Bumpies!
Pulling out of the driveway… Owen: “Ooh, that was bumpy!” Seeing all the other similar driveways: “Look at all the bumpies!”
You can’t make this stuff up. 🙂
Owen’s first trike!
He never really liked ride-on toys. We tried a balance bike—he didn’t like (get) that at all. He showed no interest in a regular bike. So when I saw this trike for a steal, we thought we’d try it. It just might work…
Aside from pushing the bike around the house, this is his entire first experience (outside) with his new trike. I think we have a ways to go yet. 🙂
Don’t cry, mama.
Of course, being who I am, I was crying when (and after) my mom and aunt left. Owen noticed the tears on my cheek, pointed to them, and asked What’s that? I said they were tears and I was crying because I missed grandma and grauntie. He comes over to me, pats me on the shoulder, and says “Don’t cry, mama.”
/bawl
Three hats
We broke our usual tradition of matching jammies because we couldn’t find any good ones…so this time we did hats. Unfortunately, hats don’t work too well on me since my head is so big (yeah, it really is—just look at the pic!). But it was still neat!
Owen likes Katie’s paci!
He loves sticking his finger in the hole when she’s sucking. :>>
We’re also trying to teach him to put the paci back in her mouth when she spits it out…and sometimes he does okay but we’re working on doing it more gently. 🙂
Breast pump…or ear buds?
Listening to …???… on my breast pump. I love his imagination.
Big brother helped with Katie’s bath!
Owen helped with Katie’s bath tonight (if you can count touching her with the washcloth as helping!) and he counted her toes with Gramma Jean—he counted 7 on one foot and still came up with 10. 😀 He is getting closer to her each day and wants to keep her now.
My 3T is in 7s.
Owen is officially in size 7 jeans. He’s 3. 😮
We tried on size 6s and they’re a bit too tight at the waist. The 7s are about 8″ too long but fit well in the waist.
Hoo boy.
Only one feeding a night…but I’m still tired.
I love that Katie has only ever needed one feeding a night…but it’s usually at 5a, which means after I get done pumping it’s about 6a…at which point it’s nearly impossible to fall asleep again (because 1. it’s getting light out and 2. I know I have to be up around 7-7:30 to get Owen up and hopefully shower before Katie wakes up).
If I just had Katie, I’d generally get to sleep in until 8 or 9…but alas that isn’t the case. 😐 So, since Katie usually doesn’t go to bed until midnight…I’m getting five hours of sleep (minus the two times I have to get up to pee). Which sounds like a decent amount of time, until afternoon rolls around and I can barely keep my eyes open.
So, I’m a different kind of tired this time around…
Family Bingo
Gramma Jean brought Family Bingo to try and play with Owen. He didn’t play so much as he found matches…which was close enough!
Two weeks old!
Long story short, we no longer have to travel to the base hospital for appointments! When Tom went in to add Katie to our insurance, they asked if we wanted to change our PCM to someone in town and we said YES! (That’s what we initially wanted to do when we moved here but they told us we HAD to be seen on base. Ironically, Tom was dealing with the exact woman he dealt with before that gave him such attitude and she tried to tell him that he could have picked a PCM a year ago when we moved here. But anyway.)
So we only have to drive 15 minutes now and can park about 20 yards from the office (instead of driving 30 minutes and parking 200 yards from the office)…it really does feel like a HUGE difference. The office is small and a bit outdated (i.e. the scale they used to weigh Katie was an old-fashioned one where you slide the bars to get it to balance instead of the digital one at the hospital that takes three readings and averages them)…but the staff and doctor were nice and it was quick and easy and I’m glad we made the change.
So, Katie’s stats. For reference:
She was born 8 lbs. 1 oz.
She left the hospital at 7 lbs. 12 oz.
At her one-day check-up she was 7 lbs. 6oz.
At her three-day check-up she was 7 lbs. 11 oz.
At her two-week check-up…she was 8 lbs. 14 oz!!
I didn’t think about it until after we left that they didn’t measure her length or her head…but maybe they don’t do that until the one-month appointment. I just chalked it up to something else I don’t remember, and will make a note of it for her next appointment.
project365
http://www.iphoneproject365.com/photos/hudson2001
Project 365 is an iPhone app designed to help you document your life by taking one photo a day for a year. I’ve been using it for just over two years now, and you can see all the photos at the link above or at the static link in the rightmost column.
Here is the first month (July 2010):
Here is the last full month (June 2012):
Swiss cheese mommy brain strikes!
Sooooo, I didn’t realize until JUST AFTER the announcements went in the mail…that they were missing our little girl’s name! (I was copying and pasting from another application and completely forgot to make room for the name.) How embarrassing for an editor!
Of course, if you follow this blog at all, you obviously know her name is Katie Jean (named after my Grandma Len and my mom)…
P.S. Bonus points to anyone who noticed we forgot the name!
Katie’s Birth Announcement
He likes Grauntie Marge’s bed!
She finally woke up on her own!
We’ve been super super spoiled thus far, with Katie pretty much sleeping through the night since we brought her home!! (In this case, sleeping through the night = one feeding per night around 3-5a where we have to go in and wake her up.) Of course, instructions for newborns are to wake them up every 2-3 hours to eat, but I just couldn’t do that since she was sleeping SOOOO well. So, I conceded to wake her up that often DURING the day, but NOT at night. And things were going well. And then last night was the first night she actually woke up on her own! And then it was still only one feeding! Yay, Katie!
Mama and Owen in the pool
And wearing the swim goggles Gramma Jean bought him…he wants to wear them but refuses to go under water with them. 🙂
I don’t remember.
I seem to be saying that a lot. About everything (trying to compare to Katie).
How much did Owen eat at one time when he was a week old?
I don’t remember.
When did Owen start spitting up?
I don’t remember.
When did Owen start holding his head up on his own?
I don’t remember.
When did Owen start using a pacifier?
I don’t remember.
None of the questions are life or death, but it’s SO frustrating that I can’t seem to remember ANYTHING from when Owen was a newborn!
Executive decision & first bottle!
I tried my hardest to breastfeed again…but I had the same problems as I did with Owen (not a good latch, painful latching, super sore breasts, etc.) so I had been pumping and then we had been feeding Katie with a syringe while she sucked our finger (so she wouldn’t get spoiled by the bottle and would still be able to breastfeed)…but then after lots of thought, I just made the executive decision to give it up and just start pumping full time and feed her with a bottle. It also nicely coincided with my mom and Aunt Marge being here, so they could help feed her! Grandma Jean got the honor of giving her the first bottle!
Sleeping baby snuggles
I really need to stop snuggling with my sleeping baby and get some stuff done. Right?
I posed this question on Facebook and got the following responses:
Alicia >>> nope. it is over too soon. snuggle while u can.
P.j. >>> No you don’t
Jennifer >>> Babies don’t keep!
Joe >>> No. No you don’t.
Liz >>> The “stuff” will still be there when Katie doesn’t want to anymore. Enjoy the moments while they are present.
Tracee >>> Nope. Snuggle in
Ann >>> My youngest is 15! No more snuggles with mom, so enjoy it while you can.
Karen >>> So sweet….enjoy every moment!
Sarah >>> Heck no, you don’t! Snuggle, snuggle, snuggle!
Kathy >>> SNUGGLE AS LONG AS YOU CAN!! Stuff will get done later!
Virginia >>> awww
Linda >>> she is too cute to put down!
Margarita >>> nope!
Lisa >>> NO WAY!! cause when they are 13 and 10 the snuggling just doesn’t happen 🙁 ENJOY it!!!
Kristin >>> Nope.
Stephanie >>> Nope! I snuggle just snuggle away ; )
Janet >>> Forget getting anything done. This time goes too quickly, Jennifer.
Have fun, mama!
I had to run a few errands tonight. Owen asked where I was going and I said shopping. As I’m walking out the door he says “Have fun mama!”
:heart:
Awwwww.
I loved these two Facebook comments on this photo:
Nancy => He’s deciding what seasoning he needs.
Jami => Brainz!!!
He doesn’t even put his cars down when he naps!
On our way back from Costco…
Daddy & Katie
I love how she buries herself.
Exhausted but content.
Cake face!
Trying to get a sibling picture
Owen is interested in Katie, but not enough to want to hold her or barely get near her to take a picture. As it was, to even get these attempted shots, we had to bribe him with the promise of chocolate cake…and you can see, I STILL didn’t get a decent one. |-|
First Bath
She didn’t do too badly and we were MUCH more proficient this time around. 🙂
