Happy Mother's Day Mom

I know Mother's day in mid-June, crazy right! Oh no not for my two year old. She always tells me "Happy Mother's Day, Mom" just like that several times a day. This has been going on since Mother's day. I love it, and hope it never ends. I know it will so I'm making sure to blog about it now so I don't forget. I'm not thrilled she calls me "mom" either. I'm mostly mommy, but sometimes I'm mom.

Oh so the Potty Project update, it's now day 3 and things are still going well for Kate. If we are out and about she wears a pull-up aka diaper that looks like undies. And she always wets them. The trick seems to be to keep her in big girl undies and she has way more control over her actions. But overall she is doing great, I really am proud of her. It's made my life so much easier for her to be this easy going.

Lydia had a great night last night. She seems to be on a schedule which is great considering she is 3 weeks old. I know that might change, but it might not! She seems to go to bed around 8pm I dream-feed her before I go to bed (she sleeps through the feeding) then she stays asleep until around 2am wakes for a feeding (still very sleepy) and then she is back down until somewhere between 6:30-8am where she wakes, eats, and stays really sleepy. I think I must be the most well rested mommy because her night wakings don't really bother me. I just think she is so cute I love to go get her at night. Also after waking about 6x a night while pregnant to go to the bathroom waking once a night to cuddle my newborn isn't so bad.

Lydia's 2weeks stat (the percent is percentile ie: 75% means 25% of babies are bigger then that)
As of 6.4.09
8lbs 9oz 75% (birthweight was 8lbs 14oz)
20 1/2" 75% (shrunk, down 1/4")
Head 13 3/4" 50%

9 Days Old

My sister and I took the babies to get pictures done. They turned out so cute. Babies grow out of the newborn stage so quickly I wanted to make sure to get it captured. I thought I was crazy for taking the baby out to do this but the photo session went really well. I would much rather take a non-mobile newborn to get pictures taken then a willful toddler.

This is Rowan and Lydia, 1st cousins 2 days apart

Big Sister and Little Sister Update

I'm starting off by bragging about my Kate. My goal was once she was home with me for the summer we would start on potty training so today was day 1 of project potty. I woke her up this morning and told her that all her diapers were gone so she could only use the potty. She started crying that she wanted her diapers and I thought for sure this was going to be a long day. To make a long story short I kept asking her if she "needed to go" and we made a couple of attempts with nothing then she just said to me "I need to go potty" and I took her and she went! Just that easy. So today we had a total of 5 potty successes and 0 accidents. I'm so proud of her.

I hope tomorrow is just as easy. I think I have my day care providers to thank for this, they really encouraged her without actually training.

So I've spent a lot of the last couple of weeks sitting with a baby attached to me in some form! BTW I'm all caught up (well almost) on Grey's Anatomy. I tore through season 4, and just started season 5. I love that show. Lydia and I sit in a big brown leather recliner and do our thing. Kate has started calling me mama bird and she calls herself baby bird. She made up these names for us all on her own. I always invite her to sit with Lydia and I to cuddle and she will climb up with us and say she's in "her nest" aka the recliner. It's just so cute how she talks about it, much cuter then I can write. So all day she calls me "mama bird" and I call her "little bird" and we call Lydia "baby bird".

Kate is really warming up to Lydia, she still doesn't have any interest in holding her. But she is constantly pointing out her little sister "Libia" to me. She seems to be really patient with Libia when she is screaming. I think it's cute when she helps me with her diaper changes she unfolds the diaper and pulls open the little tabs. She loves to remind me that she is the big sister and that Libia is the little sister. They are just so cute together.

Kate coming home from the hospital, look at those big tears and she is only 2 days old.

Getting ready to leave the hospital

A very upset baby

One of the only pictures I have of my two girls together.