the adams' blog

I was shocked when I looked on this blog the other day and realized that we haven’t posted anything on here since Boston was born. It’s been two months since then and I’ve decided to make an effort to post something on here as often as possible. My goal is to post something on here at least three times a week (if not more often). If I can’t think of anything to write, I’ll post a photo on here. To anyone who checks this blog on a regular basis, I apologize for not writing anything for so long.

Since Boston’s birth, our lives have been restructured to the point where free time is scarce and often spent catching up on sleep, or doing things around the house in order to maintain some semblance of order there. There aren’t many late nights for me now. I have so many things I need to get done, but there just isn’t enough time in the day to get them done. I’m working on a website for a locally-owned company that I can’t seem to make time for, and I have gotten so far behind on doing the Bedford Acres Podcasts that I’m ashamed of myself. Even this blog has gotten behind, so it’s not just my outside obligations I’m getting behind on, but the things I like to do for myself are also falling behind. I keep telling myself that I’ll get caught up, and I’m sure I will, but right now I’m needed as a dad and husband, and I’m never going to complain about those duties. Jessica returned to work last week. Her sister, Alissa, is watching Boston, and America is still going to her sitter, Regina.

So on to the latest about the kids…

Boston has been a big change from what we were used to with America. No matter how hard we tried, America would NOT get on a regular feeding schedule. She ate when she was ready. However, Boston is as regular as clockwork. He takes a bottle every three hours, no matter what! The weird thing about this three-hour schedule is that Boston is so slow about taking his bottle. He cries like he’s starving when he wants his bottle, and he immediately latches on to the bottle when we give it to him, but then he slows down a few minutes after he gets started and then he falls asleep before he even gets one ounce down. We have to make him stay awake while he’s taking his bottle or he ends up taking an hour or more to take three or four ounces. One thing we’ve discovered is that we can keep him awake (or wake him up again) if we burp him by sitting him up on our leg to burp him. He’s a really good burper (like his momma)!

Boston is also showing signs of preferring his mom over his dad. He’ll take either of us, but he loves to snuggle up in bed with Jessica in the mornings and sleep in. He also smiles a lot more for her than he will for me. Actually, he smiles more for just about everyone else than he does for me! Now I know how Jessica felt when America would want me instead of her, but I don’t take it as personal as Jessica did. Boston went to his two-month appointment last week and weighed 11 pounds and 11 ounces. That seems like a lot to me, considering he weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces when he was born, but according to the doctor, he’s right on the average for his age. Other than his blond hair, he looks EXACTLY like Jessica! He looks so much like her that I see him make some of the same expressions as Jessica when he gets curious and looks around the room, or when he gets mad and starts fussing. If I can gain access to a really good scanner, I’ll scan Jessica’s two-month baby picture and post it on here so you can judge for yourself.

As of now, Boston is taking a cereal bottle at night and sleeping for an average of five hours straight through the night. I’ve noticed he’s sleeping a little longer lately. The other night he slept for about seven hours, and last night he slept for about eight hours, if I’m not mistaken. The thing is, Jessica gave him his bottle at 9PM last night, so eight hours from that time means 5AM. I have to get ready for work at that time, so that made for an early morning for Jessica this morning.

Some of you might be wondering how America is doing with her new little brother. Well, she’s doing really well with him. She ignored him for a long time and would only acknowledge him when we asked her to give him a kiss (which she would do, and be so proud of herself). Now she’s more aware of him. If he’s in his swing and he starts crying, she’ll go get a pacifier and try to put it in his mouth. Of course she always misses his mouth and ends up putting the pacifier on his forehead, or somewhere else on is face. The irony of this is that America never took a pacifier, but she knows what to do with one. Even with the knowledge of what a pacifier is, she still never attempts to put one in her mouth! She will also take a blanket to him to cover him up when he cries. Another thing she has picked up on is rocking him when he cries while he’s in his car seat. She has seen us do this many times, and now she’ll go over to his seat and brace herself to get good leverage and start rocking his seat. She rocks it a little too hard, but at least she tries.

It’s amazing to me that she recognizes when he needs something and then tries to accomodate him. There are a lot of things she does now that amazes me. When we ask her something, she can reply with “Yes” or “No” although we don’t hear “No” as often. We ask her “What does a doggy do?” and she’ll bark. She also loves to have somebody read a book to her. She LOVES books (like her dad). A really cute thing she does is when she’s leaving the house and I’m staying behind, she’ll start saying “Bye!” repeatedly, and always come over to me wherever I am (without me having to ask) and give me a kiss bye. She has been to two aquariums (Gatlinburg, and Newport) and she absolutely LOVED both of them. She loves to watch the fish (or “zish” as she calls them). She loves to swim, can kick a ball, give high-fives, drink from a straw (or a sippy cup), and she’s still 150% Dad’s girl!

Well this blog post turned out to be longer than I had anticipated, but I’ve been so far behind on updating this blog that it’s no wonder. There are probably a hundred things I’m leaving out of this post, but if I remember anything I’ll put it in the next post. I have a lot of pictures to share, so check back later and I’ll have them posted here.