Restful Nights

Just some news to add: We moved Garret to a co sleeper that goes next to our bed since he's gotten to big for the one we had in our bed earlier this week. He has slept through the night for the most part ever since. He might make a fuss once or twice because his nuk falls out but otherwise that's it. No middle of the night feedings. Last night he had his last bottle at 9pm. I brought him to bed at 10:30ish and I had to wake him up at 7:30 this morning to take him to the sitter! Yeah!!! Now if only I could sleep through the night instead of waking up out of instinct, that would be great!

1st Day of school

So Em started school this week. She goes Tuesday and Thursdays. She is going to Sunshine Mountain Preschool in the morning from 8:30-11:00 and then goes across the hall to the daycare from 11:00-4:30. She absolutely LOVES it! Both days when I went to pick her up she got angry at me because she wanted to stay with her friends.

On Tuesday I was a bit worried not sure how it would all go. I knew she would be fine in the morning since she already knew her teacher, which we are working on calling her by her big name, Mrs. Porcaro, instead of what's she's been calling her since she could talk, Ms. Shannon. This I think will take both of us some time :) Sorry Shannon. Besides knowing her teacher there are 3 friends in the class that she knows from RFC which really helps. I was mostly worried about the afternoon. We did visit the Friday before so she could meet her other teacher and see the classroom. We got lucky and a little girl from Em's dance class is in there so that gave her someone to know in there too.

The only sad moment for the day was when we dropped Garret off at the sitter's before Em went to school. I had her wait in the truck while I brought him in. When I came out she was a bit teary eyed and said that she was sad cause she would miss her brother :( I reassured her that we'd come and pick him up after school and she seemed to deal ok with that. At school when it was time to go in I actually had to ask for a kiss and a hug because she was ready to jump out and be on her way! My baby is growing up!

Smile :)

Garret grabbed and pulled my hair for the first time last night which put a huge smile on my face! I love when they hit milestones :) This morning we put him on his "play boppy" for some tummy time and he actually enjoyed it. I remember when we use to try it with Em and she would just scream! I love all the little things that are different.

My Little Man is 3 months!

Time sure flies! It's so hard to believe that Garret has been in this house for 3 months already! Really, I have no idea where the time has gone. It's funny how you forget when they should be hitting a certain milestone. Really Em is only 3 1/2 yet I can't recall when to be expecting Garret to be doing certain things. At three months he has finally excepted taking a bath. Don't get me wrong he still doesn't like it but I'll take his "sour" face over the screaming while bathing him any day. He smiles and giggles ALL the time. It's so cute watching Em talk to him and him responding to her with his sounds. Hopefully in the next month he'll be on his way into his nursery, at least that's what we're hoping for. We'll see how that goes.

Resolutions No, Goals Yes!

Every year I come up with resolutions and every year I fail at 99.9% of them. So this year instead of making the dreaded resolutions that I never stick to I'm making goals that I will work to do my best at :)

Here are the ones I’m going to work towards this year. May luck and perseverance be on my side.

-Blog more often (and post them on a regular basis)

-Get into a workout routine

-Cook at home instead of eating out so much

-Go on more dates with my hubby

-Resist the temptation to shop and start socking away more money (now this may be the toughest of all!)

New Years thoughts….

So a decade is over and looking back so much has happened. I’ll be 3 decades old this coming year and this one was the most memorable. I’m guessing because it was because I’m getting older and more life changing events have happened but never the less, here’s my list.

-Moved out onto my own (2000). After 2 apartments, we bought our first house (2003)

-Graduated from UWMilwaukee with my Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education (2003)

-Married my High School sweetheart April 24, 2004 and took an amazing trip to Maui.

-Got my 1^st dog at 23. Our black pug which John thought would be humorous to name “Tank”. (2004)

-Got a job with Racine Unified teaching kindergarten at Fratt. (2004)

-Went back to school to work on a Master’s Degree. (2005)

-A surprise blessing in Aug 2005, found out we were pregnant.

-Our Emily Belle was born April 25^th, 2006 (a day after our 2^nd anniversary)

-Took a new job at Wind Point still teaching kindergarten. (2007)

-A well awaited surprise finally came in February 2009, found out we would be having a second child.

-Went on our first “real” family vacation to Disney World. Em was in heaven. (June 2009)

-Graduated again from UWMilwaukee with a Master’s in Education with a focus on Reading Instruction. (2009)

-Our family grew on October 20^th, 2009 when Garret Einer arrived.

Who knows what the next 10 years will hold for us. But I feel fortunate and blessed to have all that we do. Maybe our family is complete, maybe it’s not, where will we be, what will we be doing, only time will tell. Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas 2009

This year we decided to not travel with Garret being so little. This was a first for us. We haven’t been home for Christmas in 9 years. The furthest we went was Milwaukee to spend Christmas Eve day at my Aunt’s house. We enjoyed spending time at home with just our family of 4 and cherished the excitement Em had about the holiday. The candle light service at church was wonderful and brought peace to me. It wasn’t the easiest decision for us to stay home but it was the right one. Em is getting older and needs to experience Christmas at home. Santa was able to come on the “right” night for a change. It’s been next to impossible to get her to leave the house since he did. She just wants to stay in her jammies all day and play.

Garret’s first Christmas went as boring as it possible could for a 2 month old. He slept through Christmas eve day with my family, slept through candle light service, slept through Christmas morning and slept through Christmas afternoon/evening at Grandpa Kildahl’s house. It wasn’t until this week when our good friends came over that he finally had a “Christmas” awake. (I think it was because he was spending it with his big buddy Aiden : )

Here is her new dollhouse that John and I got her. I knew/ thought she would go crazy over it but to my surprise she actually said (or should I say yelled) “this is not the one I wanted!” and ran away. Come to find out she wanted the one I have in my classroom. Not sure why she would want that one over the one I picked out because it has NO color at all. Not on the house or the furniture. It’s quite boring in fact. Her’s is awesome. It even has a car and a garage. How much better can it get? Every accessory you can think of it has, all but the baby and that’s what she keeps reminding me of….. So maybe sometime soon we’ll have to go look for one.

Em also got a whole bunch of Littlest Pet Shops. I can’t believe how much she’s been playing with them! She loves them. Oh, and her “Little My Ponies” as she calls them. She got a double so we went to exchange it. Come to find out, she has every My Little Pony on the market. Are you serious???

And then there’s the princess things. And lots of it! She loves all the little figurines to play with. She added to her collection, The Princess and the Frog set and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. Oh, and 2 new costumes, TinkerBell and Sleeping Beauty. Oh, My little princess…… (edited to add: not sure why the fonts are different, for some reason it's not letting me fix it :( )