Owen`s first month of life

Well dear Owen, you have had quite the first month of life! It has been crazy - full of joys, trials and everything in between, but we couldn`t imagine life without you now!

Here`s the highlights what your first month brought:

First 24hrs: - you were a superstar - we got discharged early and had a bunch of friends visited us at home to welcome you into the world.

Week 1: -The flu hit the house! Everyone except for you and mommy were sick that week! Not a week we really want to remember. (you also thought night was day for most of it!)

Week 2: - A taste of `normal`! Everyone was healthy, Mommy was feeling better, you were sleeping and we got to get out and explore - hitting up the library, harbour front and local coffee shop!

Week 3: - Your first cold! Your sister already wants to do anything she can for you and I guess figured sharing her cold was the nice thing to do. Two days were deemed sick days with us all feeling awful, but you, my boy, got better first!

Week 4: - Dad started paternal leave and a heatwave (for the start of May in Nova Scotia) hit!

No week or even day at that matter has been the same! Your first month flew by fast and was full of many, many, many new experiences (starting with breathing and eating on your own!).

You are loved and celebrated for being here! 

(Hannah showing Owen her card she made saying, Happy 1 month birthday Owen!)

I hope you are prepared because month number 2 is gearing up to be even more adventurous - full of new experiences!

All she has to do is say "sorry"!

Matt, Owen and I are all dressed up and ready to go....

unfortunately Hannah has stalled our ability to go to church this morning!

For one hour and approx. 30+ minutes Hannah has been screaming her head off and refusing to say "sorry".

A simple request....

but she is stubborn!

When going down for breakfast, Hannah had a little temper tantrum when she wanted to watch a little show before breakfast and I said no we had to eat first. In her anger of crying she pushed me quite hard (while I was holding Owen).

Pushing has been her new thing, she does it for attention, she does it in anger and she does it to get her way. It started with pushing her cousin around, then friends at church and now her parents.

This pushing has got to stop!

She needs to know it is not okay to hurt and push people. She says she understands, but she continues to do it.

So this is a battle we have to fight. As much as I want to be at church right now, she can not think its okay to push and get away with it. She has to realize there are consequences and its not okay. And I am definitely not bringing her to a place where she can continue to push and hurt others without her knowing all of this and dealing with the punishment.

So the battle continues. She screams and cries. We get ready as normal. She says she wants to say sorry, I go to her, she doesn't say it, she looks away, I leave and she screams again. And the cycle continues.

I do hope she gives in soon!

I do hope we can at least make the second service! I was really really looking forward to this morning and aside from Hannah we were doing so well!

But alas, parenting toddlers is really difficult sometimes! And unfortunately for the sake of parenting we don't always get to do what we want. Giving in can only lead to wrong actions continuing...

Sometime the scream will stop and our house will be full of the joys and laughter Hannah brings once again.

Sometime....

I sure hope that's soon!

(Best quote of the morning - I was looking down at Owen and said "are you going to grow up to be as stubborn as your sister?", Matt pipes in "I sure hope not! Please be a push over like your dad!)