The New Crazy

Well, I've been waiting for life to get back to normal before posting.  Put let's face it, the new crazy IS the new normal!   We joyfully greeted Joshua Owen Wittleder into this world on September 12th.  He is already over 3 months old!  I have decided I must get his birth story posted and recorded before I completely forget it!  So that is on my to-do list before any other posts aside from this one.

Since his birth, my mom came out to help a few weeks after he was born, then my dad came to join her, Courtney a few weeks later, Dad & Mom Witt and Grandpa & Grandma J visited for Thanksgiving...and then less than a week later we headed to Pennsylvania where Nathan broke his leg and is now in a cast for the next 4 or so weeks.  So that's a brief summary of the last 3 months! Joshua has been experiencing fussiness through these first few months of life that the doctor has deemed "colic" and that keeps us from getting a lot of rest around here!  Although it does seem to be improving, it still is a factor at night.  So, we have had a busy, trying, yet still blessed last few months.  I, as a mother, am learning to rely on God more for my strength as I have come to the conclusion I just can't do it on my own.  It's a different battle every day and yet there are great victories experienced as well.  Matt has been wonderful in trying to help me as much as he can...sacrificing his own sleep and other things that he needs like working out!

We are glad to be home to re-charge and create some normalcy in our lives.  Of course, with Nathan in a cast, it won't be quite "normal".  I miss the gym as I'm sure he does as well!  But he has been doing incredibly well.  He started walking on his cast and has such determination.  I have so much to learn from him in the way he has accepted his state so graciously and even excitedly at times.  What's cooler than a new blue cast? :)  There are certain aspects of his personality that I myself wish I possessed.  Maybe he has his pappy's "go with the flow" attitude.  Of course, there are challenges to his personality as well as although he seems to love Josh like crazy, he out of nowhere will throw a leg, a head butt, or a swipe his way!  Not good.  Especially not with a cast on his leg!
 

Josh is smiling and cooing and laughing now and it warms my heart.  Just in the middle of his crying and fussiness he slips that in and you can't be upset.  You just can't!  Just yesterday I was able to lay with him on the couch as we snoozed together and Nathan napped upstairs.  These are the moments I cherish.  It was easier to do with Nathan...and in the midst of always laying Josh down for naps I forgot to steal these moments of baby bliss.  I don't want to miss them...


So that was a bit of a rambling catch up post.  I'm not crazy enough to think I will adequately be able to catch up 3 months of the blog.  That is why I posted pictures on Facebook in the meantime.  However, I do want to post Josh's birth before anything else so I will go back that far.  And honestly, I probably won't have the time to post like before, but I will attempt to get something up here on occasion.  I know I have family that doesn't have Facebook...and the blog also serves our family as a journal of the years as they fly by so quickly.  It's nice to have it recorded.

Love you all.  Thanks for your patience.  Hope to be back soon!

P.S. And now Nathan just woke up after a very short nap...there goes mine! The cast has been rubbing him on the thigh a bit and it appears from the monitor it is bothering him. This is my life. This is why I have no grand promises to make about the upkeep of this blog! Not to mention I have wash to do...