R2R

Have you ever seen that show "Make Room For Baby" that they have on the Discovery Health Channel? They have this little segment on there called Right 2 Rant. Whoever is having major issues on the show is given the R2R card and allowed 30 seconds in front of the camera to rant. Today I'm going to exercise my right to rant and then pass on the R2R card to someone else.

All day yesterday my nose was all stuffed up. Yuck! And I couldn't get any rest because every time I put Thing 2 down for a nap he would only sleep for about 15-20 minutes. I thought this was great because it would mean that he might actually sleep through the night since he didn't have a decent nap during the day. Wrong! I put him down in his crib at 9:30 PM. By 10, WAH! YOU LEFT ME ALONE IN MY CRIB!!! Fine, fine. I wasn't really ready to go to bed myself just yet. At 11, I put him down again and went to bed myself. By 11:15, WAH! YOU LEFT ME ALONE IN MY CRIB AGAIN!!! SHAME ON YOU! NOW YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME TO BED WITH YOU IF YOU WANT ME TO GO TO SLEEP AT ALL!!! WAH! After that, every time I was almost asleep, WAH! YOU'RE NOT CUDDLING WITH ME! WAH! I WANT A DRINK! WAH!!! THESE COVERS ARE TOO HOT! WAH! And if that wasn't enough, by 5 AM, my cell phone starts crying as well! WAH! THERE'S A 2-HOUR SCHOOL DELAY! And then again about 15 minutes before my alarm goes off: WAH!!! SCHOOL IS CLOSED TODAY. WAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! And of course after the last text came through, my darling little whiner is all smiles and ready for breakfast. Can't wait to do it again tonight.

On the upside, my sinuses are clearer this morning. At least until I'm done trying to find the car under all our new snow, I'm hoping for a better day.

Ok, let's see... I'm passing on the R2R card onto Carrie of The Younger Barkers. Hey Carrie! Have you found Randy yet?

Dread Pirate Andreas

Last week, Alex dressed Andy up like a cute little pirate, but Alfred was gone at the time and had the digital camera with him. So when he got home, we dressed him up again for your viewing pleasure. Pirate Peanut likes to sail the seas in search of bacon and anything else that we'll allow him to eat...

Drumroll please!!!

Well, it turns out that Alfred is incapable of producing a girl. Baby Harbich #3 is another boy! We've decided to name this one Jakob, but we haven't decided on a middle name yet. Wish us luck!

Christmas Morning

Ah, Christmas morning... I swear the boys were lucky to get presents at all this year, with all the threats about calling Santa and telling on Alex for not eating his food and on Andy for refusing to admit he knows what "no" means. But as it was Andy's first Christmas, and as Alex was getting a pretty awesome gift, I was way too excited to call it off. So here's the proof that I'm not really a grinch after all.

Alex's favourite gift


Andy's first ever Christmas present

Super Naughty

I've been bad. Sorry about that. There really hasn't been much to post on here. While we had fun visiting the family out in California, we didn't get many pictures. I'll post a few, though.

So I'm 17 weeks along now with Baby Harbich #3, and so far all is well. So far the most difficult part of being pregnant while caring for another infant is trying to not hurt or kill myself or Andy out on the ice. Every trip out to the car is an adventure. I'd ask Alfred to go shovel or at least throw down some salt on the ice, but he's been having too much fun inhaling cheese in Wisconsin this week.

Enjoy the pictures!

Sausages!!!

We recently started Andy on solid foods, and he's rapidly progressing on to new flavors. He's chomping at the bit to get to these babies:



We only hope his teeth come in before he figures out how to get them open.

We're off to California for a few days. We hope to have lots of pictures to post when we get back. Until then!!!

Here we go again!!!

After another whole month of nothing newsworthy to post here, I finally have something BIG. Our little Andreas will be getting a very special gift for his first birthday... a baby brother or sister!!! Yes, Baby Harbich #3 is on the way. And we're ALL very excited. When we asked Alex if he wanted another baby brother or a baby sister this time, he said, "I'll try a sister." So I guess if it turns out that it's a girl and he doesn't like her much, he'll put in an order for another baby brother.

May 22, 2009 is the due date, and Andy's birthday is May 23. So it'll be very close. I'm a little overwhelmed thinking about the next few months and wondering how hard it will be to be getting bigger and bigger while trying to lug around a very heavy infant. It's a good thing Alex is happy about this. He's such a good helper already.