Peek-a-boo times two

We flew through our first week as a family of four.
We were able to see Dad Stevens for a few short hours on Sunday before he and Mom drove back to Utah Monday morning. We are so grateful Mom was able to be here and for her help.

Jake had the week off, I think he's ready to go back to work. We had a lot of fun just being together as a family. We went on a few day trips during the week. I can't sit at home for long before I am getting the itch to go somewhere, anywhere.
Kaleb seems to be getting used to having Xander around. He still tends to ignore him more often than not. Occasionally he'll take an interest and wander over to poke his brother, steal his pacifier, or just crawl over the top of him.

I love being a mom of two boys. It's tiring getting used to the 'up every two hour' schedule, but, so far, so good. We're all adjusting and figuring things out. It's amazing how quickly life falls into a routine and just feels natural and right. We feel so blessed to have Xander in our family. I forgot how much fun it was to never have clean clothes and to always smell like sour milk :-)

Xander doesn't like bath time, or diaper changes for that matter.


He would much rather be free to wiggle and flail. He'll only tolerate the occasional swaddling.On Friday we went West about 2 hours to Santa Barbara for an outing. We enjoyed hot dogs from the grill and the humid but cool sea air.


Random...
The other day while out driving, Xander was screaming. We finally got the pacifier in his mouth and hear a huge sigh and audible "ahhh" come from Kaleb. That kid cracks me up.