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Friday, November 18, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Calling all bloggers!
I have never done this before, but since I don't get to blog as much as I would like to lately, but would like to keep the readers I have as well as get some new traffic to the blog, I'm opening up to guest blog posts. If you are interested, you can write about whatever you want - from recipes, parenting, crafts, TV, etc. I only ask that you don't pick a topic that is too political or controversial, and no major profanities. Sound like something you want to do? E-mail me to let me know, and as soon as I get responses, I can figure out a good posting schedule. Looking forward to hearing from some fellow bloggers!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Seriously?! Thursday
I haven’t participated in this since before Bean was born, and I can’t do it from the iPhone, so I got him to sleep in his rocker and now I can finally participate this week!
1 – I have a 4 month old! I can’t believe it! Now that he’s over being colicky, he’s more fun everyday, and I can’t wait until we get into even more fun times!
2 – The builder of my house has yet again angered me. My driveway is sinking where it meets the sidewalk. It took my MIL tripping on the separation and falling face first in the street for them to decide it was time to fix it. 2 years we’ve been waiting for this. And now? They came and cut the driveway to remove that section, and left it like that! First we were arguing with them about re-doing the entire driveway because my car is also creating divots, but they say no to that, and now I have this cut in my driveway and no one has come to do anything with it since. It snowed, so they couldn’t then, but the temps are warmer now, the snow is melted, so where are they?!
3 – Speaking of snow, it snowed here! 2 days before Halloween, and a good couple of inches too! Crazy weather. I never thought we’d have a white Halloween!
4 – Old people need to learn how to drive again. I was leaving Babies R Us yesterday, did not have a stop sign but the old dude did, and he started to pull out on me and almost hit the side of my car…then he had the nerve to glare and yell at me! Seriously?!
5 – There are way too many pictures of Bean. Well, not really. How can you not take a picture of his cute face everyday? But seriously, need to find a better solution for storing these digital images and sharing them with family. We’re running out of room with our current way.
6 – We’re already in November! Thanksgiving is coming up, my house is a wreck, Christmas is sooner than I’m ready for…I’m at a total loss as to how to handle Christmas gifts for Bean this year now too. He’ll be 6 months old then (half a year already?!), so he’ll start to be able to play with more toys, but how many do you get? What’s too much and what’s not enough? Usually Hubby and I just spend a certain amount on each other, so number of gifts depends on what we buy that fits into that spending amount. Is that how we handle Bean’s gifts too?
I guess that’s all I have for now. I am going to try to start doing Favorite Kitty Pic Friday again, but it probably will just be once in a while when I get the chance to sit at the computer and deal with photos. I hope to get one scheduled for tomorrow though! I have a few other posts I want to do too, including a photo heavy post of Bean’s first Halloween pictures, but I have to get them off the camera and into the computer yet.
Have a great evening!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween night! We obviously didn't go trick or treating because Bean is too little for that and we have enough candy for ourselves left over now. But we did go to my grandmother's last night and took some more really fun pictures tonight. I will try to post those ASAP - they are just adorable and funny! As you can see, Bean was a little candy corn, my favorite fall candy! I can't wait to actually take him trick or treating - maybe next year! :)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
4 months old!
Wow! Time is going fast! Bean is already 4 months old! He was 4 months old on the 23rd, but we just had his well visit yesterday. So here are his stats up to now:
Birth: 7 lb. 3.7 oz., 19 in.
2 months: 10 lb. 7 oz., 22.25 in.
4 months: 12 lb. 11 oz., 24.5 in.
He’s gained a total of 5 lb. 7 oz. since birth! It puts him in the 10th percentile for weight and 25th percentile for length. We still have a little peanut. :)
He can now sit up assisted, holds his head very well, puts weight on his legs sometimes when you hold him in a standing position, and is reaching and grabbing at everything to put it straight into his mouth. He is very “chatty” these days, but not much in the consonant sounds yet. He hasn’t rolled yet, but the doctor wasn’t concerned. Tummy time is going a little better – he holds himself up on his elbows and tolerates about 5 minutes now before he gets frustrated and yells at the floor. No crying and screaming at the floor anymore unless you leave him yelling at it for too long. Literally yells at the floor. I wonder if he could talk what words he would be using. ;) His sleep has gone downhill though, but we were told what to do to try to get him to sleep better. This visit required all the same vaccines as last visit, but for some reason, he’s not tolerating them well this time. He’s had a fever and has been extremely cranky. He did sleep pretty well last night though! He’s still eating every two hours, with only a half hour nap between every feeding. We’re allowed to start him on solids now, so we bought a box of rice cereal to start. I know some people like to wait until 6 months, but this is our decision as parents, and we have decided to try now. Well, this weekend anyway, since he was cranky and feverish today. The fun mess we’re in for with that! So overall, he is growing well and hitting milestones pretty well also. He also had his first cold this past week, so that was no fun! My poor sick baby. :(
Here are some photo comparisons of each month:
8 weeks old
3 months old
4 months old!
Maybe when I get the chance, I will do a photo heavy post. We certainly have enough of them to share! Right now, I must go change what I think is a poopy diaper (you know, because I just changed him right before!), and see if he will take a little snooze while we eat. Have a great TGIF and weekend!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sick baby. :(
Bean has caught his first cold. He was pretty cranky on Monday, then even crankier yesterday evening. Eventually it came to bedtime and I had a hard time getting him to sleep. After I finally thought I got him to sleep, he was crying over the monitor every half hour or so. I was already exhausted from the night before because we decided to put him in his crib to sleep for the first time that night and it felt very weird to me not having him in our room, so I couldn't go to sleep. When I finally did sleep, he wanted to wake up twice to eat. So I was already exhausted and then we had last night's disaster. Up every half hour or so until 4am! Nursing, rocking, swaddling, un-swaddling, pacifier - nothing worked! Finally Hubby thought he was congested and I then heard it too. We brought him down to the swing at 4:30am and he finally slept 2.5 hours. Needless to say, I ran on all of about 3 hours of sleep today with one short nap that was interrupted by phone calls. Bean sounds much worse tonight, so we now have saline nasal spray and Boogie Wipes on hand. I feel bad for my poor baby! :( He needs suctioning too, but the nurse said not to do it more than 3-4 times a day or we would cause nasal swelling. I really hope this clears up fast!
Any recommendations for a baby with a cold that worked for you?
Any recommendations for a baby with a cold that worked for you?
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