First an Update

Chris loves his new job. Jacob loves his new daycare. At the end of the first day at the new day care, he didn’t want to go to bed and I told him that he needed to go to bed so he would have enough energy to go to his new school the next day. He said “yay new school” and went to bed. You can not get a more ringing endorsement. There are obviously things we miss about the old day care but overall it’s been a successful move. And Chris’s job is a much better fit so he is happier and more relaxed than he’s been in awhile. Another benefit of the new daycare is that it is close to home so we’re all getting home earlier. It’s nice to have a little bit more time so things are less hectic for dinner and bedtime.

Alex is getting bigger, stronger, and smarter. He had his 6 month appointment and everything looks good. The doctor was a little concerned because he seemed to be behind on his development but in the week or two after the appointment he started doing all of the things that had caused the concerns. Whether it is due to the fact that he was born early or just the fact that different people develop at different rates, I don’t know. But I’m sure that after our next appointment - which is a little early just to check on how things are going - all will be fine. I don’t have his height and weight with me but he’s about 20lbs now (the 45th percentile for weight) and in the 75th percentile for height. He watches Jacob all the time and he thinks Jacob is hilarious. They are already teaming up on me and Alex doesn’t have any skills yet. When Alex has skills I will be in trouble! He's apparently been taking lessons on eating from his brother. He has this spoon thing down now and loves a wide variety of food.

I made the difficult decision to stop working for Weight Watchers. While I have thoroughly enjoyed the meetings that I work, I only had one meeting left and it was on Saturday in the middle of the day. It is a lot of work to only do one meeting and since it was on Saturday we could never make plans to do things as a family. We never really had a day off together. Also, I need to focus on getting myself back to my goal weight before I can reasonably help anyone else with their weight loss. Yes, yes, I just had a baby but it’s much harder this time than it was before and I really really need to get back there. It was a hard decision, but absolutely the right one for now. 

So overall, we are settling in to all of the changes of the past - well - year actually. I mean, there will always be changes but we’ve had some of the bigger ones lately. But all is well and things are getting a little calmer.