My Babies Are Rockin'

For some reason, I was up late last night.

All night.

It is now after 9 AM and I still haven’t slept.

I blame Shell at “Things I Can’t Say.” I’ve been meaning to link up for Rockin’ the Baby all week and just haven’t gotten around to it.

Nothing says newborn, like not sleeping all night…

Both of my children were born between 8 and 9 AM. You’d think they would be on a day schedule then.

I was past the point of exhaustion already - a new mom with a child who would only sleep while being held. But I loved those cuddles.

What it really meant is they hadn’t slept well the night before because of labor.

The only time my son slept for four hours straight – when not sleeping on a lap or in a car seat – was the four hours after he was born.

He was over two months old before he'd sleep in a crib longer than ten minutes.

The nurses insisted I wake up my peacefully sleeping baby girl to feed her. I wasted an hour of my possible sleep trying to wake her up…. so she could feed for five minutes.

Before he tackled and she mastered divaisms.

She nursed all night long.

My tiny Diva slept on my lap the day we brought her home. My feet were giant balls of water, and that night, The Future Tackler ran a fever. Two days later he had the croup cough.

The Tackler liked to sleep on your lap, or on your shoulder – just like his sister would.

The Tackler is sacked.

He was suprisingly gentle with his baby sister during the first few months. Until she started to sit, stand, and crawl.

Nothing warmed my heart like these moments. If only I'd known what was in my near future...

Then my sweet, tenacious toddler turned into the Tackler.

Nothing says four months old to my kids, like drool..

When The Tackler could only roll from back to tummy (and then get highly annoyed he was stuck there), and drooled. A lot.

And everything went into their mouths – an issue much more challenging with Lil Diva. It was so easy to keep the toys and choke-ables cleaned up when the only child couldn’t get them without your help…

Lil Diva gnawed on everything, including her big brother's tiny toys. She's still teething today, just the two year molars left.

Enjoying the park on his 6 month birthday.

My son always had a healthy appetite. He passed the 20 lb mark before his six month well check.

Lil Diva had the opposite problem. After beginning chunky, she stopped gaining weight between her two and four month check ups. She stopped nursing if the milk wasn’t forthcoming at high flow rates and spent a year with reflux spitting up.

Once she got the hang of solids, she gained five pounds in a month.

And outgrew all of her clothes.

Oh, and drooled even more, just like her big brother.

To shoot her six month photos, we had to wipe her face every minute because of all the drool.

I can’t believe how much they’ve changed.

The Tackler is almost 4.5 years old (a milestone he’s very excited about) and she turns two in two months.

Where did my babies go?

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