dare to compare???

You know they are two totally different people. i can tell that they have two totally different personalities.... which probably means they can be best friends??? i mean isn't it true that opposites attract. little high strung (similar to her mommy) elly märta, and little content (similar to her daddy) ruthie should play very very well together, which of course is the mother's hope.

anyways. i put little ruthie in an old outfit of elly m.'s and i got angry about breastfeeding with elly m. all over again. she looks like a victim of anorexia or something.. her little neck is so thin and no meat on her bones. how sad. i am still so mad about the fact that she starved her first almost 2 months of life. ERRRRR. i looked at her baby book, and she was not even back up to her birth weight by the time she was a month old. little ruthie gained 3 pounds by her one month appt. but it is okay. elly m. is fine now i keep telling myself. but that time of life was so frustrating. this time breastfeeding is so much easier and of course the circumstances are much easier this time. so here are some pics of elly m. when she was this little. i don't think they really look anything alike. ruthie is so round and elly m. is so oval. i don't know ... do i dare compare????

2 weekends ago....

Two weekends ago, we went with the Whites, Schmits, and the Murphy's to the picwick lake to stay in the white's cabin. it is always a good time and this time it was also. there were a few more arguments than normal, but expected when family spends the weekend together right??? anyways... elly m. went on her first jet ski ride and her being the wild child that she is, you can tell she totally enjoyed it... yep... yo got that right, she fell fast asleep about 2 minutes into the ride. i don't think i have ever seen jonathan nervous about anything since we have been parents, but he says to me from the back "is she past that shaken' baby syndrome yet?" hilarious. i mean who falls asleep their first ride on a jet ski. anyways... the rest of the weekend was fun, but elly m. had a horrible time sleeping. actually she has had a horrible time sleeping in general lately. ruthie sleeps great though. i guess elly m. feels as though she has to make up for ruthie's lack of waking up. silly girl.

Sooooooo Sweet!!

Little Ruthie has been nothing but sweet since the moment she was born. Here are a few sweet pics. of her sleeping, which she still does a lot of. I took her to her first doctor's appt. and she has gained some weight. she was born at 8 lbs. 9 oz. and is now up to 11 lbs. 4 oz. at her four week appt. She has surpassed all the charts for her age, you can't help but be proud of the little squash ball. she is our little harvest squash. she hasn't quite stretched out yet, she still likes to curl up in a little ball. so sweet.

little presents!!!

Elly Märta has had a rough couple of weeks with being sick and then getting a cold and then getting all 4 of those stupid pointy teeth. Then we went to picwic for the weekend with the family and she had "panic attacks" while trying to go to sleep. so sleep eluded us until about 2:30 a.m. the first night, and then midnight the second night, so we are officially playing catch up on sleep this week. but today elly märta felt like she had found tons of little presents behind the rocking chair. she just looked so happy back there opening the little bundles!! what a funny little thing.

Three weeks old... yesterday!

Okay, so i can say this because i am the mother. little ruthie has sort of a little squash body... and three chins that hold old nasty rotten milk a little too much for my liking, but she will definitely have to enjoy baths, because this girl doesn't have a choice... she gets stinnnnnnnnnkkkkkyyyyy sometimes. whew-e. anyways... she has her first official cold and just plain doesn't like it, but she continues to be a very pleasant baby and content a good portion of the time. we seem to be adjusting much faster to the 2nd child then the shocking idea of the first.....

Three

Rainy day

It was a rainy day today in our neck of the woods.... but we found plenty to do, considering both of my childs have colds today and jonathan has something. something so bad, he had to put on a hat to keep warm and lay on the couch with a blanket, by the way we even turned the air up to 75!!!! anyhow... elly märta continues to be sweet to little ruthie, it is only her and i that can't seem to see eye to eye all the time, but we will soon. i am extremely tired of sickness, i wish that it would just end, but you know when they are done being sick.. you know who is next... me i am sure.

little Rutherford....

The girls' (by the way, it is so fun to say "the girls'"), aunt jessie sent little ruthie this cute little onsie. she just had a little baby also and wasn't sure if it was going to be a girl or a boy, but they got their little boy, owen conner, and so little ruthie got the onsie that says "I am not a boy!" i think with their first little baby girl they had some problems with people thinking she was a boy, so funny. even if you dress the little baby girls in all pink, people presumptively think it is a boy... silly people.

Rough week...

so having a 2 week old baby is a piece of cake compared to a sick kid. elly m. has had a rough week. we have been stuck in the house with a 104-105 degree temp. most of the week. okay, the whole week until today. whew--eee are they ever clingy when they are sick... and who do they want in the middle of the night... "MOOOMMMMYYYYY!!!", which is great and fine if no one else needs you in the middle of the night. i am glad that we are finally getting over this stupid tonsillitis, because it was getting real old. so here are a few pictures of how we entertained ourselves this week.

almost 2 weeks....

here are our children, little ruthie almost 2 weeks old, and little elly märta taking her first dose of antibiotics since she came into this world. jonathan started his soccer league last night and little elly märtas ear infection caused her temp. to rise to 105!!!!! eek! i called aunt gittan to the rescue....her and uncle david came down to hold one while i held the other. it was an event of a lifetime... but we feel better today.. .much better. I do believe the recovery will be coming really soon.