All Things Supercinski

I’m thinking that He just might. Both of our kids have been born with them, a hairstyle of choice perhaps? Or maybe this is what I get for all the mullet-spotting Bethany and I did in college.

Josiah about a month old:

Annalise about a month old:

It’s amazing how little “free” time you have with a newborn who needs to be held most of the time! Here are some pictures from the past week, enjoy!

Annalise is a very alert baby when she is awake. She is awake for 45 minutes to an hour at a time, then must be bounced/rocked/swayed to sleep or she screams. Her favorite things are swaddling, nursing, being held and bouncing.

Josiah loves his sister. It’s precious to see how excited he is when she flails around and touches him or holds his hand. He is a great helper by getting pacifiers and burp cloths.

Happy Family

Josiah is keeping himself busy during nursing and bouncing sessions. Glue is his favorite this week, thanks to Grandma Mary’s gift of buttons and shiny stars.

One of Annalise’s favorite places

This update is a little late this week, things have been busy around here. Thomas got the bassinet and car seat out this weekend, and he finished cleaning out our last closets that needed organizing. We are just about as ready as we can be now. I haven’t washed all of our old newborn clothes yet, but we have a lot of basic onesies, pants and socks washed. I can’t bring myself to wash and fold all the newborn boy clothes, so if it’s a boy, someone will be busy.

My appointment with my midwife yesterday was uneventful. Baby’s head is down with only a slight wiggle in my pelvis, which is good. I’m carrying ridiculously low, which is a comment I hear almost everywhere I go, as if I didn’t feel it every time I sit down, or when my belly bangs into my legs when I walk up stairs. I’m experiencing a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions, and have been for the past several weeks, but they are getting stronger and more noticeable these days, often making me stop what I am doing if I’m walking around or something. A lovely self-portrait from today, the angle is a little off, but you get the idea:

Josiah is just almost as excited as we are, which is so sweet. I hope the excitement lasts. A couple days ago, after his nap, I told him that I had a surprise for him. He looked up with such excitement, and asked, “Our baby came out?” It almost made me cry it was so sweet. We talk about Our Baby a lot, and it is really helpful that two of our good friends have had babies recently. We checked out the best book about having a new baby - “Hello Baby!” by Lizzy Rockwell. It’s the only book I’ve found that shows a mother nursing a baby, not the big brother/sister giving the baby a bottle, and other little tidbits like showing a baby with an umbilical cord stump are helpful, too.

Josiah is unwavering in his belief that this baby is a girl, though we try to prepare him often that it could just as well be a boy. Out of curiousity, I asked him last night what Our Baby’s name is going to be and he answered, very matter-of-fact, “Our Baby.” Of course. This little video shows off Josiah’s new, professional haircut after I managed to butcher it last week, and he shows a little of his knowledge about babies.

Last Friday was really, really hot for this big momma. I was trying to take some diapers off the line and thought I would melt right into the grass. Of course, Josiah wanted to play outside, and rather than go through a mutual meltdown, I drug out the house, stripped the boy down to his shorts, and he went to town (and I enjoyed getting wet too, just my legs, but somehow, my belly was soaked as well.)

(Sigh.) He looks so big to me these days.

This is what Josiah says after he’s done something really funny.

He got really wound up during lunch yesterday after his first successful noodle slurping (he’s been working on it for a year now), and I had to get his antics on video. This is how he acts a good portion of the time when no one is around–prancing around singing made up songs with bits of songs he knows and just being silly.

Per his repeated requests, I let him view the videos after I took them. He laughed so hard he seriously almost fell out of his chair and would have if I had not caught him. You might not think it is so funny, but if you have a toddler around, I would guess they’d get 2 minutes of entertainment out of it.

Josiah and Daddy enjoying some Saturday morning snuggles. Is Josiah really asleep?

Yeah right, but aren’t they so cute?

Tonight is Josiah’s first night to sleep in the “Big Brother Room”. We’ve been talking about what a big deal it is and playing in there for a couple weeks now, but today, we bit the bullet and moved the crib in there (no way are we messing with his sleep right before a new baby is around to mess with mine enough). He cried for a second as I got up to leave and he asked me to stay with him for a while, but he calmed down after a short discussion on how everything was the same, just in the big brother room now. He sang songs and talked for almost half an hour, but is sound asleep now, hooray!

Just what does this wonderful sounding Big Brother Room look like? Well, let’s take a little look. This is the Big Boy Bed before we put the crib at the foot of the bed. My father’s very talented wife painted the truck for us. You can’t see, but there is a little Josiah and a little Pa in the window.

And the train table is out of the living room!

Josiah likes it, too. This is how he smiles for the camera. Didn’t you know that was a smile?