Amen!

Hayden prays now! It's so cute. It started at dinner. When we would put the food in front of him he just folded his arms and started talking in this serious voice and then gave his little me-me! which is his version of amen. Now he just does it all the time. I love it. I had to get it on camera because this is one thing I don't want to ever forget. What a funny kid. I wish I knew what was going on in his mind all the time.



We are really bad at taking pictures now. I realized that we have taken hardly any pictures since Halle was born. Here are the few we have taken since I complained to Derrick that we aren't doing enough.

Bath time. Derrick always takes pictures at angles like this. I guess it's natural to him since he's so tall. It really is a different view up there :)
My mom got a Cricut expressions for Christmas, which is basically the same but it has a mat that is 12 x 24 instead of 6 x 12. So we made this vinyl thingy for the wall above our bed. Cute huh? It only cost $10 too.

Hayden has done so incredibly well at having a new sister. He is actually more well behaved than when I was pregnant. He started sleeping better and not testing us quite so much. He is really sweet to his sister and always gives her hugs and kisses. He keeps asking to hold her and I try to let him every time. This was at bedtime last night when we had just got the kids dressed.

Awake in the swing.

What happened to my good sleeping baby? I'm exhausted. She was doing so well. She still only wakes up every four hours, but it takes an hour for her to get back to sleep. She is so fussy and just cries the whole hour between spitting up (which she does as much as Hayden did) and having hiccups. I was just sure that we were dealing with another reflux baby because she chokes and gags like Hayden did. She doesn't cry as much as he did, but she still gets really fussy everytime she eats. We saw her doctor today and he said to stop feeding her so much. I was a little shocked! I guess I didn't realize I am an overproducer and she was just eating too much. That's the hard thing about nursing. You have no idea exactly how much milk they are getting. You just have to guess by times and by how much they are gaining. She had gained a pound in about 10 days which is a lot! So hopefully just feeding her on one side per feeding and giving her a binky instead of letting her suck for comfort will help because I am running off of 5 hours of very interrupted sleep.