to do that again. Feeling them cutting, tugging, and burning...no thank you. My face swelled...my oh-so-sweet hubby called me avatar. Not like I had enough to be self-conscious about anyways, right? But it's gone and done with so yay!