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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Trick or Treat!
Reed's first Halloween has came and went, and I'm pretty sure we had more fun than he did! Wednesday night we did Trunk-or-Treat at church. Since Reed was a Tootsie Roll, I felt it absolutely necessary for all of us to have coordinating costumes. The Martha Stewart in me came out, and instead of the quick, "good enough" mom and dad costumes, I got a little carried away. I just pretended like I had absolutely nothing else that I needed to be doing and happily made our costumes. Friday we went to the neighborhood Halloween party for a little while and handed out candy that night.
Reed's seems to change everyday now. He's trying so hard to roll from his back to his stomach. His bottom arm just gets in his way! His feet are really entertaining to him. He grabs one in each hand and is content to stare and talk to them.
For those who care about his every move(my mom!), I've decided that he needs to start transitioning to a 3 1/2 hour schedule and soon to a 4 hour. I probably should have done this already since for the past couple weeks (since the college retreat weekend) he has been waking about an hour earlier than normal and having shorter naps than normal. It's also time for bedtime to move a little earlier which means I'm going to be stuck at home more at night! Oh, well...the things you do for good sleep!
Oh, yeah. We went to the college group retreat a couple weekends ago, and Reed did great! I really debated whether or not to go with him, but I'm so glad I did. I just stuck to his same schedule and did retreat stuff when it worked out. I've got to brag--Mark organized the retreat and did a great job!
Reed's seems to change everyday now. He's trying so hard to roll from his back to his stomach. His bottom arm just gets in his way! His feet are really entertaining to him. He grabs one in each hand and is content to stare and talk to them.
For those who care about his every move(my mom!), I've decided that he needs to start transitioning to a 3 1/2 hour schedule and soon to a 4 hour. I probably should have done this already since for the past couple weeks (since the college retreat weekend) he has been waking about an hour earlier than normal and having shorter naps than normal. It's also time for bedtime to move a little earlier which means I'm going to be stuck at home more at night! Oh, well...the things you do for good sleep!
Oh, yeah. We went to the college group retreat a couple weekends ago, and Reed did great! I really debated whether or not to go with him, but I'm so glad I did. I just stuck to his same schedule and did retreat stuff when it worked out. I've got to brag--Mark organized the retreat and did a great job!
Napping at the retreat...
Katelyn & Kelly...my favorite girls!
Friday, October 10, 2008
What you really wanted anyway...
Here's what you really want to see...
My mini Mark
My mini Mark
His new funny thing...any shirt or thing with with contrasting writing is so interesting to him. He'll stare and eventually start leaning closer and closer...
Watching himself have a bath.
Always playing catch up...
I know, I know. It's been a long time without an update. I can't even take credit for the last picture post. That was all Mark's doing.
Things are good around here. Other than Mark being out of town a lot, life is back to our "new normal." He's been gone to Texas about two nights a week, just got back from Nashville and Maryland, and will leave for North Dakota next week. I guess somebody around here has got to work! Speaking of work, I went back to teaching aerobics August 25th when Reed was about 5 weeks old. He's still going in the room with me and either sleeping or watching us crazy folks run around or the fans. My aerobics ladies think he's the greatest!
Things really settled down around here at about 8 weeks. (Strangely, my dates are all based on how old he was at the time!) He started sleeping 8 hours at night from 8 weeks, and he really got his daytime naps down. (Thank you Babywise and Babywhisperer!) Now, he is in bed between 9:00-9:30 and waking up between 7:00 and 7:30. He eats at 7:30, 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30, and a dream feed between 10:30 and 11:00. We stick with the eat, wake, sleep cycles which really helps plan our days. I realize most people aren't entertained in the least with how often my child eats, but I know his grandma is interested in every detail about him!
He's getting to be so much fun! Smiles and laughs are the best. I live for them! They just melt me every single time! He's just started pushing up good on his belly and trying to grab at toys. He can at least make contact with whatever he is aiming at most of the time. I have a love/hate with his paci. He just decided to take up with the paci at 8 weeks, and it works great for him most of the time. The only problem I have with it is when just the two of us are in the car, and he loses it. This makes him extremely mad! It's pretty much the only time he really cries. I've pulled over so many times to pop it back in only to pull back out on the road, and he immediately drops it again.
So, that's just the highlights of the past few weeks. I'll try to do better. Seriously.
Things are good around here. Other than Mark being out of town a lot, life is back to our "new normal." He's been gone to Texas about two nights a week, just got back from Nashville and Maryland, and will leave for North Dakota next week. I guess somebody around here has got to work! Speaking of work, I went back to teaching aerobics August 25th when Reed was about 5 weeks old. He's still going in the room with me and either sleeping or watching us crazy folks run around or the fans. My aerobics ladies think he's the greatest!
Things really settled down around here at about 8 weeks. (Strangely, my dates are all based on how old he was at the time!) He started sleeping 8 hours at night from 8 weeks, and he really got his daytime naps down. (Thank you Babywise and Babywhisperer!) Now, he is in bed between 9:00-9:30 and waking up between 7:00 and 7:30. He eats at 7:30, 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30, and a dream feed between 10:30 and 11:00. We stick with the eat, wake, sleep cycles which really helps plan our days. I realize most people aren't entertained in the least with how often my child eats, but I know his grandma is interested in every detail about him!
He's getting to be so much fun! Smiles and laughs are the best. I live for them! They just melt me every single time! He's just started pushing up good on his belly and trying to grab at toys. He can at least make contact with whatever he is aiming at most of the time. I have a love/hate with his paci. He just decided to take up with the paci at 8 weeks, and it works great for him most of the time. The only problem I have with it is when just the two of us are in the car, and he loses it. This makes him extremely mad! It's pretty much the only time he really cries. I've pulled over so many times to pop it back in only to pull back out on the road, and he immediately drops it again.
So, that's just the highlights of the past few weeks. I'll try to do better. Seriously.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Enough of the blah, blah...How about some pictures?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
6 Random Things...
Jennifer tagged me to list 6 random things about myself so here goes...
- Crystal Light lemonade and homemade ice cream flavored shaved ice are my addictions.
- There are 9 piercings in my ears (but none anywhere else!).
- I'm obsessive with lists, especially to-do lists. I've been known to add things to my list after I've done them just so I can mark them off.
- I'm full of random, useless information, so I love Trivial Pursuit! Mark doesn't like to play with me!
- I obsessively study Pottery Barn catalogs. They're all over my house!
- I've been a Hulkamaniac since the 1980s!
Wow. I thought this was going to be a hard list, but apparently I'm a pretty random person because I could go on!
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