Greetings from the Land of Lost Sleep

Well we're still here...sleepy, but here. More on that later.

As for our little fellow, Carson is growing so fast.

So, before I get sad, I just wanted to give everybody an update on our new little guy. We are all three enjoying him so much! I must say that the transition to two was far easier for me than the transition to one.

With that said, please don't think that our life isn't crazy. It is. I am pretty convinced that I can never talk on the phone again. Just as soon as I hit the talk button, it seems that everything begins to spiral downhill...ever so quickly.

Rob went back to work last week, and we were sad to see him go. I was so grateful to have my mom with me for the first week, and Rob with me for the two weeks after that. Their help was wonderful to say the least!

We spent tons of time outside playing during Rob's break. The weather was beautiful. Carson rode with me.

He could sleep all day just like that.

As far as our little bundle goes, he is already on a schedule, well sort of...ptl! Last time we talked, we weren't sleeping all that well at night, so I adjusted his daytime routine to eating every 2.5 hours. His routine looked something like this...

7 am~1st feeding of the day

9:30 am~feeding

noon~feeding

2:30 pm~feeding

5 pm~ feeding

7:30 pm~feeding

9:30 pm~feeding

Within each 2.5 hour cycle, I follow the eat, wake, sleep pattern from Babywise.

After the last feeding, I can usually get four hours of sleep. So, Carson is giving me one 4.5 hour stretch at night between feedings. Usually, my nights look like this...

1 am "ish"~feeding & he goes right back to sleep :)

I usually get three more hours of sleep now.

4 am "ish"~feeding & he goes right back to sleep :)

Then, we start all over.

I am so grateful for my one four hour stretch of sleep. I wish the stretch started a little later than 9:30 pm, but I am so afraid to lose my sleep that I am scared to death to change it!

I guess the breastfeeding is working. At Carson's one month check-up, he weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs. 9 oz.! I added both Emma and Carson's growth statistics to the web page. You will have to scroll down, but they are both located on the far right, underneath their birthday countdowns. Can you tell he grew?

She still loves him so much!

Well, the first half of this post was written several days ago, and let's just say that we started not sleeping very well again, so we went to this:

7 am~1st feeding of the day

10 am~feeding

1 pm~feeding

4 pm~feeding

6 pm~ feeding

8 pm~feeding

10 pm~bottle of pumped milk

Mama C. and Papa came to visit on Friday night...

Papa got to meet Carson for the first time...

I meant to get a photo of my parents with Emma and Carson, but I guess it never happened. The second night (Saturday), the new schedule worked like a charm! I got five hours of sleep at one time. A record, to say the least. At 10, he is too sleepy to nurse, so the bottle was working well. He was getting in another 3-4 ounces, just before turning in for the night, which meant more sleep for me :)

All in all we had a pretty lazy weekend with my parents and enjoyed their company so much!

Last night, the new schedule didn't work so well. I think the problem is how noisy he is. We think he's awake, and he wakes us up, but he really isn't. So, instead of jumping to feed him, I guess we need to try to ignore it? We may move his bassinette a little farther from us tonight :)

My lack of posting lately has been due to my lack of sleep and everything else. So, I will spare you by not filling in those blanks. I have little time for projects, so instead of updating the website, I have been working on Carson's birth announcements. With any luck, I will finally have them ordered by the end of today and in the mail, along with all of my overdue thank you notes, by next week!

I will try to post more often...promise!

Before I go, here's one more of Carson...

And a couple of Emma in the bath tub. It was a bath that she needed for sure...trust me!

She is such a ham...