Things We Love Part 4

Aedan and I are back with things we have loved this last month.

I talked about this in a previous post, but I love love love my Baby KTan carrier. Aedan was weighing in at 16 lbs at 3 months so carrying him around was getting hard. The carrier is super comfortable and easy to put on. I use it at least once a day.

Aedan has discovered mirrors this month and he loves to look at himself and whoever is holding him. He has a little mirror above his playmat and he just stares at it and coos the whole time. When I am walking around the house with him (usually in the carrier) we will stop in front of the mirrors and he just can’t help smiling at himself.

Loveyes have also become a hit at our house. Aedan used to love hanging onto rings, but now he gets more excited when I give him his lovey. I think he likes that he can grab it with both hands. He usually tries to stick it in his month, but then he realizes it doesn’t tastes so good.

Aedan has also really started to like looking at books. It is so cute, he studies the pictures and even likes to hold onto the cardboard pages.

And since we started bottle bootcamp this week (more on that later this week) we are also loving our new bottle warmer. I never really thought we would need a bottle warmer and since Aedan quit taking bottles we definitely didn’t need one. But now that we seem to be getting back on track it is super nice to just drop the bottle in and push the start button vs fill a mug up with water, heat it up in the microwave, put the bottle in the mug and wait for it to get warm but not too hot.

 

 

 

 

-Lauren-

One Year Ago Today…

Jon and I had just gotten back the day before from a great trip to South Padre. Jon had a job early that morning and while he was making breakfast I took a pregnancy test. I had a gut feeling it was going to be positive and when it turned positive right away I was so excited.

One year ago today we found out that this little guy was joining our family. We are so blessed and happy.

 

-Lauren-

Trip to the Country

We just got back from visiting Jon’s family out in Whitehouse TX. Jon’s parents live out on a few acres and have a whole slew of animals. Hiro usually has a blast out there, but this year the 3 dogs that my in-laws have were a little territorial and didn’t let him into their little group so Hiro spent most of the weekend inside with us. He did get spend the whole night on the bed with us both nights. He could be the worlds worst bed hog! Usually we only let him get up with us before we turn out the lights but we had to share a room with Aedan and we didn’t want Hiro wondering around the room all night with his nails tapping on the wood floor (I want wood floors in our house but I’m not sure I want to listen to that sound all the time).

Aedan did pretty well. He still doesn’t like his carseat too much, but he is getting better. He eats about every 3.5 hours so we still had to stop and feed him mid-trip. I am looking forward to when he doesn’t eat as often and we won’t have to stop for 30 minutes for him to eat. There was a lot going on all weekend so I think Aedan got a little over stimulated and was pretty difficult to put down to sleep at night but he slept well and took good naps. Hopefully we will get back on track now that we are back home tonight.

Aedan did get to try out a new toy from his Mama (Jon’s mom). I was surprised at how much he liked the little toys on the tray. He learned pretty fast how to tap the buttons to make the lights and sounds come on. Such a grown up boy! He is still learning that he can make it bounce. He gets a huge smile when I bounce him in it so I am sure once he gets it he will love it. Oh and he does have a little more hair than it looks like in the picture, it is just super white blonde. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also started him on some rice cereal a couple of times a day. He does not love it, but we are working on it. Hopefully in a few weeks we will officially start introducing solids. I’m pretty sure this face is saying “seriously you want me to eat this?!?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a good weekend but it is always nice to get home. My parents are coming in town today and we have a big week planned, including some serious “bottle boot camp”. For now we are relaxing at home watching the World Cup Final will some good friends.

-Lauren-

Tummy Sleeper

Aedan has been a great night time sleeper since about 6 weeks. He now sleeps from about 8pm to 7/7:30am and always wakes up cooing and smiling. His naps were great to until he hit 2 months (literally the day he was 2 months old). Then our house was visited invaded by the 45 minute nap intruder. He would wake up exactly 45 minutes after falling asleep at every nap. He was super cranky and it made for very long days. Then a couple of weeks ago some of his naps were becoming only 30 minutes long. When I would go in an get him mid nap, he would almost always close his eyes and seem to fall back asleep until I tried to put him back in his crib. As soon as I laid him on his back his eyes would open and he would start squirming around.

I have Aedan on a eat/play/sleep routine throughout the day and I didn’t think he was getting overtired (which can cause short naps) since I am pretty sure his optimal wake time is about 1.5 hours. I did realize that I hadn’t been doing a wind down routine before naps. Instead I was just taking him straight from playing to rock for a couple of minutes and then to bed. Now we slow things down and I carry him around in the carrier or we bounce on the yoga ball  for a few minutes before going down for a nap. That seemed to help a little bit, but he was still waking up at 45 minutes.

Then a few weekends ago Jon was putting him down for a nap and he noticed that Aedan seemed really uncomfortable on his back. We have know he has had some reflux issues since he was born but we hoped he would grow out of it quickly. Since he has always eaten fine and gained weight we weren’t very worried. Well a few weeks ago we decided to take Aedan to the doctor because we felt like his reflux wasn’t getting any better, in fact it seemed to be getting worse. The doctor agreed with us and said that sometimes reflux can get worse around his age because they become more active. So we got him on some medicine and I am happy to say it seems to really be helping.

Since Aedan seemed so uncomfortable on his back, Jon put him on his stomach for a nap and he slept for about an hour (we had to wake him up because we were heading to a friend’s house to watch a World Cup game). We continued to put him on his stomach for his naps the whole weekend and at first we would hear him make some noise at the 45 minute mark but usually by the time we would go to his room he would be back asleep. Now he is usually taking 1.5 naps and a few 2 hour naps even. He is so much happier during the day because he is getting enough sleep.

I’m so glad we have been able to figure his nap issues. I think it is a combination of the reflux medicine and sleeping on his stomach. We have a much happier baby now (except when we try to give him a bottle…that is still not happening, any advice??).

-Lauren-

Bridesmaid Dress(es)

My good friend Unjoo is getting married in September and I am so exited for her. All the girls in my small group are going to be in the wedding party and she is letting us pick the style of our bridesmaid dresses. How fun is that! Looking back I should have done that with my bridesmaids. Anyway these are the four dresses I have to choose from.

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We are getting them in black. I think I am leaning towards dress 3 or 4. I’m planning on going to try them on next week. I’m just hoping my breastfeeding sized chest doesn’t disappear after I order the dress or I may be in search for a padded bra before the wedding. :)

-Lauren-

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July! We’re are having a pretty lazy day around here. Usually we head to Plano for the 4th to celebrate with my family and some good friends. My parents have been getting together with the same group of friends for the 4th since my mom met the other women in grad school before I was born. I have only missed a few 4th of July parties in my life and I am sad that we had to miss this one. We are heading to Tyler to see Jon’s parents on Thursday and we thought it would be too much traveling for Aedan to be gone two weekends in a row. We are are definitely planning on going to Plano next summer and I am sure Aedan will have a blast.

Today we are hoping to get some cleaning and yard work done and then maybe we will enjoy watching fireworks from our roof after Aedan goes to bed (I’m hoping he will sleep through all the fireworks).

Aedan wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July!!

 

-Lauren-

P.S. Nonnie, the shorts you got him to go with this outfit are too small already! He is getting so big!haha.

Growth Spurt Come and Gone

Wednesday night Aedan woke up at 4am, which hasn’t happened in weeks. I went in his room and tried to rock him a little bit, but it was pretty clear he was starving so I feed him and he went back to sleep. Then I heard him awake again at 6am. I really didn’t want to get him up at 6 since I had just put him back down around 4:45 so I rocked him back to sleep pretty quickly and went back to bed. He woke up at his normal 7am time and Jon went to get him to change his diaper and bring him to me. He said his diaper was super full and his pjs were wet. Poor guy, that is probably why he woke up at 6.

Aedan woke up early from his morning naps and since he has been taking great naps lately (more on that in another post) I figured he was hungry and feed him. He nurse forever at every feeding and even had an extra feeding by the time the day was over. I was feeling pretty tired so when he went down for his late afternoon nap, Jon and I laid down for a nap too. We figured he would be up in 45min or an hour so we didn’t set any alarms or anything. Well I guess his growth spurt ended because he slept for a little over 2 hours. It took a little bit longer to get him to go to bed, probably since he slept so late in the afternoon. I am just hoping that the growth spurt is over and he doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night again for awhile.

-Lauren-