All Things Chase

Chase, poor Chase. My now middle child, who is so full of life, yet always on the rim of emotional breakdown. These last six months have been a little rough on him. A new baby brother = less attention and affection from Mom, Dad goes to work and school full time = little or no time with Daddy. I feel so bad for him sometimes. I want so much to be able to play with him and hold him lots like I used to, but I feel really spread thin with all of my responsibilities, plus just meeting all of Trevor's needs right now leaves me with little time to hang out with either of the other boys for very long. :(

Things are getting better though. The pumping and bottle feeding is helping a lot! It's been giving me more time to hang out with Chase. He is really a funny little guy! He loves to pretend to be mad and then when I make a grumpy face at him, he lights up with a huge smile! He likes to say yes, then change his answer to no to the same question, and then vice-versa.

This is him next to me while I'm feeding Trevor. He always wants to be right at my feet or playing next to me when I sit down to feed Trevor.

He is getting so much more talkative as he is learning to put more words and sentences together. I love hearing what he has to say! One of his big accomplishments since Trevor was born, was getting potty trained. We are going on five months since being potty trained, and no one is looking back! haha. He was the seriously the easiest kid to potty train. I didn't know if he'd be ready or not, but I was definitely ready! I was not loving the two kids in diapers situation. He really surprised me how well he did at night. We never even had to do pull-ups! After a week, he just started staying dry and has ever since. He is so smart!

He loves being my little helper. If I ask him if he'd like to help me make dinner, he says yes! with a huge smile. When I'm cleaning the bathrooms, he asks "me do it?" He is getting so big!

He loves to follow Owen around all day. I don't know what he would do without his big brother. The great thing is that Owen loves his little shadow too. They play cars and legos and pretend all sort of fun things. He like to be read stories, and most of all he loves to be tickled.

He's recently entered the stage where he doesn't want to nap. He'll fight it all day, and then once I'm not looking and the pressure is off, he'll fall asleep somewhere. When Owen got to this stage, I let it drive me crazy. But since I know it's just how this age goes, it makes me laugh.

He is needing so much attention right now, so it can be really difficult some days to not get frustrated with him. He'll ask for something, even though he can get it himself, just so I will say yes, and spend time helping him. Even though I love him more than anything in the world, there are times I can really reach my limit trying to figure out what he needs/wants and how to take care him. I just want so much for him to be the happy little Chase that he is. He is so much fun when his needs are met!

Lets hope I can just keep finding more ways to juggle three as we go through this year of changes, and that Chase will continue learning how to share my attention as he gets older.

I love you my little Chaser-beam!