sorry for the lack of blogging... Andrew has been such a crappy sleeper for the past several months (especially in Georgia where he was waking up every two (or less!) hours during the night... and every closet and drawer in my house is in complete disarray and my kids are just really time consuming and I've let myself take some time off from blogging. as much as I absolutely love writing and posting pictures, it can be pretty time consuming. thank goodness for the journal my dad gave me for Christmas... it's an every day journal and I can just write a few sentences each day and not feel guilty for not writing more. I honestly don't know what I would do without it now... it has been such a blessing to me since I'm someone that feels stress at not keeping record of things and events.
anyway, life is good.
over the past week, Abigail has been doing better and our relationship has been going a bit better. today was big in that I emailed her teacher that she'll be walking home from school each day with our neighbors and I talked to a number of medical professionals on the phone this morning and afternoon (our appointment was cancelled last minute by the doctor not being in the office today) about Abigail's medication and we'll be doubling the dose and hoping to see some positive results. Abigail walked home from school today for the second time and it is honestly the best thing ever to not load the kids in the car to go pick her up. and I feel like she's in a better mood when she gets here.
Brady, over the past week or two, has gone down hill, as has our relationship. apparently these things are inversely related? he's turned pretty moody and angry and sometimes belligerent. he says it's because he isn't getting enough sleep and hasn't been napping as much as he needs to so we've been trying to make his naps more of a priority but I don't know that it's helping THAT much. he's still wonderfully independent and all of his regular good qualities... he's just always angry at me. I asked him about this and he says he always expects me to say no to his requests so he's just already upset even before he starts asking me a question. it's not horrendous but it does make me pretty sad right now because I feel like I've lost a friend.
Elizabeth is opinionated and headstrong and holy cow, as hilarious as ever. everything is her FAVORITE. I don't think she understands that word very well and probably thinks it just means that she likes something. literally every song she hears, she declares to be her favorite. on Sunday, our closing song was "come along, come along" and I can't recall ever hearing that song before and, judging by the singing, or lack thereof, I think the rest of the congregation could have said the same thing. but don't worry, just upon hearing the intro, Elizabeth is enthusiastically proclaiming that "I LIKE THIS SONG!!! IT'S MY FAVORITE SONG!!!" also, we decided to all go as a family to Abigail's "it's great to be eight" meeting on Sunday night and Elizabeth had a lot of loud gas. after each loud toot she's all, "I tooted!" and then proceeded to do it again. she has an excellent sense of humor and is also developing a lot of opinions about books that she likes to read and favorite clothing/pj's/boots that she likes to wear. right before Christmas, Elizabeth flipped a switch and went from being terrified and hating (like SCREAMING bloody murder through the whole experience) baths and showers, to being obsessed with showers and begging multiple times a day to take a shower. Chris was cracking up the other day when he came home from work and saw us all and then was all "you've got the shower on while you just sit in bed?!" and I had to tell him that actually Elizabeth was showering. she's also started requesting again to use the potty. I had told her before that she for sure had to wait until after the holidays but I'm still going to try holding her off on that til she's closer to three or potty trains herself. I can hope, right?
Andrew is great. he's been sick with the worst congestion though... like soooo horrific. I try to nose suck him as best I can but he still nurses and sounds like he's drowning and gasping for air. he'll take three sucks and then turn his head to the side and breath like he's catching his breath for a bit and then he'll latch on and suck three times and do it again. like he's swimming or something. he's still mostly happy though, thank goodness, and has actually started sleeping longer just in the last three nights. since he was previously waking around 11:30, 2:30, 4:30, and 7:30, this is a huge improvement to have him wake just once around 4:30 or 5. we'll see if he's maturing and really starting to sleep longer stretches or if he's just doing this because this sickness is really taking it out of him. also, I finally broke down and bought a baby scale. his weight percentile is less than 0.1% and he only gained 5 or 6 ounces between his 4 and 6 month appointments. I had some huge days of stress about it and was freaking out about my milk supply and was trying to supplement with milk from my freezer (but he either wasn't hungry or didn't want milk from a bottle) and it was just not great... all of that was happening the week before Christmas. so I took fenugreek to boost my supply and I started nursing him allllll the time. like at least every hour or two hours throughout the day and night. I couldn't even tell you how many feedings he was getting in a 24 hour period because I felt like I was just nursing him constantly around the clock. but I guess it worked because my supply met his needs and I quit taking the fenugreek and he's sleeping longer at night. I asked his doctors office if I could bring him in for just a weight check to see if my efforts were effective or not and they said there was a copay for that. I thought that seemed stupid but we have kaiser insurance so a lot of things about it are stupid. instead of paying the $50 copay, I bought a scale for less than 40. I'm happy to report that he's broken 13lbs which means that he'd gained over a pound in that month since his 6 month well check... woohoo! also, I've realized how inaccurate and varying the scale measurements can be with a wiggly baby and I'm wondering how accurate that weight was that was taken at his 6 month appointment. anyway, he's still less than .1% but he's growing and I know he's eating a lot and peeing a lot so that gives me comfort. also, he's super vocal and social and happy and is hitting all of his milestones and sitting up and rolling over like a rockstar. once he gets over this cold, I'm gonna have to get him weaned from the swaddle because he keeps rolling over and getting stuck on his belly. Abigail did that too at this age but she was a happy beached whale... Andrew is not the happiest when he gets beached. other random things to note... Andrews cheeks are almost always flushed and he is biting on everything. I'm still in mourning that we lost our Sophie giraffe a week and a half ago when we went to the library one evening. I've checked their lost and found twice though (they keep a log of everything) and it was never turned in... which makes me worry that maybe it fell out of the car when I made a huge goodwill run on our way to the library but also gives me hope that maybe it's just hiding somewhere in our car even though our car is clean and there's really not anywhere for it to be. ugh. so I was resorting to Andrew's next favorite toy and that went missing at the gym last week. we never lose baby toys and now we've lost our favorite two within just a few days of each other! major fail. mostly still sad about Sophie though. for sentimental reasons but also because of that $25 price tag. let's all pray for a late Christmas miracle that she shows up somewhere. I have a reward out for her though and told Brady that he'll get the biggest treat ever if he finds that stinking giraffe. Andrew's gummy little gums neeeeeed it.
man, those quick summaries get longer with each kid. this is why blogging is so time consuming... I'm too long winded to ever be quick.
anyway...
honey has been doing well... normal work and traveling and more work and travel. he stays busy but I try for us to at least feel like we get some hang out time every few days. tonight I felt like we kind of hung out for a good 20 minutes or so while the kids skated in the basement and I made dinner... so that was nice. it sounds pathetic when I write it out but honestly, we're just kind of at a busy stage of life right now and it is what it is.
I'm hanging in there! despite the constant mess and disorganization of my house and life in general, my days are happy. my days are mostly getting Abigail off to school, taking the other three with me to the gym for a bit, doing lunch, quiet time, Abigail's after school stuff (unpacking backpack, homework, etc.), dinner, and bedtime. it's a good routine we have down. we've also been trying to make more of an effort to do fun things as a family and this past Saturday was great with going to the wildlife experience, costa vida, the lone tree library, and then watching beauty and the beast as a family. we all have a good day if we can make a plan and stay focused on our priorities. also, because that made me think of it... I am sooooo excited about the come follow me curriculum in relief society this year and counsel meetings and whatever other changes they've made that I don't even know the names of. but for real, so pumped about come follow me and studying conference talks and having more of a discussion during lessons. it's been so amazing already.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
6 months!
brady is six months old! it has sure been a roller coaster of a ride but i'm happy right now with where things are. he is such a fun guy, and although he's been high maintenance and infinitely more difficult than abigail ever was, i love this little guy like crazy.
i just read over abigail's six month post to see what sorts of things i wrote about and quite honestly, even i was a little shocked at how different brady is. i mean, i guess i knew it but i thought my memory would be skewed. turns out my memory was really accurate and these kids are so on opposites side of the spectrum.
in no particular order, here are a few things about brady at six months...
brady is the most smiley, social baby i have ever seen. it takes mere eye contact for him to break out in the most gigantic smile ever. i always tell him, "brady! you keep smiling your binky out!" because he'll catch his reflection in the mirror or see chris or something and then two seconds later i hear his binky hit the floor. smiles that sucker right out. he will smile like that for everyone, complete strangers included. i can not emphasize enough how much this kid smiles. there are few things i can make him do on demand but smiling is definitely one of them.
also similar but just slightly different... it is crazy easy to get brady to laugh. eye contact and talking to him in a fun baby voice will do it. tickling his chest with your fingers will do it. really any sort of physical contact with him in a playful manner will have him busting up laughing. christopher's favorite way is by putting his head on brady's belly... for some reason that makes him laugh the hardest. i can do it when him too but then i have these tiny little iron fists clenching my hair and it takes considerable time and effort to pry those little fingers open one by one. but luckily, i can make him laugh a million times a day without putting my hair at risk. my favorite is when i abigail does something that makes brady laugh and then she laughs and he laughs more.... completely independent of me. they really love each other.
developmentally, he is no prodigy. he can roll from tummy to back but doesn't do it often. and he has never rolled back to belly and doesn't seem close either. by my standards, he seems behind what he should be, but i know each kid develops at their own rate and right now i'm just going to be mindful of it but not stress. he doesn't sit up by himself except for occasionally when he seems to want to do that. but if i try to prop him in a way that would help him sit, he's all about tipping over, lunging for a new toy. i just put together that fisher price rain forest jumper a week or two ago. i just didn't feel like he was ready for it yet, so i waited until he was older. he seems to like it more than the swing (which really we just end up using as a chair for him to sit in) but he hasn't really gotten the hang out it that he's supposed to jump and play with the toys. he is really good at putting his binky in his mouth though. he has a lot of practice with pulling it out, turning it over and examining it in his hands, and getting it back into his mouth. right now, he's fine to play by himself for a bit but gets impatient with toys and seems bored pretty easily. but just look at him and say his name and he'll instantly go from fussing to smiling. i'm hoping once he can sit up and play with toys and move around a bit more, he will learn to be happier playing on his own.
nursing is going well but always changing. a week ago, brady got sick (fifths) and the first few days he was crazy fussy and having screaming/crying fits and refusing to nurse and the next few days were just a lethargic baby that still wouldn't really nurse. i'd say all of that lasted for a week, so we've had about five days being back to normal again and i still feel like we're trying to recover nursing-wise. i think my supply took a major hit that week and brady came back impatient or extra hungry or maybe it's just coinciding with him being an add eater or maybe his reflux medicine isn't working as well anymore or maybe he's just needing solids to help fill him up but it's been an adjustment. he doesn't want to nurse as long but i don't feel like he's really eating a lot at each feeding either. before sickness he was nursing 3.5 minutes on each side. now sometimes it's really short (or really long if he's distracted) so it can be anywhere from 1-5 minutes per side. i haven't had the overabundance of milk that i did last time around which has been really nice because brady has always been able to keep up with my flow and my supply without me needing to do anything special nursing/pumping. for the past several days i've been nursing him twice as often to make sure that my supply isn't an issue. so i've been feeding him when he wakes up (that's the norm) and then sometimes again before he goes back to sleep. but before the whole sickness mess, he was just nursing every time he woke up which was about every 3.5 to 4 hours. i haven't started solids yet. such a pain and i'm not looking forward to it but hopefully it'll make him happy and help with the reflux.
as far as reflux goes, i felt like he was doing really really really well until a few weeks ago when he started spitting up more (and the cry of discomfort that comes with that) and grunting/arching his back/fussing more while he was eating. and being fussier for awake times. i talked to his doctor about it at his appointment and she's prescribed a new medicine to try out (i'm going to pick it up tomorrow) that is a capsule that can be broken and put into his solids and only needs to be given once a day instead of twice a day like his zantac. i am so grateful his reflux is under control and not crazy horrible like it was when he was a few weeks old and not on zantac yet, but honestly, i'm so anxious and curious for how he'll be when this is totally behind him. at the expert evaluation about his arm, the main expert doctor looked at him, and almost instantly asked "does he have reflux?" because, even though he wasn't fussing, it was obvious to her in the way he held his body that he was trying to relieve that discomfort. i just said yes. didn't bother telling her it was diagnosed when he was just a few weeks old. that morning/night zantac is just part of his life... which is funny because it tastes horrendous (i've tasted it and even though they try to mask the horror with peppermint flavor, it is bitter and so gross) and when brady was a newborn and first taking it, he would spit it out and cry every time i gave it to him. now? that happy guy reaches out both hands to help hold the dropper in his mouth as he opens wide and gulps down every bit. the nurse at his appointment on tuesday was surprised how well he took the oral vaccine she gave him because he was acting like it tasted so good. ha. hopefully he's that good with solids!
the phrase i use most often is "this boy's got issues." because at first it was just the reflux and fussiness and crying. then he had two blocked tear ducts. and a flat spot on his head. and his sleep was bad. and his right arm was acting weird. and he has a blue spot next to his eye. and a million other things i can't even think of right now. i always have a long list written down of things i need to address with his doctor. well, it's all melting away or getting under control. the tear duct in his left eye cleared up right after he turned 3 months and the one in his right eye finally cleared up while we were on our trip in utah three weeks ago. it's crazy how exciting that was for me not to have that eye constantly needing to be wiped. or being crusted and sealed shut every morning. and not having the "tri-lash" on one side.
sleep is not perfect but i am soooo very happy with it anyways! a month ago, we did cry it out with brady (click here to read about his sleep history and cry it out) and his sleep habits tremendously improved. he would basically always go down for nap without a problem (awake, double swaddled, binky, in crib) but have a hard time at night. and then during the night he would wake up a million times and fight going back to sleep. in the past month since we did cry it out, he still takes awesome naps (between 1h45 and 2.5 hours. last week they were all 2.5 hours and the past few days they've been just under 2 so really, it just varies) and goes down super easy (no real routine... just a dark room, swaddle, hold him upright to let him get out any last minute burps, and lay him down with a binky) but he actually does the same at bedtime too! and during the night he's only up twice (give or take... last night was only once) and never has a problem going back to sleep. if he wakes during the night, i just nurse him and put him back in his crib (awake) with his binky. he never wakes at the 45 minute mark during naps... i can't remember when that dropped off but it's been at least a month i'd say. as far as the carseat goes, brady will still easily fall asleep in the carseat but he typically will only nap for 30 minutes or less before he's awake again. funny that this is the exact oppsite of when he was a newborn and would nap for hours in his carseat running errands but only nap for a few minutes if it was in his moses basket at home. this way is much better. having a kid that takes consistent naps in a crib is priceless. it is amazing and i do not take this for granted. lately brady has been taking some naps without his binky. if i feed him after i swaddle him, and he's calm, then at least 50% of the time, i can lay him down without a binky and he'll fall asleep just fine. for some reason this fills me with pride and makes me want to smother him with hugs and smooches. anyways, the short story is that i'm so proud of how far he's come sleep-wise. he wake time is between 1.5 and 2 hours and he typically wakes for the day between 8 and 9 (give or take 30 minutes) and goes to sleep for the night between 8:30 and 9.
as far as clothes go, all of his 3 month carters onesies still fit great and his 6 month onesies are perfect in the length but still really long in the arms (if they have long sleeves). since it warmed up, i haven't put him in any sleepers and actually, my favorite thing for him to wear is just a long sleep onesie with no pants. for some reason, i love that look. for a long time, he's been wearing a size 2 diaper at night and size 1 during the day but as of this past week, he's in a size 2 around the clock. blowouts are still semi frequent just depending on his position when it happens, but i know all of that will be changing soon with the introduction of solid foods.
brady has no teeth but loves to gnaw on everything he possibly can. he has a strong bite! even with no teeth, it hurts for christopher and i to let him chew on our fingers and knuckles. he loves sophie and actually also really likes to chew on his aden & anais blanket that i always throw on him in his carseat. but really, anything will do.
other randoms, brady's only trip away from home has been our short road trip to utah three weeks ago and he has his first real trip, flying to atlanta, next week. he likes bath time just fine, doesn't hate it but doesn't love it either. he hasn't actually been swimming yet. he actually really likes abigail's vigorous love and attention. tummy time is hit or miss and sometimes he's angry within a minute and sometimes he's happy for twenty minutes. he still gets comments about his long eye lashes everywhere we go. and have i mentioned how much he smiles?! so so so soooo smiley.
alright, this post it about twenty times longer than i had anticipated so let's just wrap things up with some growth stats...
i just read over abigail's six month post to see what sorts of things i wrote about and quite honestly, even i was a little shocked at how different brady is. i mean, i guess i knew it but i thought my memory would be skewed. turns out my memory was really accurate and these kids are so on opposites side of the spectrum.
in no particular order, here are a few things about brady at six months...
brady is the most smiley, social baby i have ever seen. it takes mere eye contact for him to break out in the most gigantic smile ever. i always tell him, "brady! you keep smiling your binky out!" because he'll catch his reflection in the mirror or see chris or something and then two seconds later i hear his binky hit the floor. smiles that sucker right out. he will smile like that for everyone, complete strangers included. i can not emphasize enough how much this kid smiles. there are few things i can make him do on demand but smiling is definitely one of them.
also similar but just slightly different... it is crazy easy to get brady to laugh. eye contact and talking to him in a fun baby voice will do it. tickling his chest with your fingers will do it. really any sort of physical contact with him in a playful manner will have him busting up laughing. christopher's favorite way is by putting his head on brady's belly... for some reason that makes him laugh the hardest. i can do it when him too but then i have these tiny little iron fists clenching my hair and it takes considerable time and effort to pry those little fingers open one by one. but luckily, i can make him laugh a million times a day without putting my hair at risk. my favorite is when i abigail does something that makes brady laugh and then she laughs and he laughs more.... completely independent of me. they really love each other.
developmentally, he is no prodigy. he can roll from tummy to back but doesn't do it often. and he has never rolled back to belly and doesn't seem close either. by my standards, he seems behind what he should be, but i know each kid develops at their own rate and right now i'm just going to be mindful of it but not stress. he doesn't sit up by himself except for occasionally when he seems to want to do that. but if i try to prop him in a way that would help him sit, he's all about tipping over, lunging for a new toy. i just put together that fisher price rain forest jumper a week or two ago. i just didn't feel like he was ready for it yet, so i waited until he was older. he seems to like it more than the swing (which really we just end up using as a chair for him to sit in) but he hasn't really gotten the hang out it that he's supposed to jump and play with the toys. he is really good at putting his binky in his mouth though. he has a lot of practice with pulling it out, turning it over and examining it in his hands, and getting it back into his mouth. right now, he's fine to play by himself for a bit but gets impatient with toys and seems bored pretty easily. but just look at him and say his name and he'll instantly go from fussing to smiling. i'm hoping once he can sit up and play with toys and move around a bit more, he will learn to be happier playing on his own.
nursing is going well but always changing. a week ago, brady got sick (fifths) and the first few days he was crazy fussy and having screaming/crying fits and refusing to nurse and the next few days were just a lethargic baby that still wouldn't really nurse. i'd say all of that lasted for a week, so we've had about five days being back to normal again and i still feel like we're trying to recover nursing-wise. i think my supply took a major hit that week and brady came back impatient or extra hungry or maybe it's just coinciding with him being an add eater or maybe his reflux medicine isn't working as well anymore or maybe he's just needing solids to help fill him up but it's been an adjustment. he doesn't want to nurse as long but i don't feel like he's really eating a lot at each feeding either. before sickness he was nursing 3.5 minutes on each side. now sometimes it's really short (or really long if he's distracted) so it can be anywhere from 1-5 minutes per side. i haven't had the overabundance of milk that i did last time around which has been really nice because brady has always been able to keep up with my flow and my supply without me needing to do anything special nursing/pumping. for the past several days i've been nursing him twice as often to make sure that my supply isn't an issue. so i've been feeding him when he wakes up (that's the norm) and then sometimes again before he goes back to sleep. but before the whole sickness mess, he was just nursing every time he woke up which was about every 3.5 to 4 hours. i haven't started solids yet. such a pain and i'm not looking forward to it but hopefully it'll make him happy and help with the reflux.
as far as reflux goes, i felt like he was doing really really really well until a few weeks ago when he started spitting up more (and the cry of discomfort that comes with that) and grunting/arching his back/fussing more while he was eating. and being fussier for awake times. i talked to his doctor about it at his appointment and she's prescribed a new medicine to try out (i'm going to pick it up tomorrow) that is a capsule that can be broken and put into his solids and only needs to be given once a day instead of twice a day like his zantac. i am so grateful his reflux is under control and not crazy horrible like it was when he was a few weeks old and not on zantac yet, but honestly, i'm so anxious and curious for how he'll be when this is totally behind him. at the expert evaluation about his arm, the main expert doctor looked at him, and almost instantly asked "does he have reflux?" because, even though he wasn't fussing, it was obvious to her in the way he held his body that he was trying to relieve that discomfort. i just said yes. didn't bother telling her it was diagnosed when he was just a few weeks old. that morning/night zantac is just part of his life... which is funny because it tastes horrendous (i've tasted it and even though they try to mask the horror with peppermint flavor, it is bitter and so gross) and when brady was a newborn and first taking it, he would spit it out and cry every time i gave it to him. now? that happy guy reaches out both hands to help hold the dropper in his mouth as he opens wide and gulps down every bit. the nurse at his appointment on tuesday was surprised how well he took the oral vaccine she gave him because he was acting like it tasted so good. ha. hopefully he's that good with solids!
the phrase i use most often is "this boy's got issues." because at first it was just the reflux and fussiness and crying. then he had two blocked tear ducts. and a flat spot on his head. and his sleep was bad. and his right arm was acting weird. and he has a blue spot next to his eye. and a million other things i can't even think of right now. i always have a long list written down of things i need to address with his doctor. well, it's all melting away or getting under control. the tear duct in his left eye cleared up right after he turned 3 months and the one in his right eye finally cleared up while we were on our trip in utah three weeks ago. it's crazy how exciting that was for me not to have that eye constantly needing to be wiped. or being crusted and sealed shut every morning. and not having the "tri-lash" on one side.
sleep is not perfect but i am soooo very happy with it anyways! a month ago, we did cry it out with brady (click here to read about his sleep history and cry it out) and his sleep habits tremendously improved. he would basically always go down for nap without a problem (awake, double swaddled, binky, in crib) but have a hard time at night. and then during the night he would wake up a million times and fight going back to sleep. in the past month since we did cry it out, he still takes awesome naps (between 1h45 and 2.5 hours. last week they were all 2.5 hours and the past few days they've been just under 2 so really, it just varies) and goes down super easy (no real routine... just a dark room, swaddle, hold him upright to let him get out any last minute burps, and lay him down with a binky) but he actually does the same at bedtime too! and during the night he's only up twice (give or take... last night was only once) and never has a problem going back to sleep. if he wakes during the night, i just nurse him and put him back in his crib (awake) with his binky. he never wakes at the 45 minute mark during naps... i can't remember when that dropped off but it's been at least a month i'd say. as far as the carseat goes, brady will still easily fall asleep in the carseat but he typically will only nap for 30 minutes or less before he's awake again. funny that this is the exact oppsite of when he was a newborn and would nap for hours in his carseat running errands but only nap for a few minutes if it was in his moses basket at home. this way is much better. having a kid that takes consistent naps in a crib is priceless. it is amazing and i do not take this for granted. lately brady has been taking some naps without his binky. if i feed him after i swaddle him, and he's calm, then at least 50% of the time, i can lay him down without a binky and he'll fall asleep just fine. for some reason this fills me with pride and makes me want to smother him with hugs and smooches. anyways, the short story is that i'm so proud of how far he's come sleep-wise. he wake time is between 1.5 and 2 hours and he typically wakes for the day between 8 and 9 (give or take 30 minutes) and goes to sleep for the night between 8:30 and 9.
as far as clothes go, all of his 3 month carters onesies still fit great and his 6 month onesies are perfect in the length but still really long in the arms (if they have long sleeves). since it warmed up, i haven't put him in any sleepers and actually, my favorite thing for him to wear is just a long sleep onesie with no pants. for some reason, i love that look. for a long time, he's been wearing a size 2 diaper at night and size 1 during the day but as of this past week, he's in a size 2 around the clock. blowouts are still semi frequent just depending on his position when it happens, but i know all of that will be changing soon with the introduction of solid foods.
brady has no teeth but loves to gnaw on everything he possibly can. he has a strong bite! even with no teeth, it hurts for christopher and i to let him chew on our fingers and knuckles. he loves sophie and actually also really likes to chew on his aden & anais blanket that i always throw on him in his carseat. but really, anything will do.
other randoms, brady's only trip away from home has been our short road trip to utah three weeks ago and he has his first real trip, flying to atlanta, next week. he likes bath time just fine, doesn't hate it but doesn't love it either. he hasn't actually been swimming yet. he actually really likes abigail's vigorous love and attention. tummy time is hit or miss and sometimes he's angry within a minute and sometimes he's happy for twenty minutes. he still gets comments about his long eye lashes everywhere we go. and have i mentioned how much he smiles?! so so so soooo smiley.
alright, this post it about twenty times longer than i had anticipated so let's just wrap things up with some growth stats...
6.19.13 - 6 month appointment
14 lbs 2 ounces 2%
26.5 inches 44%
hc 42.5 cm 26%
the last six months have felt like forever and they've felt like they've just flown by. parenting brady so far has been a special and unique experience that has taught me so much already. if i've said it once, i've said it a million times, this kid makes me feel like a new mom. clueless and confused. i'm learning though and i'm experiencing the joys that come with hard work. brady, i love you right now, but your smiles and laughs melt my heart and make me anxious for you to keep on growing so i can keep meeting you and getting to know you.
having kids is like opening a present... the best kind of present... every. single. day.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
mauling the innocent
like a wild animal.
ps- let the major separation anxiety begin. honey leaves in 24 hours for thailand. i can seriously feel the blood pumping through my veins. ugh. at least i get to keep my baby but ugh, i sure hate this feeling.
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