Our Family: The Hapgood's: Life in the Hapgood House...

Since Tyler has been here (3 weeks!) we've all been adjusting to having our 4th member of the family. Nana (Sean's stepmom) and Mimi (my mom) have come to visit during these 3 weeks and have been a tremendous help. I'm so glad that they were able to be here and spend time with the two of them. You kind of don't know where to start because you've been on such a routine with your 2-year old that having a newborn makes it a bit more challenging. You have one more to watch and check on (not that I didn't know that) and finding ways to make it easier on yourself is the challenging part (aka super multitask) ; plus making time for yourself and getting enough rest comes into play. I will say this: Tyler is a lot easier than Hunter was. Hunter was definitely not a sleeper like Tyler and he just goes with the flow. Tyler is a sleeper but now that he's 3 weeks old he is more aware. About every other night he goes through a fussy period around 8:30 pm for about 2 hours where he is overstimulated and I'm wondering if I just need to keep him up a little bit more during the day but other than that he is great!

Here is Tyler compared to Hunter at this stage (not trying to compare the two of them already but its such a huge difference!):

Tyler takes a pacifier already- Hunter didn't take one until he was 4 months old
Tyler takes a bottle - Hunter didn't take one until he was 7 weeks old
Tyler has been out of the house the first week he was born (he's such a good baby that's why!) - I didn't take Hunter out of the house until he was about a month and a half old
Tyler sleeps in his crib and loves it - I didn't even attempt this with Hunter until he was about 3 months old
At 2 weeks old, Tyler weighed almost 9 lbs - Hunter didn't even weigh near that until he was about 2 months old

Such a big difference already! My pediatrician said that the second born child is 99% easier than the first. I guess that's because we are so relaxed with the second one. Haha.

I was really worried about how Hunter was going to be when Tyler arrived and has completely taken me by surprise. He is very interested in him and whenever he is awake he likes to be next to him and put his face right up to his which does make me nervous but I guess that's his way of getting to know him. Then sometimes he will give him a kiss on his cheek. There's been a few times when he plays with one of his soft balls that he has thrown it to Tyler and we have to remind him that Tyler can't catch and throw yet (haha). Hunter has his moments of jealousy too but I know it's normal. For instance, I went to change Tyler on Hunter's changing table in his room and Hunter threw a fit. I totally didn't see that coming and had to teach him that he has to share that with Tyler every now and then. He does surprise me though. I have usually been waiting for Hunter to finish up with his bath and then I'll give Tyler a bath in the baby tub in the tub after he is done. Well, the other night, Hunter grabbed his baby tub and put it in the tub and kept saying, "Ty, Ty, tub" (that's what Hunter calls Tyler..so cute!). So, since then I've been able to give them a bath at the same time and Hunter helps! Which reminds me, I need to take a picture of that!

While Nana and Mimi were here we were able to go to a few places and had a great time with them (Nana came first and then one day later Mimi arrived):

We went to an alligator farm with some other animals which was so cool because I've never seen an alligator up close before. Hunter loved it!

Look at our tour guide so close to the alligator!

Hunter could have held a baby alligator but was scared to much to hold it. Tyler got to see him too =)

Nana!

Hunter and Nana playing with one of his birthday gifts.

Here is where we went to a Botanical Wildlife Garden with a bunch of different animals.

Hunter is very interested in ducks these days so we took him to feed them at a nearby park.

A proud Mimi holding her 2nd grandchild.

Mimi swimming with Hunter.

Also, Hunter had his 2nd birthday party! I chose the theme of Cars. He loves that movie and figured that was perfect. Plus, Walmart has a big pack of decorations that was perfect because with Tyler being 2 weeks old I knew I would have zero time to make any or do anything creative. I really wanted to have a party for him and made it a "Hunter 2nd birthday/welcoming Tyler" party. My mom was in town over that weekend and helped me take care of food and all the party necessities so a huge thanks goes to her for that. Also, Sean's mom went to a yard sale and they had some leftover decorations from someone else that had a Cars theme birthday party so she picked up all the Cars stuff they had. They were a hit! I was glad that I had so much help with organizing it because I was still in a little bit of pain and stressed making sure everything was ready in time. Not to mention I just had a baby 2 weeks prior. I would have never imagined doing this with Hunter and didn't realize that I was having it so quickly after Tyler was here but it all worked out. We had about 8 kids come plus their parents so we had about 18 people over for a pool party. The party turned out great and all the kids had a great time. I never thought there would be so many kids in the pool! Sean and a buddy of his sure had a workout that day with being in the pool with all of them! I'm unable to get in because of my C-section, which I'm still so bummed about. I have to wait a few more weeks until I'm all healed. I'm hoping the pool is still warm at that time =)