Almost a month in...

Can't believe baby Nolan is going to be a month old on Thursday. Time flies so much faster when you are doubly busy. Thank god that Christien is still home otherwise I'd be triply busy. At least I can have a nap during the day if I need to right now. Two more weeks and he's back at work and it's just me and my wee boys. On the bright side, when he's done his next two week stint, he'll be back and it'll be Christmas time!!

We bought an Elf on the Shelf for Reid this year. I had no idea what it was but saw people posting pictures of the same elf all over Facebook and someone pinned 101 ideas to do with your elf on Pinterest. So I looked into it and it's hilarious. The little elf is a bit creepy, but funny. The story goes that he is sent to your from the North Pole and he just chills and watches you all day, then at night he flies back to the North Pole to report if you were naughty or nice to Santa. Hilarious. You can't touch the elf cause then he'll lose his magic. Every night that he comes home end up being somewhere different in the house. Reid gets a kick trying to find Scoopy (yup, his name) every morning. Funny enough, he does do things to "impress" Scoopy. He tells him what he wants for Christmas every day. Pretty funny little guy.

We also started potty training Reid on Sunday. What. A. Long. Day. And Christien was the one most in charge. I read the books, and he took the lead. No pants, only shirt and underwear all day. Timer on the phone for every 15 minutes. To the potty every time it went off. Candy for snacks. Lots of drinks. Drinks he doesn't normally get. He was so full of sugar by the end of the day. Crashed hard, but... Bad dreams. So that sucked. He only had a few accidents. But for the times that a he says he has to go to the bathroom, it almost makes up for it (note to self, need to buy Reid more pants). This morning we were downstairs watching TV and he got up and, out of the blue said, "I do it, I do it" ran upstairs and went pee by himself. Very impressive Mr Short. We're just holding our breath that it works!!

He's Here...

We were lucky enough to welcome a beautiful baby boy to our family on Monday, October 22, 2012. Labor came pretty quickly, and as we reflected back on it, we realized that if Christien didn't come home from work early this round, he would have missed it.  Went into labour at midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning and Nolan Richard Short was born at 6:53 am.  Pretty intense labor, but I was able to do it without have a C-section, which was really important to me.  Knowing the kind of recovery that comes with a C-section, well...  I just really wanted to avoid that.  Especially with having another one at home.  I now have a family full of boys!!  I can't wait to watch Reid and Nolan grow up together.  Reid already loves his brother so much.  He's full of hugs and kisses.  I think that there is a little bit of jealousy there, but we're trying our best to give them both the attention that they need and deserve.  So far, Nolan is proving to be a pretty chill baby.  He likes to snuggle, but he'll nap wherever you put him usually.  He's also taken to a soother, which some mums might say is a nightmare, but I'm glad that he's got something that he can use to help soothe himself.  Reid is still dealing with soothing issues at almost 3. Christien is home until the beginning of December.  He has been working the last few days, just doing some side work while he is home.  And we've had lots of visitors and are still expecting more this weekend.  Lucky little boys to be loved by so many people.

7 - 10 Days

One more week till baby's official due date. Saw the doctor today and had to book a c-section as a back up plan cause they don't like to let patients who have previously had a c-section go too far beyond their due date.  Too many risks involved or something like that. Anyways, section is scheduled for October 26th, so if baby can't make it on it's own then in 10 days we'll be holding it in our arms. And by it, I'm thinking boy.  Holy crap! Baby is as big as a watermelon now. It's one is probably as big as two. The end is I sight!!!!

Uncanny

A little hard to see in the ultrasound picture, but, to me, the resemblance between the new baby and Reid when he was a few hours old is just uncanny.  I think that they look identical.  Same little cheeks and pouty lips.  Getting excited to meet this new little one and see what kind of little person they turn into.  If looks are anything to go off of, then I'd say that I'm going to have two rambunctious little dudes on my hands.  Only time will tell.  And not a lot of time left either.

Harvest Half Marathon

Christien ran his second half marathon last weekend. He did awesome. Finished in 1:53:19, beating his time for the Hypothermic Half Marathon (2007) by 13 minutes. I totally forgot my camera, so I have been waiting for the official pictures from the marathon to come out, but as it turns out, I can't scam them from the website. They are pretty cool pictures though. Better then I would have gotten with a toddler on my shoulder trying to get him coming across the finish line. Either way, I'm very proud of him. Wish I could have ran it with him. He's doing another 10K on Sunday. It's the Alzheimer's 10K that he ran a couple of years ago with a group of friends. Hopefully he can find another race or two while he's back in November.

Dino Racers

Reid and Christien ran in their first race together a few weeks ago.  It was out in Drumheller and Christien's buddy from work was running the 5K with his two little girls (in the stroller) and his wife was running the half marathon.  Christien thought that it would be cool to bring Reid along and run in the 5K with Frazer.  They had a really great time, besides the fact that they had to be up and out of the house by about 6 to drive out there.  Reid and Dada!  Races and dinosaurs.  I guess Reid had a blast in the stroller and, while it was only 5K, he was pretty used to that, cause even that distance is a short run for what Christien usually does with him.  It was pretty hilly too, and Reid got a kick out of going down hills fast with dada!  After the race they went to the museum.  Of course, Reid loved it so much.  He's very much into dinosaurs right now, which is pretty cool.  It's been a good trick that we've been using to get him to eat - "Big dinosaur bite, chomp!" He thinks he's a T-Rex.

 Thumbs up for the dinosaur racers

 Christien's old roommate from 15 years ago in St Johns.  Small world.  Same shirt.

 Finishers!!

First Day of Play School

Reid is off to play school for the first time this afternoon.  We met the teacher last week and while it went well, I stayed with him the whole time, so I was a bit worried about leaving him by himself.  He hasn't been very good with me leaving him lately.  Not the case.  He was pretty excited when he saw his monkey back pack being filled up with snacks.  In fact, he dumped his whole snack bucket into his monkey pack to help me out.  He just wanted to wear it and go to school.  I left him playing with cars and I didn't even have to try to sneak out.  He even gave me a hug and a kiss goodbye.  Two and a half hours isn't really that long, and it's broken up with a trip to the jungle gym.  So he'll love that.  So looking forward to him being able to have some socialization without me around, and for me to be able to kick my feet up and relax.  Maybe have a nap.   Most likely try to get some things done around here that are kinda hard to do with a two year old at your feet.  Exciting times at the Short household!

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