2 months

He 2 month old!

I can't believe I have a 2 month old! I looked back on the photos of jaden over the past month, and Couldn't believe how much he has changed. 

1. He now smiles all the time

2. He has discovered his hands and loves to study them

3. He sleeps 6 hours straight, wakes up to eat for 10 minutes and goes back to sleep for another 4 hours.

4. He loves his bath and his changing table

5. He loves taking naps with his mom

6. He is now wearing 6Month clothing

7. With a little support, he loves to stand up

8. He can lift his head well above his body and has strong head movement and control

9. He loves to study things and objects, that's why we have to turn off all the lights to try to get him to go to sleep, otherwise he will study different object or people for hours

10. He hates blankets, the minute I put a blanket over him, his feet start power kicking until they are off. 

11. He is a little furnace, this baby runs hot!

12. He likes going on strolls until he gets too hot in his car seat!

13. His best friend is the right monkey on his bouncer

14. He loves laughing with his dad, when Kyle gets off work!

I just love this little guy and have enjoyed discovering his little personality starting to come out!!

Also happy birthday to his favorite lolly and his cousin Caroline!

Maternity leave

Maternity leave

My maternity leave is coming to an end. I've had the best time with jaden the past 8 weeks!

Our routine consist of waking up around 7am, coming downstairs and checking out what the monkeys on jadens bouncer have been up to all night. We have named them Steve and George, jaden rarely pays george any attention and when he does its a death stare. Here are a few photos of jaden and his boys.

He likes Steve

But doesn't know what to think about george!

Next, Jaden takes a nap and I eat breakfast while watching my Netflix. I started watching friends at season 1, I'm currently on the last season and hoping I can conquer the whole series in the next 2 days!

When Jaden wakes up, we practice a bit of tummy time and then we usually errands....most of the time it's to target so we can walk around and look at all the things I don't need. I've gotten much more confident in taking jaden out, the first few times, if he would even whimper in the slightest, I would freak out and pack him in the car and head home. If he whimpered in the car, I would pull over immediately and make sure he was still breathing...now in the car, if he starts crying, I go through my list of songs I know and sing them as loud as I can, it's fun for me and it usually distractions him long enough to make it home. 

My travel and shopping buddy

 

When we get back, Jaden goes down for another nap. This nap I usually clean up the house and look at all the home improvement ideas on Pinterest...luckily, I am going back to work, otherwise I would have destroyed the house will all sorts of pinterest fails. I'm not the type that has attention to detail. I did manage to do a couple of home improvement and organizing projects. 

Kyle comes home after jadens afternoon nap, and we start his bedtime routine, he loves his baths and his dad gives the best baths!! Then it's bedtime and we get ready to start our day on repeat! 

I have had the best time with him and I'm so lucky I got to stay home with him for 8 weeks instead of the typical 6! I know that tuesDay is a few days away and I am completely dreading handing him over to the daycare lady! In 20 years he won't remember being dropped off at daycare, but I will and it already makes me emotional just thinking about leaving him. I know it will be good for him, but I wish I could have just 2 more months!

Sleeping through the night

Jaden finally slept through the night!!! Whoo hoo!! To random outsiders this looks incredible...you may think "what lucky parents, to have a 7 week old sleeping through the night." I could just leave the story at that and pretend that life is butterflies and daisies around here, but the real unedited version is this: 

Jaden hates to go to sleep, the last 4 nights our bedtime routine starts at 4pm to ensure that he asleep by 9pm, if you are doing the math that's 5 hours of being wide awake or fussing and crying. 

It is funny the things that I have found that work in those moments of fussiness..currently my go-to move is the fun exercise of a squat, I don't know why of all the moves in the world the squat had to be the one that worked. Seeing how my child is a solid boy, squating over 100 times with a 15 pound baby is slowly developing legs of steel. 

Other things are counting loud and in different funny voices as long as it takes for him to at least close his eyes, I've almost counted to 1,000 a couple of times, so that's fun. Also, singing random lyrics to the tune is "twinkle twinkle little star" or "row row your boat"...most of the lyrics have something along the line of "you really want to sleep jaden Lee David." This kid is also good at the fake out, you think you have won the battle and set him down in his crib and minutes later you return to see him wide awake.

The other night, I came in and asked him what he was doing awake, and he gave me the world's greatest grin...I said that's it, you don't ever have to sleep again if you don't want to!! Once he learns the power his grin has over me, it could be dangerous...you want a pony, you got it son!!

And he doesn't like to be still so sitting during this time it is not an option, recently, during the super bowl, he watched with us until the forth quarter and then was done with the game. So while I was squating and counting to 1,000, the rest of the family was yelling play by play to me from the other room. I still haven't seen that final play!

So due to the fact that he is so tired from not sleeping much through the day when he finally does go to sleep he sleeps through the night. I just love this little guy and the funny personality he is developing 

Wide awake

The tail end of the grin that stops the world turning

Happy during the boring quarters of the super bowl

Slept for 15 minutes

His 4th quarter reaction

More of that grin!