Here is Kyne and Rhys in the bath at the same age-

I suppose there are similarities, but I think they look very different. I think they all have the same eye shape though! Rhys looks the most like me for sure.

Oh and here is Tayah too in the same bath!:

Little RJ is definitely a mix of them both! <3

I wish I’d got his whole face in this,  but I was holding the camera away to make him smile.

Goofy!

Kyne went to the Dr yesterday…he’s had diarrhea for 5 days and is super-cranky (as noted before). She said he has 5-6 teeth coming in (I knew of 4) and that is most likely causing the diarrhea and runny-nose. He weighed 21lbs 5oz, so although we thought he had lost weight, it looks like he hasn’t. They wanted a stool sample just incase it’s something else but I am not even gonna attempt that unless he gets any worse…it’s not a fun process!

Rhys is doing very well. He slept over 8 hours straight last week (twice) but is now back to 6-7 hours. He is growing so fast, most of his 0-3M clothes don’t fit anymore! He went into size 1 diapers at 4 weeks and is now in size 2’s (as of 7 weeks). He is a big boy that’s for sure!

Here is a recent pic:

A post about me…wow! It was my 28th birthday yesterday….I had a lovely day. Saturday Becky took me out to celebrate. We got mani/pedi’s at the salon, went and had dinner & daiquiri’s and then shopping at Target. It was so nice to get away and relax without kids.

Sunday we went to Crit’s for dinner (grilled meat….mmmm, mmmm!).

Monday (my actual birthday) we went out for a late lunch (Ricky took the day off) and then to the mall.

Also on Saturday morning I went and got my hair done. I was there 3 hours! I got it cut, colored and highlighted. It looks so awesome!

Here’s a before:

And After:

What a great birthday weekend! Now the countdown is on for 30!

He has gone back to his old ways His feeding is once again a struggle. Yesterday he pretty much ate and fussed the whole day…I couldn’t even keep track of how much he ate and when, it was just constant little feedings here and there. He didn’t take a proper nap until 5:30pm!

I like to start with the bad (see Kyne’s update) and end with the good - He is smiling a lot now, it is so wonderful to see. Daddy gets the biggest smiles out of him He still sleeps good through the night, but not as good as he was. His average is 6 hours now….it’s just a shame that he wakes at 5AM because there is no getting back to sleep at that hour for us.

For some reason my milk-supply took a crazy nose dive! I am not making half of what he needs. So we’re breastfeeding thru the day and then I top him off with a bottle of expressed breast milk. He actually does pretty well with the breastfeeding….it’s the bottle he starts fussing on. He does get mad that there isn’t enough milk in the boob though! I ordered some Domperidone to get my supply back (it worked wonders for me with Kyne) so I hope that gets here soon. I am pretty much set on weaning after I run out of the Dom…and I am OK with that. I think we’ll get to 3 months and even that I can’t believe. What a roller-coaster it has been!

Anyway onto some pics:

Funny smile…..shame it is blurry 

So sad (but cute!).

Daddy lovings.

Well I think it’s time to update on Kyne as it’s been awhile. I must say, this little boy has changed so much this last month, it is crazy (or should I say he is crazy!) I know most of it is because of the baby and adjusting to the changes around here……buy boy is he becoming a handful! I am partly to blame because I used to get him whatever he wanted whenever he wanted it. And now he has to wait…..he doesn’t like to wait.ever. He gets so mad and throws awful tantrums. He will throw things on the floor (including himself) and scream. He is also into hitting me and his siblings

Still, he is so sweet most of the time.  He says the funniest things! His favorite at the moment is "I don’t want to" or "I don’t like it". He also has a new habit of saying everything scares him…he says there are monsters (not sure where he got that from, we think Tayah). He is so smart & super cute

He likes to play upstairs with the older kids now also. I figured he is old enough to go up there alone now….most of the time he behaves, but last weekend he decided to go into his closet and pull every-single piece of clothing onto the floor (including a large tub full of Rhys’ clothes and a large bag of old baby clothes). The whole walk-in closet floor was covered a foot high with clothes! I was so mad I was shaking! It took me a long time to sort all those clothes out and put them in the appropriate places So the closet door now has a lock on it!

His eating has improved a great deal. He will pretty much eat most of things I make for dinner these days. We still have to mash most of it together and put some kind of sauce on it (marinara, gravy, ketchup etc) so he will eat it…..but hey, if it works we’re willing to!

He also cut four new teeth in about 2 weeks. I was putting some of his behavior down to this, but he is still being naughty and the teeth are already in…ah well He does have a cold at the moment too, combined with a barking/croupy cough. No school today because of this, so we’ll try for Friday this week.

All in all he is a loving, sweet boy who can make me smile in an instant! We’re so lucky to have him <3

Crit told me to take the date-stamp off of my camera….I didn’t do it, and now one of my favorite pics is ruined:

I have more I will post tomorrow but for now I just wanted to let Crit know I have learnt my lesson and the date-stamp is off!

The greatest idea.ever.

RJ fed at 10:30PM last night, was in bed by 11:00 and slept until 6:30AM.

He cat-naps all day but as soon as he’s swaddled he knows it’s his ‘long-nap’ time and will take a 2-3 hour nap.

I love the Amazing Miracle Blanket!

Still haven’t managed to capture the huge smiles yet…he gets too amazed by the camera

Here he is the other morning:

When we left the house it was in the 50’s so a hat was in order….he looked so cute, but the hat was awfully tight! haha

I have to say that I think the Zantac is actually working! As of yesterday we have had no frantic-feeding episodes at all! I hope it isn’t a fluke and we continue to see an improvement.

Oh and here is Kyne in the bath…I just love this pic:

I honestly can’t believe how fast the time has gone…..it’s like a blur, a blip…it just passed by so quickly. However much I couldn’t wait for my little man to grow-up and start sleeping better, I will always miss those precious newborn days when he was so tiny. He weighed 10lb 9oz yesterday at the Dr! - Oh, he is still a newborn…I know that, but he’s just so much bigger and brighter now…..the newborn stage is passing quickly.

His sleeping is just awesome these days! (hope I don’t jinx anything!). He has his bottle at 9:30 last night, was in bed by 9:45 and didn’t wake-up until 5.20AM! - He didn’t go back down easily, but did fall asleep eventually and then got up when we all did at 7. He has a few nice naps a day, but mainly just catnaps here and there.

His feeding we are still struggling with…..OK, I am! - I kinda hope it is reflux (what the Dr diagnosed) so that the meds can work and we can start having a more peaceful feeding time. Some days I totally want to give up breastfeeding completely…..I see no need for it…..then other days go OK and I think I can do it. I just take things hour by hour where breastfeeding is concerned. I have to take the scale we rented back tomorrow, so we won’t know how much he is eating anymore. Today so far he has fed at 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 and it’s now 1:20 and I am sure he will want too again soon. Each time hasn’t been long until he starts to fuss and fight me…..pulling off, screaming, seeming in pain. But I figure he must be getting enough because he’s fallen back to sleep each time.

Unfortunately I have a reoccurring plugged duct that I cannot get rid of. My right boob is so painful and my supply in that one has all but gone. When I pumped at 5AM (7 hours between pumping) I got 5oz out of my left breast and 1oz out of my right! If it wasn’t for my left boob there would be hardly any milk for him! When he breast-feeds off that side though he can get more out than the pump….usually 1.5-2oz. Of course with all our feeding issues, coupled with the pain I have in that side, it’s just not sufficient enough to clear the plug…which I have a feeling is going to get infected soon

Anyway our boy is doing very well other than his feeding issues. He is smiling lots more now, seems to like interaction with daddy the most and sometimes Kyne too. He likes to be in his swing or vibrating bouncy seat the best and enjoys being swaddled at night.