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Dear Kyler,

Things have been rough for us lately. There’s been some big changes in our home and I’m afraid that you’ve taken it all the hardest. You’re no longer my baby, and while I knew it would be hard for you, I didn’t really understand what we were getting into. I’m trying my best to be patient and understanding, but you’re sure making it hard. You’ve introduced sass into your vocabulary and use it daily. You’ve also developed an ear-piercing scream that gets you in even more trouble then you’re usually already in.

It’s so hard when most of my time needs to be devoted to Myles and when Ryan has his “big boy” things that he gets to do: preschool, birthday parties, T-ball. It seems you don’t have a “place” right now, and it breaks my heart when I’m nursing Myles to have you come up to me and tell me you want to “cuddle” with me, and I have to turn you away until I’m done. I’m so sorry little boy.

We’ll get through this, baby. I’m trying my best to be patient and understand what you’re going through. I love you more than I could ever express in words, and thank Heavenly Father for you daily. You make our lives so fun and interesting. We’ll make it. I promise.

Love,

Mommy

I’ve been wanting to update my blog for so long now. I always think that I’ll do it when the boys go to bed at night, but by then I’m so exhausted that all I want to do is crawl into bed and catch up on a couple of Food Network shows or reading something from my stack of huge magazines before falling asleep.

We’re all adjusting well and I have so many pictures to share from the last three weeks of having Myles in our family. It’s been chaotic, emotional, tiring, and so sweet.

I’ve also been wanting to share the birth story of Myles. It’s nothing spectacular, but I need to record it somewhere for posterity.

But for now, all those updates will have to wait, at least for a couple more days I think. Right now I’m working on gearing up for my next round of classes at Big Picture, getting Ryan registered for Kindergarten, attending T-ball games, writing thank you notes, designing birth announcements, trying to keep up on the housework, dealing with a baby with severe acid reflux, and working tirelessly to keep Kyler under control as a new baby takes his place.

I’ve had so many people ask me to see more pictures of Myles. Well, the truth is I can take photos of any other newborn but my own. It’s sad to admit, but it’s true. Being a professional photographer, I’ve been feeling this big pressure to get amazingly perfect photos of my own baby. I invested in new props, backdrops, baskets, hats and blankets. And I’ve now tried FOUR times to get photos of Myles, only to be defeated by my own tiny 7 1/2 pound baby.

Thanks to lots of help from my mom and sister I was able to get a couple keepers. So here are a few of my little monkey.

How stinkin’ cute is this hat?? My friend Christy gave it to me.

MYLES DAVID SNOW

Born: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 12:30pm

7 pounds, 12 ounces, 20.5 inches

Everything went perfectly and we’re all doing well. I’m running on no sleep, but had a quick second to pop on here and post a cute picture of our perfect baby. I’m planning an “official” photo shoot in a couple days, so stay tuned!