So at almost 6 months, Trenton’s pushing 20+ pounds.  He’s quite the little man and is growing and learning so much everyday.  His latest trick is sitting up all by himself!  Heather and I are doing our part for going green.  We’re taking the cloth diaper plunge with Trenton and by our calculations, we should be breaking even with diaper costs within 6-8 months and the diapers we got should last us until Trenton is potty trained.  So we can reallocate the diaper funds to the gas fund!

Savannah is continuing to amaze us everyday as well.  She’s being such a big helper with her little brother.  And thanks to some great birthday present books she got from Grandma Doris, she’s already writing her name in her books and on her magna-doodle

The other day she wrote her first, middle, and last name all by herself!  We’re so proud of our lil girl!

Weighing in at 16 pounds, 5 ounces and measuring 25 1/2″ long…..AT TWO MONTHS!!!!  Trenton, “The Rock” Horton!  Yeah, we’re just as floored as everyone else.  At Trenton’s 2 month checkup, he tipped the scale at over 16 pounds.  We’ll have to get a weight on him now that he’s just turned 3 months old.  I’m guessing an even 18 lbs!

That’s one big boy!  But he’ll always be my little man.

Savannah is doing great having a little brother around all the time now.  She’s super helpful with diaper changes and getting burp clothes, etc for her brother.  She loves to read to him and just be around him and play.  Trenton’s really started to pay attention to what’s going on and will follow you around the room with his eyes.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be heading out on our first 4 person camping trip.  That should be an experience.  But, if he’s anything like his sister, he’ll take to camping like a duck to water (I hope).

Speaking of camping season.  This year we picked up another couple to camp with us.  Mom and Dad picked up a new truck and a new travel trailer this year.  No more “swearing tent”, it’s high style for them now!

Off and on we’d been working with Savannah on her potty training. We had good weeks and bad weeks, and with Trenton coming shortly, we had no real intentions of tackling potty training again until the spring near her 3rd birthday.

Once again Savannah bucks the system and after a little pep talk from one of Heather’s friends about her daughter going on the potty, a mental switch was flipped in Savannah’s head. She’d been really good at staying dry overnight in her diapers, but during the days it was pretty hit and miss with the potty. After finding out that her friend wears big girl undies, she wanted to wear her pull-ups again. She had a couple accidents during the day, but they were getting less and less. Heather picked up a couple packages of real underwear and since Thursday of last week, she’s been wearing them during the day except for a small accident everyonce in a while, she’s been doing great!

Friday night she told mommy that she wanted to wear her undies to bed. Knock on wood she’s been doing great with the days and nights. She’s even told mommy “I don’t wear diapers anymore.” We’re keeping our fingers crossed that we’ve reached the milestone, but we also anticpate a few accidents along the way. But right now, we’re taking it as a victory in the Diaper War!

One month in to having two kids and so far we’re all still here! Sanity levels are within operating specs for the most part. Trenton is doing great so far. He’s very much like his sister (being mellow and laid back), but unlike Savannah, he’s sleeping like a champ! Which more importantly means that daddy is sleeping well too! Savannah didn’t like being swaddled and had a hard time putting herself back to sleep when she woke up. Trenton on the other hand loves being swaddled and is really good at falling back asleep.

At Trenton’s two week checkup, he tipped the scales at 11lbs 13oz! That’s a full pound gain in two weeks since he was born! He’s gonna be a big boy. It’s a few more weeks until his 6 week checkup and we’ll see what he comes in at. He’s nursing like a champ and Heather’s recovery overall was a complete 180 from Savannah.

So, after having nine months to get ready for his arrival, it seems like just yesterday we found out that we were expecting another child.  We had our mental check lists of things to get done before he arrived, and for the most part we had everything set.  It’s amazing all the little things you forget to get ready when you’re about to have an infant at home again.  The nice thing is he won’t hold it against us for missing something.

Anyway, the Wednesday before the “big day” was a hectic day at work for both of us, but the evening was great.  We had dinner and ice cream with some friends and enjoyed our last night of being parents to an only child.  We had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am on Thursday, and I think we finally went to bed just before midnight and set our alarms for 3:30am.  I slept pretty well, Heather slept pretty good as well..all things considered.  We rolled out around 5:10am after giving Savannah hugs I kisses.

Jump to 7:30am and they’re wheeling Heather into the OR and I was to join her shortly.  The delivery itself was pretty uneventful until the doctors were having a little bit of trouble getting him out.  We kept hearing how big his head was.  Couple tugs and a little use of the vacuum, and he was out!  All 10 pounds, 13 ounces and 22.5 inches of him!

Trenton Jeremy joined us at 7:56am and just like his big sister, he’s a very mellow baby.

More pictures here

So we’re 7 days away from Heather’s scheduled C-section and I have a feeling that Heather wishes today was the 17th! Available space is growing smaller and smaller in there and therefore it’s making heather more and more uncomfortable. Right now we’re in the final stages of getting everything ready to go for junior’s arrival. The nursery’s set, the infant clothes are washed and sitting in a basket (we’ll get them put away eventually), we’ve got our phone/email list ready to go to spread the news, and thankfully, Savannah is still excited to see her baby brother.

Over new years we borrowed Connor’s Wii for a couple days and quickly realized that playing the sports games causes some pretty good contractions if you’re severely pregnant! So we now have our own Wii and have been playing it daily in hopes we can get things moving along. So far, no luck, but we’re getting some “exercise” while we try and kick each others butts playing tennis. Even Savannah has her own Mii and she likes to play the bowling game.

Anyway, I’ll wrap it up here for now, when things change, I’ll get an update posted ASAP! Wish us luck in the next week!