Hamilton Happenings

Isaac will be 1 year old in just 10 days!  He's adorable, significantly chubby, and hilarious.  I was induced a week before his due date.  Justin and I headed to the hospital in the morning for the induction.  My mom stayed at home with the kids until Joan got there.  Everything that day went well except that my epidural would not work!  Oh that was horrible.  I just remember thinking that this better start working because I do not want to feel this baby come out!  Isaac was born at 7:18pm weighing 8lbs 1oz and 22 inches long.  Healthy, perfect, and so cute.  I also remember that Isaac had the loudest and shrillest cry I'd every heard.  For a while he was not happy about being out in the real world.  Then for about the first 4 months of his life we struggled with his tongue tie problem.  We eventually got his tongue lasered but didn't see improvement right away.  Luckily my abundance of milk made up for his constant swallowing of air.  He's proven to be a great

We've had Jett in our family for about 3 and a half months.  Seems longer actually!  It definitely adds a level of difficulty in my everyday life (Melissa talking here).  I try and go outside with him and the kids everyday to make sure he's behaving nicely and listening when they tell him "uh ah!"  Which means no.  And then there's the grooming, bathing, training, walking, playing fetch, feeding him, and putting him in his cage when he keeps sitting on Isaac. It's now our normal routine to have one of the kids let him out to go potty when we get home from running errands.  Or have one of the kids refill his food and water bowl.  It's also become routine to hear Channing saying, "Jett come! Come Jett!  Jett come!"  Over and over.  Channing knows he's not supposed to repeat the command over and over but instead say it once and then say, "uh ah" if Jett doesn't listen the first time.  For example, this morning it was, "Jett