Introducing our Wii Fit Family!It has been a long time since I have done any real blogging. I would use the baby as an excuse, but really my blogging activity has been going downhill for a long time. I'm going to try to do better though so that I have a better record of our lives to look back on. That's my early New Year's goal anyway, we'll see what I can do.
I thought I'd give a quick update of what's going on with everyone in our little family. . .left to right :)
Bennett:
Baby Bennett turned 5 months old on the 19th. It is absolutely crazy to me how fast time goes by. He has brought such light and joy into our home. It is nearly impossible for any tension or argument to last long in our house because all our worldly stresses just melt away with a few minutes with Bennett. He is very small for his age - in the 5th percentile - partially due to genetics and partially due to the oligohydramnios that I developed in the last couple months of pregnancy that restricted his growth. But he definitely makes up for his size with his huge spirit! He is so full of life that he can barely contain it - it seems like he never stays still for a single second! Ever since he was about a month old he has been very interactive and engaging, just talking and laughing constantly. He hardly naps during the day but he is on a great routine so I've stopped trying to make him nap more because he seems to be doing just fine. He is very happy and mischevious. Some day he will be the naked 2 year old running down the street.
Baby Bennett turned 5 months old on the 19th. It is absolutely crazy to me how fast time goes by. He has brought such light and joy into our home. It is nearly impossible for any tension or argument to last long in our house because all our worldly stresses just melt away with a few minutes with Bennett. He is very small for his age - in the 5th percentile - partially due to genetics and partially due to the oligohydramnios that I developed in the last couple months of pregnancy that restricted his growth. But he definitely makes up for his size with his huge spirit! He is so full of life that he can barely contain it - it seems like he never stays still for a single second! Ever since he was about a month old he has been very interactive and engaging, just talking and laughing constantly. He hardly naps during the day but he is on a great routine so I've stopped trying to make him nap more because he seems to be doing just fine. He is very happy and mischevious. Some day he will be the naked 2 year old running down the street.
Natasha:
New mom life is going well. I absolutely loved pregnancy and delivery (I felt like both were fairly easy for me which I know is a huge blessing!) and transitioning into life with baby has been a good time as well. I'm definitely staying every bit as busy now as I was before the baby! I've always thrived on having a billion things to do at once though so I'm happy as can be. I have a great schedule right now. I work 2-3 part days a week at the office depending on need. I'm the office manager and I've been there for almost 6 years so my bosses were great about being flexible about how I wanted to continue working after Bennett was born. Aside from that I always have a dozen projects going on at any given time, plus getting the house organized and running on a good schedule. I am loving being Bennett's mom and feel like I've established a good routine with him that makes our days flow nicely. I currently am the Relief Society pianist which I love. Much less stressful after primary presidency. :) I have actually been a church pianist of some sort a couple times before, and I'm sure this won't be the last time either which is just fine with me.
Michael:
Michael is working on finishing his thesis for his Master's program. He has very little motivation to finish it because he'd much rather play with Bennett and I, plus once he finished his coursework in April he got a great full time job so he is very busy. His only real motivation may be so that I will stop nagging him about it. He is a team manager at Instructure (educational software) and loves it. He gets to go on short business trips every couple months or so which he likes. He is a great dad and comes up with all kinds of crazy games to play that Bennett loves. He still does most of the cooking in our house for which I am thankful (we tried having me do more cooking once I was at home a little more with Bennett but it was a disaster - I cook fine but I don't enjoy it and it takes me three times as long as it does Michael so we decided it wasn't worth my time) Michael will be turning the big 3-0 next month and is actually looking forward to that milestone.
Pocket and Red:
Did you think I could leave out the puppies? :) I just wanted to make sure to mention that they are doing AWESOME with Bennett and with sharing our attention. Red is very protective of him, and Pocket has a hard time understanding why he doesn't throw the toys that she brings to him. Bennett loves the pups and squeals happily when they lick his face or fingers. They will make great playmates for him in not too long.
Anyway! Just a quick update! I will try to do better at this blogging thing.
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