Saturday, May 14, 2011
healthy boy
We went back to the Dr. on April 29 for a weight check. Codster had only gained around half a lb. from his 4 month to 6.5 month visit...so, Dr. Grills was a bit concerned (I know, I've posted this before). Well, I'm happy to say, that little man gained 18 oz. in a month, and tipped the scales at 14 lbs. 9 oz. The Doc was pleased, and we don't have to go back until his 9 month appt.!
teeth
Cody got his first tooth on April 29, 2011. I knew it was happening...he was a very fussy boy for the prior week. He was drooling like drool was going out of style, and I could feel the bumps on his bottom gums. I was hoping and praying that it wouldn't last too long. That Friday evening, the bottom left side poked thru...and the next day, the other one was making it's way out as well.
As happy as I am to see those little pearls....this mommy is going to really miss seeing that gummy smile!
And, I have to add, that Code was a champ. I have read bad things about baby orajel. And while I was doing some research, realized that some teething tablets have been recalled. So, we toughed it out, and used frozen washcloths, sophie (a teether), and had lots of extra nursing sessions (that were more for comfort than anything). Way to go, big guy!!
As happy as I am to see those little pearls....this mommy is going to really miss seeing that gummy smile!
And, I have to add, that Code was a champ. I have read bad things about baby orajel. And while I was doing some research, realized that some teething tablets have been recalled. So, we toughed it out, and used frozen washcloths, sophie (a teether), and had lots of extra nursing sessions (that were more for comfort than anything). Way to go, big guy!!
Cody's 7 & 8 Month Birthday!
Since today is Cody's 8 month birthday, and I realized that I never got on here to write about his 7 month birthday, they are being combined.
Little man, you are getting so big! You sit up, and scoot around all the time. There's no crawling yet, but you can get where you need to go by rolling all over the room! You love to talk, and want to babble any chance you can get! As I'm typing this now, I keep thinking that it is only 4 short months until you turn 1, and we will celebrate your actual Birthday. You (along with your daddy) are the love of my life. I find it hard to remember what life was like without you. You brighten my days, and as much as I want you to sleep in your crib, I am so going to miss co-sleeping with you. I love you more than you will ever know. I hope that you always stay the sweet, smiling little guy that you are. Everyone always asks me if you are always so happy...and I am so proud to tell them that you are!! You are an amazing little boy, and we are so blessed that God gave us you (one of our favorite books). I love you to the moon and back, little man, a million times and more!!
Little man, you are getting so big! You sit up, and scoot around all the time. There's no crawling yet, but you can get where you need to go by rolling all over the room! You love to talk, and want to babble any chance you can get! As I'm typing this now, I keep thinking that it is only 4 short months until you turn 1, and we will celebrate your actual Birthday. You (along with your daddy) are the love of my life. I find it hard to remember what life was like without you. You brighten my days, and as much as I want you to sleep in your crib, I am so going to miss co-sleeping with you. I love you more than you will ever know. I hope that you always stay the sweet, smiling little guy that you are. Everyone always asks me if you are always so happy...and I am so proud to tell them that you are!! You are an amazing little boy, and we are so blessed that God gave us you (one of our favorite books). I love you to the moon and back, little man, a million times and more!!
ahh...i'm a slacker :(
I'm a little upset with myself that I have been letting this blog get away from me. There are so many times that I want to just sit here and type out some stories...but then life gets in the way. Although, I would much rather be enjoying the moments with Cody than typing on here. So, I'm putting this out there now...no more slacking!
April 10, 2011
Doug and I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary! Holy Moly...7 years?? Where has the time gone!? It honestly seems like yesterday that I walked down the isle looking at the love of my life, and vowing to love him through thick and thin, for the rest of our lives. I can say without a doubt, that I love Douglas Paul more today than I did the day we were married. AND, that love has grown more this past year with the birth of our first son!
Doug and I went to Branson to celebrate, like we do every year. Code Man stayed with Paul & Deb, and as much as I missed the little booger, it was nice to get away for a night with my husband. We did a little shopping (for Cody), and ate at our favorite restaurant (Landry's). Then we headed to The Ranch to stay the evening. It was so relaxing, and peaceful...but I'm not gonna lie, I was really excited to get home and play with Cody the next day. It is so funny to me how a year ago, and even just before Code was born, I was so nervous to think that it wouldn't ever be just the two of us again....because now I know, we will ALWAYS be us!! We will always find time to get away together! Now, I find myself wondering what we did for almost 7 years without Cody! I will never regret waiting as long as we did. It was perfect for us to wait...but I can't imagine life without The Boy now! Funny how things change the minute a child is born :)
Later in the day, when we got home from Branson, we were all playing outside, enjoying the nice (but cloudy) afternoon, when Cody started babbling 'dada'. It was the first time he had said it! What an awesome Anniversary gift to us from our baby! Now, he babbles 'dada' all the time, and as hard as I try to get him to say 'mama', he just smiles at me and says dada :) little stinker!
April 10, 2011
Doug and I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary! Holy Moly...7 years?? Where has the time gone!? It honestly seems like yesterday that I walked down the isle looking at the love of my life, and vowing to love him through thick and thin, for the rest of our lives. I can say without a doubt, that I love Douglas Paul more today than I did the day we were married. AND, that love has grown more this past year with the birth of our first son!
Doug and I went to Branson to celebrate, like we do every year. Code Man stayed with Paul & Deb, and as much as I missed the little booger, it was nice to get away for a night with my husband. We did a little shopping (for Cody), and ate at our favorite restaurant (Landry's). Then we headed to The Ranch to stay the evening. It was so relaxing, and peaceful...but I'm not gonna lie, I was really excited to get home and play with Cody the next day. It is so funny to me how a year ago, and even just before Code was born, I was so nervous to think that it wouldn't ever be just the two of us again....because now I know, we will ALWAYS be us!! We will always find time to get away together! Now, I find myself wondering what we did for almost 7 years without Cody! I will never regret waiting as long as we did. It was perfect for us to wait...but I can't imagine life without The Boy now! Funny how things change the minute a child is born :)
Later in the day, when we got home from Branson, we were all playing outside, enjoying the nice (but cloudy) afternoon, when Cody started babbling 'dada'. It was the first time he had said it! What an awesome Anniversary gift to us from our baby! Now, he babbles 'dada' all the time, and as hard as I try to get him to say 'mama', he just smiles at me and says dada :) little stinker!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Vacation Pictures
The day we arrived...Cody was ready for some vacation fun!!
Mark at the Grand Canyon - 3.13.11
Eagle Rock at Grand Canyon 3.13.11
Grand Canyon 3.13.11
Grand Canyon 3.13.11
Grand Canyon 3.13.11
Grand Canyon 3.13.11
Not the real ledge...but I like to pretend. It sure does look like it though!!
3.13.11
Cody at the Pahrump Park on his 6 month birthday 3.14.11
Salt Flats at Death Valley 3.15.11
Death Valley 3.15.11
Death Valley 3.15.11
love the look on Cody's face :) 3.15.11
Death Valley 3.15.11
Hoover Dam 3.16.11
Hoover Dam 3.16.11 We had to drive over that bridge on our way to the Grand Canyon. Thankfully, we couldn't see over the sides!
Hoover Dam 3.16.11
Hoover Dam 3.16.11
Hoover Dam 3.16.11
I took so many pictures, but I just wanted to share these from our sight seeing journeys!
well baby
Cody had his 6 month well baby check up when we got back from vacation. He was actually 6.5 months. If you've seen my baby, you know he is long and thin. I don't usually weigh him at home because I don't think it's very accurate. If you would have asked me how much he weighed, I would have guessed around 14.5 - 15 lbs. I was floored when he was on the scale and only weighed 13 lbs 7 oz! He had only gained a little over half a pound from his 4 month visit...
Everything else looked good. He was 26.5 inches long and his head is growing well. While the Dr. checked him out, he mentioned twice how strong he is and also asked if he was always as happy as he was that day (yes). He wasn't too concerned with his weight, but did give me a new feeding schedule to follow, adding in some formula to supplement. Cody has had formula any time he has been babysat, because I just don't pump well, but he has not had it every day. I was ok with it, but a little disappointed in myself because my milk wasn't enough.
Cody has been doing great. Although, I will admit that I have not been giving Cody as much formula as the Dr. asked. He wanted two bottles a day, and when I'm home with him, I only give him one. I mix his cereal with formula, though. He gets solids 3 times a day, always after he nurses. I can tell a difference in him, and I'm excited and nervous to go to our weight check on Friday.
I have a feeling that his weight wouldn't have been so low if I had introduced solids earlier, but like I've said before...I felt very strongly about not giving them to him before he was 6 months old. He just wasn't ready. He loves it now, but I believe that breastmilk or formula provide most of the calories and nutrients that they need, and I will never feed him solids before letting him nurse.
Hopefully, I can post later this week that his weight is up, and we can stop supplementing!
Everything else looked good. He was 26.5 inches long and his head is growing well. While the Dr. checked him out, he mentioned twice how strong he is and also asked if he was always as happy as he was that day (yes). He wasn't too concerned with his weight, but did give me a new feeding schedule to follow, adding in some formula to supplement. Cody has had formula any time he has been babysat, because I just don't pump well, but he has not had it every day. I was ok with it, but a little disappointed in myself because my milk wasn't enough.
Cody has been doing great. Although, I will admit that I have not been giving Cody as much formula as the Dr. asked. He wanted two bottles a day, and when I'm home with him, I only give him one. I mix his cereal with formula, though. He gets solids 3 times a day, always after he nurses. I can tell a difference in him, and I'm excited and nervous to go to our weight check on Friday.
I have a feeling that his weight wouldn't have been so low if I had introduced solids earlier, but like I've said before...I felt very strongly about not giving them to him before he was 6 months old. He just wasn't ready. He loves it now, but I believe that breastmilk or formula provide most of the calories and nutrients that they need, and I will never feed him solids before letting him nurse.
Hopefully, I can post later this week that his weight is up, and we can stop supplementing!
First Family Vacation
The past month and a half has been very busy for our family. We took our first vacation as a family...then we celebrated Doug's birthday, my birthday and our 7 year anniversary! I've been meaning to write down some of our favorite memories from our vacation. I'm a little late on it, but better late than never!! :)
Doug's brother, Mark, moved to Pahrump, NV for a teaching position at the end of December. We were all missing him, and decided to head out that way for our vacation. Pahrump is about 50 miles away from Las Vegas, and about 40 miles away from Death Valley in CA. With me being a stay at home mom, and Doug working for his parents, we were able to take a nice, long trip.
Our plane left at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 10. I was nervous to take Cody on the plane. I'm a nervous flyer anyway, so add a baby to the mix, and I was incredibly scared! I was going into it preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. Well, our little champ did amazing on both flights!! I fed him both times as we were taking off, and made sure he had his paci in (and was actually sucking on it) when we landed. He literally slept the whole time both times. I was so proud of him!
Once we landed in Vegas and got all our luggage, we headed to get our rental car. Doug went to stand in line, while Cody and I found a quiet little couch so I could feed him. At this point, I had never nursed in public before, let alone a busy airport. But, we got lucky and there weren't a lot of people around us...at first. I wasn't scared about possibly exposing myself...I mean, I was doing the most natural thing in the world that a mom can do for her child. The thing I was afraid of was getting disapproving looks. But, Cody had to eat, and I had no formula to make a bottle. He did great, and I'm giving myself a pat on the back here, because I did great too! Not too long after our nursing session started, a basketball team of High School girls and their coaches came and sat in the area I was. None of them even gave us a second glance, except their coach who was sitting next to me, and she just smiled a 'knowing' smile at me. It made me feel great! I got through my first public nursing and I got through it with minimal exposure. ;)
ONce we finally got the keys to the car, we had to go pick up our carseat rental. Now, this is something that I struggled about. I didn't want to take my nice Chicco carseat with us for two reasons. I didn't want it to get damaged in any way...and Doug didn't want to haul it around in the airport. I wanted to purchase just a cheap carseat to check with our luggage, but Doug wasn't on board with that idea either. I had read bad things about rental carseats, and I didn't want to go that route, but that was our only other option. Well, it wasn't an infant seat, it was a convertable seat. Which, the weight limit was fine, I would have just been more comfortable putting my almost 6 month old in a bucket type seat. The seat wasn't dirty, which was a relief...but it wasn't comfortable for Cody. We had to stuff blankets in it and around him, but we made it work.
We were finally ready to get our vacation started! We wanted to do lots of sight seeing, but also wanted to spend time just relaxing with Mark. We rested for a couple of days and then on Sunday, March 13, we headed off on a 3 hour drive to see the Grand Canyon. I can honestly say that it is one of the most amazing sights I have ever seen. Words really can't describe it, and pictures don't do it justice. I highly recommend that everyone see it at some point in their life!
Since that was a long day for us, we rested on Monday, and headed off to Death Valley on Tuesday. I think at one point we were 131 ft. below sea level. We got to go to one really cool look-out and see salt flats all below...about as far as you could see. It was beautiful! Doug & I were up there for quite a while just taking it all in.
Wednesday we headed to Hoover Dam. It was busy, and we decided not to take a tour, but we did walk across it, and get some pictures. On our way back to Mark's, we made a quick stop at the Hooters Casino in Vegas to get Doug a shirt (he collects them and gets one on most of our vacations) and I wanted to get Code a Hooters onesie...yep, we're classy like that! ;) Thursday was our last day, and we had planned to stay home and rest since we had to leave Mark's at 3 a.m. to get to Vegas. Well, everything so far had gone great, so I'm not really surprised that I got REALLY sick Wednesday night, and was stuck lying around all day not able to get up for fear of getting sick. I needed to pack, and get things prepared for Cody for the flight. Thankfully, I have an amazing husband that helped, and had family praying for me to get better before our flight. I did start feeling better just in time, and I was able to sleep most of the flight back.
We had such an amazing trip! I have tons of pictures, and we have some great memories. Now, I'm looking forward to our next trip... :)
(Pictures to come)
Doug's brother, Mark, moved to Pahrump, NV for a teaching position at the end of December. We were all missing him, and decided to head out that way for our vacation. Pahrump is about 50 miles away from Las Vegas, and about 40 miles away from Death Valley in CA. With me being a stay at home mom, and Doug working for his parents, we were able to take a nice, long trip.
Our plane left at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 10. I was nervous to take Cody on the plane. I'm a nervous flyer anyway, so add a baby to the mix, and I was incredibly scared! I was going into it preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. Well, our little champ did amazing on both flights!! I fed him both times as we were taking off, and made sure he had his paci in (and was actually sucking on it) when we landed. He literally slept the whole time both times. I was so proud of him!
Once we landed in Vegas and got all our luggage, we headed to get our rental car. Doug went to stand in line, while Cody and I found a quiet little couch so I could feed him. At this point, I had never nursed in public before, let alone a busy airport. But, we got lucky and there weren't a lot of people around us...at first. I wasn't scared about possibly exposing myself...I mean, I was doing the most natural thing in the world that a mom can do for her child. The thing I was afraid of was getting disapproving looks. But, Cody had to eat, and I had no formula to make a bottle. He did great, and I'm giving myself a pat on the back here, because I did great too! Not too long after our nursing session started, a basketball team of High School girls and their coaches came and sat in the area I was. None of them even gave us a second glance, except their coach who was sitting next to me, and she just smiled a 'knowing' smile at me. It made me feel great! I got through my first public nursing and I got through it with minimal exposure. ;)
ONce we finally got the keys to the car, we had to go pick up our carseat rental. Now, this is something that I struggled about. I didn't want to take my nice Chicco carseat with us for two reasons. I didn't want it to get damaged in any way...and Doug didn't want to haul it around in the airport. I wanted to purchase just a cheap carseat to check with our luggage, but Doug wasn't on board with that idea either. I had read bad things about rental carseats, and I didn't want to go that route, but that was our only other option. Well, it wasn't an infant seat, it was a convertable seat. Which, the weight limit was fine, I would have just been more comfortable putting my almost 6 month old in a bucket type seat. The seat wasn't dirty, which was a relief...but it wasn't comfortable for Cody. We had to stuff blankets in it and around him, but we made it work.
We were finally ready to get our vacation started! We wanted to do lots of sight seeing, but also wanted to spend time just relaxing with Mark. We rested for a couple of days and then on Sunday, March 13, we headed off on a 3 hour drive to see the Grand Canyon. I can honestly say that it is one of the most amazing sights I have ever seen. Words really can't describe it, and pictures don't do it justice. I highly recommend that everyone see it at some point in their life!
Since that was a long day for us, we rested on Monday, and headed off to Death Valley on Tuesday. I think at one point we were 131 ft. below sea level. We got to go to one really cool look-out and see salt flats all below...about as far as you could see. It was beautiful! Doug & I were up there for quite a while just taking it all in.
Wednesday we headed to Hoover Dam. It was busy, and we decided not to take a tour, but we did walk across it, and get some pictures. On our way back to Mark's, we made a quick stop at the Hooters Casino in Vegas to get Doug a shirt (he collects them and gets one on most of our vacations) and I wanted to get Code a Hooters onesie...yep, we're classy like that! ;) Thursday was our last day, and we had planned to stay home and rest since we had to leave Mark's at 3 a.m. to get to Vegas. Well, everything so far had gone great, so I'm not really surprised that I got REALLY sick Wednesday night, and was stuck lying around all day not able to get up for fear of getting sick. I needed to pack, and get things prepared for Cody for the flight. Thankfully, I have an amazing husband that helped, and had family praying for me to get better before our flight. I did start feeling better just in time, and I was able to sleep most of the flight back.
We had such an amazing trip! I have tons of pictures, and we have some great memories. Now, I'm looking forward to our next trip... :)
(Pictures to come)
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