How's Aylen?

Can I first say it is really nice to blog without having to think of a darn letter to match my current ALPHABET letter!!!  ahh...it was a great idea in theory but dang.  Made me think extra hard each time!

So...anyways.  The question that we get asked first by most people is....HOW's Aylen doing??

I thought I'd include some photos to show just HOW AWESOME Aylen is doing with being a big brother!

Can we get a WOOT WOOT for Being a Big Brother!

This was Aylen's first meeting with Ryker!  At first he gave him this look like, "who are you?"  And then within minutes he wanted to touch his eyes, head, mouth, and nose.

For the first couple of days Aylen wanted to hold RYKER all the time!  It was super cute!  He would point at Ryker and we would ask, "Do you want to hold your little brother?" AND he would nod his head!

Aylen is continually offering to help when Ryker starts crying.  As evidenced by trying to place the pacifier in his mouth.  Dad had to take it away because Aylen got a little too determined for it to go in his mouth:)  

Aylen insists that Ryker have a blanket on at all times and if he does not have one he promptly goes and gets him one.  So CUTE! 

  
Here's a perfect example of Aylen demonstrating his big brother skills!  He rocked his brother.  And we usually have to ask permission to put Ryker in or take him out of the swing!! Hah!


So all in all Aylen is adjusting to his little brother wonderfully.  He has been having some lovely behaviors with his parents-open slaps on the face (which are particularly awesome because you think he is going to kiss you, but instead you get slapped).  He loves to hit his Momma especially.  This definitely was going on a bit before little brother but it has been in full force lately!  

We started Aylen back to daycare this past Wednesday.  I'm still going through a bit of Momma Guilt as Russ is technically at home (working from home) and Grandma is here.  And not to mention Ryker is being an awesome baby...BUT Aylen had been out of daycare for 3 weeks with vacation and Grandpa being here-so I felt like a bit of normal might be good for him.  He seems to really enjoy his friends there and he does not seem too mad when we pick him up....UGH. Swallow.  It's okay, Momma daycare is good.  Say it together...DAYCARE IS GOOD FOR AYLEN JOHN.

Sleep is funny because Ryker is seriously acting like a "normal" baby.  He sleeps 3 hours at a time at night, wakes up to nurse, and then falls right back asleep. But since Ryker was born, Aylen has been STRUGGLING with sleep.  So far we have had him wake up and be almost in a manic state from 1am-4am.  He has really resisted going to bed, even though he is SUPER tired.  I guess some regression is par for the course.  But...dang.  We are more tired due to Aylen than Ryker.  Funny how that works!

Lastly, I wanted to put up this comparision of Ryker and Aylen!  It was so great because after Aylen was born Russ went around showing everyone his baby picture and comparing it to Aylen.  Now, Russ is showing everyone Aylen's birth picture and comparing it to Ryker.  Twins, I'm telling you!  It will be really fun to see if we have a Blonde haired/Blue eyed boy again or if Daddy is going to show up in there with some Brown hair/Brown eyed traits!

Love to all,
Momma