the latest thing i've noticed miles doing is being very interested in feeling things with his fingers. if he's sitting in his car seat, he will move each finger up and down, feeling his car seat harness. when he is laying down trying to fall asleep he will kind of scrape the sheets with his fingers. and he loves to feel the different textures of the shirt of whoever is holding him. so cute!
he rolled from back to front again today 2x, with his auntie jen as an eyewitness. she was here to watch him all day yesterday while i was at a meeting/volleyball game and then she also watched him this morning while i was at work. i think they were cuddle buddies in the rainy cool weather. the three of us went to lunch today before she left town and all the ladies there were going crazy over how cute he was. he seemed super happy all day yesterday which means his auntie jen must have done a great job!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
4 month well-check-up
miles went to his 4month well-check on friday with dr. g. he was at his new clinic and it was quite terrible...we were there for 2hrs before we got to see the doctor! but the good news is miles is doing awesome. he weighed 14lbs 14oz. he was 25 in long. and his head circumference was 16.5 inches. the doctor thought everything looked good...miles laughed and laughed while he looked in his mouth, put the stethoscope on his chest, and felt his tummy. miles put on quite the giggle and wiggle show. the doctor says miles should start reaching for and grabbing toys anytime now and that we should give him plenty of opportunities to do this. he gave us a referral to a GI doctor to look into the continuing reflux issues.
miles is starting to pay more attention to what's going on around him. he acts very interested in conversations and will generally turn to look at whoever is talking. sometimes he gets upset if i leave the room and then gets excited and happy as soon as i return.
on saturday i had a volleyball tournament so miles and ross hung out for their longest stretch yet...from 7.30am until 5.30pm!! miles slept in until after 10am and then ross was able to bring him to see me so i could feed him a couple times during the day. other than that, they just hung out and ross even managed to do some housework for me at the same time! also ross left miles on his back watching his mobile, and returned to find him on his tummy sleeping. this is the first time he rolled from back to front. he has yet to repeat this but i'm sure we'll catch him in the act any day now. i have another volleyball tournament this weekend so i hope it goes just as well.
after my tournament, miles and i made a quick overnite trip to college station. he was passed around many loving relatives and had 2 small cousins who just loved to play with him! miles was so tired when we came back sunday nite from all that attention! he and i took a nap together from 6-8pm, then he had a quick snack and then slept until i woke him at 5am monday morning!
it's been 132 days but as of today i have officially lost all the baby weight! now i am off to work on my own weight! actually, i was eating a piece of pie and now miles just woke up...but it's the thought of the gym that counts, right?
miles is starting to pay more attention to what's going on around him. he acts very interested in conversations and will generally turn to look at whoever is talking. sometimes he gets upset if i leave the room and then gets excited and happy as soon as i return.
on saturday i had a volleyball tournament so miles and ross hung out for their longest stretch yet...from 7.30am until 5.30pm!! miles slept in until after 10am and then ross was able to bring him to see me so i could feed him a couple times during the day. other than that, they just hung out and ross even managed to do some housework for me at the same time! also ross left miles on his back watching his mobile, and returned to find him on his tummy sleeping. this is the first time he rolled from back to front. he has yet to repeat this but i'm sure we'll catch him in the act any day now. i have another volleyball tournament this weekend so i hope it goes just as well.
after my tournament, miles and i made a quick overnite trip to college station. he was passed around many loving relatives and had 2 small cousins who just loved to play with him! miles was so tired when we came back sunday nite from all that attention! he and i took a nap together from 6-8pm, then he had a quick snack and then slept until i woke him at 5am monday morning!
it's been 132 days but as of today i have officially lost all the baby weight! now i am off to work on my own weight! actually, i was eating a piece of pie and now miles just woke up...but it's the thought of the gym that counts, right?
Monday, September 14, 2009
4 months old :)
dear baby miles,
it's true what they say...time flies when you are having fun! and we are certainly having fun together, this is a very fun age for you to be. you can follow us with your eyes and seem interested in what we are saying. you also smile ALL the time and laugh and laugh while watching the fan and kicking your legs.
i'm not sure exactly how much you weigh...your 4month doctor appt is on friday so i'll be sure to give an update on height and weight. a couple weeks ago you were 14lbs so i'm sure you're still packing on the pounds!
this month has brought some changes...i went back to teaching part time and so you spend the mornings with your babysitter here at the house. i think things are going well for everyone. but i absolutely love coming home to hang out with you in the afternoons...i wouldn't trade it for the world!
eat & sleep
ahh finally we are in a groove as far as your eating goes. it's just now not uncomfortable for me and some other issues have worked themselves out, and i'm glad we've stuck with it! you are too. you get up with me around 5am to eat an early breakfast, then you have a bottle from your dad or the babysitter, and then generally wait to eat again until i'm home around noon. other than that you eat every 3-4 hours now. unfortunately your spit up issues remain.
you go to sleep sometime between 7-9pm, occasionally sleeping all the way until 5am, but usually needing a snack somewhere in there. you are pretty good about sleeping in until 8 or 9am, and usually take 3-4 naps throughout the day. such a sleepyhead!
skills
1. rolling from tummy to back! you are doing this allll the time now! you wake up and roll right over. or roll right over and wake up. it's still exciting for us to see.
2. suck on your fists. you traded in the thumb in favor of sucking on BOTH fists. you do this alot, it is too funny!
3. blow spit bubbles. you drool everywhere. and you make bubbles with it. such a boy!
4. the army scoot/crawl. one nite when we were visiting your grandpa in corpus we woke up to you banging your head against the wall. we couldn't believe it, but you are becoming mobile. if i set you in one end of the crib, you can quite quickly make your way to the other end...booty up in the air wiggling around to help you out. too funny! i can't believe you will be crawling around everywhere soon.
5. kick your toys. you are beginning to enjoy your jumper and your floor mat quite a bit. but rather than hit the toys with your hand, your curl your body all the way up into a little ball and kick the toys vigorously over and over.
6. water aerobics. you love your bath and can splash water all the way out of your tub and the main tub onto me! you go crazy! anytime you are fussy in the evening, i stick you right in the bath and you are happy as can be.
7. watch tv. that's right, it has begun. you enjoy watching tv. this month you watched a lot of tennis with your daddy. this past weekend it was rainy and you and i laid around and watched lots of football.
8. coo and babble. you are talking more and more! it makes me laugh.
9. laugh. i heart the way you laugh. you make yourself laugh. you laugh at me. you laugh at your puppies and the fan. it makes me so happy to see you so happy.
adventures this month
this month you stayed with your babysitter in the mornings, hung out with your daddy, made a road trip to corpus christi to see your grandpa, hung out with your mom mom and nana, went to home depot, saw the ocean for the first time, shopped at academy, watched the rain, and loved living life! and we loved living it with you. can't wait to see what's in store next month.
it's true what they say...time flies when you are having fun! and we are certainly having fun together, this is a very fun age for you to be. you can follow us with your eyes and seem interested in what we are saying. you also smile ALL the time and laugh and laugh while watching the fan and kicking your legs.
i'm not sure exactly how much you weigh...your 4month doctor appt is on friday so i'll be sure to give an update on height and weight. a couple weeks ago you were 14lbs so i'm sure you're still packing on the pounds!
this month has brought some changes...i went back to teaching part time and so you spend the mornings with your babysitter here at the house. i think things are going well for everyone. but i absolutely love coming home to hang out with you in the afternoons...i wouldn't trade it for the world!
eat & sleep
ahh finally we are in a groove as far as your eating goes. it's just now not uncomfortable for me and some other issues have worked themselves out, and i'm glad we've stuck with it! you are too. you get up with me around 5am to eat an early breakfast, then you have a bottle from your dad or the babysitter, and then generally wait to eat again until i'm home around noon. other than that you eat every 3-4 hours now. unfortunately your spit up issues remain.
you go to sleep sometime between 7-9pm, occasionally sleeping all the way until 5am, but usually needing a snack somewhere in there. you are pretty good about sleeping in until 8 or 9am, and usually take 3-4 naps throughout the day. such a sleepyhead!
skills
1. rolling from tummy to back! you are doing this allll the time now! you wake up and roll right over. or roll right over and wake up. it's still exciting for us to see.
2. suck on your fists. you traded in the thumb in favor of sucking on BOTH fists. you do this alot, it is too funny!
3. blow spit bubbles. you drool everywhere. and you make bubbles with it. such a boy!
4. the army scoot/crawl. one nite when we were visiting your grandpa in corpus we woke up to you banging your head against the wall. we couldn't believe it, but you are becoming mobile. if i set you in one end of the crib, you can quite quickly make your way to the other end...booty up in the air wiggling around to help you out. too funny! i can't believe you will be crawling around everywhere soon.
5. kick your toys. you are beginning to enjoy your jumper and your floor mat quite a bit. but rather than hit the toys with your hand, your curl your body all the way up into a little ball and kick the toys vigorously over and over.
6. water aerobics. you love your bath and can splash water all the way out of your tub and the main tub onto me! you go crazy! anytime you are fussy in the evening, i stick you right in the bath and you are happy as can be.
7. watch tv. that's right, it has begun. you enjoy watching tv. this month you watched a lot of tennis with your daddy. this past weekend it was rainy and you and i laid around and watched lots of football.
8. coo and babble. you are talking more and more! it makes me laugh.
9. laugh. i heart the way you laugh. you make yourself laugh. you laugh at me. you laugh at your puppies and the fan. it makes me so happy to see you so happy.
adventures this month
this month you stayed with your babysitter in the mornings, hung out with your daddy, made a road trip to corpus christi to see your grandpa, hung out with your mom mom and nana, went to home depot, saw the ocean for the first time, shopped at academy, watched the rain, and loved living life! and we loved living it with you. can't wait to see what's in store next month.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
bath time....or water aerobics, not sure!
this is actually also a pretty good visual of what it felt like to be pregnant with miles.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
1st week of school
school is in session
well school has officially been in session for 1 week now. last monday was our final teach prep day. ross stayed home with miles in the morning and then i came home and picked miles up and took him to work with me. it was so fun! he just hung out in his sling while i took care of a few things...it made me want to take him every day! tuesday morning was the first day of school. ross stayed home with miles until i got home around 11.30am. that night was miles' first time to stay with someone who was not a member of our family! i had an athletic parents meeting so our friends dave and julie came over and did us a huge favor by hanging out with miles until ross could make it home from work.
miles' schedule
on wednesday morning, miles had his first day with his babysitter! so far everything is going pretty well. here's how things have been working so far:
miles gets a bath (unless he falls asleep too early) and goes to bed sometime between 6-9pm.
between 10.30-11pm i wake miles up and feed him and give him his medicine right before i go to bed. he sometimes stays up for 30min or so before going back to sleep and other times he just pretty much stays asleep. then i put him in his bed...in his very own crib in his very own room! i turn on his lamp or night light and he falls asleep.
he wakes up sometime between 4-5am. if he's not awake by 5am i go ahead and wake him up so i can feed him before i go in to work. after i feed him, he and i play and hang out together. this is one of my favorite times of the day even though i am so sleepy! he is super happy in the mornings though and i love getting to see his smiles. at 6am i put him in his crib and he goes back to sleep.
i leave for work at 6.30am and ross takes over. so far miles has been great and is sleeping at least until 8am when our babysitter arrives...i was hoping things would work out this way! so far, so good. ross heads to work when the babysitter arrives at 8am.
side note: i never knew so many things could happen before 8am. just saying.
miles is still settling into a schedule with his babysitter. he wakes up anytime from 8 to 10. he eats one bottle while i'm gone and usually takes 1-2 naps. he is always ready to wake up and eat when i get home around 11.30-11.45am!
after he eats lunch, he usually wants to take a 1-2 hr nap in the afternoon. then he will wake up and play for awhile before taking another nap. then he's awake for a bit, then we start it all over again!
how things are going
its really hard for me to leave in the mornings, but i could not be happier with our babysitter setup. miles gets one on one attention at our house and i only am gone for about 5 hrs, and it will be even less once volleyball and basketball seasons are over in february. i am still adjusting to getting up early and figuring out how to manage my time in the afternoons and evenings, but i know i will settle in soon enough. miles seems to be handling everything ok, though a few days he has been slightly cranky and he is always quite happy to see me when i return.
rough weekend
on friday miles didn't seem to be feeling well at all. he'd been spitting up even more than usual and he was just not quite right. i will spare you all the symptoms/details. we tried to get him in to our doctor who moved his private practice to a clinic, but we're told he was booked for 2wks and that since miles had been sleeping so much (he was sleeping insane amounts!) we should just take him to the ER at dell childrens hospital. so miles and i spent friday from 2pm-8pm and then were told to go back for a re-check on sunday and were there from 8am-2pm. basically they did a lot of testing and decided he might have had a cold and stomach bug or he might have just been suffering from more severe reflux. they ruled out a LOT of things that miles did NOT have, which was all good news, but certainly this made for a very long weekend. after a super cranky day yesterday, he seems to be back to more of his normal self.
sleep!
i couldn't be as happy as i wanted to about it since i was concerned he wasn't feeling good, BUT miles is starting to sleep in his crib and for longer periods of time. i'm about ready to take down the pack n play that is set up in our room because he is sleeping so well. on thursday night he slept from 8pm-5am without waking up at all. his new record was set on saturday night when he slept from 9.30pm-7.11am in his crib. i nearly had a heart attack when i woke up and realized what time it was! i went (read: Ran!) into his room and he was just hanging out in there sucking on his fist. in fact a lot of the times when he wakes up from naps instead of crying he just lays in there and plays. when he gets bored he starts yelling out to me until i go get him. as long as i don't delay too long, he doesn't even start crying! i love sleep! and i love this kid! can't get over him :)
btw, he weighed 14lbs at the hospital this weekend!
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