What are the boys up too?

I really try to blog more often but it doesn't always happen. Quinn goes in spurts of when I MUST hold him and when he is content on his own. Luckily the mai tai i oredered is on its way and hopefully will be here before sat!

Let's see...Quinn is now 9 weeks(almost 10 weeks old). I still wonder where the time went as I can still remember having him...unfortunately. They say you forget the pain once you are holding the baby, not so in my case. It's still very vivid in my mind! Keith is still holding out that I will want another one someday. This is only being brought up as we are getting ready for a tag sale and I want to sell the baby clothes, but instead I'm holding onto them. I did weed out a few.

Quinn can roll from his belly to back since he was about 6 weeks old. Everytime I put him down for the dreaded tummy time he flips right over. He tries like crazy to roll from his back to his belly, but only manages to get to his side. He is now smiling and cooing...which is better than ALWAYS crying everytime you put him down. I did manage to get a smile with the camera the other day. Keith made the comment that we don't have as many pictures of Quinn as we did with avery. It's not because he is the second child, its b/c he WON'T hardly let me put him down and if i do its not long enough to take a picture. He is slowly getting better with it and is sleeping better at night. last night he slept from 930-4 am...I was quite shocked that happened and it was in his bassinet.

Now for Mr. Avery...his speech has taken leaps and bounds in the past few months. not always understandable but close. Afterall that is the way 2 year olds go. He repeats everything and is now stringing 2 or more words together. He has even talked to the dr a couple times we've been there with Quinn. At least they do have the same dr. and he can see that he does speak.

This past week he has had a HORRIBLE diaper rash...I'm still not sure what it could be from as we started a few new things all at the same time. Laundry deteregent, new juice, new wipe solution, or just the buildup on the cloth diapers. (we have hard water and i hadn't stripped them for a while) It didn't seem like no cream was helping at all and when he pooped it was HORRID! so i decided to put underwear on him and attempt potty training..yeah its going slow, but what can i expect. It's a lot to ask for a little kid. But we have had some successes and a poop so that is good. he seems to think he gets a "treat" just for trying, but I said its ONLY when you actually pee or poo...he knows the drill just trying to get it to connect now.

I think he is sensing some jealously with Quinn as he is acting out more and trying to sit on him or hit him. I'm still struggling to find a balance between 2 kids, a husband, dog, and the housework. I haven't been quite successful yet so somethings have to be let go and the last thing I want to do is disclude avery. So i'm making a valent attempt to spend more time with him.

I also don't know how single mother's do it ALL! there are plenty of days when i do it all, but I thank God when my husband comes home so at least we have a 1 on 1 with the boys, but yet I still feel like I'm being streched in 10 different directions. On the nights keith has church are usually the worse days...being sleep deprived doesn't help my patience. I love my husband but when he goes to bed at 11(b/c he's on the computer) and then complains he's tired the next day as he gets up from work, well I get a little ticked off...I made it 930 last night. Granted I wasn't feeling well and figured I would have to get up to feed Quinn but surprisingly it was avery who work me up at 1230...oh the joys of motherhood!