2 months

Clay hit the 2 month mark last Friday, so I thought I'd list his stats:

Weight: 13 lbs. 2 oz. and he is CHUNKY! 90th percentile for weight. Love it :)
Height: 23 1/2 inches long.
Eats: Confession time - I just quit nursing and put him on 'the bottle'! I know, I know... I'm a terrible, selfish mother. I had a full supply, he was nursing ok - I am just tired! Three babies in three years is too much. Nursing was stressing me out and I am simply tired of my body not being my own for the last three years. I waited until he got to the 2 month mark and had filled out and then I threw in the towel. Feel free to start judging though. (But does it help that it's organic formula???) :)
Sleeps: He is scheduled! Woo hoo! He eats, plays for an hour, and then sleeps for 2 hours, all day long. Every once in a while he throws me a curve ball and does something funky with nap time, but for the most part, he's like clockwork. Twice he's made it through the night (with lots of help from the paci) but it's too early to tell that will become a habit or not. For the most part, he goes to bed around 8, wakes up once around 3 am to eat, then sleeps till 7 or 7:30. Not too bad.
Personality: So sweet! I didn't think it was possible to have another easy-going child like Claire, (I've heard about 2nd and 3rd children being stubborn little devils) but so far he seems to go with the flow and not be much of a crier. Yay Clay!

Getting things done!

Cole has been gone all this week and will be gone most of the next week and then the entire week after that. Which means it's kind of lonely around here and I'm starting to go crazy with the two kids!

So instead of going crazy and having my husband come home to a basket-case of a wife, I decided to make a nice long to-do list to keep myself busy and sane (I'm a neat-freak, so checking things off a to-do list gives me more satisfaction than should be normal).

Here's my list for this week:
- Buy a new vacuum and then clean, dust, mop the entire house
- Organize all the paper floating around our house into neat files
- Wash and put up all maternity clothes (woo hoo!)
- Clean bathrooms and organize the stuff hanging out on the counter tops (I bought some wall shelves at Target to help with this.)
- Paint an old shelf white and then use it to organize all of Cole's stuff in our room
- Get together items for Goodwill and drop them off
- Put away all the videography gear that's all over the living room and bedroom

Check, check, and check! I've pretty much gotten it all done except for actually dropping the stuff off at Goodwill.

So here's the list to keep me busy the next two weeks:
- Upload 2011 pics to Shutterfly, order them, put them in photos albums
- Clean out and organize our storage space then...
- THROW JUNK AWAY!
- Plan my beach menus
- Work on my base tan
- And lastly... clean the house again before we leave for the beach

Ahhhhhhh... being organized and getting things done. It's good for the soul :)

7 weeks and 2 days

Today Clay is 7 weeks and 2 days old, the same age Matthew was when he died.

Very weird.

Very hard.

I really don't know how I lived through that. When I look at my little Clay and try to imagine saying goodbye, I start to cry. I cry for myself, I cry for Matthew, I cry knowing that my boys will never meet in this life.

Seven weeks is so short. Way too short. But it's also long enough to really get attached, to love someone with your whole heart and then to feel your heart almost physically break when you have to say goodbye.

Oh gosh. I miss Matthew a lot today.

Me at one month :)

I figured "Hey! I did all the work bringing Clay into this world, why does he get a status update and not me?!" So here are my stats at a little over one month post-pregnancy :)

- Lost all my baby weight (but then again, I only gained 16 lbs)
- Have not, however, lost all the puffiness and jiggliness. I'm still sporting the rounded belly (and it being bathing suit season does not help!)
- Therefore I am working out at least 4x a week... running, swimming, biking, cross fitting.... etc.
- Which makes me really wish I was sleeping thru the night
- Because I have no extra energy
- Which means the Claire spends a lot of time watching "Monkey George" (Curious George)
- But that's ok, right?!
- I am learning that having two is a lot trickier than one. I feel like I am constantly changing diapers and feeding one or the other of them. I'm hoping that everything gets a little more streamline in a few months.
- I feel like I can't really go anywhere yet because Clay sleeps so much. Also, it being 100 degrees everyday doesn't help. There's no way I'm dragging two kids around in this heat!
- But most important, in the midst of all this craziness and transition, I am LOVING my new little boy! He is so sweet and he is doing wonders to heal my broken heart. I am so thankful for him and wouldn't trade him for all the sleep in world! :)

Claire & Clay's first photo shoot!

Claire and Clay had their first photo shoot on Saturday. One of the perks of Cole's cinematography business is that he has all the nice gear for things like this, so we'll never have to pay anyone for "professional" photos! Claire was in a really good mood when we took these, but Clay is a little serious. Once he starts smiling more, we'll do a re-take :) Enjoy!