Day 280

Giving me a little smile this morning, calming my nerves.

 

Today was Asher's eye appointment. He hardly slept all day, I was so nervous he'd be a huge grump and scream through it, instead he slept through it.

 

The doctor pried his eyes opened and measured them, them with a different tool, did another measurement through his lids. He said the measurements were even in both eyes and said since I'm able to see at least part of his pupil, he's pretty sure he'll be okay. He said 70% of the time, these things self-correct. He wants to see him back in 3 months to double check. Good news! :)

Day 279

Baby footie jammies and pumpkin spice coffees make my mornings!

Day 278

The kids were supposed to spend the night at Steven's parent's house last night. Rian was so, sooo excited all day! All I heard from her was, "What's taking Grandpa so long?" but he showed up at our house around 8pm with her. She wanted to come home. One of these days she'll stay again!

We slept until 7:45, it was so nice. Rian wanted to go out for a donut, but I convinced her to get a muffin instead. I'd eat at the muffin shop every single day if I could, they're soo good.

My breakfast dates.

 

 

All snuggled up with Mommy.

 

Day 277

Today Asher's one month old! It's been a crazy, but amazing, and super fast month. Filled with so much love! Things are falling into place, even though sometimes I still feel like I need more hours in the day. My messy house can wait though, I'll never get this time back... or have another newborn to love on. :(

One month!

 

-9lbs 8oz, 21 3/4in

(Just a tiny bit bigger than AJ was at birth!)

-Newborn onesies are getting tight

-size 1 diapers

-starting to smile and coo

(my heart melts!)

 

We've been going to the same office for over five years, since AJ was born, and I saw one of the doctor's for the first time today. She did both of the boys' circumcisions, but we've never seen her for a well-check. I loved her! I'm going to request her from now on.

 

She asked how things were going and if I had any concerns and I brought up his eyelid, she said she noticed it when she first walked in, but maybe he was just made that way. She did a test and said the light was reflecting unevenly in his eyes, so she was going to have us see a pediatric eye specialist. He comes from out of town, she had somebody call and he wasn't going to be here til November 18- ugh. She asked if they wanted us to go there instead and as it turned out, he was coming Monday to do a surgery and could squeeze us in afterwards. Phew! I'm not too worried about it, because from the sounds of it, if there's anything wrong, it's nothing too serious. We'll see. The biggest thing that worries me is the possibility of him having to have surgery.

He has been smiling sooo much today!

I haven't fully captured it though, at least a good picture.

I got one, but it's blurry!

My boys at one month!

Day 276

These two!

Back in the basket, close to Momma...

(but mostly because Aiden has a cold.)

He looks so big in it now!

Day 275

My baby's four weeks old today!

Day 274

Rian slept through the night without getting sick and woke up good as new today! Nobody has gotten sick either. Thank God!

How are we already down to the last three months of the year?! That's insane.

Every October 1st, we break out the Halloween jammies.

Such an exciting tradition for the kids!

 

I have no idea what to do for costumes this year! I have no energy or time to make them, but in no way do I want to spend $20 (per costume) on the lame store bought kind, which was what I was tempted to do til I went and looked at them. I've had ideas, but I end up feeling so blah about them. I'm usually so excited to make them. Guess that's life with a newborn! Maybe I'll get motivated in the next few days.