Thursday, September 29, 2011

Not so in to rolling over...




The progression of what it tummy time looks like around our house.


I don't know why, but Reed hates tummy time and I just can't force myself to make him do it. This is seriously what it looks like after about 30 seconds. We start him off happy on his back, he rolls side to side happily, and once I put him on his stomach he starts to scream and cry. Not your fussy little cry, more like "I hold a grudge and I am going to stay mad at you for the next hour for making me just do that" kind of a cry - with huge elephant tears. :( So....I have come to the conclusion that I am not going to make him do it and if he can't roll completely over until he is 6 months old then so be it.

Monday, September 5, 2011

3 Months & 3 Year's



Well my baby is 3 months old today. My oh my, I can't get enough of his little face. :)

We are all officially into a really good routine. I am back at work, spending 3 days a week in the office, which is SO nice - I feel like it's a really good balance between career mom and a stay a home mom, which for me is such a happy medium.

Reed is totally sleeping though the night. He now sleeps from about 9:30pm to 7 am. He pretty much puts himself to bed; we sing or read to him until he is drowsy and then we put him into bed and off he goes into his little dream world. Sometimes I just love to sit and watch him sleep. He is so cute when he dreams, laughing and even sometimes crying in his sleep.

He is so smiley and I love that he totally recognizes Jer and I. He loves to hear me say "Hi Reed" and he loves it when his daddy sings "Zippity Doo Dah" to him. He is starting to get a little bit of stranger anxiety, but it isn't too bad, so long as nobody startles him too much. And he is such a babbler, saying "ah" & "i" a lot, especially in the evenings after his bath, it's hard to get him to quiet down. Yesterday he found his thumb (he has always liked to suck on his fist, but never his thumb until yesterday). :( This makes me sad. I have tried SO hard to keep him from being a thumb sucker, but I guess no matter how hard I tried he still found a way to get to it. I guess I just figured that a pacifier is a habit that I can help break, but thumb sucking isn't and so I have really tried to discourage it.

He is getting so close to rolling over, but we still aren't there. I am really bad about tummy time, because he hates it, so I am doing him no favors in this area. He rolls from side to side a lot, but can't quite get all of the way over. Now that he is doing that I am starting to break him from his swaddle so that by the time he is able to roll over his had transitioned from sleeping in a swaddle to a sleep sak.

All in all things are so good. Tomorrow is our 3 year wedding anniversary. Jer has a fantasy football draft and so we actually celebrated on Sunday by doing lunch and getting massages. Tomorrow night we are going to get a bottle of wine and watch our wedding video, something we do every year at this time. It aways makes me happy to remember our wedding day, it was so special and as time goes by it is nice to go back to that place and listen to the words that we spoke to each other on our wedding day. As the years go by, my love for him does grow deeper and stronger, I didn't realize what having a baby would mean for the two of us, but honestly it has made me love him even more than I thought possible. I feel so blessed to be married to such a wonderful man and the more time that goes by, the more I know that I have married the right man for me.

August



August....is it really already over? I can't believe that summer is past, school is back in session and I have a 3 month old. This past month was spent at home in large part, we had lots of BBQ's with friends at the "A La Day" Resort as Jeremy likes to call it (aka - our backyard). Reed spent lots of time floating around in the pool. He is a total water baby. Bath time is his favorite time of day and he seems to really like the pool, so long as it is not too cold.

Jer and I spent our first night without the little man a couple of weeks back. Our anniversary is on September 6th and so we went to San Francisco the weekend of my birthday to get away for the night. I missed Reed like crazy, but it was nice to have a little alone time with Jer, where we could just focus on adult conversation and have a little one on one time. Reed stayed with Auntie Paige and did really well. It is so nice to have such great babysitters all around us and Reed loves all of his time with his grandmas and aunties!