i'm getting to the first cereal pictures.
but i couldn't get them all on one post.
enjoy!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
love of my life
here are some current pictures of teege!
i'm getting to the first cereal pictures.
but i couldn't get them all on one post.
enjoy!
i'm getting to the first cereal pictures.
but i couldn't get them all on one post.
enjoy!
Monday, March 10, 2008
baby cereal - parts 2 and 3
well, the next night went GREAT!
i decided to share this time and let daddy join in the fun.
of course i hovered - hoping he would get bored and hand the spoon over to me!!! - but he didn't.
teege ate 2 batches again, we fixed him some more - the dr said give him as much as he wants - and he ate about 3 spoons of that and then started spitting the rest out. so we wasted a little, no big deal, the stuff is as cheap as dirt. i was going to make all my own baby food, until i saw how cheap it is!!! yeah, i'm thinking SCREW THAT! until he starts eating alot more i will stick to buying it.
part 3 - yeah, this one was a huge flop!
we had been at my mom's for my sisters b-day;
happy birthday sis!!!
so he was tired anyway. i thought about not giving him his cereal b/c he had been spitting up alot and acting like his tummy was upset. but i though to myself "lets get his tummy full and maybe he'll go to bed early."
not a chance.
he did great at first; he likes to try and suck the food off the spoon. the book said this is a great idea when you are introducing cereal, allow them to use their sucking skills at first, just til they are used to the flavor and texture. but when i actually tried to feed him myself he cried.
he wasn't spitting it out and turning his head, he was just making his "i am starving!!" cries at me and acting like "what the HELL do you think you're doing!!". so i gave him a few sucks from a bottle of breastmilk.something else the book said was to give them a bit of a bottle first, fedd them cereal, finish it off with more milk, it helps them associate the cereal part with eating, that way they understand. but when i took the bottle away and gave him another spoon of food he totally melted down!! i think he though he was getting some more from the bottle and was totally distraught when he felt the spoon.
then he spit up all of the cereal he had dmanaged to keep in his mouth and swallow. then he cried some more so i decided not to force the issue, i just gave him the rest of the bottle, then i gave him a bath and got him all snuggled in his jammies, finished nursing him, and put him to BED!
or so i thought.
his tummy was really upset all weekend.
i shouldn't have introduced cereal at the same time as his 2nd set of imunizations. he was already not feeling good, i didn't think he'd really notice. the last set of shots he was fine, but this time he was extra cranky. and then the food made his reflux worse so he seemed to get a dbl whamy!
he was up til 10. of course the time change has us all screwed up!! so it was really only 9 to him but it felt way later to me!!
but the cereal most definately has his reflux acting up. it was under good control. i was hoping the cereal would have an even better effect on his reflux, but it seems to be worse than it's ever been! he's back to spitting up a TON, and being very fussy and crying when he burps. you can hear a lot of gurggling again in his tummy/chest area. but i'm going to keep trying. i'm just making an extra effort not to overfeed him and i think tonight we'll just have a very small bowl of cereal.
and i'm also making an extra effort to be super observant when he gets his medicine so that he does get it on an empty stomach like he's supposed to. hopefully that will help.
i don't think it's that he doesn't want it. i think it's that he doens't quite understand how to do it yet. the dr said if he cries and turns his head away from you, wait another week and try again. and there's been none of that.not the first 2 times anyway, and last night he was just really tired.
the dr said to give him his cereal at 6 in the evening. i don't think i'll wait quite that late though, i think around 5 is a good time. he tends to be more fussy the later it gets in the day.
at 5 months i am supposed to move the cereal to the morning and start a veggie at dinner. i would rather give him his cereal in the morning now, but i know it's so he sleeps longer at night that she has me giving it then.
hopefully tonight goes better!!!
if not i will be putting it off for a week or so.
i decided to share this time and let daddy join in the fun.
of course i hovered - hoping he would get bored and hand the spoon over to me!!! - but he didn't.
teege ate 2 batches again, we fixed him some more - the dr said give him as much as he wants - and he ate about 3 spoons of that and then started spitting the rest out. so we wasted a little, no big deal, the stuff is as cheap as dirt. i was going to make all my own baby food, until i saw how cheap it is!!! yeah, i'm thinking SCREW THAT! until he starts eating alot more i will stick to buying it.
part 3 - yeah, this one was a huge flop!
we had been at my mom's for my sisters b-day;
happy birthday sis!!!
so he was tired anyway. i thought about not giving him his cereal b/c he had been spitting up alot and acting like his tummy was upset. but i though to myself "lets get his tummy full and maybe he'll go to bed early."
not a chance.
he did great at first; he likes to try and suck the food off the spoon. the book said this is a great idea when you are introducing cereal, allow them to use their sucking skills at first, just til they are used to the flavor and texture. but when i actually tried to feed him myself he cried.
he wasn't spitting it out and turning his head, he was just making his "i am starving!!" cries at me and acting like "what the HELL do you think you're doing!!". so i gave him a few sucks from a bottle of breastmilk.something else the book said was to give them a bit of a bottle first, fedd them cereal, finish it off with more milk, it helps them associate the cereal part with eating, that way they understand. but when i took the bottle away and gave him another spoon of food he totally melted down!! i think he though he was getting some more from the bottle and was totally distraught when he felt the spoon.
then he spit up all of the cereal he had dmanaged to keep in his mouth and swallow. then he cried some more so i decided not to force the issue, i just gave him the rest of the bottle, then i gave him a bath and got him all snuggled in his jammies, finished nursing him, and put him to BED!
or so i thought.
his tummy was really upset all weekend.
i shouldn't have introduced cereal at the same time as his 2nd set of imunizations. he was already not feeling good, i didn't think he'd really notice. the last set of shots he was fine, but this time he was extra cranky. and then the food made his reflux worse so he seemed to get a dbl whamy!
he was up til 10. of course the time change has us all screwed up!! so it was really only 9 to him but it felt way later to me!!
but the cereal most definately has his reflux acting up. it was under good control. i was hoping the cereal would have an even better effect on his reflux, but it seems to be worse than it's ever been! he's back to spitting up a TON, and being very fussy and crying when he burps. you can hear a lot of gurggling again in his tummy/chest area. but i'm going to keep trying. i'm just making an extra effort not to overfeed him and i think tonight we'll just have a very small bowl of cereal.
and i'm also making an extra effort to be super observant when he gets his medicine so that he does get it on an empty stomach like he's supposed to. hopefully that will help.
i don't think it's that he doesn't want it. i think it's that he doens't quite understand how to do it yet. the dr said if he cries and turns his head away from you, wait another week and try again. and there's been none of that.not the first 2 times anyway, and last night he was just really tired.
the dr said to give him his cereal at 6 in the evening. i don't think i'll wait quite that late though, i think around 5 is a good time. he tends to be more fussy the later it gets in the day.
at 5 months i am supposed to move the cereal to the morning and start a veggie at dinner. i would rather give him his cereal in the morning now, but i know it's so he sleeps longer at night that she has me giving it then.
hopefully tonight goes better!!!
if not i will be putting it off for a week or so.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
baby cereal - part 1
WE GOT TO START CEREAL LASTNIGHT!!!!
i was planning on waiting til 6 months, so that TJ would get as much breastmilk as possible, but i had noticed him seeming to be hungry all the time so i though "waht they heck? we can try it since the dr. said it was a good time to start. he'll tell us if he doesn't want it." HE ATE 2 BOWLS!!! of course 2 bowls isn't much. i mixed a tbsp of cereal with 2 tbsp of milk..... he was just getting the hang of eating it when it was gone. the dr said if he seemed to like it to give him as much as he wanted. so i mixed up another batch, and he ate all that. AND he took a 6 oz bottle to wash it down!!! this was at 5 30. i nursed him some before bed like always, he was in his bed and asleep by 8 15.
and then he slept straight thru the night!!!
he usually sleeps form 8 to 5 30. his dr said that was still a little early for him to be waking up. i didn't know how to break him of it though. i'd give him a good 30 minutes before i'd go in and feed him. he wans't going back to sleep so i had to do something so i could go back to sleep! so maybe the cereal will help him stay asleep at night. i heard him at 5 30 this morning but he never really woke up, he just stirred around some. i woke up at 7 30 and went and peeked at him. he was sucking away peacefully on his thumb.....i didn't have to get him up til a little after 8, and then i only went and got him up b/c i knew he was mostly awake, he was in there talking to himself off and on, and it had been 13 hours since he ate last.
he was so cute last night. he made some funny faces when he was eating! and he talked thru the whole thing!! he made this motor boat noise alot. he would mash his lips together and try and blow air thru them and make this little "bbbbbvvvvvv" noise. he sounded like a little boat taking off!or he'd do it real fast "bbvvv" bbbbvvv" bbvvvvv" making short and long sounds, he's so smart! of course he sprayed cereal everywhere more than once!! it was fun!!
i can't wait for dinner tonight!!
oh, and she said if he does' good on the cereal and doens't act too gassy or uncomfortable we can reduce his medicine to night time only in aout 2 weeks, and then in 2 more weeks if he still seem comfortable we can stop his medicine all together.
YAY!! hopefully his cereal helps his reflux rather than makes it worse!
i think that's the way it's supposed to go actually..... i don't know, i'll have to read about that part again.....
i was planning on waiting til 6 months, so that TJ would get as much breastmilk as possible, but i had noticed him seeming to be hungry all the time so i though "waht they heck? we can try it since the dr. said it was a good time to start. he'll tell us if he doesn't want it." HE ATE 2 BOWLS!!! of course 2 bowls isn't much. i mixed a tbsp of cereal with 2 tbsp of milk..... he was just getting the hang of eating it when it was gone. the dr said if he seemed to like it to give him as much as he wanted. so i mixed up another batch, and he ate all that. AND he took a 6 oz bottle to wash it down!!! this was at 5 30. i nursed him some before bed like always, he was in his bed and asleep by 8 15.
and then he slept straight thru the night!!!
he usually sleeps form 8 to 5 30. his dr said that was still a little early for him to be waking up. i didn't know how to break him of it though. i'd give him a good 30 minutes before i'd go in and feed him. he wans't going back to sleep so i had to do something so i could go back to sleep! so maybe the cereal will help him stay asleep at night. i heard him at 5 30 this morning but he never really woke up, he just stirred around some. i woke up at 7 30 and went and peeked at him. he was sucking away peacefully on his thumb.....i didn't have to get him up til a little after 8, and then i only went and got him up b/c i knew he was mostly awake, he was in there talking to himself off and on, and it had been 13 hours since he ate last.
he was so cute last night. he made some funny faces when he was eating! and he talked thru the whole thing!! he made this motor boat noise alot. he would mash his lips together and try and blow air thru them and make this little "bbbbbvvvvvv" noise. he sounded like a little boat taking off!or he'd do it real fast "bbvvv" bbbbvvv" bbvvvvv" making short and long sounds, he's so smart! of course he sprayed cereal everywhere more than once!! it was fun!!
i can't wait for dinner tonight!!
oh, and she said if he does' good on the cereal and doens't act too gassy or uncomfortable we can reduce his medicine to night time only in aout 2 weeks, and then in 2 more weeks if he still seem comfortable we can stop his medicine all together.
YAY!! hopefully his cereal helps his reflux rather than makes it worse!
i think that's the way it's supposed to go actually..... i don't know, i'll have to read about that part again.....
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5 years
today is our 5 year anniversary.
we were married on feb.28,2003.
we don't have any huge plans. we spent the weekend after valentines day celebrating both our anniversary and valentine's. we took teege to my mom's for friday night and we went to olive garden and then we went and got some drink and some chocolate and we went home and watched movies. i think that the plan was to get stupid drunk- but seeing how in the last year neither of us have had hardly more than a drink we made it up to about 11 pm and then just went to bed. it never works to get stupid drunk when you're practically new to the sport.(since i was pregnant and nursing TJ just chose not to partake in the recreational side of alcohol until i could participate as well) it didn't work out so great.
so tonight we are going out to dinner. it will be our first dinner out as a whole family. yes, we are taking teege. my mom kind of hinted at asking one of the nighbors to baby sit for a while so we could go alone, but i think i'm up for the challenge. it's one of those things that you just have to up and do when you have a baby so that you know that you can do it. survive dinner out even if they cry, family gatherings for the first time with a new born,make a long car trip, which we did not too long agao(ok. it wans't that long of a car ride, but we live 2 miles from heb and walmart and that was the farthest we'd ever gone just me and teege, so we made the 45 minute drive to mom's about a month ago,.....just one of those things i needed to know i could do on my own.)
anyway......
so since we celebrated in between the 2 events like always we aren't doing anniversary gifts. the plan was to do gifts for valentines and dinner for anniversary - and then we blew that out of the water on v day and did both.
for v day well, i couldn't decide what to get TJ so here i am about a week before the big day googling valentines day gift ideas for men. i stumble across mydavinci.com. you can email this websight a photo - of ANYTHING! - and they can do a fantasy photo with it, a hand sketch, oil painting, water color....you name it! you can even send them several photos of different people and they combine it all into 1 picture.
so i send them one of our wedding photos and have a pencil sketch done for TJ. the whole process can take up to 3 weeks depending on what you're having done. so i figured PERFECT! it will be here right in between our 2 events.
it showed up last thursday - exactly a week after v day and a week before our anniversary.
worked out pretty good.
well, TJ decides to do something for me for today anyway. he didn't spend any money. he wrote me a poem. i cried. of course i cried. he made me promise i wouldn't and i had no idea what was coming and i told him " i can't promise i won't cry b/c if you think i'm going to cry then i will and you can't be mad"
yup. there were tears. it was just such a sweet thing. he doens't do stuff like this very often.
the words were beautiful.but i think they were tears more from surprise. from discovering that just when i think that my romantic fantasies only exist in books and movies he does something like this.
we have been merley coexisting the last several months.it's all due to his grueling work schedule he's on for OCS. there is an end to it. sometimes i just have to stop him and say "ok. it's time for us for a change." otherwise we would never see eachother. i've heard this happens when you have a baby. only i don't think it's just the baby. i think he's put us at the bottom of his priority list - not on purpose. he just got too busy. getting him to see that hasn't been easy.
and then he does something like this: just when i think that we are hopeless!
my wife Jamie (my greatest gift)
it's been five years since we said i do,
of those five we have been apart over two.
we both have spent many nights alone,
but who can beat the feeling of coming home?
there have been so many times i wonder why
why am i so blessed and such a lucky guy?
it seems like yesterday you were in the aisle,
wearing that dress and wearing that smile.
you really make my life complete every day.
you know i love you more than words can say.
i realize the great partner i have in my life,
thank you jamie for being my wife.
thank you for the best five years of my life.
see? he hasnt' forgotten me. i still linger in his mind somewhere. even if i'm farther at the back than i think i should be.
we were married on feb.28,2003.
we don't have any huge plans. we spent the weekend after valentines day celebrating both our anniversary and valentine's. we took teege to my mom's for friday night and we went to olive garden and then we went and got some drink and some chocolate and we went home and watched movies. i think that the plan was to get stupid drunk- but seeing how in the last year neither of us have had hardly more than a drink we made it up to about 11 pm and then just went to bed. it never works to get stupid drunk when you're practically new to the sport.(since i was pregnant and nursing TJ just chose not to partake in the recreational side of alcohol until i could participate as well) it didn't work out so great.
so tonight we are going out to dinner. it will be our first dinner out as a whole family. yes, we are taking teege. my mom kind of hinted at asking one of the nighbors to baby sit for a while so we could go alone, but i think i'm up for the challenge. it's one of those things that you just have to up and do when you have a baby so that you know that you can do it. survive dinner out even if they cry, family gatherings for the first time with a new born,make a long car trip, which we did not too long agao(ok. it wans't that long of a car ride, but we live 2 miles from heb and walmart and that was the farthest we'd ever gone just me and teege, so we made the 45 minute drive to mom's about a month ago,.....just one of those things i needed to know i could do on my own.)
anyway......
so since we celebrated in between the 2 events like always we aren't doing anniversary gifts. the plan was to do gifts for valentines and dinner for anniversary - and then we blew that out of the water on v day and did both.
for v day well, i couldn't decide what to get TJ so here i am about a week before the big day googling valentines day gift ideas for men. i stumble across mydavinci.com. you can email this websight a photo - of ANYTHING! - and they can do a fantasy photo with it, a hand sketch, oil painting, water color....you name it! you can even send them several photos of different people and they combine it all into 1 picture.
so i send them one of our wedding photos and have a pencil sketch done for TJ. the whole process can take up to 3 weeks depending on what you're having done. so i figured PERFECT! it will be here right in between our 2 events.
it showed up last thursday - exactly a week after v day and a week before our anniversary.
worked out pretty good.
well, TJ decides to do something for me for today anyway. he didn't spend any money. he wrote me a poem. i cried. of course i cried. he made me promise i wouldn't and i had no idea what was coming and i told him " i can't promise i won't cry b/c if you think i'm going to cry then i will and you can't be mad"
yup. there were tears. it was just such a sweet thing. he doens't do stuff like this very often.
the words were beautiful.but i think they were tears more from surprise. from discovering that just when i think that my romantic fantasies only exist in books and movies he does something like this.
we have been merley coexisting the last several months.it's all due to his grueling work schedule he's on for OCS. there is an end to it. sometimes i just have to stop him and say "ok. it's time for us for a change." otherwise we would never see eachother. i've heard this happens when you have a baby. only i don't think it's just the baby. i think he's put us at the bottom of his priority list - not on purpose. he just got too busy. getting him to see that hasn't been easy.
and then he does something like this: just when i think that we are hopeless!
my wife Jamie (my greatest gift)
it's been five years since we said i do,
of those five we have been apart over two.
we both have spent many nights alone,
but who can beat the feeling of coming home?
there have been so many times i wonder why
why am i so blessed and such a lucky guy?
it seems like yesterday you were in the aisle,
wearing that dress and wearing that smile.
you really make my life complete every day.
you know i love you more than words can say.
i realize the great partner i have in my life,
thank you jamie for being my wife.
thank you for the best five years of my life.
see? he hasnt' forgotten me. i still linger in his mind somewhere. even if i'm farther at the back than i think i should be.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
the poopies diaper EVER!
my husband walks thru the kitchen tonight as i'm cooking dinner and says "wow, he spit up everywhere. his whole front is soaked" my son is sitting in his bouncy seat happily cooing at himself in the mirror. i peak over the counter at him and say " how did he get spit up down there?" he was wet under his neck and then dry until the waist. "i think he messed his diaper" i muse to my husband who bends to pick him up. when he lifted him up to see there was no doubt, as he was completely soaked in poop from the waist down, EVEN HIS PANTS LEGS WERE SOAKED!! he seems to be on a 2 day pooping schedule lately, but has yet to make a HUGE MESS!! before today
we had to drop everything and it took both of us to get his clothes off to avoid smearing poop all over his head!! my husband has a hard time with messes like that and he kept muttering to himself "it's on me! it's on me" and trying not to gagg! we were laughing about the matter so much that we both forgot that the onesie our son had on had buttons on the back! we were stretching the neck as wide as we could trying to lift it over his head and Teege just starts shrieking!! SHRIEKING FOR DEAR LIFE in holy terror that we were trying to pull his head off!!!!!!!! then we remembered the buttons.
we were all covered in poo by the time we got the clothes off, after that we all just went straight to the bath.
that was enough adventure to last me the rest of this week!
i should have taken a nap today.
had i know teege was planning this i would have rested up!
we had to drop everything and it took both of us to get his clothes off to avoid smearing poop all over his head!! my husband has a hard time with messes like that and he kept muttering to himself "it's on me! it's on me" and trying not to gagg! we were laughing about the matter so much that we both forgot that the onesie our son had on had buttons on the back! we were stretching the neck as wide as we could trying to lift it over his head and Teege just starts shrieking!! SHRIEKING FOR DEAR LIFE in holy terror that we were trying to pull his head off!!!!!!!! then we remembered the buttons.
we were all covered in poo by the time we got the clothes off, after that we all just went straight to the bath.
that was enough adventure to last me the rest of this week!
i should have taken a nap today.
had i know teege was planning this i would have rested up!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
finally! pics of baby TJ
ok so .
baby Timothy James was born on nov 2, 2007 at 9 33 pm. he weighed 7lbs 10 oz and was 22 inches long. the last 2 pics are the most recent,taken this week actually.
he weighs 14 lbs now - the little booger isn't even 3 months old yet!!!! i've got my work cut out for me anytime we go anywhere. he is one chubby baby!
baby Timothy James was born on nov 2, 2007 at 9 33 pm. he weighed 7lbs 10 oz and was 22 inches long. the last 2 pics are the most recent,taken this week actually.
he weighs 14 lbs now - the little booger isn't even 3 months old yet!!!! i've got my work cut out for me anytime we go anywhere. he is one chubby baby!
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