Kids say the darnedest things!

"Mommy,mommy!!! Its an IGUANODON!!!" This is the statement that had me first puzzled beyond belief then almost crying from laughter today! Last night we read "Oh can you say dinosaur" by Dr Seuss and one of the dino's in the book was an Iguanodon. This morning I heard her shout this from the living room where she is supposed to be hanging up the phone for me so that we can go see her daddy, I go and look and she has cornered a baby house gecko by the telephone. Trust me, there is NO convincing a 3yr old that loves dinos and reptiles she has not found a dino but a baby lizard! So I caught the lil guy and assisted him to the outdoors, he was cold and hungry and probably wouldn't have lasted another day or more in the house. But yes, that was my chuckle for the morning :)

As for my little bugg, his smile is still lighting up my morning everyday! We go to bed around 9pm, get up around 2am to nurse and 5am for a diaper change then around 730am for the rest of the morning. He doesnt cry at night unless I leave him to go to the bathroom before I feed him. He's truely a laid back little guy and a pleasure to wake up with!!

Freyja is 75% potty trained, its taken an entire month to get this far but each day its getting better. She's just such a busy little bee that she either forgets to go or just doesnt want to stop whatever she's doing to go. Today we went to Seafood Fest in downtown Pensacola with daddy on his lunch break and walked (kids in strollers) from his office down to Seville Square (roughly 1/2mile). As we were about to head back she announces she has to peepee...well David stepped on the gas and ZOOOOOOOMED that child down to his office and made it before she had a boo boo :) So things are clicking for her...just need to get #2's to click for her as well!!

Other news...my 6wk check up is Monday morning!! YAY! Mom is coming over next week to have some "fun" time with Freyja and help enforce good potty training behavior,then end of the week is the Circus. If Freyja has a good week mom is going to watch Jaxon and Freyja and I are going to the CIRCUS!!! That's it for now! Stay tuned for more adventures :)

And then there were two...

My babies, my little pride and my little joy (no clue which is which)! A family of four at long last:) A complete unit, the score in our house is even (boys vs girls that is)! I still have "Saturday Morning Confusion" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlvyhTfaos) running through my head and the occasional question of "am I truely prepared for this?!?!" nagging at me...but we're 16days into this so far and the house is still intact, David has managed to makeit back to work, I've learned how to shower without panicking what TWO kids are doing...or more of is the baby safe from his sisters loving grasp.

So we'll start with the oldest...Bugg is doing wonderful with the transition of center of attention to big sister. We're actively working on potty training again and Tuesday night she actually TOLD us she had to peepee and made it to the toilet in time to go! She's slowly starting to pay more attention to her body signals...we may make it yet! Wednesday she made it til about 2pm in the same diaper then it was all down hill from there.  The other night she helped me make cupcakes, daddy's sweet tooth was begging for them so she and I happily obliged...though it was more of her adding the ingredients, mommy stirring, baby screaming so daddy poured and baked so mama could squelch the indignant cries of the babe. She had her first dentist appointment August25th, David had to take her by himself since the babe and I were still napping. She was a real champ!! She got rave reviews from the dentist and the dental tech that cleaned her teeth about how well behaved she was and how clean she has kept her teeth :) Daddy took her to Arby's as a treat afterwards!Theres pix in the Picasa album of her appt, they made me bawl like a baby because I wasn't there for it, but I'm so proud of my baby girl!!!

Now for Jaxon! He's 16days old today!! He lost his belly button on Monday while I was at moms house visiting. He sleeps and eats like a champ! Last night he had his first real bath and appeared to like it, he just laid there and let me wash him with only a slight grimace on his face. Afterwards I massaged him down with lotion and the kid was like melted butter :) He slept from 8pm til 130am, nursed and then slept from 2am to 630am! I'm LOVING having an infant that sleeps this time around! His two wk check up was last Friday, at that time he was only .7oz under his birthweight (bw 8lb 6.7oz) and had already grown 2inches! He was still mildly jaundiced in the eyes,but the dr says thats the last place for jaundice to leave so we might see a yellowish tint a while longer. Next check up is at 2months!

Family news...David went back to work Tuesday after having been home since the 17th. I miss his company and help! It hasnt been bad adjusting to two kids, not nearly as bad as people have made it sound! Given,today is only day 3 of going at it alone and I have potty training toddler on my hands...but it just isn't "bad". David now puts Freyja to bed at night so that I can go to bed as soon as Jax lets me. This helps me get my 6-10hrs of sleep needed to keep up with these young'ens during the day without having to hog-tie Freyja mid morning and nap. Our days now start by 8am...but at least we're all rested :) In the next day or two we're going to test out our ability to shop as a FULL family unit and find out if its possible or whether the boys will fend for themselves while the girls shop and gather. I'm hoping for the latter so that they have time to bond and Freyja and I can still have some one on one time:)

Well...the bassinett sounds like a flock of Canadian geese passing through so that means my little man is about to start wailing anytime now! Theres TONS of pix in the Picasa album, make sure you catch up on those! Love to you all :)