Whew, what a week...Mike and Will both had hand, foot and mouth disease, which means Hannah and I have had to stay quarantined. Not easy to keep a 2 yr old away from his new sister and not much help for mom to not have dad changing diapers and holding her for awhile. I truly don't know how single moms or women who's husbands don't help much truly do it. I guess I'm just used to (and appreciate) the help. When you don't have it, it sucks.



My parents were in for the Memorial Day weekend and we had a crazy busy weekend. Mom was very helpful in taking Hannah (I'm not sure I could have taken her away even if I wanted). We had bought tickets for Will to ride on Thomas the Train so we did that on Saturday morning. Sunday was filled with a big trip to the "restaurant" to share pancakes with Grandma & Grandpa. Monday was parade day and then we headed out to the beach. Real feel temp was 97 degrees (ouch), but we found a great table in the shade and spent a couple hours having a picnic and exploring the shore. It was a nice little adventure.

Grandpa bought Will a tractor, so he spent a lot of time riding his "tractor" and also enjoying splashing in his new pool. We had a fun family water fight yesterday....felt great to be soaking wet and playing games with a 2 year old.

Hannah is doing good, but really starting to get fussy. Seems she is having problems breast feeding and I'm trying to figure out how to make it better or whether to go to formula. Yesterday, tested formula in a bottle, as she seems to drink better from the bottle than the breast. She wasn't too gassy or fussy most of the day. Overnight, I'm breastfeeding and that's going fine - during the day just seems to be the issue. So today, I tried breast milk in the bottle and again, about 1 hour of crying after eating....painful. I don't know what to do to fix it. With the formula, she hasn't had a poop in about 24 hours, with the breast milk she was pooping at every feeding and would be in every diaper change.

Not sure if I should go straight to formula now and stop with the breast feeding. I'm feeling guilty, like I should be breast feeding and if I stop, some how I have failed. On the other hand, I don't really feel like I've got the energy or the interest in trying to figure out why the breast milk isn't working or if I'm eating something wrong or WHAT....not sure what's gonna happen next.

Mike heads to Austin tomorrow, that leaves me and the kids alone for the day...Will will be at school so hopefully we can make it through the day. We had a day alone last week while Mike was sick in bed, so think we can handle it just fine.

Let's hope the heat breaks and Hannah and I can make our way outside for some sort of adventure.

Well Will is now 26 months old and his baby sister, Hannah Elizabeth, was born about 2 weeks ago. She's doing very well - as good as Will was. He's turned into a crazy man....so active, so busy. He's riding his bike around the block, loves to play outside, climbs on our new "shade castle" which is really a gazebo, but shade castle sounds so much better. We walk to the playground, to the grocery store...so much to see and so much to do.

He's still going to school each day as I stay home with Hannah. Mike returns to work tomorrow so we'll see how that goes. Shouldn't be too much different as "work" is the third floor of our house. We can still have lunch with daddy.

As I said, she's been pretty easy. Does some cluster feeding early morning, around 4 am, and I'm tired most afternoons, but she takes a long nap through lunchtime so I can usually catch up on sleep.

Mom and Dad come to town next weekend and finally get to meet her. I think Will will have a great time with them as well - you know, walking around the block, walking to the playground.

Speaking of sleep - I should probably go get some.