Reid's Birthday

Okay, so it was his birthday a few weeks ago!  My little guy turned three.  We had a great party.  Decided to do a swimming party at Village Square (same place that we had his party last year).  The kids seems to have a really good time.  We had food, then played a game where everyone won a coloring book and, thanks to my husband, we had crayons for them to color in for a bit, then everyone in the pool.  Not sure if the dads or the kids had more fun.  At one point I came back to the pool deck and the mums and some of the kids were sitting around, when I asked where the dads were, I was told that they were in line to go down the big slide one more time.  So much fun.  Here's a couple of pictures.  The cake, I wish I could take total credit for, but really, I found it on Pinterest, made the actual cake and then got Christien to decorate it.  So he gets the credit.  I think it's awesome.

 Super cute cake!  Also delicious

 Nolan's first swim!!

Mr Moustache

Trucking on...

Poor baby Nolan. Poor mama. Poor dada. This kid does not sleep. He's worse then Reid and I never thought that would be a possible comment to ever make. He actually doesn't sleep. I haven't slept in my owned in weeks, maybe months. I literally sleep in the rocking chair in his room with him in my arms. It's been awful. I too him to the Children's Hospital a few weeks ago cause it was just outrageous. Screaming, flailing, crying all night.... Can't put him down. It's just unbearable. The pediatrician said he doesn't think that it's internal cause he would be showing other symptoms, so basically he's colicky. Thank you very much, just deal with it. Good bye. That's what I got from them. They were nice about it but said that there isn't much I can do. Have stopped breast feeding which was really hard for me, and he's on a crazy expensive hypoallergenic formula. It's helping with his eating issues. He'll actually eat a whole 4oz bottle now rather then one ounce, followed by screams, only to eat another ounce n 20 minutes. So I'm all for that. Took him to a chiropractor today. Fingers crossed. She said he's all messed up. Did a quick adjustment. Seriously, if she hadn't told me that she adjusted him I would never have known, he's already been up a few times tonite, but he doesn't seem to be screaming about it. Just crying cause he lost his soother. I'm hopeful. However. He's got to go back Wednesday and Friday. She said that she normally doesn't see babies so often, but he really needs it. We also have a pediatrician appointment on Thursday. I'm keeping it just to see what she says. Sigh.... We've had a few really, really rough nights.

On a brighter note, Christien took Reid up to Edmonton for the day on Saturday to see Monster Trucks. They had a mega, mega blast. It was pretty cool to hear all the stories when they got home. Tomorrow he is special helper at his school and he's bringing his GraveDigger monster truck cause it's his favourite, and he can tell the story of going to see them with his dad. I love it.

CrossFit is going great I lost 12lbs in the first month. Haven't lost anything in the last two weeks, but I think that has to do with being overwhelmed and stressed out. I find it hard to eat right when I'm feeling like this. So that's another reason I hope this chiropractor works out.  Christien and I still go every Saturday morning together. He also goes Wednesday nights. And I do Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Reid loves going there for daycare. We actually got a babysitter on Friday so we could go and take a class together. The box (the gym) is doing an adult gymnastic class on the 20th that I'd love to do with Chrisiten. Have to see if he'll be into it. It's fun to workout together. He looks amazing!

CrossFit Day 2

As you know, I won a CrossFit membership back in September. Now that Nolan is 10 weeks old, Christmas is over and it's a new year, I thought that it was time to hit it up. I went on Thursday morning and apparently Eric wanted to take it easy on me and did an "easy" workout. Ha! I don't think easy and CrossFit go together. It was hard, but it felt great. My legs were already sore by that afternoon. I felt pretty good when I woke up yesterday but the stiffness and pain got worse as the day wore on. Didn't think I was going to make it today, but Christien and I were both there for 1030. Another tough work out today. Nice introduction for Christien :) We are going to work out together. Christien is going to try to do one  night a week plus Saturday. I'm going to stick to Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. We might try to get a sitter for a week night workout together every once in awhile. They did a PhysioGraph on both of us that turned up some interesting information. Can wait to redo it in a month. It's going to be tough but fun!!

The Happiness Project

Happy New Year! Our book club read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin a few years ago. I've always said that I wanted to tackle in, in my life. Not that I am unhappy at all, but, like she says in her book, "I am happy, but I'm not as happy as I should be... I have such a good life and I want to appreciate it more". That basically sums it up. I want to appreciate my life and those in it more then I currently do. I'm very excited to start this project.

Saturday is my day of resolutions. Christien was gone for New Years Eve and Day, so I really feel like I want to start 2013 with him by my side. We're going to do at least a 1 week South Beach detox, and I'm actually starting CrossFit tomorrow. Christien is going to come with me on Saturday and we're going to see if we can set something up, membership wise, for him so that this will be our thing to do together. I can't wait.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Cheers to 2013!

Scoopy

We have an Elf on the Shelf.  He's great. I noticed a few years ago that some of my friends were posting these weird things on facebook with this elf around Christmas.  For some reason, it's caught on and now Reid has his own Elf on a Shelf.  His name is Scoopy.  Santa sent him from the North Pole to watch over Reid and Nolan.  Every night he goes back to see Santa and report on the boys behavior.  When he comes back the next day, he's alway in a different spot.  It must be magic...  Reid loves it.  Finding Scoopy (Reid named him) is the highlight of his day.  He's so consumed with the magic of Christmas that this is just adding to it.  I love it.  Scoopy has left Reid a few presents cause of his behavior.  Usually when Reid does a really good job on the potty he'll get some sort of recognition from Scoopy and Santa.  Where will he be tomorrow???

The End of Paternity Leave

Christien went back to work yesterday. That was a quick, and fun 6 weeks. Yesterday was kinda hard. Trying to get ourselves into a routine with just me and two kidlets is a bit intimidating. Some days will be better then others. Happy to say that today was a good day. Potty training and all. Yes, that's right. Potty training Reid. I'm not totally sure how it's going. Christien took the reigns on this one. I'm too consumed with baby Nolan. So they did the whole potty day a few weeks ago. Timer on for every 15 minutes, and to the potty whether he liked it or not. Lots of sugary treats for rewards. We really have to stay on top of it cause it we don't ask or take him to the potty, the we are bound to have an accident. I'm so overwhelmed with doing this by myself that I had him in pull ups today. Too many accidents over the last few days. After school he went back into underwear and o accidents. Plus he even asked/told me he needed to go. That's huge. Although I think he was just wanting the chocolates I was letting him have after each pee. Oh well. I'm just taking this all one day at a time. I remember when Christien went back to work after Reid was born. He was only 10 days old and I was beyond overwhelmed. Everyday I would wake up and make a little tick on the white board counting down the days till Christien got home. I definitely feel better this time. Although it's a very different story with two munchkins,

Santa Baby!!

The boys went to see Santa this week.  Super cute.  And super hilarious.  Reid was very serious with Santa and didn't look him in the eye ever (probably cause he knew he was lying about being a good boy, lol).  It was pretty cool to see Santa and Reid interact.  They talked about Nolan and what he wanted for Christmas and what Reid wanted for Christmas, and when they were ready for the photo we popped Nolan onto Santa's shoulder (he's obviously done this before) and voila.  Perfection :) Love my boys even though they offer me little sleep and a chaotic household.  I joke with Christien that I'm going to get him therapy for Christmas so that he can learn to deal with the mess, and the toys, and the creativeness...