First Evening Alone with Two Boys
David has church rehearsal tonight which means he’s in Cedar Park with his trombone and the worship team and I’m holding down the fort alone here tonight. It hasn’t been nearly as bad as I was dreading.
I ran James’ bath water (BLUE! WATER!) at 6:30 instead of our old time of 7:30 and let him play in it for nearly 40 minutes. When he spied the glitter-night-light and wanted that, I was able to get him out of the tub without complaining and onto the changing table for his nightly Boudreaux’s and pajama (SLEEP! CLOTHES!) routine. We then spent 30 more minutes playing with his newest obsession, his Lego Quatros (COLORS! BLOCKS!) and then 15 minutes saying night night to all the blocks. Somewhere in there, I nursed Lowell (the end of bathtime, I was sitting on the commode lid and then again during blocks time) and managed to try out the Tibetian carry with Lowell and the wrap which was how I was able to lift James into the crib and say night-night to all those toys without a screaming baby. The only thing I don’t get is keeping my hair out of Lowell’s face when he’s wrapped up on my back… hmm… gotta figure something out for that one.
James went to bed precisely at 8 pm at which point Lowell had had enough of the Tibetian carry, so I moved him over to a front carry and he’s perfectly content with his head tucked in and staying warm. I haven’t attempted nursing in the wrap yet, but for everything else, it’s been a godsend. I’ve got a load of diapers in the wash, two sleepy boys, and Dave still isn’t home. I’m hoping to be able to get one more load of laundry done after the diapers run their second wash through before we take off for G’ma and G’pa’s house tomorrow morning. James is so excited.
Lowell will be 3 weeks old tomorrow evening! I can’t believe it! His announcements are all in the mail and we owe a great big shout-out to Grandma and Grandpa K for the help in ordering such amazing cards and personalized picture stamps. It maybe isn’t the best picture we’ll ever get of Lowell, but it sure does show off his curious personality, as you’ll see if you get one. If not, well, at least you can see the stamps. They’re awesome stamps.
I went with zazzle.com for the stamps because they had the largest picture area available of the stamp-making services I’d found online for the best price. Dave and I think it would be great to budget for more stamps like these when we do our Christmas cards as well.
Oh! One more thing… go preview our latest portraits… if you want to…