Lydia is still doing great with the potty. She is in panties full time and rarely has an accident! We are very proud of her. We are cloth diapering Jack full time now. I love it so much and I really wish I would have looked into it a bit more before I had Lydia so I could have cloth diapered her as well; I was not as health conscious back then as I am now though. After trying many different brands my very favorites are the BumGenius Elementals (Organic) all in one diaper and the Flips diaper with the organic inserts. They are both amazing and fit baby from birth to potty training. They contain even the messiest poops and you don't have to change them every hour like some cloth. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking into cloth diapering their little one. It is an expensive investment initially but it does pay off in the end.
Ryan got his vasectomy last week, so no more babies for us. We were definitely sure of our decision and I am glad we will not have to worry about birth control any longer.
Jack is 13 weeks this week and weighs 13lbs 0.5 oz. and is 23.5 inches long. I bought an infant and toddler scale for home so I can weigh them whenever it's convenient for us. He is growing and changing so much, babbling, grabbing toys, rolling over, laughing and smiling. He has such a cute personality, and he just lights up when he sees his big sister. :) He loves toys and he sits really well in his little prince lion heart chair. His favorite thing is to be rocked and Daddy has become a pro at it. ;) We are still breastfeeding and that is going great. He eats every 2 hours during the day, goes down for bed at 10pm and typically wakes up around 2am to eat then sleeps till 5 am. Then he will sleep another stretch from 5-7 or 8am. He takes little cat naps throughout the day and usually only one long nap that last 2+ hours which is usually late morning-lunch time. I still am swaddling him at night. I tried not swaddling him one night this week and he was up every two hours, won't be doing that again! He likes the pacifier but not nearly as much as Lydia did and he takes it a few times a day. We use the gumdrop pacifiers which are what he was given at birth. It was the only kind he seemed to keep in well.
Lydia is really transitioning from toddler to little girl. She talks so well and is just like a sponge when it comes to learning. Her memory just amazes me sometimes. She loves music and dancing, and being outdoors. She loves playing with children just her age or older, younger just doesn't click quite right with her yet. She still loves her puzzles a lot, and to read books. She loves being a helper when someone if fixing something or putting something together. Her hair is growing in so much now, it amazing just looking back 3 months ago when Jack was born to now, she has twice as much hair!
We got our new roof put on a few weeks ago. As most of you know we had an unfortunate occurrence when a delivery service for a local roofing company dropped a pallet full of shingles on our new roof thinking we were 206 EAST Laurel. The causes some damages to our new roof so we have been battling with that the last two weeks. They finally paid us for the damages so we released the shingles back to them early this week. Our roofers came and repaired the damaged parts 2 days ago. I am hoping they will be back next week to fix all of our siding. I will be happy when all of the repairs to our home and vehicle are complete. Our escalade goes in in September.
Ryan and some friends and family will be going to Denver this weekend for the Mile High Nationals, drag race. It will be just a guy trip this year. They are leaving tomorrow morning and will be back Saturday night, so just a quick trip. I'm sure they will have a lot of fun.
