Sunday, March 16, 2014

Aunt Jodie and 1 month

We had a very special visitor, my Aunt Jodie! What a true blessing and extreme help she was! She was a breath of fresh air helping out anywhere she could :) Thanks again so much for coming!!

 The kids, of course, ate her up! They thrived on her undivided attention. Aunt Jodie's specialty is making popcorn. So every night before bed, she would make buckets of goodness for us that Brody and Aubs would "help" with.
 The weather was terrible while she was here. Which turned out to be a blessing because it snowed her in for an extra day! Yay!! She took these two crazy kids to the mall almost daily while she was here to "burn off some energy" and give Mike and I some quiet time and did kitchen clean up after every meal! Have I mentioned how spoiled we were to have her here! We are somehow contemplating how to get her to move down here and be our nanny ;) I can always dream, right?!

The Parks dude is 1 month already! I can't believe how quickly it has gone but yet again I can't believe we are only one month into this adventure; it feels like Parker has been with us forever. At 1 month he is on a pretty good routine. Eating every 3 hours (we are just now stretching to 3 1/2 hours), able to stay awake for about one hour after feedings, and getting one middle of the night feeding somewhere between 2-4 am. His only hangup is sleeping alone. We are finding his little personality HATES being alone. It's pretty crazy. Sadly he's done his fair share of crying, learning the art of sleeping by himself, because with two other kiddos running around we just can't hold Parker all the time. Brody cried A LOT when he was a baby. So I asked him if he remembered crying. He told me he doesn't remember it. I hold tight to those words as I think our son will have emotional damage due to his crying. He wont, I know it, it just breaks my momma heart hearing him belt it out :(
Brody and Aubrie continue to eat up each and every moment with their new brother :) They think he is the coolest thing! Brody thinks he sleeps way too much and Aubrie rushes in with a blanket for him each and every time he cries (she's a really good momma!). This transition has been hard for sure, but the joys of watching all three love on each other makes it worth it.

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