One Month

Today is Max's one-month birthday. In that short month he has experienced a lot. We've been to the zoo 3 or 4 times, he's attended a gymnastics class twice, already celebrated his first major holiday (Easter), was present during 4 sessions of General Conference and most importantly, has dirtied more than 200 diapers. And most of these events have occurred while he was sleeping. Sleeping patterns through the night are getting better and better- we're only waking up once per night now - but sleeping patterns during the day are getting worse. He's decided that his favorite place to sleep is in someone's arms and anywhere else results in a 10 to 20 minute cat-nap, and 30 minutes of crying. The biggest obstacle that I've noticed so far is the feelings of sadness that my little girl is not so little anymore, especially now that I have a little boy to compare her to; as well as feeling like I don't have enough time. I don't have time to spend with Lucy while taking care of Max, and I don't have time to really help Max establish a good routine and good sleeping habits because I can't leave Lucy alone for that long. I'm sure it'll all work out sooner or later...but here's praying for sooner! That's all for now. Since I don't feel like I have enough time for my kids, I certainly don't have time for much 'blogging' either. Goodnight!

Lucy's Gymnastics Class
Lucy feeding a camel at the zoo
Easter Egg hunt at Williamson's
Eater Egg Hunt at Bourne's

You can come too...

On Friday we had our first major outing with the whole family. It was Max's first trip to the zoo. After Lucy's afternoon nap we headed into Calgary for a quick trip to the zoo. The gates close at 5:00pm and the grounds close at 6:00pm, but since we have annual passes, we don't worry about only being able to go for an hour or so. Lucy loves going to the zoo. This trip didn't disappoint either. We took Grandma and Papa Williamson, as well as Sarah, Janeen, Jason, and Matt (Sarah's boyfriend). The hippos weren't on display this time, which was a disappointment, but we were able to see most of the other animals. Lucy was excited to see "Timon" (a meerkat), zebras, camels, a tiger, lots of monkeys and the gorillas, as well as the lions. We were even witnesses to a somewhat 'private' moment between the lions as they decided to mate as we were standing there. We steered Lucy towards the zebras as that started to happen to avoid any difficult questions on her part. (see earlier post).
After our trip to the zoo, we headed to Peter's Drive-in for some dinner. Lucy's in the middle of potty training and decided while we were sitting int he car that she had to go. Tyler took her over to the public washroom at Peter's but she said that toilet was "scary" so she held it all the way home to Cochrane. Amazing.
It was a pretty awesome day and Lucy has asked every day since if we could go to the zoo "just one more time". I'm sure Max will share her sentiments soon. He slept all the way through his first zoo experience.