Updates!

First of all let me say that I never thought that Nathan would be such a happy baby. He smiles almost constantly! I'll walk by him as he's in his swing and he'll smile at me. I change his diaper and he'll smile and laugh. He sits with us at the dinner table and he'll smile and talk the whole time we're eating. Even feeding him is a chore sometimes because he'll just smile and laugh and usually ends up spilling his formula all down his chin. We've actually started using bibs now!

He's also started sleeping more at night. He's been going for about 4 hours, sometimes more, between feeds. He's also up to 5 or 6oz. of formula at each feeding which is usually every 3 or 4 hours during the day.

I've noticed that he likes routine which is great for me. I love routines and schedules. That's not always a good thing because it can be very difficult for me to adapt to change. Nathan's schedule is pretty regular. He wakes up between 6 and 7am, sometimes with a whiny cry if he just wants attention, sometimes with a full blown "I'm starving" cry. Then he's up for about 2 hours, then down for a nap until noonish. Then he's up for more food and some play time for about an hour, then back to sleep till 3 or so. Then he's up till bedtime which lately has been between 7 and 8pm. Usually he'll sleep till 11 or 12 then wake up for 6oz. of formula. Last night he woke up around midnight to eat and didn't wake up again until 4:30am.

He also loves books. My goodness does he love books. He doesn't look at the pictures much but he loves to look at the words. Right now his favorite book is one that my birthmother sent:




It's a sing-a-long but we've only listened to the CD once. Nathan likes the book itself :) The pictures are great and the text really stands out which I think is why Nathan likes it so much!

Here are some of the other books we read to him:






That's it for now. Hope everyone is well!

New picture site!

I was using Picasa for my pictures but decided to go with Shutterfly. I'll be uploading pictures there from now on.

I'll have a longer post soon, I promise! :)

Fun at the park

Nathan and I went to Victoria Park today and fed the ducks and squirrels. Nathan loved laying under the trees so much that I had to take a few videos :)






There's a squirrel at the bottom of the tree.




More later :)

Happy Birthday Dad :)

It's my dad's birthday today! Happy Birthday Daddy!

Just got back from our Infant Massage class. Nathan was extra fussy. He'd been up for a few hours early this morning with really bad gas and it was starting to bug him again during class. He wouldn't let me do anything but hold him. Other then the gas he's doing great. He was actually trying to grab a toy hanging from his play mat yesterday. I kept cheering him on until he got tired and frustrated :)

I think I'll head to Michael's and get some quotes on getting some things framed. They're having a 50% off framing sale, but they seem to have those quite often but it'll give me something to do outside of the house. My husband never got his University degrees framed so I think I'll get that done for him for his birthday in September. I also have a puzzle I just finished that I want to get framed. Those cats' eyes are pretty freaky though, haha. I've always liked putting together puzzles of cats (not photos but actual artwork prints of cats) and framing them.

10 weeks :)

Nathan is 10 weeks old today! I haven't been taking too many photos of him lately but I'll do that this weekend for sure.

We've switched from powdered formula to concentrated and Nathan's gas has seemed to practically disappear. I think the powdered had too much air in it when we'd mix it with water whereas the concentrated is liquid and mixes smoothly with water. We're still using Dr. Brown's bottles mainly but I still use the Drop-ins and he seems to like those more. He latches on to the nipple a lot better.

Our Infant Massage group is going good. We've attended two classes so far. All of the other women seem to be really nice and their babies are adorable too. In a previous post I mentioned that Nathan was "flirting" with one of the other moms. Last week he was flirting with the instructor's demonstration doll, haha. He would stare at it and coo and make his baby noises. I'm a little sad that the class falls exactly during Nathan's nap time and he's usually pretty grumpy within 20 minutes of class starting. He'll let me massage him for a short period then I have to stop and give him a few minutes without touching. He is easily overstimulated, even at home. Sometimes he'll scream and cry if there's just too much going on around him.

My husband's brother is here for the weekend and all the guys (well, except Nathan) have gone to the movies so I have the house to myself. I think I'll have some ice cream and put my feet up for a bit while Nathan sleeps.

Hope everyone is well. More soon! :)



Edit:

Forgot to mention that we're talking about when to get pregnant again. I think we've decided to try around Christmas time :)

Quick update

Things are going good here. Had the alternator replaced in the car and it's running great now.

Heading out to run some errands but I'll be writing more later today or tomorrow.

Hope everyone is well!

Car Problems but a Healthy Baby! (long post!)

Nathan had his shots yesterday. I was anticipating him screaming for a while but surprisingly he only cried for about a minute. It was a pretty intense cry, similar to the way he used to cry when he was really hungry (he cries much differently now when hungry) but it didn't last long. He did end up sleeping for 5 hours after that though which was nice since we ended up having a very long day.

Nathan's weight is 12 pounds, he's 23 inches long. His head circumference is 40.7cm (16"). He is in the 75-85th percentile for his growth. He's a big boy :)


He is also almost constantly smiling when he's awake. He seems so happy almost all the time! He sits at the table with us when we have dinner and he keeps us entertained with his smiles and cooing :)


Last week when I was driving with my teen son to the movies our car's electricity kind of flickered. My ABS and air bag lights came on and the radio went out for a few seconds. The car shuddered a bit too. The ABS and air bag lights went back out and everything went back to normal but I was pretty scared since I was on the freeway so we got off and took city streets to get home.

We never got to see the movie, by the way, as it was sold out both times we went (we wanted to see Inception), but we did go out later in the week and saw Salt.

The next day I called our local Ford dealer and explained the issue and they had me take the car in and they shuttled me home. Later that day they called back and said they couldn't find anything with the electrical system but noticed that our brakes were really low. I had just mentioned to my husband a day or two earlier that I noticed the brake pedal had to go pretty close to the floor to get the car to stop but I hadn't had any issues with actually stopping. So we had the brakes done along with an oil change, tire rotation and overall inspection.

Since then we hadn't had any other electrical issues but they came back yesterday when I was coming home from Nathan's doctor appointment in London which is about 75 miles away. My car dash beeped and showed "Check Charging System" on the display and the battery light came on. I am really happy that I made it to my off ramp before the car decided to tell me there was a problem but my off ramp is still 20 miles from the Ford dealership.

So I called my husband then I called the Ford service center and they suggested I don't drive it and call roadside assistance. We don't have CAA but our extended warranty for our car has roadside assistance so I called them and they sent out a tow truck. I made sure to tell them that I needed a truck that could accommodate an infant car seat. The guy they sent out was so nice and he had such a nice truck. It was a Chevrolet something or other.

So now I'm driving a 2011 Ford Focus and waiting for my service guy to call with the news about our car. It's either the battery or the alternator and I'm hoping it's the alternator because our warranty covers that. The Focus is really nice but super small compared to our Taurus. The baby's car seat fits but you have to move the front seat up so your head is nearly touching the windshield. Does not work for my husband at all since he's 6' and barely fits in our normal car! It smells nice though :) Oh and it has satellite radio which is awesome! We just might have to get that...

More later!

Immunizations today

Nathan goes in for his shots today. I'm not looking forward to having him cry from the pain but I'm happy he'll be getting immunized.

We attended our first Infant Massage class on Tuesday and it went well! I learned how to massage his legs and tummy. The next few classes will be for the rest of his body. He started fussing so I had to stop for a bit. Too much rubbing I guess! He kept looking at the woman next to me and smiling at her and we joked that he was flirting with her, it was cute :) There were 5 other women with their babies. I didn't socialize much but hopefully I'll get to know them a little better over the next few weeks. I was going to go to the Baby Blanket Time class today but forgot that we had to drive an hour to the doctor for his appointment. I'll try to attend their next class.

I've been feeling a little better lately. I cried this morning because I let a few silly things get to me. I was changing Nathan like I usually do, on our bed on his change pad and he decided to throw up his breakfast from when his Daddy fed him earlier. I was still half asleep and was hoping to go back to bed but we ended up having to give him a bath, which actually was good since I didn't give him one last night like I wanted. He went back in the bassinet after that so we could get one more hour of sleep before the alarm went off. He was fussy and I ended up having to change a poopy diaper. My reaction time was slow and ended up getting peed on. It's happened quite a few times but this morning I cried about it because I was tired.

Then when I went to take my shower I dumped all the water out of his baby tub and went to put it away but hadn't dumped it all out and ended up spilling water all over the bathroom floor. I cried about that too.

And my hands are still numb. I've had to fix so many typos in this post already. Maybe one day I'll make a post without edits! It's pretty bad.

Nathan is crying, gotta go feed him. I'll post more after our appointment today.