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.
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.
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