roger is home, hooray!!! what does this mean for you? new pictures on the website, of course!
we've just been trucking along here...the front wheel for his fancy chariot stroller should get here today so I'm looking forward to our inaugural walk in it. He's been getting better about napping - once he's asleep I can put him down in his vibrate-y chair or on the bed and he will generally sleep on his own for about a half hour. Doesn't sound like a lot of time, I know, but you'd be amazed what you can get done in a half hour!
The bouncy ball is still the best way to calm him down. I don't get it.
Thanks to everyone for your advice on colicky and fussy babies - I think he is just fussy and will grow out of it. It does seem to be improving slowly - he hasn't made me cry in at least a week or two!
We took our first trip to the mall a few weeks ago with my friend Emily - she is about 14 weeks pregnant and needed to find some maternity jeans, stat. He did really well - we got a stroller frame for the carseat so I can just take him out of the car and snap the seat into the frame without having to muck about taking him out of his carseat or waking him up. He browsed Pier 1 and Target and Old Navy quite successfully and enjoyed picking out some new sleepers at Macy's.
Check out the new pictures; I just have January up for now but will try to make some progress on ones we've shot so far in February.
Hooray for Roger!!!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
hooray!
an album of images from january (and a few strays from december) will be up soon on milo's website.
later:
i take it back. for some reason i can't browse to the images to upload them. curious!
later:
i take it back. for some reason i can't browse to the images to upload them. curious!
dawning of the age of fussiness
yup, it's official...we have a ridiculously fussy baby.
the only thing that will make him stop crying is sitting on the exercise ball and bouncing. this has the added bonus of putting him to sleep. the downside is even once he's asleep, you can't stop bouncing. and god forbid you try to put him in his playpen or crib for his nap...about 3 minutes after setting him down he will achieve max volume and ear-splittingness. i hope daycare has someone who likes to bounce!
on the upside i DO think it's getting slowly better. after eating he'll amuse himself in his playpen for up to 45 mins before deciding it's bouncy time, which gives me a chance to eat and shower and things of that nature.
i will not go into nights because it's just too depressing. let's just say he wakes up a lot and won't go back to a sound sleep without bouncing or eating. nate and i are both very tired. i *heart* coffee.
on the computer front, roger is in jackson as we speak, getting his third replacement power supply in 4 years. as soon as i get the rest of my deposits for my summer weddings i am going to order a tower, weeha!! not sure what i'm going to name it yet.
at our ped appt on the 29th milo was 10 lbs, 5 oz and had grown another inch! he's still on the small side for his age but is growing at a great rate. he had his first round of shots, which made everyone cry except the nurse. she was great though - lightning quick!
i hope to post january pics to the website today, we'll just have to see if the little bird cooperates. so far it's not looking great, but we'll see!
oh and pls forgive any typos etc. - it's hard to bounce and type!
the only thing that will make him stop crying is sitting on the exercise ball and bouncing. this has the added bonus of putting him to sleep. the downside is even once he's asleep, you can't stop bouncing. and god forbid you try to put him in his playpen or crib for his nap...about 3 minutes after setting him down he will achieve max volume and ear-splittingness. i hope daycare has someone who likes to bounce!
on the upside i DO think it's getting slowly better. after eating he'll amuse himself in his playpen for up to 45 mins before deciding it's bouncy time, which gives me a chance to eat and shower and things of that nature.
i will not go into nights because it's just too depressing. let's just say he wakes up a lot and won't go back to a sound sleep without bouncing or eating. nate and i are both very tired. i *heart* coffee.
on the computer front, roger is in jackson as we speak, getting his third replacement power supply in 4 years. as soon as i get the rest of my deposits for my summer weddings i am going to order a tower, weeha!! not sure what i'm going to name it yet.
at our ped appt on the 29th milo was 10 lbs, 5 oz and had grown another inch! he's still on the small side for his age but is growing at a great rate. he had his first round of shots, which made everyone cry except the nurse. she was great though - lightning quick!
i hope to post january pics to the website today, we'll just have to see if the little bird cooperates. so far it's not looking great, but we'll see!
oh and pls forgive any typos etc. - it's hard to bounce and type!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
poor roger
Roger = my computer.
Roger will no longer turn on.
This may put a damper on photos and blog posts for a while.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Roger will no longer turn on.
This may put a damper on photos and blog posts for a while.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
babies fart
A lot. Who knew?
He actually seems to have most of the general bodily functions pretty well dialed - peeing, pooping, farting, burping, and throwing up are all well within his grasp. Sadly, cleaning up after himself is not.
My mom and dad are here for two weeks and it's been just great! My mom is cleaning the house - getting to all the stuff that Nate and I would never ever have done like cleaning the woodwork and actually pulling the knobs off of the stove to clean behind them. My dad has been doing projects that we also have not gotten to - on the agenda are shelves for my bathroom, taking the ski rack off of the Jeep and he and Nate have already weather-stripped the windows. It's warmer in here already. Plus they're putting in a ton of baby time, which is just great as well.
Speaking of great, Nate took Milo on his own all night last night while I slept. I went to lay down in Milo's room around 9 and didn't wake up again until 7 AM. It was amazing. I was so confused when I woke up - I couldn't figure out why it was light out or why the baby wasn't crying for his breakfast.
Milo and I got a lot done yesterday - pediatrician's appt and we stopped by my friend Johanna's house to visit her and her new baby, Desi. Too cute! Maybe she'll email me the pic of Milo and Desi so I can post it here...hint hint nudge nudge. :) The ped appt went great, he is up to 8 lbs 9 1/2 oz - 21.5 oz in 18 days so he's still excelling in the eating dept. He is about 20 3/4" tall, so he's grown about an inch and three quarters since he was born.
We also stopped by my office and picked up his ski pass and visited with people at work for a while. I think I'm going to go in on Thursday for a while to help out with some stuff and possibly even pick up some work to bring home. I don't know though, I don't want to get ahead of myself. If nothing else I'll take a few runs while I'm out there, that should be hilarious. Fat, weak, out of shape, bad knees...sounds like a GREAT combo for snowboarding.
I've posted some new pictures to the website and soon will be making a 'best of December' slideshow for those of you that don't want to look at hundreds of pictures of someone else's baby.
He actually seems to have most of the general bodily functions pretty well dialed - peeing, pooping, farting, burping, and throwing up are all well within his grasp. Sadly, cleaning up after himself is not.
My mom and dad are here for two weeks and it's been just great! My mom is cleaning the house - getting to all the stuff that Nate and I would never ever have done like cleaning the woodwork and actually pulling the knobs off of the stove to clean behind them. My dad has been doing projects that we also have not gotten to - on the agenda are shelves for my bathroom, taking the ski rack off of the Jeep and he and Nate have already weather-stripped the windows. It's warmer in here already. Plus they're putting in a ton of baby time, which is just great as well.
Speaking of great, Nate took Milo on his own all night last night while I slept. I went to lay down in Milo's room around 9 and didn't wake up again until 7 AM. It was amazing. I was so confused when I woke up - I couldn't figure out why it was light out or why the baby wasn't crying for his breakfast.
Milo and I got a lot done yesterday - pediatrician's appt and we stopped by my friend Johanna's house to visit her and her new baby, Desi. Too cute! Maybe she'll email me the pic of Milo and Desi so I can post it here...hint hint nudge nudge. :) The ped appt went great, he is up to 8 lbs 9 1/2 oz - 21.5 oz in 18 days so he's still excelling in the eating dept. He is about 20 3/4" tall, so he's grown about an inch and three quarters since he was born.
We also stopped by my office and picked up his ski pass and visited with people at work for a while. I think I'm going to go in on Thursday for a while to help out with some stuff and possibly even pick up some work to bring home. I don't know though, I don't want to get ahead of myself. If nothing else I'll take a few runs while I'm out there, that should be hilarious. Fat, weak, out of shape, bad knees...sounds like a GREAT combo for snowboarding.
I've posted some new pictures to the website and soon will be making a 'best of December' slideshow for those of you that don't want to look at hundreds of pictures of someone else's baby.
Monday, December 29, 2008
slings and things
I have a love/hate relationship with our sling.
For those of you that don't know, a sling is like a tiny hammock that the parent can wear around one shoulder (in the same fashion as a shoulder bag) and put your baby into the wide, hammock-y part. This part then cocoons around the baby, holding him all safe and secure and right next to you. It enables you to hold him (or, in modern terms 'wear' him. baby-wearing is all the rage these days.) and have both of your hands free and still be sharing warmth etc. with your baby.
Love - Milo falls asleep pretty much immediately upon being put into it. He really seems to like it in there and it's nice to have him so close and still be able to use both hands.
Hate - it is impossible to get him out without waking him up again, sentencing the wearer to hours of back strain (who knew 7 1/2 lbs could weigh so much?) until Milo wants to eat. Or until you decide it's worth risking his wrath to give your back a rest.
Also hate - I'm afraid he's going to suffocate in there. He likes to sleep on his side and there is definitely some stomach squishiness for him to push his face into.
In other news, it's been a crazy couple of days out at the Village - www.tetonat.com . It almost makes me want to take up x-country skiing. Almost.
There are some new pictures up in the Dec08 folder of Milo's website and I hope to get some xmas pics up soon as well. Thank you so much to everyone who sent him cards and gifts, thank you for thinking of us!
And since I know you've all been dying to find out, here is the picture I decided on for his ski pass:
For those of you that don't know, a sling is like a tiny hammock that the parent can wear around one shoulder (in the same fashion as a shoulder bag) and put your baby into the wide, hammock-y part. This part then cocoons around the baby, holding him all safe and secure and right next to you. It enables you to hold him (or, in modern terms 'wear' him. baby-wearing is all the rage these days.) and have both of your hands free and still be sharing warmth etc. with your baby.
Love - Milo falls asleep pretty much immediately upon being put into it. He really seems to like it in there and it's nice to have him so close and still be able to use both hands.
Hate - it is impossible to get him out without waking him up again, sentencing the wearer to hours of back strain (who knew 7 1/2 lbs could weigh so much?) until Milo wants to eat. Or until you decide it's worth risking his wrath to give your back a rest.
Also hate - I'm afraid he's going to suffocate in there. He likes to sleep on his side and there is definitely some stomach squishiness for him to push his face into.
In other news, it's been a crazy couple of days out at the Village - www.tetonat.com . It almost makes me want to take up x-country skiing. Almost.
There are some new pictures up in the Dec08 folder of Milo's website and I hope to get some xmas pics up soon as well. Thank you so much to everyone who sent him cards and gifts, thank you for thinking of us!
And since I know you've all been dying to find out, here is the picture I decided on for his ski pass:
Thursday, December 25, 2008
two week appt
Yesterday we had Milo’s two week pediatrician’s appointment and everything went very well. He’s put on 7 ounces in six days, so he’s ahead of the ounce/day recommendation. I’m not sure if that makes him an overachiever or us....either way, he’s up to 7 lbs 4 oz and gaining every day. His head got bigger as well and he’s 1/2 an inch longer, up to 20”. He has another appointment in two weeks when we’ll talk about vaccinations and re-weigh & measure him, but Dr Pockat says he is doing great and is all systems go.
A few of the other women in our birth class are starting to deliver - my friend Noel delivered the day before yesterday and my friend Johanna is in labor right now. All three of us were induced, how weird is that? Noel’s not-so-little boy (10 lbs 8 oz!!! And Noel is tiny!!!) because she was over her due date and Johanna and I both because of pre-eclampsia worries. Noel ended up with a c-section after her labor stalled and Johanna is probably in Pitocin-induced pain as I type this.
Nate’s cousin Kilie is here for a few days, which is awesome. I don’t think we’ll do much besides lounge about and watch movies, but it’s nice to have another grownup here for a while. Hmm....if I’m this starved for conversation after one week what is it going to be like in week seven? I imagine I’ll get used to it. Plus we’ll have lots of company starting in a few weeks, so that will probably help as well.
My big task for the day is to pick out a picture to put on his ski pass. It’s a very important decision, don’t you know.
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