Firsts

First snowfall

Russell's first snowball. He would only make snowballs the whole time we were outside.

Meghan's first snow encounter

Meghan's first snow angel. It's a little hard to see.

Meghan and Russell's first illegal ride in our van. Russell couldn't have been happier.

First marshmallow. She loved it! She will be so happy when she can eat real food. So will I,

Meghan's Quilt

Ben's Mom makes each grandchild a quilt when they are born. Russell's is Saggy Baggy Elephant.
Meghan's is also Saggy Baggy Elephant (which works perfectly since they will be sharing a room for quite a while). Her blanket has girl colors in it and has a unique arrow design.

Meghan's backing is Little Golden Book themed. Her blanket has my favorite illustration from the whole book on it--the circle of elephants around little Saggy Baggy.

Can't get a picture without him trying to get in it.

Russell needed 'me Saggy Baggy bankie' to get pictures done, too. The back of Russell's blanket is Saggy Baggy Elephant themed, and his has my second favorite picture from the book--Saggy Baggy floating in the water.

Sleep Deprived

We running on little sleep here in the Joslin home. It seems Meghan is progressively getting worse and worse so it is turning into her waking up close to every 2 hours at night. It really stinks. And, it makes me pretty crabby. We learned very quickly with Russell that I need to get sleep, so we had a plan so that I'd be able to get some sleep. Everything was going awesomely. Meghan was reliably getting 4-5 hours of sleep at a time with quite a few nights of 7-8 hours thrown in.

Then something happened.

About a month and a half ago, she started waking every 3-4, and slowly she worked herself down to last night waking every 2 stinkin' hours!

I was hoping night time wouldn't come down to this, but we got the swing out to see how she would like it. She hasn't spent a night in it, but if tonight is like last night, she is going in it right away.

Ben has also been working feverishly on the house staying there until sometime between midnight and 2:00 every night. He has taken several days off to aid in getting things done quicker. I've also been able to drop Meghan and Russell off with one of my visiting teachers so I can do stuff like scrap off old carpet pad and pull staples out of the floor.

Russell is the only one who is getting good sleep at night. He gets such good sleep that he wakes up nice and early every morning. If only he could sleep a little longer, so I could sleep a little longer in the morning, too.

I know we are a little behind, but here are Halloween pictures. I made Russell a Thomas the Tank Engine costume. Meghan was a flower.

Our only Halloween day picture. Russell had just had a melt down, Meghan is doing what she does best, and our house is a mess.

Trunk-or-treat

This girl turned 4 months old on Saturday. Her new favorite tricks are playing with her feet, sucking her first two fingers (especially when she is tired, though it doesn't help her sleep), and squirming her way around the floor to get Russell's toys her leaves on the floor. Lots of people have been saying that she looks like her mommy lately :) We broke out this toy for her to play with and she loves it. Russell loves it, too, and plays with any chance he gets. She is always moving.