Hold Me

To say Kyle likes to be held is an understatement- he demands to be held.

While I love to snuggle I don't need to do it 20 hours a day. He will not sleep in his crib. He did a little the first week but after that he wakes up within 2 minutes of being layed down (if not immediately).  I have tried swaddling/unswaddling- it doesn't matter. This led to me being in his room all night- either trying to get him back to sleep or just sleeping with him in the recliner.  While I am a pro at recliner sleeping from Justin's sick days - it is not sustainable night after night after night! A 3am google session led me to the product below - and it is working for the time being. It must trick him in to thinking he's being held. I don't like having to use something to get him to sleep and will keep working on getting him to sleep in the crib - but a mommy needs her rest! This is the Fisher-Price Rock and Play Sleeper - should any of you ever be in need of one!

This does not solve my daytime sleeping problem- as I don't want to use this all night AND all day. Just when I think he's out cold and I sit him somewhere for a little nap - he wakes up.  And then I have to get him back to sleep all over again.  It makes it hard to get anything done.  I have discovered he likes loud noises- if I turn on the hair dryer or the vacuum  he goes to sleep- so a white noise machine may be in our future.  I'm lucky to get him to sleep on his own for 45 minutes in the morning and maybe late afternoon - hoping this gets better as he gets bigger! I guess when he goes to daycare in February he will have to get over it- they certainly can't hold him all day!!

Where he likes to sleep

Where he pretended to sleep for 90 seconds.

Just looking cute before he decided he hated tummy time.

The Great Tree Hunt of 2012

We made the trek north to our favorite Christmas Tree farm with Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop yesterday. Kyle was great during our outing- Justin was a bit of a brat on and off. He is rather enjoying flinging himself to the ground when he doesn't want to cooperate- it's so fun.

All in all it was a good day - we enjoyed having Dick and Sue with us on our little trek!

How's this one look? He kept falling on his face running through the trees.

Supervising

He was more interested in the tractors than the Christmas trees..

I thought this was so cute- they tied a little tree to the kiddie car!

 

We stopped at the John Deere store on our way back to do some Christmas shopping. Justin could have stayed there all day. He was on and off everything and checking out all of the toys and big equipment. I definitely know where to take him to waste a day! He was excited to be there again after his trip there with Grandma and Grampa a few weeks ago.

No Santa is not bringing this..he kept getting on it and saying "it's cute"

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are thankful mom-mom and pop-pop are here! We will have pics to post of them soon! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Brotherly Love

What Kyle has been up to..

He wasn't a fan of bath time

Justin "helping" feed Kyle

He does a lot of this...

Happy Birthday Pop-Pop!

Justin sang a little song for Pop-Pop before heading off to school this morning:


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Fun with Grandma and Grampa

Justin was so excited to see Grampa on Friday when he got to town. They spent a couple of days reading the tractor sales magazine, playing with Justin's new backhoe, visiting the John Deere dealership and going to the rodeo! Justin could spend hours discussing tractors with Grampa and not get bored. Here are some photos from the weekend!

Justin's early Christmas present from Grandma and Grampa

Digging with the new backhoe

In heaven at the John Deere dealership

Studying the tractors

We miss you Grandma and Grampa!

Thanks Mom!

My mom deserves her own post. She came down to Texas on Halloween and hung out with us for 10 days. She was such a great help with Justin - our transition back home would not have been as easy without her! Thanks Mom for toughing it out with us and enduring several nights of bad sleep between Justin and the baby!  We loved having you here and really appreciate all of your help!

Kyle Edward Prinz - 11/2/12

Kyle Edward Prinz was born on November 2, 2012 at 1:48 PM.  He weighed in at 7 lbs, 6 oz and is just over 20 inches long.  Kyle's birth was much easier and relaxing than Justin's although it was weird to have a scheduled time for him to "come out."  He is eating and sleeping very well and Tanya is improving a little each hour.  The plan is to stay in the hospital for three nights so hopefully we'll be going home on Monday.  Grandma Riggan brought Justin by for a visit today and it went better than expected.  Justin just wanted to squeeze Kyle, which he didn't like too much.  Here are a few pictures of the first 36 hours.