Posts tagged baby
6 Months
Aug 24th
I cannot believe you are 6 months old already, my sweet sweet baby James. You are such a sweetheart. And a great sleeper! You are sleeping now, in fact. You usually go to bed at about 7:30 or 8, and sleep until 6:30, give or take a half hour. Your dad and I know that we are so, so lucky about that. We try not to take it for granted. We are lucky in many ways. You are so mellow; so even-tempered. You are a very go with the flow baby, and it makes our lives so much easier. I wish we could take credit for that, but I’m pretty sure it’s just how you are. Whatever it is, we’ll keep it!
You haven’t started solids yet, but Grandma Mary did give you a pickle last time we were at her house, and you had a couple tiny pieces of watermelon at Daddy’s company picnic on Sunday. You weren’t so sure about either one at first, but after a moment to consider you loved it and wanted more. At least until you were actually hungry. Then all you want is Momma’s milk.
You aren’t crawling, but you can roll from your back to your stomach and then back again. You don’t do it a lot, but you definitely are able, and you seem to do it most often when we aren’t watching you. We’ll be making dinner, or in the bedroom for a moment, and we’ll come back and you’ll be on a different side than we left you. You always look at us as if to say, “Well, duh! Why shouldn’t I roll over!?” You are also sitting on your own. We still need to be nearby, because you will invariably lean too far back or to the side and tip right over. It is so cute, and so far we’ve avoided any head bonks, but I’m sure they’ll be coming.
You don’t like tummy time very much, and so any progression towards crawling is slow. But you are a lot more tolerant of it now than you used to be, and so we’ll take that as a step forward, so to speak. Your dad and I aren’t too anxious for you to start crawling, anyway. That would mean we have to pack up all the cds and movies (or at least get them off the floor). Our apartment isn’t anywhere near baby-proof.
You started saying a couple consonants the weekend before last, and it is so amazing to see that progression. You babble at Daddy and I constantly; especially in the car on the way too and from daycare. I wish we could understand what you are saying, because I’m sure it is fascinating.
Daddy and I love you, sweet pea. We are excited to watch you continue to grow and learn. If you could just slow time down a bit so we are better able to enjoy it, that would be great.
Love,
Momma
In the hospital; just a couple days old.
James 1 month
James 2 months - photo by our friend Jason
James 3 months
James 4 months
James 5 months
James 6 months
And no, we aren’t letting him drink Mountain Dew. I promise.
It’s June! And my baby is 3 1/2 months old already!
Jun 3rd
When did all that happen? Yikes!
He’s so cute. Have I mentioned that? And he’s pretty much the best baby ever. My sister and her fiance were in town last weekend, and he had never been to Duluth before, so we were tourists all weekend. We toured Glensheen (the historic & haunted mansion!); we walked down by the canal and the lake, and went for dinner in Canal Park; we drove up Seven Bridges Road (and Bill got carsick. Whoops!); we toured the William A Irvin ore boat, and a friend took us out on his boat on Lake Superior; and we ate at Betty’s Pies on the North Shore. We took James with us for all of this, and he didn’t make a peep of complaint.
I was telling my sister that our lives would be very different if we had a baby with a different temperament. James is so easy-going. We take him everywhere with us, and as long as he is fed and changed he doesn’t care. He takes it all in. I can only imagine how hard it is for parents of other kids. And we are definitely spoiled and will probably have a rude awakening when we have another child who is not so even-keeled. But for now we are enjoying our happy baby, and our freedom. Although he did put a bit of cramp in our style, since we couldn’t take him to our favorite bar in Wisconsin (the Anchor). We draw the line at a bar; especially one where they still allow smoking (only until July 1!). ;-)
It is Ryan and my 2nd anniversary next Monday, and so we are both taking the day off work. His parents are coming up Sunday and we will probably go up the shore and do some light hiking on Monday. A fitting thing, since we spent our honeymoon up the shore hiking. I hope the weather cooperates.
In completely different news, I recently deleted everything in my Google Reader. It was constantly at 1000+ items unread, and it was stressing me out. Instead, I marked them all as read and am manually going back to the blogs that I want to catch up on and reading back. And of course trying to keep up with the new stuff in my reader. I may have to remove a couple things from it. Lifehacker, I love you, but your 20 updates every 2 days is killing me!
Anyway, that’s where life is at right now. Busy, especially gearing up for summer, but a lot of fun with this adorable baby around. Hopefully it stays that way!
Jeebus.
May 20th
You would think a person could take a second to write something on this little website once in a while. Other parents do it. But apparently my mind is elsewhere lately. Possibly because I have the cutest baby in the world (not that I’m biased). See:
So sleepy on our walk!
Or maybe this:
Hanging out after his bath
Plus we’ve had gorgeous weather (other than that snow storm). See:
The sailboat races are on Wednesday night in Lake Superior. An awesome sight.
So you see, we’ve been busy!
I do promise to try to make it back more often, though. And to try to start commenting on other people’s blogs again. I miss them!
Slacker mom
Mar 26th
I’ve been enjoying my time off, cuddling my adorable son. What I have not been doing is calling daycares to find someplace for him to go when I go back to work. I should have taken care of this ages ago, I know. Unfortunately, I let my hatred of talking to strangers on the phone get in my way. So that is now my project for afternoons, as much as James lets me. He’s been especially needy lately, wanting to be held all the time. I don’t mind though. He’s so cute and cuddly. It definitely proves true what they say though; it’s different when it’s your own kids. Because I would not enjoy spending all day every day with someone else’s baby, no matter how cute they are.
Anyway, time to start calling. Wish me luck!
So you DO still love me
Oct 2nd
Posted by Becky in Pregnancy
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It has come to my attention that there is a problem with posting comments on the blog (thanks, Aunt Janice!). I have logged a complaint with the administration (read: I told Ryan to take a look at it and fix it). Hopefully it should be back to normal soon?? I don’t even have a clue what’s wrong. Probably it’s my fault though. Is it too soon to start blaming things on the baby?
And here I thought that people just didn’t like me anymore. That’s a nice thing to be wrong about. I’ll just pretend there are a TON of comments out there in cyberspace that people wanted to post and just haven’t been able to. Whether or not this is true does not really matter.
PS. We finally got the computers out of the baby’s room and the dresser assembled and in there. It even has a few outfits in it that my mom picked up the other weekend at rummage sales. And a GORGEOUS blanket that was embroidered by my grandma. Because she’s awesome. It feels more like a bedroom and less like an office now, which is nice. Slowly it will feel more like a BABY’s bedroom, I’m sure.