We have a 3 month old!!
Things to remember:
1. He loves his hands, he studies them, eats them, plays with them
2. He has just started to pick up toys and study them, although most of the time he will check out the toy and then quickly get distracted by his hands and go back to playing with his hands again. If he keeps this up, Christmas is going to be easy for us this year!
3. He still loves his bath time. He is always determind to kick all the water out of the tub like it is his job and the lives of others depend on him.
4. We have started reading him books every night, he likes to look at the pages and grab the books
5. He hates a bottle and will go 8 hours without eating during daycare if he has to. Everytime we try a new type of bottle he will take it the first time and then after that, he adapts quickly as though to say "you guys fooled me last time, but this time, I will outsmart you and make you work harder to figure me out!" The daycare ladies have had to put a pacifier in his mouth, pull it out, replace it with the bottle and repeat that process until he drinks 3oz. We will get the last laugh, little Jaden, just you wait, challenge accepted.
6. He loves to smile and he loves his daddy. Kyle made him belly laugh for the first time the other day, it was one of my favorite moments so far
7. He is a fun-loving 17 pound, 26in, 6-9month clothes wearing, 3 month old and I love watching him discover the world and seeing his personality begin to form.
March 24, 2015
February 18, 2015
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!
February 12, 2015
Maternity leave
Maternity leave
He likes Steve
But doesn't know what to think about george!
My travel and shopping buddy
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.
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.
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!
February 5, 2015
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:
Wide awake
Happy during the boring quarters of the super bowl
Slept for 15 minutes
His 4th quarter reaction
More of that grin!
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
The tail end of the grin that stops the world turning
January 29, 2015
6 weeks
All that to say, I am in no way a baby expert, but I'm slowly becoming an expert on my baby. Here are a few things that have been lifesavers these past 6 weeks, so I can remember them for round 2 baby!
1. Zip pajamas, no one has time for button pjs
2. Pampers swaddler diapers. They have the line that turns blue when he pees, we would change his diaper 20 times a day without that little blue line
3. Changing pad covers! We have 4 covers....and go through them each week. Even though I have learned to change a diaper in record time and keep his penis covered as much as possible, the moment I let my guard down, little man is sure to pee everywhere.
4. Ergo baby...that baby carrier is amazing, and gets us out and around
5. Sound Machine, it's a beautiful thing, we can go from thunderstorm to the beach to a brook all in a few seconds, but they all work wonders during nap time
6. Infant mittens! Jaden has some huge paws and he has nails that grow so fast women everywhere should be jealous, these mittens have been lifesavers for his eyes and face and mouth that get beat up without them
7. Gripe water and gas drops to help his gas problem and saline solution to clear out his nose, which he hates all three but they save the day a few minutes later
And now some photos of my 6 week old
6 weeks
All that to say, I am in no way a baby expert, but I'm slowly becoming an expert on my baby. Here are a few things that have been lifesavers these past 6 weeks, so I can remember them for round 2 baby!
1. Zip pajamas, no one has time for button pjs
2. Pampers swaddler diapers. They have the line that turns blue when he pees, we would change his diaper 20 times a day without that little blue line
3. Changing pad covers! We have 4 covers....and go through them each week. Even though I have learned to change a diaper in record time and keep his penis covered as much as possible, the moment I let my guard down, little man is sure to pee everywhere.
4. Ergo baby...that baby carrier is amazing, and gets us out and around
5. Sound Machine, it's a beautiful thing, we can go from thunderstorm to the beach to a brook all in a few seconds, but they all work wonders during nap time
6. Infant mittens! Jaden has some huge paws and he has nails that grow so fast women everywhere should be jealous, these mittens have been lifesavers for his eyes and face and mouth that get beat up without them
7. Gripe water and gas drops to help his gas problem and saline solution to clear out his nose, which he hates all three but they save the day a few minutes later
And now some photos of my 6 week old
January 20, 2015
Sleep Training
Sleep training
Taking off his clothes to keep his awake
Swing time (he acts asleep in this but never really is!)
Working on rolling over
Hanging out on his play mat
He loves sleeping in his bouncer
For the first 4 week, Jaden has been eating and sleeping whenever he wants, he has a shirt that says "I may be small but I'm in charge" and he wears it with power and authority. He has run the show around here, but because I am going back to work in a few weeks, Kyle and I have started the fun adventure of sleep training. In a perfect world, jaden would start his day at 7am, then stay awake for 1.5 hours, take a nap and eat again at 10. We would do this on repeat of eat, awake, nap until 10pm where we would cut out the 1.5 hours of wake time and put him back to sleep only to wake every 3 hours to eat and then back to sleep until 7am.
That is life in a perfect world, in the training world, keeping Jaden awake for 1.5 hours has proven to be quite the task. We take a bath, take trips to target, stroll around the block, tummy time on the mat, go to every room and check out the ceiling fans...this kid is very aware and wants to take in everything. When he is bored and ready to move to the next activity he gives a little whimper and we are off to the circus. The problem has become after he feeds making sure he doesn't go back to sleep, but once he has awaken and has had all that fun, he will remain wide awake during nap time. It takes ever rock, bounce and sway to finally get this kid to sleep. We were told the swing is the key to rocking a kid to sleep, so we borrowed a really nice swing from our friend. Jaden will rock in the swing looking at the mobile and ceiling fan, wide awake. I can tell he is tired, but he fights sleep constantly. We finally got a sound machine and this thing has been a life savor...combo his rock-n-play and white noise and we have ourselves a party! I have been rocking him to sleep on a few naps and one thing I love is that this kid definitely belongs to me...this evening I was rocking him while talking with my friend Lisa on the phone. Anytime Lisa and I get together it is almost guaranteed that someone tells us we are too loud and we need to quiet down. We were talking about her upcoming wedding plans so you can imagine excitement + our normal loud voices = escalated volume! Not only did my son not flinch at the level of "excitement" but my son fell asleep and slept through the whole conversation...whoo hoo finally a buddy to be on my side of the whole "you are too loud" debacle!!
Anyways all this training seems to be working, because as of yesterday he was sleeping 4.5 hours straight at night. The first time he did this, I woke up at the 3 hour mark ready to feed and he was sound asleep, I was worried he was sitting there starving so I watched him for the next hour, and finally at the first sign of movement, I scooped him up to save my poor extremely hungry and malnourished 12 pound son. He lazily woke up, ate without a fuss and went back to bed. I recognize now that I over reacted and have relaxed a little these last couple of nights. Now I am thinking a couple more days of this and we might be dropping that midnight feeding and sleeping on through the night..yippee!! Here are a few photos of our sleep and awake adventures
Sleeping through the patriots game
Checking out the world from his changing table, his favorite place to sit and wonder about the deep things of theworld
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