Ice Cream

I think they like it.

Its been a while...

It has been too long since I last updated.  It is amazing how much life changes in a day let alone a year.  2011 was a rough year for me. Which means, unfortunately, a rough year for Joel.  Having two kids through me through a loop.  I don't know if it was the hormonal imbalance, having a baby who did not like to sleep,  going through the horrible twos/threes or just having mommy blues.  Whatever the reason was it took me almost an entire year to get back to "normal".  But I'm back.  Life is good at the moment  and I have two boys that are worth all the hormonal imbalances in the world.  Not to mention a pretty awesome husband. 

For Easter  we did volcano eggs.  Chase and I painted the eggs with colored baking soda paste and poured vinegar over the eggs to make them sizzle.  It was fun and Chase had a blast doing it.  Ry just loved the paint brush, while Joel took pictures. 

For Easter, we had the easter bunny hide the eggs and leave presents for Chase.  Ry just loved the empty eggs.  To celebrate spring we decided to play farmer and get some chickens.  We have four now.  Chase named one Benny the Beaver and the other Cloudy.  Joel named one Rossco and I named the other Butter Ball.  We shall see how this all goes. Hope everyone had a great spring and easter. 

Swimming

Mom's got a new toy

The new blog is up!

b4weforget.blogspot.com

A new blog, being a mom, and life

Sorry for the lack of posts. I swear it should still be March. March, April and now May have flown by. LOTS have happened.

First I'm starting a new blog to celebrate the new family...in other words I want to fit rylen into the blog name too. So the new blog will be found at: b4weforget.blogspot.com

The name is due to the Berman 4. Hence the b4 and well the rest just sounded good. I will try and post on the new blog soon. I won't be posting on this blog site anymore, but I wont be deleting it either. I like to complicate things.

Other Berman news: Joel got a new job! WE are so so so so excited for this. It is a good career move for Joel and it will hopefully be a much better/enjoyable job for Joel. He will be getting home at least an hour earlier. Which Chase will enjoy and hopefully it will allow Joel some much needed man aka golf time.

I have to admit being a mom of two has been much harder than I ever thought. I knew it was going to be hard. But, I didn't realize how emotionally hard it would be. I feel guilty for not giving Chase as much time as I use to. And I feel guilty about not giving Rylen as much time as I gave Chase. And I still don't feel like I know Rylen as well as I knew Chase at this point in his life....which adds to the guilt as well. I still feel like we are in survival mode, so hopefully it will get better in the months to come. Thankfully I have great family and husband support.

So on to the best part of this blog. The pictures!

My boys:
Rylen at two months:

Chase loves anything to do with tools, construction and building. So Joel scored a "little helper" tool set from Lowes and created a work bench for Chase. Side note: Chase's little helper tool set actually has a nicer hammer and tape measure than our household one. The work bench is just a saw horse with some drywall on it. Joel helped Chase put some nails, screws and bolts on it, for Chase to hit and turn. Here is Chase showing me his new building area:

The all powerful hammer! Aka I am THOR pose.

And my beautiful boy!

People keep asking if Rylen looks like Chase. So here is a side by side comparison. I think if you click on the picture it will make it bigger.

They do look a lot similar. Chase is on the right and Rylen is one the left. Chase is 3 months old and Rylen is 1 month old. Amazing how much bigger Rylen looks!

Well that is about it. I will hopefully get a new post sooner than later. I would like to show off the smiles I have been getting from Rylen.

Introducing Rylen Jaxon

He is here! On March 16th at 4am Rylen came into the world. The birth experience was fairly fast and "easy". My body is made for child birth.
This is how I labored both with Chase and Rylen. Joel says its my "I'm in pain, don't talk to me, don't touch me, just leave me alone" face/stance. And it is true, I'm silent when I'm laboring and the last thing I want is for someone to tell me to keep breathing and to rub my back. And yes, with no epidural I am still silent...impressing all the nurses. Although, as my nurse pointed out, she did hear a couple of curse words come out.

Rylen's birth story is pretty simple. Went for a hike that day had eggplant parm for lunch and started having contractions around 830pm. Headed to the hospital around 130am. Got admitted and into a room around 3am had Rylen at 4am. I asked for an epidural, but by the time it showed up I was told to push. So just like Chase I had a drug free birth experience. This time around the Dr. barely made it into her scrubs. :)

Rylen.

First moments with Rylen and me.

Brothers meeting each other for the first time.

Family of four.

Joel looks tired.

Brothers. Chase has done really good. Hopefully they will be best friends.