The Leptuch Family: A Huge Thanks!

Boy does time fly! My step mom, Patty, was here helping me out for the past 3 weeks and I owe her a huge thank you! I could not have done it without her. She hung in there even when Ava and Noah were showing their not so pretty side. Her help allowed me to get my feet wet handling 2 kids. She helped cook dinners every night too! We even added all her recipes to our list of meals because they were all delicious. This week I have the help of my mom and then Mike's mom is coming for a couple of days next week, then I am all by myself.....Let the chaos begin.. Some days I know I can do it and some days, I think, how on earth will I manage. This morning was one of those oh $h!t moments. We had a rough night last night. Noah just isn't a sound sleeper and when we put Ava down to be last night, she wasn't settled and called out for mommy and daddy for a good 1/2 hour. Needless to say, we didn't get a lot of good sleep. I think Noah woke every hour or so and couldn't settle. I hope he will grow out of it. Then this morning, they both seemed to want to get up at the same time. Mike and I had slept in because we were so exhausted and were just trying to shower and both were crying out for us... Those make for some interesting mornings.

Ava has been having a rough couple of days too. She has been a mommies girl lately, which I know is hard on Mike. She will say "stay away" when she doesn't want one of us around. Everyone says that the oldest regresses when a new baby is brought home and I thought we might have averted here in this house, but Ava has been asking for her "paci" a lot lately... I probably let her have it more than I should. I let her suck on it longer in the morning especially since she isn't a "happy morning person". Here is a picture of her with 2 of them...

2 paci's

Auntie Melissa gave us some hand-me-downs this past week from Sophie. Included in the box were some dress up clothes and Ava found a tutu skirt that she insisted putting on over her clothes every day. Then she would put on daddy's shoes. I always wonder why she decides to do the things she does.