Well- first off I can't believe that this beautiful baby boy is already 8 weeks old on Saturday! My heavens did this time fly by! And it figures that just as you are rockin' with the needs and routines (well the habits I should say, nothing is routine :) ) then work comes a calling and your leave is over! I am perfectly comfortable in this new "skin" I am going to call it of being a momma. That came after many a tears of doubting everything I thought! I honestly don't know how mommas made it before you can learn about whatever you are curious about with the press of a button and typing "google" in. However, I think that is sometimes the devil as well! I have had questions that I have found answers that scared me more then before I started looking! And you know the best part about it, there are sooooo many contradictory opinions about this and that that all I do anyways is read and get scared and then see what my opinion is as someone elses and I am content as can be. SO WHY WASTE TIME EVEN LOOKING! HAHA! I guess sometimes you just need that little inkling of support from someone that has no idea who you are or even that you are looking into their questions and answers :). It's amazing how you really have this "instinct" come about when you give birth. Granted with all my beautiful mommy friends I do have to say that I hear a lot here and there, but I remember nothing when it comes "game time" :).
Onto the better part of me now- MR. BRADY....
This little guy is something else! He is smilin' away and they are huge heartfelt smiles with eyes winced and all.. However, he is not one for the camera yet and loves to all of a sudden become stern face with crooked eyebrows when I try to get the "shot". We go to his 2 month appt. on Jan. 25th and I can not wait to see how much he weighs!! I swear I know I am out of shape and have jello for arms but oh my good god, little rollie pollie literally leaves my arms NUMB sometimes. Of course he looooooves to "dance" (ok I dance around like an idiot).... "bounce".... whatever involves you walking around and heaven forbid you sit on the couch... YEAH.. I DON'T THINK SO. That sad imitation of "butt jumpin'" as you try to "bounce" as you are sitting on that comfortable couch- GET YOUR LAZY BUTT UP AND WALK LADY!! I swear I think he says that through his shouts! He is really becoming "habitual" and I can only hope that it stays that way as right now you can read him but I don't know if that is just a new kiddo or if it stays with him. He stays up a lot more then he used to, it's funny because Brad is like why is he up so much lol! It's funny how that is so true, you are so tired during the first few weeks so once you start getting "used" to their habits and you start resting because you will NEVER beat the wrath of the newborn :), you are used to it and BOOM- no more long naps consistently. He is the BIGGEST CAT NAPPER, and one thing I am trying so very hard to get him "unused" to is falling asleep in our loving arms! He has now taken on to literally being like a little doll with the eyes that open and close (you know the ones that are creepy as hell, now that I am older). You can hold him in your arms for 15 minutes to 45 minutes (if a good show is on, come on now haha) and the second you try to put him in his swing or crib BAM, EYES POP OPEN! When I say open, I mean OPEN..... not a slightly open like he might go back to sleep... LIKE ALL THE WAY, GOOOOOOOD MORNING open! Cracks me up... He is something else! I think that all 3 of us are really learning each other and we all feel comfortable and so happy with this new life that we are now living! I am very ready for him to be able to hold his head up so I can put him in the Bumbo and the other activity chair! He has always had outstanding neck control! So I don't think that it should be long now! I have only tried to put him in the seat once, but yeah he was ticked and I was in the mode of finding exactly what it was that would calm him besides me holding him. I really don't want him to be spoiled although I will never let him cry a long time. Especially now with him being so new, I just hope that everyone else doesn't mind consoling him as I do with holding him :).
I promise I will be better at updating this blog!! I am going to attach some pictures with some stories :). XOXO, tata for now!
FIRST NAP IN HIS BIG BOY CRIB! At 6 weeks I said that I would put him in his crib... so I prepared him (myself :) ) for that by putting him down for naps in the crib so that he could get used to that bed. I have a motion monitor which if I can recommend ANYTHING to any to be mommas out there, GET IT.... It is a monitor that has a sensory pad that goes under their mattress that should he stop breathing (basically if there is no motion) for more then 15 seconds an alarm sounds! It has receivers the same as a normal monitor to hear him. It puts me at such ease, as I know it works because of the bazillion times that I have forgot to turn it off when picking him up :).... He now sleeps in his crib at night, and we have all done extremely well with that! I knew that he would be sleeping in a normal crib when he was in childcare when I went back to work, I wanted him to be used to the flat surface as he has always been in love with his papasan swing and slept in that in our room for the first of his life.... I thought it would be so hard, but that monitor, I am not kidding- it is wonderful!
FIRST REAL BATH! That baby boy LOVES his baths! With the love for the baths also comes the love of PEEIN' ON MOM! At first it was just when the water hit him.. now it seems to be the head really triggers the hose.. GRANTED, IT IS NOTHING LIKE THIS..
I can honestly say that I have never laughed so hard then when I saw that for the first time! HILARIOUS.. I still haven't figured that out why if you put the diaper over the pee pee hole, "it" (man part) doesn't just pee into the diaper.. NO, it waits for the next revealing (lifting of the washcloth) and goes... lol! SO now I have to hold a washcloth in the direction of the "stream" and let him just pee into it hahaha!
Snow bunny! This was us bundled up for his 2 week appt! It was the day that it was to "snow" in Austin... He was so daannnnnng cute! I can't believe how early he started getting those cheeks now looking at that!
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