New Haircut

Up in Reno, Mamma and I took Miles in for a long overdue haircut. Our little boy was starting to look like a member of the Beatles. In a moment of chaos, Amelia crying and nursing, the woman asked if she could use the clippers by his ears. For his last several cuts, they have always used the clippers to clean up things around the ears so I immediately agreed. Within in second, she had the big shears out and Miles was on his way to his military haircut. Both Mamma and I gasped, but then decided we just had to roll with it. Miles basically got his summer cut in March. While his little Marine-do is growing on me, I think I'll keep his hair on the longer side from now on!!

A little discipline

While Miles is wonderful towards his sister, he is starting to act up a bit more. We try and give him a little leeway, we have a 0 tolerance policy for hitting. He has started a new routine of getting irritated anytime either Tim or I need to do something for Amelia - we get a stern "Mommy NO" for anything not directed towards him.

Case in point... yesterday morning after I fed Amelia, Tim took her to change her diaper and I snuggled with Miles on the couch to watch a quick show before it was off to daycare. I sat down next to Miles and still had the burp cloth on my shoulder. Miles hollered "Mommy, NO", took the burp cloth off my shoulder and threw it on the ground.

We don't begrudge him any of this as we have heard that toddlers get a little irritated when they realize the new baby isn't going away, and we are incredibly grateful that he hasn't taken any of his anger out on Amelia.

Bouncy Bridge

A couple of weekends ago, we went to the park in San Mateo with the bouncy bridge. It was one of Miles' favorite features of the park, and he and his father spent some good time going back and forth and back again.

Look what they did to my boy...

Miles got his first bite at daycare on Wednesday from a little girl. While Miles didn't seem too worse for the wear, both Tim and I were pretty sad. We know it is something that happens to all kids, but thinking about what he must have thought when his little friend came out of no where and bit him, just makes us sad. But all is good in the world, Miles announced the next day that he and Natalie are still friends, so I guess we have to get over it, too!

Our Model Boy

While Mommy and Amelia shopped last weekend at Old Navy, Tim set Miles up to become the new face of the brand... I think he might have some competition with the girl in pink, but he has a shot!

HEH?!?!?

This is a quick video from Miles at bedtime. As you can see, he has picked up this very distinct "HEH?!?" question that he uses both to ask "what? I can't hear you." and "what? I don't know what those words are." Either way, it is not a very attractive sound or habit and we are looking to teach him out of it. But when we were up in Reno last week, I noticed that both Tim and his father do the same thing, so it might be hard to teach out 3 generations of patterns...

2 Months Old!

Little Amelia turned 2 months old yesterday! She is still a pretty easy lady, with only a couple of bad hours a day. Her social smiling is in full form and she coos at us and carries on regular conversations.

Life with her is pretty good, but as soon as we form a schedule that lasts 3 days, she changes it on us - oh well, I guess parenthood teaches you nothing if not flexibility and patience! She is still sleeping well through the night (mostly), but the last 3 nights we have been up for 2 feedings. It's amazing how hard that is when I just got used to 1.... but a whole lot easier than when it was 3 & 4!!

Like her brother, Amelia is a big spitter and we go through burp clothes like it was a competition. Oh well, we know she is getting her milk and that nursing is going well. She is also very gassy and just this week she has gone from infant style farts to what might as well be coming from Tim to be heard across the room. ;)