Couple things I've learned with the third....

(Turn away if booby talk turns you off:)
~I have always had a hard time pumping!! It would usually take about 20 minutes to get like 2 ounces! It was so frustrating. That's probably why I didn't go back to work until Makenna was a year old and Jordyn was eight months. I couldn't get any milk pumped for them to eat. With this one, I decided to try to pump on one side while Aiden was using the other side. It is amazing the difference. I can usually get about 6 ounces in 5 minutes and sometimes more depending on how full I am. I guess I need him to help me let my milk down. It's not as big of a chore as it once was.

~Even if you start giving your baby the bottle very early on, it doesn't mean he is still going to take it when he's older. My girls would never take the bottle so I was determined to make sure this time was different. I made sure he was used to me and then dove right in. He took the bottle totally fine. But for some reason he won't take the bottle now!! He probably knows I am about to go back to work. I have been giving it to him for the past week and he's taken it from me fine. Then yesterday, I left to go to the movies and he wouldn't take the bottle from Trav. He screamed for an hour and a half. Someone suggested laying my shirt or something next to him while Trav gave it to him so we did that today but it didn't work. He just cried so then I thought I would just get him going and then give him back to Trav. He wouldn't take it from me either. After an hour, Aiden finally took it from me and fell asleep! I go to work tomorrow and I am praying that he will eventually take the bottle from Trav. It hurts my heart to know that he will be crying and wanting his mommy and I will not be there.

~No matter how many kids you have, it will always be hard to leave them to go back to work no matter what age they are. It was hard even when my girls were older but it's going to be really hard with Aiden. He will be younger than my girls were and it will be interesting to see how it goes!

~The more laid back I am, the more laid back the baby is. He is probably my easiest baby and I'm sure it's because I'm not as crazy about everything.

Jordyn

My sweet little baby is growing up so fast. She finally got that tooth through!! Phew!! That one was a toughie. She now has her bottom left cuspid to complete the set and has a total of 16 teeth!!! I think that is all she has left until her two year old molars or at least I hope;)

She is growing so tall too even though I still call her shorty. She still drags her pant legs so I always have to roll them up. Her hair is getting so long too and it is looking to be curly like her sister's hair! Yay!

Miss Jordyn is getting over the bottle pretty well. We had a couple of bad times the first night and nap that she had without it but now she will only cry for like a minute and then she's done. She was waking up a little at night too but that is getting better as well (partly because I'm not going in unless she is screaming;) So not bad at all. I am having a hard time getting her to drink very much milk now out of her sippy cup but we are still trying. She absolutely loves to have her blanket with her in bed and snuggles up with it and loves how soft it is. It's so stinking adorable.

She is saying a lot of words!!! Just recently she wanted something that my dad was eating and she pointed to it and said 'bite'!! I can't even remember all that she is saying! She also babbles like crazy. If either one of us is on the phone, she wants it so she can talk to. And she will walk all around the room while she talks. (I don't know where she gets that from;) She even pauses in between like a conversation when she is talking on her fake phones. I need to get her babbling on video because it's so cute. She has her own little language. She will even read books to us and point.

J.J. loves, loves, loves dogs and animals. I think she might become a vet or something. She screams dog and points to it whenever she sees one while we are out or if she sees one on tv. Or anything that she sees actually. She gets very excited when that commercial with the dogs hanging out the windows of cars. We need to teach her the different names of animals though because she will even call the rats on 'Enchanted' dogs too;)

She loves her sister so much and wants to do everything she is doing. Makenna likes to take toys from her and she will make a fit at first but if you give her something else, she will be perfectly happy. I have a feeling though that she will start to protest that very soon and not be so willing to give up that certain toy (pink stroller;)

Jordyn is a very easy going baby girl and we just love her so much and are so happy that she came to our family.

Sigh....I hate taking things away;(

I have a few things to blog about but I'm not in the mood right now. I'm listening to my baby scream when she should be taking a nap;( I gave her a sippy cup last night with her milk and so I decided that now will be the time to take the bottle away. Why, I don't know but I figure if I started, I might as well continue. She (I) have gotten in the bad habit of giving her a bottle when putting her to sleep and now I'm reaping the rewards of that. I didn't think it would be bad since she falls asleep alot without her bottle too. So, I figured if she was tired enough, she will just sleep. I was wrong. We went to the park today and played and played and instead of enjoying a well deserved nap, she has been crying in her crib ever since we got home. I hate hearing her cry and it tears my heart out!! I hope this doesn't last long. Oh, and her tooth is still not here;( That was a reason why I was waiting on taking the bottle away but it was just taking way too long.....Anyway, onto cuter subjects;)
Makenna snuggled Jordyn the other day on my bed. She kept tucking her blanket on her and Jordyn actually stayed and played along. Hopefully, this is what it will be like when they are older;)

Makenna funnies

The other day, I had two bottles sitting at the top of the stairs so I would remember to take them down when I was ready. I got J.J. dressed and came back and the bottles were gone. I asked Makenna where the bottles were and she told me she washed them out. I looked by the sink and there they were, rinsed out and everything. It was the sweetest thing. What a good little helper she is.

And today, we were driving and saw a ladder next to a house with some work trucks parked out front. Makenna asked my why there was a ladder there. I told her they must be doing some work on the house to which she replies, "But there were no boys around!!" I guess it has to be boys that do that kind of work. I have to agree. I don't fancy getting on a roof;)