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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9 months
Well...Dylan is 9 months old now!
New adventures: Dylan started swim class on January 14th. It's a 6 week session. He loves the water and does so well during the class. It's more of a class to just get them used to the water so it's so much fun to spend time as a family :)
Favorite toys and activities: Parker's water dish is his favorite hangout, followed by the stairs :) We also put up his ball pit and he loves that. He's just on the go 24/7 so it really just depends on what we have out of the toy box.
Funny happenings: He's always cracking us up with something!
What I'm looking forward to: Planning his 1st birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONSTERS!!!
Age: 9 months (and a few days)
Stats: 9 month appt on January 19th he was 18 pounds 8.6 ounces (19%) and 28 inches long (43%)
Size (diapers, clothes, etc.): He's still in size 3 diapers and wearing 9 month clothing. now that he's in the infant 2 room, he must wear shoes. His shoe size is 3 1/2 :)
Stats: 9 month appt on January 19th he was 18 pounds 8.6 ounces (19%) and 28 inches long (43%)
Size (diapers, clothes, etc.): He's still in size 3 diapers and wearing 9 month clothing. now that he's in the infant 2 room, he must wear shoes. His shoe size is 3 1/2 :)
Sleeping: Sleep was pretty bad for about 3 weeks (right around Xmas time) but we are back to STTN so mamma is very pleased with that! there have been maybe 1 or 2 nights where he's woken up a few times but he's fallen back asleep before I even got out of bed.
Eating: Still BFing in the morning, evenings and weekends. He gets expressed BM at daycare. I am still in complete awe that my body has been able to stay up with him and provide him with the nutrients that he needs to develop and grow. He is now eating yogurt for breakfast with some sort of fruit. He eats puffs (or should I say devours them) for snacks. He's eating stage 3 foods for lunch and dinner. I'm slowly introducing finger foods to him. He seems to be doing really well but I'm not trying to force the food down his throat.
Eating: Still BFing in the morning, evenings and weekends. He gets expressed BM at daycare. I am still in complete awe that my body has been able to stay up with him and provide him with the nutrients that he needs to develop and grow. He is now eating yogurt for breakfast with some sort of fruit. He eats puffs (or should I say devours them) for snacks. He's eating stage 3 foods for lunch and dinner. I'm slowly introducing finger foods to him. He seems to be doing really well but I'm not trying to force the food down his throat.
Milestones: This kid is ridiculous :) He's the fastest crawler alive! He cruises along the ottoman and any furniture he's on. He loves his sit to stand walker. He just crawls over to it, stands himself up and walks. He thinks he's the coolest kid ever (he kind of is though). He says "dada" "baba" "at" "wow". Just the other day I was pulling the blanket over his head and saying "where's dylan?" and then pulling the blanket down and saying "there he is!!" well after about 3-4 times, he started pulling the blanket over his own head!!!! It brought tears to my eyes!!!
New adventures: Dylan started swim class on January 14th. It's a 6 week session. He loves the water and does so well during the class. It's more of a class to just get them used to the water so it's so much fun to spend time as a family :)
Favorite toys and activities: Parker's water dish is his favorite hangout, followed by the stairs :) We also put up his ball pit and he loves that. He's just on the go 24/7 so it really just depends on what we have out of the toy box.
Funny happenings: He's always cracking us up with something!
What I'm looking forward to: Planning his 1st birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONSTERS!!!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
8 months
With every month that passes, I am in awe that I have a child who is continually changing. Seriously, he started out as this "blob" not being able to anything. He is transforming into this little boy with so much personality. I cherish every single waking moment with this child like it would be my last. My heart really does feel like it's going to explode for how much love I have for him.
His 1st christmas was a huge success. We visited Santa, which there was not a lick of stranger anxiety. He smiled the whole time.
Christmas eve was spent at my mother's house. We had lasagna and cheesecake for dessert. We opened some presents and then heading to church. Dylan did amazing and we even sat in the front row (ran a little late). The singing seemed to calm him because he fell asleep in my arms. I was such a proud momma :)
Christmas morning we were at home because Santa came :) Dylan got a cool new car that we can push him around the house in. Eventually he'll be able to drive it himself (not battery operated). It was nice that we got to be home for our first Christmas as a little family of 3! Hopefully we can keep that tradition going.
Jason and I got a present from Dylan that he made at daycare. It's a little ornament with his handprint in it with a picture of him on the back and a little poem that made me bawl:
"Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small...and always leave my fingerprints on furniture and walls. But everyday I'm growing - I'll be grown up someday and all those tiny handprints will surely fade away. So here's a little handprint just so you can recall exactly how my fingers looked when I was very small" Okay, if anyone got through that without crying...how did you do it?! LOL Oh...and the wrapping paper we think was him doodling on the paper :)
Jason's dad, stepmom and kids came over later on and we opened presents. Jason's dad restored a 1933 GE refrigerator and gave it to Jason. He worked on it for over a year! It was Jason's great grandfathers fridge so it's been around for quite a while!
After we opened presents and had a lite lunch, we made our way to Jason's cousins house. It was a nice evening with family. We are truly blessed with some amazing people in our lives. Parker was able to go with us too so we didn't have to rush home to him. He does so well around people. He just slept under the dinner table, played with the kids and just hung out!
Jason got me a HUGE picture and picture frame of Dylan - I absolutely LOVE IT!!!
I love my family:
Yesterday, the 26th, we had Christmas at my dad's house. There are so many of us and yesterday was the only day we could get together. We opened presents and hung out all day. Again, I can't say it enough...we are truly blessed. Dylan was such a trooper too. He really nap at all and wasn't cranky whatsoever! Such a good boy :)
Dylan said he wanted to try on daddy's tie:
Playing with Uncle Jake - I think he thinks he's weird because of his goatee...
PaPaw and Dylan playing.
Now time for some stats:
AGE: 8 months 3 days old (December 27)
STATS: he doesn't have his 9 month appt until jan 19. I can't even guess how tall he is but he's definitely grown because when he used to pull up on the ottoman, his mouth was right up against the piping on the ottoman and now the piping is below his chin!
SIZE: still in size 3 diapers, 6-12 month clothes and 9 month PJs. The PJs are getting a little snug so I have a feeling we'll be moving to 12 month here shortly.
SLEEPING: ugh...the past two weeks have been crazy. He's teething and going through a growth spurt so sleeping has been hell. Last week he woke up at 1am and 4am for three days in a row. Then he slept great for one night and then Xmas night he woke up 4 times and last night 2 times. Poor little guy!! I just wake up, nurse him and he goes right back to sleep. Hopefully he'll be back on track by next week when we go back to work.
EATING: BFing is still going great! Still pumping 3 times a day at work to get enough milk for daycare and I still have about 700 ounces in the deep freezer. Dylan is now getting solids twice a day. He gets a veggie after his second bottle at daycare which is around 12:30 and then he gets a fruit around 5:30-6:30 at home. There is not a single thing this kid won't eat!! After he eats his solid, he gets a sippy cup of water. He drinks probably an ounce of it and wears about half of it! He love to drink out of it though!
MILESTONES: as I said in his last update, he's crawling. He is everywhere!!! He loves climbing on the stairs, playing with ornaments on the tree, playing in Parker's food/water dishes, climbing on my stool, everywhere! LOL He got some walking assistance toys for Christmas. He can pretty much walk by himself with very little assistance. I have a feeling he'll be walking in no time!
NEW ADVENTURES: took Dylan to see Santa and he loved him! When he goes back to school on January 3rd, he's slowly going to transition into the infant 2 room. Seriously, can you please stop growing?!
FAVORITE TOYS and ACTIVITIES: he loves his new car ride that Santa brought him. We push him all around the house and he has the biggest smile on his face. We got him an activity table that he's slowing starting to us more and he love pressing the buttons. And of course he still loves the remote and Parker's toys.
FUNNY HAPPENINGS: parker got a huge bone for Xmas. He was chewing on it on the floor and I look down and realize Dylan was chewing on the other end of it! Oops!!! He's starting to throw his head back when he's throwing a fit. Someone was asking us the other day if he's started to let his arms go limp when we pick him up and we told them no...guess what he started doing today?? It's kind of funny because he just throws his arms above his head and I have to make sure I have ahold of him tightly!
His 1st christmas was a huge success. We visited Santa, which there was not a lick of stranger anxiety. He smiled the whole time.
Christmas eve was spent at my mother's house. We had lasagna and cheesecake for dessert. We opened some presents and then heading to church. Dylan did amazing and we even sat in the front row (ran a little late). The singing seemed to calm him because he fell asleep in my arms. I was such a proud momma :)
Christmas morning we were at home because Santa came :) Dylan got a cool new car that we can push him around the house in. Eventually he'll be able to drive it himself (not battery operated). It was nice that we got to be home for our first Christmas as a little family of 3! Hopefully we can keep that tradition going.
Jason and I got a present from Dylan that he made at daycare. It's a little ornament with his handprint in it with a picture of him on the back and a little poem that made me bawl:
"Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small...and always leave my fingerprints on furniture and walls. But everyday I'm growing - I'll be grown up someday and all those tiny handprints will surely fade away. So here's a little handprint just so you can recall exactly how my fingers looked when I was very small" Okay, if anyone got through that without crying...how did you do it?! LOL Oh...and the wrapping paper we think was him doodling on the paper :)
After we opened presents and had a lite lunch, we made our way to Jason's cousins house. It was a nice evening with family. We are truly blessed with some amazing people in our lives. Parker was able to go with us too so we didn't have to rush home to him. He does so well around people. He just slept under the dinner table, played with the kids and just hung out!
Madeline and Colin showing Parker some love on Christmas:
I love my family:
Dylan said he wanted to try on daddy's tie:
Now time for some stats:
AGE: 8 months 3 days old (December 27)
STATS: he doesn't have his 9 month appt until jan 19. I can't even guess how tall he is but he's definitely grown because when he used to pull up on the ottoman, his mouth was right up against the piping on the ottoman and now the piping is below his chin!
SIZE: still in size 3 diapers, 6-12 month clothes and 9 month PJs. The PJs are getting a little snug so I have a feeling we'll be moving to 12 month here shortly.
SLEEPING: ugh...the past two weeks have been crazy. He's teething and going through a growth spurt so sleeping has been hell. Last week he woke up at 1am and 4am for three days in a row. Then he slept great for one night and then Xmas night he woke up 4 times and last night 2 times. Poor little guy!! I just wake up, nurse him and he goes right back to sleep. Hopefully he'll be back on track by next week when we go back to work.
EATING: BFing is still going great! Still pumping 3 times a day at work to get enough milk for daycare and I still have about 700 ounces in the deep freezer. Dylan is now getting solids twice a day. He gets a veggie after his second bottle at daycare which is around 12:30 and then he gets a fruit around 5:30-6:30 at home. There is not a single thing this kid won't eat!! After he eats his solid, he gets a sippy cup of water. He drinks probably an ounce of it and wears about half of it! He love to drink out of it though!
MILESTONES: as I said in his last update, he's crawling. He is everywhere!!! He loves climbing on the stairs, playing with ornaments on the tree, playing in Parker's food/water dishes, climbing on my stool, everywhere! LOL He got some walking assistance toys for Christmas. He can pretty much walk by himself with very little assistance. I have a feeling he'll be walking in no time!
NEW ADVENTURES: took Dylan to see Santa and he loved him! When he goes back to school on January 3rd, he's slowly going to transition into the infant 2 room. Seriously, can you please stop growing?!
FAVORITE TOYS and ACTIVITIES: he loves his new car ride that Santa brought him. We push him all around the house and he has the biggest smile on his face. We got him an activity table that he's slowing starting to us more and he love pressing the buttons. And of course he still loves the remote and Parker's toys.
FUNNY HAPPENINGS: parker got a huge bone for Xmas. He was chewing on it on the floor and I look down and realize Dylan was chewing on the other end of it! Oops!!! He's starting to throw his head back when he's throwing a fit. Someone was asking us the other day if he's started to let his arms go limp when we pick him up and we told them no...guess what he started doing today?? It's kind of funny because he just throws his arms above his head and I have to make sure I have ahold of him tightly!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
7 months (a little late)
Age: 7 months 2 weeks 3 days old (December 10, 2011)
Size (clothes, diapers, etc): He's in pampers cruisers size 3. Still in 6-12 month clothing. He's in 9 month sleepers, but can fit in 12 month.
Sleeping: No need to really update this because it never changes :) He goes down between 7:30-8:30pm and I wake him at 6:30 to get ready for daycare. On weekends he'll sleep until 7. He takes about 3 naps a day. An hour one in the morning and about a 2 hour nap in the afternoon and then about a 30 minute nap in the evening.
Eating: Dylan still nurses in the mornings and evenings and gets 3 bottles of BM at daycare. He has moved to stage 2 solids and this kid has not ate something he doesn't like. He gets a container of food during his 2nd bottle at daycare and then gets a container of food around the same time that we have dinner. He does amazing and it's so cool to watch him taste a little bit at first to know what he's about to eat and then he downs the rest of it no problem!! After he gets the food, I offer him his sippy cup, which he pretty much wears all the water he "drinks" but I think he's starting to understand how to drink out of it. He pitches the BIGGEST fit when we take the sippy away. I kind of laugh because it's funny to see such a personality out of a baby :)
Milestones: He's crawling!!!! Well...army crawl that is. He seriously moves so fast! The second we set him on the floor, he takes off. He loves to go to the back door and stare outside and bang on the window. He also loves crawling to the fireplace and bang on the metal pieces. It's like he's making music :) He's babbling up a storm now. He's been saying 'babababa' for about 2 weeks but just this past week he started saying "dadada". it's the cutest thing. We know he obviously doesn't understand what "dada" is, but whenever Jason goes to him, he instantly says "dada". Now...let's start saying "mama", Dylan!!!
New Adventures: Dylan's exploring the house. He just crawls to wherever he wants to go. He loves crawling to the kitchen floor and banging on it.
Favorite Toys and Activities: He loves all of his toys that are on the floor. As long as he has a variety of them, he's perfectly content. It's cool to watch him go toy to toy and roll over and play with it.
Funny Happenings: He's just an overall funny baby. The babbles that come out of this kid's mouth is hilarious! He's not really doing the screetching voice anymore, but he's doing this high pitch thing but he's not screaming. He just loves talking :)
What I'm looking forward to: Dylan's first Christmas and Dylan visiting Santa! We were going to go today but he's cutting his second tooth and just has been a little crabby so I didn't want to chance it. We WILL be going next weekend though, that's for sure!
Seriously, how can you NOT love this boy?!
His little tooth with the right one coming in!
Hope you've enjoyed seeing pictures of this little man as much as we love taking them! I'll try and update his 8 month a little sooner but we'll see what happens :)
As every day passes, Dylan discovers something new. It's amazing to watch him grow and learn. I can't believe we are so lucky to call him our son! We love you little man!!
PS...on a side note, Dylan was born on Easter, celebrated his 7 month birthday on Thanksgiving and will celebrate his 8 month birthday on Xmas Eve! He's one lucky little boy this year :)
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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