Baby Buster is growing!!

If you watch Arrested Development, you'll think our duck's name is hilarious.  Oh yeah...we have duck!  And two chickens!  I so feel like we're Joey and Chandler from friends.  It's so true...life imitates art!  

Anyways, the duck has grown so much.  I wanted to post tonight just to show everyone how big he's really gotten.  I love him!

Baby Buster is the one on the left (hopefully everyone got that, lol)

Parakeet Buster!

Holding Buster...Twilight style.

SEE?!?  He's HUGE!!!!!!

Baby Buster has grown faster than Taylor, I swear!  These pictures are only 2 weeks apart.  Crazy, huh?!?

Funny moment:  On the spur of the moment, Paul asked if he could go buy some chickens. I said "Sure...why not?!".  He came home with 2 chickens and 1 duck.  Apparently he's always wanted one!  Anyways, it was totally not planned.  The funny part out of all of this is that we had been watching all of the seasons of friends, and (I kid you not) on the day that we bought the duck and chicks, the episode where Chandler and Joey buy their duck and chick came on!  Talk about a giant coincidence.  In honor of that episode, we have named our red chick "Yasmine".

No name for the black chicken yet.  She's my favorite--any suggestions??

Quick pics

Mr. Taylor is a happy boy today.  It's Saturday so I am home to nurse him: his favorite activity.  

Look at his chunky little thighs!!

He also gets to spend time in just a onezie, as the summer weather has FINALLY made it to Rexburg.  

I don't often get too spend much alone time with Taylor (other than mid-night feedings), so we are having mommy and Taylor time while daddy is at work and Hayden is asleep.  

Taylor is a happy little goofball with a sweet little spirit about him!

This picture looks so much like Hayden to me!

Boy in a box

Looks like I've found a few moments to update the blog!  These next few posts will be from the past 3 months...ish.

Between 3 weeks and 8 weeks old, Taylor went through his first whiney phase.  Do you know the one I'm talking about?  It's where they don't sleep beccause their stomachs aren't big enough to hold enough milk to tide them over.  They wake up every 3-4 hours to eat then then are grumpy during the day.  Well somehow I got Taylor down for a nap so Hayden and I tried to spend a little time together just the two of us.

This is what we came up with:

Hayden in a box!!

Hilarious Moment

This picture really doesn't need any explanation.  Taylor was quite young in the photo (I'm going to say not more than a month old) and obviously baby and daddy were exhausted.   

 Yes...that is my boppy.  Anyone else's husband pull this one?!?

My life over the past month

It's been a long time since I've posted!  A lot of things have happened in the past little bit and I've been trying to just keep up with my own life!  

First of all, I got a job.  I had 2 weeks to find something before Paul would start school and reduce his work time to 2 days per week.  Wednesday at 5pm I applied for a job on craigslist.  At 6pm I got a reply back asking if I could come in for an interview!  On Thursday I interviewed (it went SO WELL!), and on Friday morning I was offered the job!  I am a receptionist for the Idaho Falls Dental Group.  (For those of you in the area, it's the dental office in the mall across from Old Navy.)  I knew my interview rocked, but I couldn't believe out of the 50 applications received, they chose to hire ME!  Awesome.  

One problem.  I had to start on Monday.  And I had no daycare set up.

Hmmmmmmm.....

After one VERY stressful day, I found a small daycare that could take both of the boys and wouldn't charge me an arm and a leg.  It's still expensive though!

Hayden cleaning his tray.  Even with the biting and scratching at daycare, I can't help but fall in love with this little boy!

Hayden has had a hard time adjusting to daycare.  He doesn't like to eat in public, and there are very few foods he'll eat.  He's been sitting at the table and waiting for everyone else to eat and get down before he will eat his lunch.  He also scratched, pushed,and bit the other kids his first day at daycare.  If they wouldn't do what he wanted, he reverted to scratching.  We're working on getting him to use his words!

Taylor has been doing really well.  I had been breastfeeding him and wanted to continue, so that means a lot of pumping.  Not the most fun activity to do (especially at a new job), but it's great for protection against all of the germs at daycare.  Hayden and Taylor have already got a cold and stomach virus, and guess who handled it better?  Taylor!  I totally believe in the protection that breastfeeding provides from germs.  Hayden was nursed for about 2 months.  Taylor is at 3 now!  

One more thing---I need to brag about my husband.  Paul has been playing "stay at home daddy" this week. He usually gets off hours before me and picks up the kids.  When I get home, the house is clean, dishes done, dinner is being worked on, and the kids are behaving.  He's amazing!

Quotable Quotes

Hayden in the bathtub last night:

"Er-da take a cwap."

Translation:  a Swedish version of "I have to take a crap".

...boys...

and yes...Hayden often sounds like the Swedish Chef.

                                            

A whole 2 months

Taylor is a whole 2 months as of Saturday!  My fellow moms out there know what that means...

SHOTS!

Taylor did so well today!  He was happy to let me take his clothes off to be weighed and measured.  He even let the Dr. examine him without complaint.  While waiting for the nurses to come in and administer vaccinations, he even fell asleep!  I love this baby.

Taylor at 3 weeks old.  This is the only picture I have to share of Taylor right now as my laptop with all of his pictures on it is broken.  My new LCD screen should be here tomorrow!!

Here's baby's stats:

11.3 lbs  (38 %ile)

22.5 in   (32 %ile)

14.8 in   (head...6%ile)

15.6       (BMI)

So...according to this I have a short, skinny, small-headed baby?!?  Ok, he really does have a small head, but he doesn't seem short and skinny to me!  Oh well.  He's cute, happy, healthy, and his nursing jaundice eyes are almost gone.  He has slept 8 hours straight through the past 3 nights, so this is about as perfect as it gets!