So, we've been home for a week now and I'm just starting to feel recovered from our road trip to Las Vegas. Kyle and I spent quite a bit of "quality" time together in the hotel room since most of the festivities were at night. He was actually just wonderful during the driving portion of our trip; much better than I anticipated!
This week Kyle has been working hard on learning to crawl and pull himself up on various things ranging from us to the furniture. I washed all of his 12 month clothes and can you believe they actually fit him?!? I'm guessing he must be close to 20 lbs now. Also, he got his 7 month pictures taken on Friday, in U of A gear per dad's request! These pictures are very cute and I can't wait to get them back.
I'm pretty sure he grows another inch every night; I go to get him from his crib in the morning and he just looks bigger! We started three new classes this week: two little movers and shakers classes and a swim class. Well, he seems to have enjoyed all of them, but was definitely the youngest baby at swimming.
And lastly, Kyle's new favorite thing to do is walk around while holding on to our fingers. This is particularly tiring for mom and dad, but he never seems to grow bored with it!
I keep thinking I'm going to miss the stages he's going through every month as they pass, but I enjoy each new month and it's developments more than the last! I guess that's about all...enjoy the new pictures below!
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Something new
Kyle is changing so fast lately...He was doing this food snub thing and only nursing the past couple days, but then we tried squash with him and whoa! he ate the whole jar of baby food; that was a first! I think he's starting to develop food preferences! Also, we took him on his first bike ride in the bike trailer yesterday. He seemed a little shocked at what was happening, but had fallen asleep by the time we drove home about 5 miles later.
Maybe we'll have to try Kyle and Ellie in the bike trailer together...hmmmm...
We're off on our first "Real" road trip tomorrow. Kevin is in a wedding in Las Vegas, but we didn't buy plane tickets quite early enough, so we're driving. Truth be told, I'm not really looking forward to it; ah well.
That's about it! I'll update again when we get home from our trip!
Maybe we'll have to try Kyle and Ellie in the bike trailer together...hmmmm...
We're off on our first "Real" road trip tomorrow. Kevin is in a wedding in Las Vegas, but we didn't buy plane tickets quite early enough, so we're driving. Truth be told, I'm not really looking forward to it; ah well.
That's about it! I'll update again when we get home from our trip!
Friday, March 10, 2006
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Kyle ...
...is tall enough now to use the highest setting on his exersaucer.
...consistently signs when he's ready for a nap or to go to bed.
...thinks our cat Zoe is the coolest living thing around! I'm pretty sure she's in worse trouble when he starts moving than I am!
...can stand up unassisted for a bit while holding on to furniture.
...is trying to pull himself up on everything!
...started biting while he was nursing today. The advice I'd received is to cut off his air supply by covering his face with my breast when he bites. This makes him immediately release and I guess for most babies they prefer breathing. Well, my son thinks it's a game and starts giggling every time he releases his bite to breathe. Lovely.
We continue to make changes to our living space in order to make it more "baby friendly" for our soon to be moving little guy. He's doing better at night now that we just let him cry for a couple minutes to go back to sleep. I'm pretty sure he only woke up to feed last night, but I'm having trouble remembering because I think I'm starting to sleep a little more.
Today for his morning nap I heard him talking it up after only a half hour. Now, usually, if he wakes up happy, that means he's done sleeping. I make a point not to enter his room until it's been at least an hour, but he's never woken up after only a half hour happy. So I finish getting ready for the day, all the while hearing him awake in his crib. I decide I might as well get him up because we have to run over to campus anyways before Kevin goes to class. As I walk in, he's up on his hands staring straight at our cat Zoe, who's sitting on the corner of our bed closest to his crib, and he's just chatting away to her. Now this could be a problem! I think I might have to bar her from the room he's sleeping in when he goes down for a nap now.
...consistently signs when he's ready for a nap or to go to bed.
...thinks our cat Zoe is the coolest living thing around! I'm pretty sure she's in worse trouble when he starts moving than I am!
...can stand up unassisted for a bit while holding on to furniture.
...is trying to pull himself up on everything!
...started biting while he was nursing today. The advice I'd received is to cut off his air supply by covering his face with my breast when he bites. This makes him immediately release and I guess for most babies they prefer breathing. Well, my son thinks it's a game and starts giggling every time he releases his bite to breathe. Lovely.
We continue to make changes to our living space in order to make it more "baby friendly" for our soon to be moving little guy. He's doing better at night now that we just let him cry for a couple minutes to go back to sleep. I'm pretty sure he only woke up to feed last night, but I'm having trouble remembering because I think I'm starting to sleep a little more.
Today for his morning nap I heard him talking it up after only a half hour. Now, usually, if he wakes up happy, that means he's done sleeping. I make a point not to enter his room until it's been at least an hour, but he's never woken up after only a half hour happy. So I finish getting ready for the day, all the while hearing him awake in his crib. I decide I might as well get him up because we have to run over to campus anyways before Kevin goes to class. As I walk in, he's up on his hands staring straight at our cat Zoe, who's sitting on the corner of our bed closest to his crib, and he's just chatting away to her. Now this could be a problem! I think I might have to bar her from the room he's sleeping in when he goes down for a nap now.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
I'll take sleep for $100
So I've put Kyle on a pretty strict schedule and it seems to be working well for him! He wakes up at 7, cereal at 9, nap at 9:30, lunch at 12, nap at 1:30, and dinner at 6. Today he is asking to nurse 3 or 4 minutes before his nap time and then he just nurses himself to sleep. I think he's starting to figure things out! I don't mind; that means neither of us is upset about him fussing to sleep!
So our days may be better, but our nights are just downright painful. This morning I gave up around 5 and just stayed in bed when he fussed. Would you believe he went back to sleep and then woke up around 7 just playing in his crib? Thank God! I may have to try that tonight. The problem we're having is we can see his top gums completely puffy and white from the pressure of his two upper teeth coming in, so we want to give him relief if it's his teeth that are waking him up, but we just don't know how to tell the difference between a sleep cycle wake up and a painful gums wake up.
I did purchase him a strip of leather to teethe on, as suggested by our handyman (he raised his son from the time the boy was an infant as a single dad and has all sorts of advice). Kyle seems to like chomping on the leather, so we'll see how it goes. I had noticed he would chew around on his leather baby shoes if given the chance.
In other news, Kyle has been introduced to fruit this week, but doesn't seem as impressed by it as I thought he would. Also, he is really excited about Zoe whenever she comes around and is intent on standing up whenever we'll spot him. I know we need to do some more baby proofing around the house, but it seems a little overwhelming at the moment.
Alright, I'm gonna try to catch a nap while Kyle is taking his!
So our days may be better, but our nights are just downright painful. This morning I gave up around 5 and just stayed in bed when he fussed. Would you believe he went back to sleep and then woke up around 7 just playing in his crib? Thank God! I may have to try that tonight. The problem we're having is we can see his top gums completely puffy and white from the pressure of his two upper teeth coming in, so we want to give him relief if it's his teeth that are waking him up, but we just don't know how to tell the difference between a sleep cycle wake up and a painful gums wake up.
I did purchase him a strip of leather to teethe on, as suggested by our handyman (he raised his son from the time the boy was an infant as a single dad and has all sorts of advice). Kyle seems to like chomping on the leather, so we'll see how it goes. I had noticed he would chew around on his leather baby shoes if given the chance.
In other news, Kyle has been introduced to fruit this week, but doesn't seem as impressed by it as I thought he would. Also, he is really excited about Zoe whenever she comes around and is intent on standing up whenever we'll spot him. I know we need to do some more baby proofing around the house, but it seems a little overwhelming at the moment.
Alright, I'm gonna try to catch a nap while Kyle is taking his!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Regress
It's been a little rough the past week or so. Kyle would sleep the first part of the night, then wake up every 1 1/2 - 2 hours needing comforting to get back to sleep. Also, he's become clingy, but this time it's just with me. If I'm anywhere near by he wants me right with him (or more likely carrying him) as I do what I need to do. Our sling has gotten more use in the last 3 days than in all the weeks prior combined!
And today, well, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that Kyle has outgrown his swing. He now sits up straight in it and stops the swing by himself, thus rendering it useless as far as napping in it goes. I just attempted to put him down for his first nap ever not in the swing. It took a good 7-10 minutes of patting him on the back as he lay in the crib, but he's asleep; now we'll just see how long it lasts!
Yesterday Kyle had his 6 month well baby check up at the pediatrician's. He is 18 lbs 12 oz and 27 1/2 inches long. At the beginning of the appt. she was asking me how his solid food was coming and I told her (cereal in the morning, veggies at night). She kind of made a big deal about him eating solids more often, but that whatever rate we were comfortable at giving him solids was really fine. I found this comment a little odd, because the majority of babies start solids somewhere around the 4-6 month mark and would still be experimenting with cereal/strained baby food. We talked about a few other things (sleeping patterns, clingy babies, and cycling with a baby). As we were wrapping up she looks down at his file, looks up at me and starts apologizing profusely, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry about the food comment, Kyle is totally where he should be with that. I thought he was 9 months old after looking at his development chart"! Aw geez, he's even faking the doctor out ;).
So Dr. Lloyd suggested infant Motrin at night because she thinks Kyle's top two teeth are starting their descent and getting ready to push out his gums. She thought that was why his sleeping schedule is so screwy right now because he's probably having some pain/discomfort. Well, we tried it last night and would you believe our sleeping baby is back; woke up twice to eat just like before, but that was it!
Also, as soon as Kyle can hold a helmet on his head, or if we can install his infant car seat in a bike trailer, he's good to go on bike rides! I'm too excited! Walking has become so blah lately.
That's about it...we've all just kind of been surviving our days with the lack of sleep, but here's to a happy baby day!
And today, well, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that Kyle has outgrown his swing. He now sits up straight in it and stops the swing by himself, thus rendering it useless as far as napping in it goes. I just attempted to put him down for his first nap ever not in the swing. It took a good 7-10 minutes of patting him on the back as he lay in the crib, but he's asleep; now we'll just see how long it lasts!
Yesterday Kyle had his 6 month well baby check up at the pediatrician's. He is 18 lbs 12 oz and 27 1/2 inches long. At the beginning of the appt. she was asking me how his solid food was coming and I told her (cereal in the morning, veggies at night). She kind of made a big deal about him eating solids more often, but that whatever rate we were comfortable at giving him solids was really fine. I found this comment a little odd, because the majority of babies start solids somewhere around the 4-6 month mark and would still be experimenting with cereal/strained baby food. We talked about a few other things (sleeping patterns, clingy babies, and cycling with a baby). As we were wrapping up she looks down at his file, looks up at me and starts apologizing profusely, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry about the food comment, Kyle is totally where he should be with that. I thought he was 9 months old after looking at his development chart"! Aw geez, he's even faking the doctor out ;).
So Dr. Lloyd suggested infant Motrin at night because she thinks Kyle's top two teeth are starting their descent and getting ready to push out his gums. She thought that was why his sleeping schedule is so screwy right now because he's probably having some pain/discomfort. Well, we tried it last night and would you believe our sleeping baby is back; woke up twice to eat just like before, but that was it!
Also, as soon as Kyle can hold a helmet on his head, or if we can install his infant car seat in a bike trailer, he's good to go on bike rides! I'm too excited! Walking has become so blah lately.
That's about it...we've all just kind of been surviving our days with the lack of sleep, but here's to a happy baby day!
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