The youngest and the oldest

 We celebrated Chase a few weeks back as the newest addition & youngest member now of my Mom's side of the family. We also celebrated my Grandpa's 81st bday the same evening. 

 It was a special evening!   

 

 Chloe was thrilled about the birthday cake! 

week 6 & 7

Chase is  7 weeks now and we are getting into a nice a little groove with this precious  guy. I even did the park with all 3 kids by myself this week. The best part was that it went really well! He is smiling and responding to us. He is a pretty easy going baby with the exception of when he gets hungry or tired. He tends to fight going to sleep and sleeps the best when he is being held. I am getting to know his signs of when he is getting tired and how to get him to sleep. He is not a fan of being put now which is difficult when the twinnies need things. He has had several bottles and takes them like a champ. He is sleeping ok, the longest stretch he will do is 4 hours and then does smaller stretches throughout the rest of the night. I am tired but feel better than I did. He is almost out of 3 months stuff and into 3-6 month size. 

He is such a snugly baby I am so in love with him. His tummy & reflux issues are doing so much better now after being put on some meds. He still spits-up all the time but at least he doesn't seem to be in as much discomfort. It just means lots of laundry for me. 

5 weeks

(taken at 2 weeks old) 

 This little guy is not so little. He had his 1 month well check today and he weighed 11lbs 4oz...gained 3+ lbs in a month, which is a lot.  Pretty amazing with how much he pukes. He is now in the 95th percentile. He is wearing clothes that Carter wore when he was 3 to 4 months old.  It's no wonder though because he feeds all day long & all night long. Nursing has come so easy this time around and I am really enjoying that time with my sweet little guy. Nights are still really hard. 2 hours of sleep at a time (if I am lucky) is the new 8 hours.  Thank goodness for coffee in the morning. He is still very congested & coughing  from the cold he got when he was 5 days old. It's been so heart breaking having a sick newborn especially since he really hasn't known anything different in his whole life so far.  I imagine he will have a very well established immune system by the time he is the twins age.  I am still working on the whole 3 kids thing...I have my moments of feeling like a rock star and I think well, this is not so hard after all....and then others that I feel really overwhelmed. 

One thing is for sure 3 kids is good for us :)  I have yet to do an outting by myself (where we get out of the car) with all 3 of them.  We'll see when I get brave enough to do that! 

Our 3 sweet kiddos 

bus riders

They ride the bus to school and can't get enough of it.  As I am sitting here massively sleep deprived I  can realize that before I can blink Chase will be the size of them. 

Sad & happy how fast it all goes. They really are turning into kids. 

I love them to pieces! 

4 weeks

Chase is 4 weeks old now....which means it's been 4 weeks since I slept more than 2 hours at a time! This little guy has a tough time at night. He seems to sleep like a champ during the day but when nighttime comes around he gets a tummy ache (from what we can tell). He is up most of the night grunting, puking, eating, crying, pooping and then repeat. Poor little dude seems so uncomfortable. This morning he literally went to sleep the minute the twins woke up but had been awake doing his thing since 4:30 am. I think I might have changed his clothes 7 times last night because of the puke.   I took him to the Dr. last week because I was getting concerned about the amount of spit-up that comes from this little guy. I mean with the amount that comes back up I just don't see how he can be digesting anything. But he in fact is getting lots to eat and weighed in at 9lbs 14oz (jumping from the 50th percentile to the 75-90th). He is actually looking a little bit chunky lately! I LOVE chunky babies. So he checked out healthy and there is no weight concern, which was reassuring. There is a question though on whether or not he my have reflux but it is puzzling because he seems to be more comfortable during the day than at night.  So I am hoping that with his one month check up might come some answers for us about his poor little tummy issues.  Chole had terrible reflux and we were able to treat her once we finally figured out what was going on so I have hope that we can make him more comfortable soon.  Other than all that he is doing so good. He really is a sweet little guy. He is just starting to make serious eye contact with us and make little cooing  noises. I love love love when they start interacting with you a little bit...it makes being awake all night not quite so tough.  I have been eating up every snuggle with this guy. He sure does love his Momma. I can't believe when people ask me how old he is I am now saying 4 weeks. I had a sitter for the twins last Friday and Chase & I went to the Nordstrom sale. I absolutely love going places with just one baby. It is so peaceful. I just never got to experience that with the twins because I always felt like it was such a fiasco trying to go anywhere when they were this age with the bottles, double stroller etc.  I am finding it such a treat to be able to just enjoy this little guy. Plus I think any 2nd or 3rd baby seems easier than your first.  So despite being really tired we are doing good.  Pics from my phone from the last week or so! 

Halloween

Chloe was Strawberry Shortcake & Carter was obviously Superman. I thought Carter would be thrilled to wear his costume but as it turns out he is not so into dressing up for Halloween. It was like pulling teeth trying to get this kid to wear his costume. He refused to wear the cape and would not let me buckle the back. So he ended up wearing a backless Superman costume. Whatever works right?  You would think I would have just given up but I was determined to at least get some pictures of him in it. He looked so dang cute in it! I couldn't even bribe him with candy (like you can most kids) because he doesn't eat candy. Anyway we had a fun evening trick-or-treating with the Andrews family and we also made an appearance at Daddy's work during their little Halloween party.  I am still working on coordinating getting out of the house with the 3 of them and throw in trying to get 3 year olds in costumes??? Forget about getting anywhere on time.  

 this is what Chase did most of Halloween :) 

2 weeks

Time is going so fast I am eating up every bit of this newborn time as I know it goes so fast. Chase is such a good baby and loves to snuggle with his Momma. I am a tad bit obsessed with this baby I think!  I just can't get enough of him.  I want to freeze time! 

My two little guys