A Weekend Trip!

Tycy's baby's blessing was this last weekend and I decided to roadtrip it down with my parents and have some fun! We left friday and made it to Tycy's in time to make dinner and eat it. The best! :)

Shortly after we took off to the cabin to put my kids to sleep and get some sleep ourselves. Man how I love Tony and Sassa's cabin down there. So wonderful and relaxing. We spent Saturday with Tycy and Family and went to the duck park and I took some family pictures for them and the kids chased the ducks. quite the adventure for them. Sean of course did not want to leave and Max slept through it all. :) Babies...

Costco for a late lunch and some shopping. Then my parents and I went back to the cabin and played some games.

That night not so relaxing. Sean was in bed by 8:15and Max went to sleep about 10:30. Pretty standard for them. After I finished my night rituals it was about 11:30. At 1:00 I woke up to Max. Not to normal for him to wake up that soon but hey he's a baby. I fed him and he was out by 1;30. Went to bed my self and then found my self waking up at 2:00 to Sean crying and talking in his sleep. I went in and cuddled him and got back to bed 2:45. 3:30 came and Sean was awake but talking to himself. I listened to him for a while and just tried to ignore him but it was kinda hard when he kept calling me. Mama! Mama! MAMA! So instead of letting him wake up Max I went and got him and just pulled him into bed with me. For the next 30 mins he cuddled me and i thought he was asleep so I was just about to drift off myself when he started talking about Shrek, Donkey, Dragon and Pincess Fiona. WHAT? haha that kid watches that show too much I think. He serenaded me with stories about Shrek until 5:00. I couldn't take it by that point and just put him back in his room with a bottle. He talked a little after that but at least he was quiet and I was able to ignore him and go back to sleep. Then before I knew it, it was 6:00 and Max was awake. I gave up on trying to go back to sleep after that. I figured it would be pointless.

We got ready and out the door just after 8;00 to go to the baby blessing. We just stayed for Sacrament and then headed back to the cabin to clean up. Got back in time to Tycy's for some lunch! OH FOOD! and then the men played poker. Tycy slept, Grandma watched the kiddos and I attempted to sleep with Sean poking me every 5 mins saying mama wake up! Eventually I did manage to sneak off and get an hour nap in Tycy's bed before we headed back home.

It was a good trip. The best part was watching all these little cousins play together! Man they are fun!

PICTURES!

Max

We went out and got this cute boys immunizations today. Sean was suppose to get his too but because he's been sick the last week I postponed them. 

But Max had his and hated them. Surprise surprise. But I got the lovely stats from his appointment. 

He is 12.5lbs

23 1/4 inches 

He is at the 50% for weight and jut above it for height. And in the 95 for his head. :) yay for that!!! 

I LOVE Pumping! Said no one ever

I have a love hate relationship with pumping. 

This last week was pretty horrible. With Sean being sick, Max cluster feeding and pumping on top of all that it's been kinda exhausting around these parts. 

I feel like I'm missing out on somethig special this time around because I don't get to nurse Max as enjoy those precious cuddles the same way. I know lots of women who either can't or don't like or don't want to breastfeeding and there babies turn out healthy. I really enjoyed nursing Sean though. There was a nice bond formed there. 

Don't let me fool ya though. I still have a bond with Max. I love this little boy to pieces. Maybe this is the whole grieving process that I read about when ya want to nurse but can't. I laughed at it at first and now I understand. It sucks. My chest was not made to be pulled at by a machine. 

It is nice that every three hours for twenty minutes I get to sit back and put my feet up. I also get to listen to the noise of a machine though. Not pleasent. Sean's learning he can cause mischief in this time because mommy can't/won't chase after him. (He'd have figured that out anyway if I had been nursing Max).

I am grateful for technology that I can still pump and give Max my milk (or cream as we call it) and that I have more than enough for him. I'm also glad that we bought a second deep freeze so I have room to store all this excess milk. So that I can quit pumping one day and still give him breast milk that is oh so good for him. 

As I said. Love hate relationship. I hate bottles.

Can't wait till the end of August. That's when I've decided I'm done pumping. Hopefully I have a good enough store by then. 

Dinosaur Fun!

This Saturday we had a free day with nothing planned and because Spring is starting to show it's face I'm getting antsy to start crossing things off our summer bucket list. So on this beautiful Saturday we went to Drumheller and the Royal Tyrell Museum.

We told Sean that we were going to go to the Dinosaur Park! Dan even taught him to chant, "Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park!!" It is pretty darn cute! He was so excited! 

Once we got to Drumheller and saw all the dinosaurs around the town he was getting super excited. He loved them all! Man he was excited and happy!

We got to the museum and loaded up Max in the stroller and walked in. They have the pathway lined with dinosaurs and Sean was in heaven!

And of course the first thing you see in the museum is a T-Rex. We stood here for probably 20 mins. No joke. Sean was just enchanted. "touch it?" "big dinosaur" "Rawr" were just a few of the phrases repeated over and over.

 Checking out a T-Rex tooth they found. We even got to hold it and touch it. You can see Sean pointing to his teeth. I think he was impressed the dinosaur had such big teeth!

This wall of bubbles Sean could have stood at the whole trip. The lights change colors and Sean had a great time saying, "yellow bubbles, blue bubbles. geen bubbles."

They have fake "aquariums" with fossils and bones and the floor is just the plexi glass. It took a lot of coaxing to get Sean on the floor.  He would just stand on the black beams.

 He was still pretty weirded out by it though. Daniel practically had to carry him.

 Poking a fossil in the eyes.

 Dinosaur!

 How tall we are compared to a mid sized "long neck". And thats just his legs!

Here is where he started calling all the little dinosaurs. puppy-saurus. haha don't know where he got it from but super cute!

A soft shelled turtle named Shelly

 Sean loved this turtle. We even came back a second time to watch the turtle swim around

Shelly the turtle

Next to a Mammoth

As heavy as an Artic Fox

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After we were done exploring in there we went out to have lunch, It did take some coaxing to get Sean outta the Museum though. But food always wins with this kid. Sadly it was raining when we came out so we picnic in the back of the car. What a blast!

Thank goodness for trunk space!

 The rain did go away so we got a chance to play on the awesome playground!

 Of course Mommy and Daddy had to go with Sean a couple of times till he got the hang of it!

Then of course we had to stop at the World's Largest Dinosaur! It cost to walk up it. I don't remember it costing when I was young and went. But we paid the small fee anyway. Probably won't do that again till the kids are older and will enjoy it more. It was super windy out so the T-Rex was a rocking!!

Cute Dino toe jam!

 Then you also have to go see the Suspension bridge. It's pretty sweet and sways pretty good. I got Daniel to bounce walk at the end and freak out some tourists just getting on. We're mean like that

We had so much fun! We should all sleep well tonight! There are so many other things to do in Drumheller as well. We've decided we still have to go back this summer and explore some other areas Drumheller has to offer.

So fun!

2 months

Well just like Max's pregnancy went by faster so is his little life. Slow down lil dude!!! 

I figured I would update while the boys sleep there is even one sleeping on my lap now. 

Cute hey??? 

This little fatso is 12lbs!!! I'm so proud of every ounce this boy gains!!! Makes him that much healthier and stronger!!! 

His sleeping however I'm not always a fan of. The nights where he does a 6 & 2 hour schedule is a beauty. 

The nights he does a 4&4 aren't too bad. The nights he does a 3&3&3 are exhausting. His sleeping is a little sporadic and skattered. But he sleeps we sleep and life goes on. 

He coos and smiles a lot. Mostly for daddy though. Takes more effort for mom to get them out. 

Sean still adores this little guy! They even play the same games with grandpa sometimes. 

Grandpa did this to Sean at this age.  Earliest he's ever done it to a baby. Well Sean holds the record at 6 weeks. Max was 7 weeks.... But he didn't do it as well ... Skinny babies.... :) 

We've had some other fun to. An Easter hunt at a park in Vulcan. Sean had fun. So did Max all bundled up next to mom. 

He enjoyed the hunt for 2mins and the park for about 30mins. Haha. He loves it when all the kids were hunting and he had the park to himself. 

Well. I still have to take his 2 month photos. I'll do that Sunday. :) Saturday we are going to drumheller! Sean is going to love it!! More updates to come! Until then enjoy this picture.