Two months

The time is flying by too quickly. MonkeyBoyToo is two months old today. He was Mr. CrankyPants most of the day today, but I finally managed to get one shot of him where he wasn’t crying.

It helped that MonkeyBoy came in to see what we were doing. MonkeyBoyToo adores his big brother [...]

Snow!

I decided to stay awake after MonkeyBoyToo’s 5AM feeding, which resulted in a clean kitchen and homemade cinnamon rolls. However they didn’t rise as quickly as I’d hoped so we needed a filler activity in between the excitement of watching them rise. So we loaded up the car and headed to a new [...]

Brother Bond

MonkeyBoy has shown a renewed interest in being in front of the camera now that we are taking pictures of his little brother. He really wanted to be in the monthly car seat picture, so once I had a good picture of MonkeyBoyToo, I let MonkeyBoy join in for some brother pictures. Those [...]

One month and one week

Play Mat

We saved almost everything from MonkeyBoy, and it’s been nice to pull out the baby items and use them again. This weekend we pulled out the activity mat and I think MonkeyBoy is having even more fun with it than his little brother. When MonkeyBoyToo isn’t using it, MonkeyBoy is either laying on [...]

Christmas Christening

MonkeyBoyToo was baptized the Sunday after Christmas since most of the family was here for the holiday. He wore the same Christening gown that MonkeyBoy wore at his baptism – my mom and I made it out of fabric cut from the train of my wedding dress.
Since it was the holiday season, I couldn’t [...]

First bottle

I’m having a difficult time getting any milk pumped right now as MonkeyBoyToo likes to eat all the time. He’s started going every four hours between meals at night (yay!), but during the day he wants to eat every hour and half to two hours. This makes it almost impossible to pump when [...]