Monday Night

Here's an exciting recap of my night on Monday:

7:45 pm: 4 year old in bed
8:45 pm: 2 month old in bed
1:30 am: 2 month old wakes up and eats
2:00 am: everyone back in bed
2:47 am: 2 month old wakes up screaming
3:02 am: 2 month old is almost asleep and 4 year old gets up and has bloody nose
3:04 am: 2 month old gets put into bed and starts screaming and 4 year old is in bathroom crying
3:15 am: 4 year old's nose stops bleeding and now 2 month old is not only screaming, is wide awake also
3:40 am: 4 year old comes out of room because something is "spiking her" (dried blood that was inside her shirt was itching her)
4:00 am: mom eats cookie and looks at facebook while 2 month old lays cooing on couch
4:10 am: 4 year old comes out of room because she is scared of something (but not sure what)
4:20 am: everyone back in bed and asleep
5:00 am: 2 month old wakes back up screaming and does not want to eat
5:15 am: everyone back in bed
7:15 am: mom takes shower and when she gets out of bathroom, 2 month old is screaming again

Yay the joys of being a mom with a husband out of town! :)

Misc...

Here's a few pictures:

Zach, 2 months and 12 pounds!


Lilly attempting to calm a fussy Zach:


Lilly LOVES to play in the snow and I was having a hard time figuring out how to play with her when Zach is sleeping 20 minutes at a time, so we brought snow inside!

smile!

Lilly had crazy hair day at school, so here's what she wanted:




Zach is starting to smile! Here are my attempts at capturing the smile (he tends to stop as soon as the camera is focused on him):

Lilly is not tired

we had record snow fall here this past weekend (28 + inches in a 24 hour period). Good times. the plows decided to be really funny and plow only one side of our street (the opposite side from our house), so we were stuck in the house all weekend. Pete had to dig out a path in the street for me to get out this morning to bring Lilly to school (which she completely HAD to go to if you watch the video below).

Here are some more pics of our exciting snow weekend:

Merry Christmas!

Here are a few pictures from Christmas. I have to admit that although I am usually obsessed with picture taking, I took about 5 total on Christmas morning. We had a great morning and Lilly enjoyed opening Zach's as well as her presents. Lilly's favorites included the jack-in-the-box that she picked out for Zach, roller skates, and her new pirate ship (from Gran and Papa Michael).

Lilly in her roller skates (she insisted on wearing her bike helmet and then commented that she wished the skates had come with hand pads and leg pads- you can never be too careful I guess!)


Lilly holding (squeezing? squishing? smashing?) her baby brother


Our family picture

Christmas preparations

Here are some pictures we've taken recently:

Sleeping


Lilly's concert at school:


Our salt dough ornaments:


Lilly loves her baby brother:


Lilly and her friend, megan, at her school christmas party:


Zach sleeping (seems to be a trend):


Decorating cookies at Santa's workshop:


At Santa's workshop:


With Rudolph (Lilly did not want to see Santa this year, but did want to see this huge reindeer who talked; good thing since the line for Santa was quite long and outside so WAY too cold):


Zach, sleeping yet again...now if only he could do this at night!

Baby Zach!

Welcome Zachary Michael! Born on 11/24/2010 at 2:51 am. We are doing great! Lilly loves her new brother and wants to keep dressing him like a doll.