2-1/2 months and 12 weeks

Having a 2-1/2 year old and 12 week old consists of:

2 cribs

2 car seats

2 sets of diapers (more poo poo's than you can imagine!)

plenty of sippy cups and bottles

2 monitors at night

lots of cartoons

nursing 7 times a day

a huge double stroller

a huge, full diaper bag (no purse!)

loves of love and kisses

This has gotta be the good life! Roman turned 2-1/2 on September 12th. He's growing so fast!

• Roman talks about the big bad wolf all the time. Apparently he saw it on his show 'Super Why' and the big bad wolf is always coming to get us!


• He always says 'otay' rather than 'okay'. Not going to lie, I'm going to be sad when that 't' is replaced with a 'k'!


• Roman is still sleeping in his crib! He hasn't tried to climb out yet and loves it, so we're still rocking the crib!


• Roman is a great eater! He usually eats almost everything that we eat. We aim to have family meals together every day around 6-6:30 pm. That's the schedule! We always try to introduce him to the food that we're eating so he will have a wide palette! Some of his favorites are: homemade sweet potato fries, fried eggs, pesto, homemade biscuits, pancakes, all fruit, smoothies, pizza, hamburgers, green beans, and of course homemade chocolate chip cookies!


• Roman loves to sing the Barney song, ABC song, Twinkle little star, and Jesus loves me. He got mommy's singing voice. Poor thing! It's still so cute, though!


• Roman weighs around 32 lbs and is around 3' tall


• He wears 24 month and 2T clothing, 3T pajamas, size 5 diaper, and size 7 shoe

• Speaking of diapers, we are not potty trained. I haven't really tried. If he tells me he wants to go on the potty, then I give him a M&M. We'll crack down on potty training after sister is sleeping through the night. One thing at a time.


• Roman doesn't particularly love baby Carmen, but he doesn't dislike her either. I can honestly say that he's never been jealous of her. He just doesn't care if she's around or not. I guess that's easier for all of us! Once in a while, he'll be so sweet to her. It's really cute to hear him sing to his sister and to randomly ask, 'where's baby carmen?"!


• Roman still loves to dance to 'who who' the Black Eyed Peas song 'Tonight's gonna be a good night'. We have dance parties all the time!




• Roman is a people person. He loves to have friends around him all the time. He is still learning to play by himself
  
  
• Roman knows the entire alphabet and can count to almost 20 with a few mistakes here and there. He knows all the colors and most shapes
  
  
• Roman loves playing with balls of all kind. He loves to jump and play non-stop! Doing somersaults and jumping jacks are favorites!




• Roman goes to bed around 8-8:30pm and wakes up around 8am every morning. He naps around 1-1:30pm to 3:30-4 pm.
  
  
• I've had to spank him twice. It was so sad because the next morning he said, "momma you hit me." It was horrible!!! I replied with, "No honey, I spanked you because you were bad." He now asks for sad spoon (the wooden spoon that we use). Trust me, I barely tapped him and felt bad!
  
  
• Roman is obsessed with kitchen gadgets. Just today he spent about 30 minutes sorting through all of our spatulas, measuring cups, etc.


• Roman is such a big, healthy growing boy! I love my big boy so much! Matt and I enjoy this stage so much because he definitely is growing his personality and learning so much every single day! We love you big boy!!

Carmen turned 12 weeks on Wednesday, September 14th. She's getting so big!

• Carmen has gone three nights now of 9 hours sleep. It's just not consistent. We're so almost there! I feed her around 9:30-10 and she has slept until 7 or 8am!
• Carmen is still eating every 2-1/2 hours during the day.
• Carmen hates the bottle still! It's so hard to leave her at places like the church nursery because she never takes her whole bottle and gets way off schedule. I just keep trying.
• Speaking of church nursery, she went for the first time last Sunday! We will be there a lot! She did great!
• Carmen is wearing some 3-6 month clothes, but mostly 6 month! She's still in a size 2 diaper.
• Carmen is a pretty easy baby, but I stick to baby wise, so I think it's partly training too. She's not too fussy because we are pretty scheduled. Her day is so predictable...eat, play, sleep. Never let her get too sleepy or too hungry and you have a happy baby!
• Carmen is an excellent nurser! Way to go big girl!
• I weighed her on my scale at home and it said 14-1/2 lbs!
• Carmen laughs all the time when I sing to her. It is simply precious!
• I love to go get her in the mornings because usually she is pretty content and when she sees my face, she lights up. It melts mommy's heart!
• Carmen's life consists of watching big brother and tagging along everywhere we go. She's good at it! Except unfortuately, her car seat is not her favorite place to be!
• Carmen sleeps one good nap in her crib in the woombie and the other naps on the go or in her swing. We're still working on naps.

We love you sweet girl!! You're such a blessing to our family!