Life has been good so far. Luke is such a good baby. He just goes with the flow of our family. Luke currently weighs around 10lbs and is wearing 3 months clothes already. He's already done passed Will in the clothes "hand me down" section. Yes, I have had to go buy the boy some clothes which didn't bother me too much. He can still wear some 0-3 months clothes but they are a little too snug at times.
See the double chin?!?!?!
We still take Will to school in the mornings and go walking. It's starting to get hot in the mornings so our walks are not as long as they used to be. I'll sometimes run some errands before we head back home but it all depends on if Mr Chunky is ready to eat again or not. He pretty much stays awake after his 9am or 10am bottle and is up until around 12noon ish and then he will take a "power nap" and is ready to eat again by 1-1:30pm. After that 1-1:30pm bottle he pretty much takes a good 2-3 hour nap until he eats again by 5-5:30pm and then he's up again until bath, bottle, and bedtime around 8:30-9pm. We started him on a little bit of rice cereal at night just to see how it goes and he's been sleeping till 2-2:30am and then takes another bottle again, goes back to sleep, and then is up and ready for another bottle by 6-6:30am and it all starts over again. He still takes between 5-6 oz of formula. I try to have some variance in our day so we don't do the same thing and it gets routine for him. But let me tell you, he is pretty much a "on schedule" eater and when he gets off schedule it's NOT hard at all to get him back to his schedule.
Luke loves to take a bath, play on his playmat, look at the ceiling fan, and sleep and eat. Big Brother, Will, is loving Luke more and more each day. I think he's finally realized that he's here to stay. He wants to know where he is at all times, love and kiss him every morning, and wants to know why he isn't going to "his" school. I keep telling Will that Luke will soon be joining him at school in a couple of weeks and he gets excited about it.
Luke will be 6 weeks old on Wednesday and will get his shots next week and then we are off to the beach for a week with my family and all the kiddos and then I'm back to work on July 8th. It's been a fun time off with him but I'm ready to go back and start my new job with the bank that I'm so excited about. I have realized I am not a stay at home mom. I love my boys to death but this chick has to stay busy all the time or I will clock watch and it's no fun. I've got 3 more weeks and then I'm back to work and we can have a good normal life again and take Luke with us and not worrying about who is going to keep him while we go here or there. We cannot wait to go to church as a family of 4 and be all together.
I will tell you it is much different this time than it was with Will. Will was a different story and once winter hit we were pretty much confined to the house because of his weak lungs. We are so excited about taking Luke to Oxford for football games in the fall and being a normal family again and going and doing as we please. God has been so good to us and taught us so much patience as we have adjusted to a family of 4. We are blessed!
As far as Will, he just finished two weeks of follow up for ISR swim lessons and caught on really fast. He was a fish who we couldn't take out of the water. He loves the water and loves to be outside. At night we play on the playground, kick the ball, run around the yard, jump on the trampoline, and relax on the patio. Will is full of energy and never stops until he crashes at night. Speaking of night, Will is currently sleeping in a blow up mattress in our bedroom in the floor because he won't sleep in his room. When Luke came home he for some reason decided he didn't want to sleep in his bed anymore. So hopefully this will pass but in the meantime we have made him a little area in our room for him to sleep in. Sometimes he will ask to sleep in his bed but ends up on the blow up mattress around 3am in the morning. So it's progress we think!
Will and I were at Kroger one day after church and he spotted the ambulance and went crazy. So Will got the royal treatment and got to look inside of the ambulance before we went grocery shopping.
So as for now we are loving our babies all the time.
