it officially feels like cole has been a part of the family forever, even though it’s only been half a year. logan and i celebrated his half birthday by making him pink unicorn cupcakes and singing happy birthday to him and each other … such is the life of the second child 🙂 i always love reading updates on other people’s babies, so today is cole’s six month update.
eating
cole is now fully transitioned to formula, and i feel a million times freer. things have been super hectic lately between work and other familial obligations, and i can tell you i would have been a crazy person had i still been pumping and nursing. cole transitioned like a champ; the boy loves to eat, and he didn’t skip a beat moving to formula. we are using the same formula we used with logan; luckily both kids took to it pretty well, considering the skin/allergy issues logan has and cole very well could have. he’s also eating baby food, but we aren’t as religious about it as we were with logan (sensing a theme here yet? :)) i definitely idealized being that mom that made her own baby food the first time aroun (spoiler alert: i wasn’t). i didn’t even kid myself this time around; it’s full on gerber over here!
sleeping
i felt like we were on a really great path towards sleeping through the night until a few weeks ago when teething + sickness really surfaced, and we have since regressed. i say “we” because cole’s sleep is really a family affair. luckily logan doesn’t really wake up when cole gets up, but the rest of us (joey, myself, and the dog) do. i guess it’s better than getting used to getting a full night’s rest and then being woken up multiple times a night, but it’s starting to take it’s toll. i’m really practicing this whole “it’s just a season of my life” mentality because i know the days of 3am wakeups will be long behind me soon enough. the knowledge of that is getting me through, where with logan i felt like it would never end.
health
our kids are in daycare (a daycare we absolutely love!) and joey’s a teacher — we have ALL the germs. that’s all i’ll say on that 🙂 we are lucky in that nothing too serious has come our way. we had a little health scare with cole a few weeks ago that landed us in the ER, but thankfully all is well. it really puts things into perspective and makes you appreciate even the “worst” days [no bad days, just some days are harder than others – amirite?].
life with two
i often wonder what i did with all of my spare time before i had kids. like how did i not start multiple companies with all of that time?! life with two is twice as hard, but more than twice as amazing. i feel like each one makes me appreciate the other more than if i only had the one. cole has this way of looking at you, and after half a second, breaking into a wide gummy grin, like the two of you have this little secret. logan is hilarious, headstrong and comes up with the funniest, most creative things to say and do. it’s so hard when you’re ‘in it,’ but having two little people that are part of my home team is the best gift i’ve ever been given.
i’m working on a completely separate blog post on all the toys, products, and clothes that we are loving for cole right now, so keep an eye out for that. thanks for reading!