ever read?

i'm not telling you what to do... but read it! i was totally not a "gamer" at first but decided with all the hype that i would read the first book.. well, i read it in two days. i found myself hoping and praying jude and gavin would leave me alone for 10 minutes longer than usual so i could read it for just a bit longer. i read while feeding jude, while sitting with gavin in the bathroom for his bath, while pumping and well, pretty much doing anything that i didn't have to be fully concentrated on. dan hates when i buy books because i read them in two days and then they just sit there, oh well!

i am heading to the movie tomorrow with danielle (and maybe others?) and cannot wait to see it and put a face on the characters.

i just started the second book, love it.

a really really quick read, and totally worth reading. DO IT! :)

a week of highs

and i mean that (somewhat) literally...

i joined a yoga class-- but you know that by now, hence my previous post. and on the first day our yoga instructor told us we were going to be doing handstands by the end of this session. at first i was like, oh ya, sure i can do a handstand. i mean, i thought i was pretty freakin awesome when i would do drunk handstands at parties (yea, pretty cool huh?) and i don't just mean on the keg ;) well as we were getting ready to do these handstands i totally freaked out. "what about my neck" is all i thought. well, i didn't do one yesterday at our class, but today i did! woo hoo! i was pretty excited. next week we don't have yoga so sarah and i are going to get together and try to continue our yoga routine... who wants to place bets that we will sit around and drink wine on our yoga mats and call it yoga? i'm pretty sure only that will happen ;)

on an extremely different note, gavin has been having a week of play dates. blaise has been hanging out with us from monday to wednesday and i am kind of sad to see him go. we have had so many great moments and did so many cool activities- i'm beginning to think that three kids wouldn't be that bad. but, definitely NOT now! or for quite some time. actually blaise and gavin are just about the same age difference than gavin and jude are. it has been so much fun and pretty easy ( i will say) having blaise here. he and gavin play together and i, well, i just continuously clean up after them and break up the teeny tiny spats they have, usually over a toy! we have been having fun and it's been wearing gavin out!

on tuesday, while mr jude slept in his swing.. (surprise surprise, a sleeping baby?)

we made playdough and cupcakes.

and had to stop to enjoy an icee

they thought it was pretty cool to make playdough and then be able to play with it...

and cupcakes as well...

i couldn't believe how serious both boys were about frosting the cupcakes... they weren't so serious about eating them... it was a huge mess! i was pretty proud of myself... i didn't even have one!! woo hoo for sam!

we finished out our wednesday together by ordering some pizza.. we got the "pizza box" and it was perfect for the boys and i. 8 small pieces, breadsticks and cinasticks... we had a lot left over, enough for dan to take to work today!

another positive? well justine and theresa came over on monday and delievered this:

WHO'S EXCITED? not me.. I AM ESCATIC! i couldn't be more honored and happy about justine and anthony getting married, and being a part of this special day. i mean, i feel like i've been waiting for the ring on justines finger just as long as she has. THANK YOU ANTHONY, for finally proposing to your girlfriend of SEVEN years :) ahhh love! justine is so prepared for this weeding- she has the colors, dresses, decor and most everything set... now to just book a venue! they are getting married next summer... so that means??? another fabulous summer full of weddings! cannot wait!

gavin has a busy rest of the week as well. grandpa and grandma are taking gavin out to taco johns (his favorite) today and then friday he's going to daycare! woo hoo! this means i have some time to take some pictures of jude.. something i've been saying i was going to do for ummm well a month now. lets see if i can get some snapped today. i guess we have a busy weekend too. we are starting the project of finishing our small area of hardwood floors... and thank goodness we know some pretty awesome guy to do it for us for... the great price of... free! of course we plan on paying him something, but he doesn't want any money- just some beer.. OKAY! the only bad part... staying at my moms with both boys, urgh!

a quicky

another reason i love my husband..

my text: just a reminder i have my yoga class tonight and i'm going tanning after.. you'll have to put gavin to bed. (dun dun dun)

dans text: YTL baby! probably not the l part though

me: well i do laundry all day so yea..

dan: LYT then :)

someone watches too much jersey shore?

also, dan's newest comeback: "if i was big like ronnie i'd do it"

yes, too much jersey shore!

LOVE HIM!

we're three weeks in

i can't believe jude is only three weeks old.

i feel like he's been here for at least a month or two.

our life is getting so much easier now that we're adjusting to our new lifestyle of... four.

jude is not the baby that gavin was, but i knew this.. right? wrong! i assumed jude would be this easy baby just like gavin. gavin was hands down, the easiest baby ever. jude, well not so much. wait though, don't get me wrong, he's a good baby... but gavin, well he must of been a freak of nature! jude is a little fussy when it comes to eating- sometimes he eats 3-4 oz and sometimes he will barely finish off 2 oz. and sometimes he'll spit up quite a bit and then need to re-eat.. urgh! and then there's his sleeping---- ha! he's actually a good sleeper. he goes to bed around 10-10:30, gets up at 1, 4 and up for good usually around 6:30ish. but, we're still working on sleeping on his back, flat. so he's now sleeping in his boppy (don't judge) and my chest at night. we will concur this sleeping thing, but i just don't want to have a screaming baby waking up gavin in the middle of the night. he is napping in his favorite boppy lounger, but his afternoon naptime is usually four or so hours, so i will eventually put him in his crib, like i said, eventually... one thing i will say is jude doesn't ever wake up when gavin drives his trucks on the hardwood floors in the living room- or when gavin screams at me for some reason, so that's a plus.

onto gavin- well, he is a big brother now and he will tell you all about being a big brother if you ask him. we were at story hour on friday (not a good time) and gavin actually got defensive about little breck looking at his little brother in his car seat. and then after he was the big brother of the year, he continued to be that naughty kid at story hour; we quickly left! gavin helps me bathe jude and hands me diapers and pretty much anything i ask gavin to get. when i have to run out to feed maddy gavin gets to be "in charge" and he thinks it's pretty cool. gavin does get to take a break from the baby as he heads downstairs and plays in "his room" aka the playroom/downstairs living room. and he loves when jude is sleeping so he gets moms full attention. so far, so good. gavin has adjusted much better than i ever thought he would. we're getting ready to sign him up for preschool, something i know he will thoroughly enjoy.

me.. i. want. to. workout. seriously, it's killing me. i have started to work on my arms, just lifting light weights and doing as many push ups as these flabby arms can do. but i want to go for a cold, brisk walk... NOW! and i want to start to workout in my living room to jillian, now! i want to join back up at the gym, now. and i really want to start yoga and bootcamp, now. have you figured out that i want to work out? i didn't have any of the "down there" problems after childbirth so i am mooooooore than capable to start up right? wrong! i asked, she said no. i still have just over a week before i can start any strenuous workout... and she said that "that might be pushing it". baaaahhumbug! i have however, started pricing out double joggers and the one that i am more than in love with is over $250, so i'm going to have to show dan that i am going to use this jogger and be serious about this fitness thing asap so we can purchase in time for spring. the great thing about a february baby? by summer jude can be in a stroller without his carseat! double jogger time! i want to get all of this baby belly leftover flab gone by may... i think that's a more than reachable goal for now- but i might end up changing it... may kicks off our summer/early fall of six weddings. and besides looking good in that dress, i want to feel good in all those dresses i'm going to purchase! side note- dresses are my favorite thing to purchase, by far! and thankfully, (not for dan) only two of the weddings won't have all the same people at them so i can't really "re-wear" the dresses! my postpartum is gone, or well i think it was just "baby blues" and that, is a good thing. those first couple days were awful and i am so thankful i am not suffering anymore.

dan, well dan tells me every single time he hears jude crying that we are completely done having kids. dan just can't really handle it. he couldn't with gavin either. obviously, men seem to enjoy their children when they are a little bit older and less fragile. dan heads out for the garage when it's judes bath time simply because the sound of jude crying makes dan a little frustrated. dan and jude have this weird bond though, much stronger than the bond he and gavin shared at this age, it's cute! dan and gavin have tons of outdoor projects to start once this snow melts and the temperatures heat up a little. gavin's pretty excited about the "andbox" that dads going to build for him- he talks about it, evvvvery day. other than that dan's finally done with school so no more missing him on saturdays, and dan's not doing any side jobs so we, the three of us, have his full attention. i will cherish these days and take full advantage of them. come spring i'm sure it will be a different blog post about me complaining how dan's so busy!

hmmm what else?... i am going out for my first night out... scary! dan has been begging me to go with him to hairball and it's in willmar so we gathered a few of our friends and got some tickets. i am going to have to drink at least one glass of wine or one margarita (not complaining) after the boys go to bed so my tolerance is somewhat up there so i'm not a mess on saturday. kind of nervous about going out... i just don't remember going out and coming home and taking care of a newborn- i know i did it with gavin, but just don't remember at all. i do know that i don't need to hit it as hard as i did before i got pregnant, that is not necessary!