It's been 2 months!

So today Liam is 2 months old! I cannot say that the last two months have been perfect because they have been far from perfect. I have felt stressed, depressed, alone, helpless, you name it I felt it. It was a struggle to get Ethan used to his baby brother and I did that alone. Lucky for me it did not take long.
I can say that even though the past two months have been far from perfect they have been wonderful. I love getting to know Liam. I know he is not the person he is going to be as a young child like Ethan but I still enjoy watching him grow and learn new things. So far he only talks (coos) smiles when he sees someone he knows and he has rolled over a few times. He is sleeping better at night too. Still not good enough to sleep in Ethan's room.
Liam was the puzzle piece we were waiting for and he made our family complete!

Going back to work.

Well the time has come... I had to go back to work last Friday. My boss wants me to be "flexable" but I cannot be flexable. My husband works 40-50 hours a week leaving home at 2:00 p.m not getting home until 3:00 a.m so working through the week is out because the hours at work are 7-3, 3-11 or 11-7 all of them cut into Keith's work schedule. Also I do not want to send the boys to a sitter and try to get a ride. So the only days I can work are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I do not like 3-11 because I feel like I am away from the boys to much, They get up at 8:00 or 9:00 then go in for a nap at 1:00 then by time I get home they are in bed. Plus that shift sucks it goes so slow.. 11-7 isn't bad because the boys would be asleep until I got off but I would need to sleep and that would take me away from the boys too. 7-3 goes fast and I don't miss the boys so much. I will not work Sunday so that leaves 2 days I can work 1 shift. I mean I could always do 11-7 Friday but then I couldn't Saturday so the schedule I gave him is what I can do. I am willing to trade sometimes but not every week.
Friday was my first day back and I did not want to go to work because Liam was awake and Ethan was sick. I got to work and it was crazy busy but I got through the day went home and spent time with the boys before the football game.
Saturday did not go as great. I got up late ran out the door and got to work 5 minutes late. I had to fix the credit card machine and that did not go so well. I did not even get to clean the breakfast room because I was busy with the credit card machine. After work I went home and fed Liam fell asleep while doing it and Keith left to go get our oil changed and came back woke me up then I went to get Ethan from the lake.
I hope this week goes as good but I am not looking forward to going back. I wish I did not have to work but its part of being an adult you have to do what you don't want to do and the boys didn't seem to miss me to much lol.

What do you do when your child cannot find his favorite toy?

Oh Nooo.... Puppy is MISSING!
Ethan has a favorite toy and we call him puppy. Puppy is like our third child because he goes where we go. Ethan has puppy with him when we leave the house and there are only a few places I will not let puppy go for example on the boat. Ethan NEEDS puppy to sleep and if he cannot find him he walks through the house yelling PUPPY WHERE ARE YOU I LOVE YOU COME HERE!
 Ethan cries when puppy is in the washer but I have to wash him once a week because puppy gets so dirty I mean how could he not when Ethan put him in the swimming pool and the bath tub even the potty. when Ethan is sick puppy is sick they take their medicine together, so puppy gets it on him.
Well last night I was at my dads with the boys and Ethan had puppy at nap time and then he left him lay on the bed while he played with my nephews. Well at 10:00 I figured I would get ready to go home and I told Ethan to go get puppy so we could go home and go to bed, Well he looked for him but could not find him so I put our stuff in the car then went back in to look for him too. We looked everywhere and could NOT find puppy my nephew even checked the toilet for him lol, My youngest nephew has this obsession to throw everything in the trash, toys, shoes, cups, you name it if he gets it he puts it in the trash. Well I thought maybe it got thrown away but the problem with that was my dad had taken the trash down to the trash hopper already so I got a flash light and my sister and I went down the the trash and started to look through the trash for puppy but could not find him, So after looking for over an hour checking places two and three times I told Ethan we just had to go home it was getting to late. So we left and the whole 30 minute car ride home Ethan was in the back seat crying I want puppy. then he would say Mommy I want puppy please. My heart was breaking for him because he needs puppy. We got home and he ate then I sent him to bed and the crying started all over again, 30 minutes later he finally fell asleep. But the first thing he asked for this morning was puppy I told him he was gone forever and that he went to stay with someone else thinking that Puppy was gone and would never come back. Well he would not take his nap today and cried for 2 hours for puppy he just kept saying Puppy at Papa's. I was crying because of how upset he was and plus I want to keep puppy for when he is older. My dad sent me a text telling me he looked all over the camper when he got home from work and could not find puppy so we figured he got put in the trash and he was gone for good.  I was going to run out to the lake tomorrow morning and look all over for puppy one last time but at 7:30 I got the BEST message ever PUPPY WAS FOUND! yay I guess one of the boys put him in the drawer under my grandmas bed and when it got shut puppy fell out and went behind the drawer, my Aunt found him when she lifted the bed to see why the drawer was not shutting right. My dad is going to drop him off tomorrow after work. I am so happy about that I do not know how much longer I could go without puppy. Ethan cried at bed time tonight for an hour I gave him a bear and he came out of his room with the bear and hands him to me and says mommy no monkey bear I want puppy. So I told him he wanted to spend one more night with Papa and he would be back in the morning.

Ethan always sucks on puppy where his tag is.

A trip to the ER and we couldn't forget puppy!

Puppy needed a bath too.

Puppy loves to swim

You cannot play outside without sunscreen even puppy got some on.

Sleeping in the chair with puppy,

A sick boy with his "sick" puppy watching t.v.

Ethan's best friend Puppy

That is one happy boy with his puppy!

It is pretty bad that Puppy is one of the most important things to us. When we leave the first question we ask before pulling out is does Ethan have puppy! We have turned around and went back to my mother-in-laws house for puppy and she is 25 minutes away and we were home when we found out he did not have puppy. Puppy is our life line. When Ethan is tired he wants puppy when he is hurt he needs puppy after I give him boo boo kisses I have to give them to Puppy too.
As you can tell by the pictures I added puppy is Ethan's favorite toy he is more than his favorite toy he is his best friend who is always there when he needs him. You can also see that puppy does what Ethan does! We talk about him like he is a person at times lol.