And Seven Months Later

Ha! Of course it's been 7 months since I started this thing.  7 months full of joyful moments, laughter, a few tears, and oh yeah, another baby on the way.  The night of my last post I found out that I was pregnant with baby #2.  D is going to be a big brother.  My husband had quite the hilarious reaction when he came home from his guys trip: shock, awe, shock and happiness.  It took us 5 months to get pregnant with D and for this new little guy (yup I'm going to be officially forever out numbered in less than 7 weeks!) it happened right away. Little J (McBaby #2) will hopefully, fingers crossed, get here on May 21st.  

We've had lots of transitions in the last 7 months, the biggest ones dealing with D's sleeping.  In December, during my Christmas break from work, we said goodbye to his pacifiers.  For the most part it wasn't terrible, a few nights of crying followed by a couple of weeks of taking forever to fall asleep.  Then in February, we moved him out of a crib and into a double bed.  The crib was moved into J's nursery and D got some awesome Mickey Mouse Clubhouse bed sheets and I got a bed to lay in next to D while he fell asleep.  For a while we were sitting on the ground reading books, laying in the dark, telling stories and singing songs; but the larger I got, the more painful it was to get him back into the crib.  We're still working on nighttime routines as he is having some separation anxiety, but overall he enjoys the new bed.

The next 7 weeks will be a few more transitions.  I'll be all done with work on May 1st (a difficult decision to make, as I am not going back to teach in the fall) and it will be D's last day at this current daycare/preschool.  He'll be going to a preschool two days a week that is less than 10 minutes from our house, which will be so convenient once J gets here.  Also, D is learning to use the potty.  We've tried a few different things, but he hasn't loved using it yet, but we know it will be a slow transition.  

So there it is, a recap of life in the last seven months and hopefully more posts to come :)