Yesterday was a great day

First, happy 3 week birthday little Tyler! I have been having issues with post-partum healing and my milk suppy has not been what it always has before, so he hasn't been gaining weight how I would like. However after nursing for about 5 days straight, non-stop, my milk is finally picking up and he's at about 10 pounds now. Yay! And he's beautiful, let's not forget that.

The above picture is of him in his new outfit Grandma Audrey and Grandpa Dave brought last night. It's a 3 month outfit, but fits him surprisingly well.
Smiling for Daddy. Of course.
And he's adored by women.

Second, Ethan, you rock! We had parent/teacher conferences last night.

• 3 A+
• 1 A
• 1 A-
• 1 B+
• 2 B
• 1 B-
• 6 A's for his "Characteristics of a Successful Student"(how he uses his time and acts)

And his teacher said he has the best handwritting in the class! Yay! I was just telling him the other day how ironic it is that he's Brett's son. Let's just say that his handwritting is much better than his fathers, haha. Mr. Schaffer says he's exactly where he needs to be so the only thing I could be working on is just having him practice reading. I'm always so relieved after I go to these meetings. It makes me feel better hearing first hand that he's doing well. Especially math, I always had a hard time with math until I was older so that's something I really want him to avoid from the start. He got an A in math though, so I guess I had better focus more on reading now.

So I don't forget, Ethan told me about a boy in his class pushing him down when they were standing in line. I asked why he didn't tell his teacher about it right away and told him that bullying or physically hurting someone will not be tolerated in any way so we told his teacher about it to fix the issue. Mr. Schaffer was very surprised and said he couldn't think of anything Ethan would do to make another kid mad like that. He says Ethan is a very nice friend and gets along with everyone. In the end I really didn't find out what the kids issue was, but I guess Ethan hadn't done anything, the boy was just having a mean moment I guess. I will continue trying to stiffle the urge to beat anyone(more their parents) who hurts a child of mine. But I won't deny that a white hot flame of anger sparks up in me anytime I find out about it.

Third, me! I've now lost 50% of my pregnancy weight. Thank goodness. Twenty-four pounds to go still, 121 feels like it's a very long way off. I guarentee it will be about 11 more months until it's all gone, or more. I'm feeling pretty discouraged about it as I'm still stuck wearing my maternity pants since not even my biggest fat pants will squeeze on. My size 5-6 pants wouldn't even get past my thighs I'm sure. Haven't tried that yet, I'm trying to avoid depression.

And here are my girls after a morning of picking out their own clothes. Yes, we made another visit to the closet to fix things, but first we had to take a picture of course.