BAM is here!

Two weeks of adjustment to now having two kids. It has been crazy, thankfully I have had my brothers help, but his time here is coming to an end. which i am fine with..I'm ready to get it to just my little family of four. Toehead's birth was different yet similar in some aspects to Boobman's, but my favorite difference, which I wish hadn't been one, was nursing directly afterwards. Toehead was born the 19th of Oct at 9:54am....not the 3am delivery i had thought would happen.
  These past two weeks have been full of transitions, Boobman is handling it all much better than I thought he would, his biggest thing has been upping his nursing sessions to rival his brother. Boobman has both helped relatch his brother...and tried to snatch the boob from his brother's mouth. Our mornings consist of tandem nursing and watching Disney Junior while eating breakfast in bed. I love it. we are slowly getting somewhat of a routine down.

   MedicMan feels that this is it, we are done having kids. I don't know if I am done..we will see, but for now at this moment, I do feel complete. God has blessed me with a blue eyed, blonde, and a brown eye toehead. And continues to bless my family even as we try to see what He has in store for our future, and where He is leading us to go/stay. All I know is even with some bumps here and there, God is good, and has given me an amazing family....and the strength to get up every two hours to feed and change diapers, and then stay up with my very active toddler(and blessed me with both boys taking a nap at the same time....generally..so that I can take a nap too)

The Fun of Big Consignment Sales and the Fall Backs.

The past weekend and this weekend I have the ability to attend two different large consignment sales, Rhea Lana and The Growing Kids Sale. While both ended up with great steals for me and I overall enjoyed them, there are a few fall backs such as organization and crowds.

 Last weekend while visiting my mom we were able to drive a town over and go to Rhea Lana's sale. I like that I'm buying items at discounts and saving money...however you do have to pick and choose which items are worth the used price per condition since pricing is done by other mothers getting profit back after items are outgrown. I loved how organized Rhea Lana was, except clothes were all girl/boy and you would have to search through the boys section most likely to find any gender neutral clothes(we were going to buy one or two outfits for Jelly Bean). I also understood WHY they had things separated into three different "store" sections at the strip mall..but having the baby shoes and maternity clothes in each of the other stores from the general clothes section was a little awkward. With three adults we were able to divide and conquer while also ending up together each time. I didn't know they sold cloth diapers and was pleasantly surprised when I went to search for maternity clothes. My mother is a cloth diaper enabler and we scored some really good diapers, including my first wool cover and my first AIO. All in all I was happy with my experience with Rhea Lana even though I wasn't sure how good of a sale they were.

This weekend I have already gone once to the Growing Kids Sale. Boobman has some more outfits to fit him(somehow we got to 12 mo size and then the rest of his clothes skip to 2t). I also found some more maternity clothes which is good because I don't know how long my white shorts from being pregnant with Boobman would stay white with a toddler. they are a HUGE sale and things are a little crowded even with the big space they have, you also have to really search through stuff. but they are pretty organized and check out is super fast. I will be going back either tomorrow when consignors are able to "reload" and drop off more stuff, or on half price day.(today I was WAY under the limit MedicMan and me agreed upon)

Rhea Lana happens I think once a year in different locations throughout NWA area, and The Growing Kids Sale happens twice a year so it is very easy to buy seasonal clothes for your children. I love a good sale.

Baby Number 2 is on Its way!!!!

We are expecting! Baby number two is on it's way, and we are all very excited. MedicMan didn't think we would be getting a Big Fat Positive yet, and quite frankly neither did I. I am still processing the news myself, it hasn't totally set in yet. I think its because with BoobMan, I knew I was pregnant way before we took the test(a week or two after I could have tested). So now I get to go through "morning" sickness again, being pregnant through summer again, and all that fun stuff. Except this time I have a toddler to chase around, potty train, and continue nursing. I'm lucky that we don't have to buy any major stuff, or that many clothes as I kept gender neutral clothing. and best of all I don't have to buy any diapers. Ok, so if we find out its a girl I will be buying a few ruffle bottom cloth diapers to add to the stash, but it's not like I have 500 cloth diapers.(and if have 500 cloth diapers, that's not a bad thing). I hope to do a few things different this time around, and I really hope my birth plan goes a little more as I had planned it to last time. I am ready for a happy and healthy 9 months with a happy and healthy baby in the end.


Help me nickname the baby! so far I have called it Jelly bean, Nugget, Cocoa bean(it currently is the shape of one), and Jumping Bean.......comment your idea on what to call my little baby!