Tyler-isms

Tyler says the funniest and most random things and I don't want to forget this cute stage. I decided to dedicate a blog post to write down all of the fun things he says so I don't forget! 

-"Every time I put on my boots it makes me feel proud." 

-"Mommy, do you toot?"

-"Mommy, you are Pampers Swaddlers. I saw that on a commercial."

-"What did you learn at church today?" "God has big muscles just like me!"

-"Mommy I need a friend to play with." "Tyler you are Mr. Social." "No mommy, I'm a MAN!"

-Tyler looked at Eisley and said "You're beautiful!" Melts my heart :)

-Tyler found a screw on the back porch and brought it to me. I said "Thanks Tyler" and he responded "You're welcome my precious!" 

-"Mommy I have boobies too but they don't make milk." 

-"The couch is really dirty. You need to lawn mower it."

-"Mommy, I really love you. I love you so much so lets do something together like watch TV." 
-"I love you but I love daddy more. He likes to wrestle."

-"Daddy told me if you see someone with a big tummy don't tell them they look like Santa because it hurts their feelings." (3 1/2 years old)

-A couple weeks ago I was watching the Taylor Swift music video for "Out of the Woods" on my phone. I let Tyler watch it with me but he was only interested for about 10 seconds. Today the song "Out of the Woods" came on the radio and out of no where Tyler said "Hey mom! Is that Taylor Swift? We watched that video when we were at Mimi's house!" (3 1/2 years old)

-We were playing an animal guessing game in the car where one of us tells clues and the other guesses the animal. Tyler clues were "They have hips and no toenails." I asked him if he had "hips" and he said "No I have hands!" I guess he was meaning the animal has hooves! (3 1/2 years old)

-Eisley was pulling on my hair and Tyler said "Mommy, maybe she is trying to pull out your grandma hairs!" (week before he turned 4)

-On Tyler's 4 year old birthday we were putting him to bed and reading a Bible story. He stopped Brian in the middle of the story and said "Daddy, when I get older I'm going to get a big penis." 

-"Mommy I love the sister you got me at the hospital." (4 years old)

Eisley-1 Month

Wow...it is hard to believe that we have been a family of 4 for a entire month! I know I am her mommy but I think Eisley is just the cutest little thing. 

Brian and I have come to the conclusion that we just make babies that like to cry...a lot! Her best time of day is typically the morning and early afternoon. After 4 pm there is no telling how the day will go. For example, last night she screamed from around 9-midnight. Yep..not so fun. Because Tyler was such a hard baby I feel more prepared this time around. That doesn't mean that its easy but I do feel less stressed and frantic when she is fussy. 

She is such a good eater and in fact Dr. Berkowitz was surprised at how quickly she not only gained but surpassed her birth weight by her 2 week check up. She has the cutest leg rolls :). I feel like she already look so much bigger than she did when she was born. It is crazy how quickly babies change! We did start trying bottles and she has done great! I think she just enjoys eating and doesn't really care where it comes from or how she gets it. I am so thankful for this because Brian and I are heading to Mexico in a couple months without our kids and I needed her to take a bottle. 

We are slowly getting back into our normal routine and getting out more and more. I still am trying to be careful just with all the sickness going around. We have gone on a few walks, to Target, the park, and MOPS meetings. She has done great even if it does take us about 20 minutes to get loaded up and in the car :). 

We love you so much Eisley and can't wait to watch you grow up! 

Weight: 9lb 5oz (as of 2 weeks..not sure how much she weighs now)

Food: Breastfeeding every 3 hours during the day and 3-4 hours at night. Typical feeding schedule is 6am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10pm, and 2am. She has reflux like her big brother did so she is taking medication twice a day for that and it seems to help. 

Clothes: Newborn, 0-3 months, we already moved up to size 1 diapers

Likes: being held by her mommy (sweet but kills my back!!), sleeping in the swing, being in the k'tan, looking at the tv, being held and wrapped up in my robe.

Favorite Mommy Moment: I love having a little girl and seeing all the pink! It is so fun looking through her clothes even though she pretty much stays in pjs :). 

Here are some pictures from our first month with Eisley!

Eisley Beth is Here!

It is hard to imagine that Eisley is finally here. I feel like I was so anxious to meet her and quite honestly getting pretty impatient the last few weeks of my pregnancy. My pregnancy with her was much different than my pregnancy with Tyler...however, I can't complain because neither were all that bad. I definitely gained more weight this time around (about 10 more pounds) and I don't know what sister was doing inside of me but she would move and stretch my belly in some of the strangest positions. Once she was in the down facing position she liked to stretch her little legs out and kick right under my rib cage and it was so painful. I am just getting to the point where touching that spot on my skin isn't painful. Another thing that was different is how much sleep I was able to get the last few weeks. While pregnant with Tyler I slept great but this time I had so much trouble sleeping and spent many nights on the couch sleeping basically sitting straight up. I can't even begin to tell you how much I am LOVING sleeping on my back again! :) Anyways...now on to her birth story!

Since Tyler was a week early I feel like I was expecting the same from Eisley. WRONG! This just made the last few weeks go by even slower, I think. Monday (Feb. 9th) I went in for my 40 week appointment and was only dilated to about 1 cm. I was so disappointed especially since my doctor told me that she was taking Tuesday off and wouldn't be there if I delivered on Tuesday! She missed Tyler's birth because it was on a holiday and I was so hoping she would be there to deliver Eisley. I mean that is why we decided to drive all the way to downtown to deliver our babies! 

Later that afternoon a friend invited us to the park so Tyler and I headed out after his nap. At that point in the day I had begun to feel some cramping but nothing that made me feel like I was in labor. As the night continued I began to feel more of a "rhythm" to my contractions but it was Monday night and I wanted to watch The Bachelor and eat a good dinner. I called my doctor to see what she thought and she said to just wait for the contractions to become consistent and then quickly head downtown. Once The Bachelor was over I began timing them and they were about 2 minutes apart and lasting around 30 sec-1 min long. They still weren't really painful but I could tell they were progressing. With Tyler, my water broke and he was born 5 hours later so we knew not to mess around laboring at home this time. Oh I forgot to mention that Brian's parents came and got Tyler around bedtime just in case we ended up going to the hospital that night. (Good thing they did!)

We loaded up the car and headed downtown. The last 2 contractions in the car were really painful so I knew we needed to hurry. We got to the hospital and I was already between 5-6 cm dilated. I lasted about an hour and then was begging for the epidural. Once the epidural kicked in they came to break my water and I was already 10 cm. They called my doctor and she arrived around 2:30am on Tuesday morning. I pushed through 2 contractions and she was out! She was 7 lb 14 oz and 20 3/4 inches long. She (like Tyler) had the cord wrapped around her neck twice. Scary! Thankfully everything was ok and we have a precious and healthy baby girl! Welcome to the family Eisley!

 

Tyler at 2 1/2

I know this blog is about to be flooded with pictures and updates on Eisley (since she is due any day now) so I wanted to do a quick update on Tyler. He is seriously in such a fun stage and I don't want to forget all of the sweet/silly things he is doing right now!

• bedtime is 7:30 although he will roll around talking to himself and not fall asleep until usually between 8:30-9:30. he wakes up between 6-7 but we don't get him until 7 no matter when he wakes up. 
• naps are from 12:30/1-3:30-4
• he is obsessed with applesauce pouches. we have to limit him to 4 per day.
• he has finally started enjoying going to childcare at church and MOPS.  
• his favorite shows are Peter Rabbit, Paw Patrol, and Octonauts
• he is learning his colors based on the Paw Patrol pups. "My shirt is green like Rocky, mommy." 
• thinks it is hilarious to use the word "toad" at random times. no clue where this came from but he does it all.the.time. "Lets get in the toad car!" weird, i know...
• still loves to snuggle up on the couch while watching TV.
• i put him down for naps and Brian puts him down at bedtime and he has started asking for us to tell him a story. he loves hearing real stories from our childhood.
• he has such a sweet demeanor and is so good at saying "please" and "thank you" and "I'm sorry mommy" at random times. 
• he has recently become obsessed with his daddy. he gets so excited on friday's when you ask him if daddy has to go to work he will say "no, its the weekend!"
• he loves taking a bath until you try to wash his hair. if I need some down time I can just put him in the tub with his toys and he will play for an hour! however, he hates when I try to wash his hair.
• he is so verbal and some of the things he says amaze me! he makes connections from things we see on tv or read in a book to real life. the teacher in me LOVES this! :) 

We are so blessed to have such an amazing little man in our lives and I can't wait to watch him love on his sister. I have tried to make the most of the last month as we await her arrival by doing lots of special things with just Tyler. We have gone to the zoo (twice), eaten out a lot, gone to see Big Hero 6 (for the second time in theaters), and other things. 

Christmas 2014

This year we had a wonderful Christmas! I kind of feel like we are trying to do as many fun things over the month of December and January as possible before baby girl gets here. We really are wanting to treasure the time we have with Tyler before we are a family of 4! 

We started off this Christmas season by going through an Advent guide from The Village Church with a couple friends. After the first week we quickly realized that our group (mostly the boys) needed something short and sweet instead of a drawn out story! After that we decided to have the kids eating a snack/doing a craft while Brian read part of the Christmas story our of the Jesus Storybook Bible...things went MUCH better that way :). I look forward to this tradition as our kids get older and families get bigger!

Coloring the Wise Men with Audrey

Making our snack...the manger scene

Tyler is chowing down on his candy cane while everyone else colors the shepherds.

Making a sheep

Christmas Round 1

The weekend before Christmas we headed to Temple to celebrate Christmas with my family. Santa even came to deliver their stockings and a few gifts from Grammy. Tanner screamed "Best Christmas EVER!!!" while Tyler and Hadley cried. 

When Santa busted out the presents, Tyler's tears dried up real quick...

Tyler, Tanner, and Hadley!

Christmas Round 2

The week of Christmas we stayed in Dallas. Brian was off work so we had lots of fun having daddy home all day! Scott and Adrian were in Tyler and David was in Buffallo with Rebecca so it was just us, Mimi and Pops, and Jeff on Christmas Eve/morning. 

Here is Santa's set up for Tyler. Most of those toys we already had but Santa helped us finish out the set by bringing Tyler the Paw Patrol Lookout, Skye and her helicopter, and action pup Chase! 

Of course, Santa knows Tyler's FAVORITE thing in the entire world is applesauce!

Daddy got him the "big Baymax" from the movie Big Hero 6 and mommy got him the Gup X and Octo-compass from Octonauts. 

We had a great Christmas day just staying in our pi's and playing with Tyler's new toys. Thanks to daddy, Pops, and Jeff for hours and hours of fun!

Christmas Round 3

We finished up our celebrations when Scott and Adrian got back in town and had our 3rd round of Christmas on New Years Eve/Day. We started out with a horse drawn wagon ride through Highland Park looking at Christmas lights. I think the temperature was somewhere in the 20's that night so we were all bundled up and covered with blankets. Tyler LOVED it and I thought seeing him all bundled up was just about the cutest thing EVER!. 

These 3 are crazy but they sure love each other! We let them all sleep in the same room on NYE and Tyler stayed up "talking" to himself till 11pm. :( Then he was up bright and early at 6am....we snuck him into our room for a little movie time so the rest of the house could sleep.  

 The next morning we opened presents!

Great Wolf Lodge

Since Charles, Jordie, and Samson were in town we decided to head to Great Wolf Lodge! The boys had a blast! Jordie and I are both super pregnant so we were more than happy to let Brian and Charles do all the work. 

Samson (1) & Tyler (2)

Baby girl Roitsch due March & Baby girl Pattillo due February

Tyler was so brave riding the kid slides all by himself!

Tyler and Samson...they could be brothers! 

They are going to be the best big brothers soon :).