2 Weeks Old Today

Jack and mommy matching outfits!!!

My Jack is 2 weeks old today!!!! We went to the Doctors this morning for a regular check up. I was changing his diaper before he was weighed and he almost pooped right on me...good thing I had cloth wipe in hand!!!It reminded me the time Jyll did poop all over her Daddy at a doctors visit!!!! Oh the stories I will tell  her in the future!
Jack weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces last week at our first visit. To my surprise Jack weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces at this visit. He gained 14 ounces in one week. I thought  he was starting to get a fuller look to him.

proudly sucking his thumb

These 2 photos are a few days old....Jack has been peeling for a few days now so I am going to wait to take pictures of him until this process has stopped!

I can't believe my little jack is 2 weeks old... 2 weeks ago I was admitted to the hospital around this time of day. I was 7 centimeters dilated and told I couldn't have an epidural. I'm glad I have a high tolerance for pain!!! Jack was also facing the wrong way so all I was really feeling was back labor. As soon as he turned look out world here he came...The nurse almost had to deliver him!!!! I love my little Jack with all my heart he is so cute and cuddly. He gets more cute by the day I just want to hold him and kiss him all day!!!

Oatmeal Cranberry Nut Cookies

Jyll and I made Oatmeal Cranberry Nut Cookies this morning. I cheated a little and made the batter and then had her help me scoop the cookies. I used an oatmeal raisin cookie recipe and substituted cranberries for the raisins. I also added about a cup of chopped walnuts to the batter. 

It was actually a very good experience today baking with Jyll. I only had one problem... when I was mixing the dough she saw what I was doing and wanted to help.She almost had a melt down. She pulled up her chair and grabbed the spatula. She wanted to lick it and I told her it had shortening on it. She goes "whats shortening?" I said "its fat". Jyll hates fat she asks me all the time at dinner if her meat has fat on it!So I then asked her if she wanted to lick the spatula she said no and let me finish mixing the dough.

I Love cookie dough. More then I actually like baked cookies. I remember eating this dough as a child. One time I even made a whole batch of the dough just to eat. 

Jyll loved the cookie dough too I had to keep telling her to stop eating it. Couldn't blame her though it was really good I think I ate about 2 cookies worth!!!

Jyll scooped this tray of cookies by herself. At one point I didn't even have to tell her where to put it on the tray.

She even helped me put all of the cookies in the cookie jar. She wanted to eat one right away but I told her she had to eat lunch first. I was surprised she didn't try to fight me on this. After she ate her lunch I gave her a cookie and she told me "this cookie is very good mommy" 

I am so happy that we had a good experience today. Now I will have to think of something else we can make together.

Picture Bomb!

Adventures in Lady Bug Land

 

 

 

My Lady Melon

My Jyll mixing up dip for veggies

The younger kids pre water balloon fight

Making foot prints with M.

Jyll, Grandma, and M.

These next photos are from her actual Birthday on Tuesday. It was a small celebration with just us.

Her Pink chia pet cupcake

Me and my Jyll being SILLY

Sprinkle Nose

Adventures in Lady Bug Land

Today we celebrated Jyll's 4th birthday. It was a small party with family. We had a theme of Lady Bugs and Hello Kitty.I made a Lady bug cake, a lady bug watermelon fruit bowl and lady bug cupcakes. We had lady bug party favors also.

Now I must stop here to try and explain Jyll's obsession with Lady Bugs. She has had an imaginary lady bug friend for about 6 months now. It started out that she was going to Lady Bug rock with "lady bug". Then she started bringing "lady bug" to eat dinner with us. She even needed her own plate, napkin, etc... Next when I was pregnant with Jack she told me she had lady bugs in her belly and they would come out when I  had Jack. She couldn't wait that long for them to come out though. For Easter my sister gave Jyll a pair of lady bug rain boots. She wears them to garden or just to run around in the yard. We even had lady bug Easter eggs. She has acquired over the past few months about 4 stuffed lady Bugs, a lady bug pillow pet, we have painted lady bug rocks. She even knows how to draw lady bugs now and even has started to give them some dimension instead of just a flat bug.

I even Made Jyll 2 lady bug dresses for her Birthday and the party. I have to upload some pictures of the day and my creations. Jyll was very happy with everything and that was all I could ask for.

On a funny note while Grandma was setting up the tent for the party. Jyll decided to dig up a patch of grass right in the middle of the tent and look for worms. She then came running into the house screaming like a banshee because "a daddy long leg spider was crawling on me" I wanted to laugh but asked instead if it bit her she said no it was just crawling on her. She likes to look at them but not touch them. I find it funny that my Jyll will pick up worms, snails,newts and toads but wont touch a spider. More on adventures in the gardens at a later date.

Pictures from today to follow in next post!

Introduction

My name is Erika. I am a mother of 2 adorable children. My oldest Jyll just turned 4 on Tuesday. Jack my youngest was born on Tuesday August 10th. This makes my children a week shy of being exactly 4 years apart. During my pregnancy my biggest fear was having them on the same day.

I decided to start a blog about my life with Jack and Jyll recently. I wasn't sure of where to go with this blog. I have decided to do things a little bit differently with Jack then I did with Jyll. For starters I decided to cloth diaper Jack. This is becoming quite the experience. I made all of my diapers except for my pre-folds that I have just started to use and love. I'm trying to become more "green" with our lives but not to the extent of being "crunchy". I will blog about what I found for definitions on these terms at a later date. You will probably find a lot of posts about a green thing I did for the day/week. A lot of posts about the trials and tribulations of cloth diapering and breastfeeding and so on. 

As for My Jyll.... with her I could write a whole new blog just about her. She is very intelligent, artsy, opinionated, I don't think I could come up with enough words to describe her. She is also very strong willed and we have had our own trials and tribulations with discipline. She thinks that she is the boss and has trouble taking orders from me. There will be many posts about Jyll and all of  her accomplishments and also her various issues with authority and life. 

There may also be random posts about me and my crafts. I am also a pastry chef. So be prepared  for some posts about desserts. Mostly kid friendly desserts or things you can make with children. I have just started making things with Jyll. Because of my food background I don't have the tolerance for a young child and baking. I watch my mother and aunt do things with their grandchildren and it looks so effortless. Watching them has made me decide to try again with Jyll.