I can share my secret now... my sister is expecting her second child and is due next spring! She''s just starting to show. Congratulate her if you are reading this and live in town!
Conner went to church for the first time yesterday. It was a lot of fun. There were actually people who hadn''t heard how he was born... can you belive it? (Said tongue in cheek since Eric tells everybody he possibly can...) But one of the more fun things was when people would ask me how big he was and I''d calmly reply, "Oh, only 9 pounds." I got the strangest looks when thay realized that I considered him small compared to Katelyn.
My Mom and sisters say that he looks a lot chubbier then he was last week when they saw him last. Since those pictures I just put up are a week old, imagine him with some chubbier cheeks. He sure is growing. No fears there. It explains why he wants to eat all the time though.
Katelyn has been very nice to me these last couple of days. I have bedtime duties this week and so I decided to work on getting Katelyn to go to bed on her own. Prior to this, we would snuggle her to sleep... she''d get a story, we''d pray and then we''d lay down with her, hold her there and both Katelyn and whichever parent was there would eventually fall asleep. This worked but it was frustrating. Eric was becoming convinced that she''d never learn to fall asleep on her own and didn''t like giving up part of his evening like that even though he really enjoyed the snuggle time. So last night I decided to just put her in bed with a book and a sippy. We prayed and then I kissed her and told her that I needed to go feed Conner. I left a little light on for her and stepped out of the room. I came back in a little later and she was curled up in bed, the book on the floor. I told her how good she was being, kissed her again and then walked back out. She cried a little later and I when I went in, she was trying to get out of her pj''s so that her diaper could be changed. She did get up once to see what I was doing but found me in bed feeding Conner. I scooped her up, put her back in bed, tucked her in and she stayed there after that. Two hours later she finally fell asleep. Not too bad for a first time.
Tonight, I did pretty much the same thing... pj''s, prayer, book and sippy in bed, light on and she was on her own. It only took half an hour this time for her to fall asleep. When I peeked in on her before she fell asleep, she was on her back carefully reading about Harold and the Purple Crayon.
I''m going to try keeping this same routine this week and see if it''ll become habit for her.
Katelyn is such an actor... she was sitting on her bed while we played with Conner and suddenly fell backwards off it. I set Conner down and went to get her right away to make sure she was OK. She cried a bit and then wanted down. I went out to switch laundry and when I came back, she was sitting on her bed in the same place... she scooched off the bed and laid down where she''d fallen and started pretending to cry. I giggled but picked her up and comforted her. She wanted down again and ran over to the spot where she''d fallen, laid down and started to "cry" again. I had to laugh so hard. She did the reinactment a total of 3 times. I think we''re going to have to take her to audition at the Civic when she''s older. :D