Little milestones 9 wks to present

Here are random things I wrote down on scratch pieces of paper throughout the last few months. This post is random and fragmented and probably a grammatical mess. But I don't really care. It's mostly for me to remember. Besides maybe my parents, I can't think of anyone who will really be all that interested in reading this. Ha. And maybe not even them.

10/26/12 First solids, if you can call pureed carrots a solid. Loved them, seemed happy to try a new taste.

October was also when he fell in love with Yo gabba gabba. He watches less now that he can entertain himself, which I prefer. Well I prefer when I am playing with him. And he prefers that as well. Which is why I prefer it. How many more times can I say the word prefer?

10/23/12 First time I tried the cry it out method. He cried for an hour straight. 2:15am to 3.15am. This lasted just one night. I never felt it was quite right for Vincent and I. We since tried it again. Just a few weeks ago. For just two nights. Then we stopped for various reason. However last night he slept through the night. From 11pm to 7am. No binki insert even. This has only happened a handful of times. So I'm hoping it will continue. I attribute this new sleep pattern to the Lavender essential oils I have been defusing. But that's another subject for another time. Visit mylampisfull.blogspot.com for my sisters wonderful blog on her essential oil dealings in daily life.

11/2/12 I put the binki in front of his face and he grabbed it from me and put it in his mouth

11/4/12 Turned from back to tummy for the 1st time

11/8/12 Turned from front to back for the 1st time
as of 11/13 hasn't done either of them again

Mid November was the first time I really heard him laugh. He giggled and giggled. 

First cold was at 18 weeks/4months

Mid December starting to roll from front to back consistently.

1st week in December- seems to know the words Ba and Papa and what they mean.

First Christmas presents- Talking puppy (from G&G Ferre) Walker, laptop, noise making monkey ring that we hate, cell phone.

Late December he started switching things from hand to hand.

1/7/13 sat for 4 seconds alone

Mid January, when we were in Oklahoma, he started sitting for extended periods of time. To this day he can do it, just chooses not to very often.

First airplane ride 1/19/13 This was kind of a nightmare for me. By the plane ride home though, I felt like an old pro at traveling with infants alone. 

Late January finally started to straighten is legs and stand on them. He could do this at an early age but this is another thing he chose not to do. Now he will stand all the time.

Also Late January marks the time when he would much prefer to eat food than drink his smelly formula. And who can blame him. Fresh avocado or pureed coconut oil, lime and pear, to name a few. He wasn't able to enjoy much of natures first and best food and had to be on formula. But he does enjoy the best I can offer him when it comes to his "solids" And he sure does enjoy them. But that again, is a whole other blog for a whole other time.

Late January, also started to spend more time on his tummy. Up until this point he really hated being on his stomach.

Which leads to early February he started inching forward just a little.

Late February he is scootching along and getting into everything. He will be crawling any day now which I'm not really hoping for. I'm good where he is at.

Something about the 7 month mark has been magical. He is so fun to be with. He is so interactive with me. We even have some inside jokes. He's mobile without being too mobile. His personality is so fun. He smiles all the time. He is a very social creature. He loves meeting and seeing anyone and everyone. Will lock eyes with them and just smile and laugh. When we were going to Oklahoma, we were on a layover. I was exhausted and just wanted to sit down and not think. But Vincent would lock eyes with everyone he could. So people would want to talk to me about him and comment to me about how cute he is. Which is all fine and great, but I really just wanted to be left alone. And it's still like that at the grocery store. Anywhere we go, he will try to get peoples attention and then I am stuck talking to people I really don't have the energy to talk to. He is much more social than either of his parents I think. I hope he stays that way.

Again, he's finally in a good sleep pattern. Sleeping mostly 8 hour blocks. He takes 2, 2 hour naps daily. Prior he was taking little cat naps all day long which was really annoying. He sleeps for 11-12 hour at night. We are in a good rhythm. Like I said, it's just the best. I love his age now and am really trying to take it all in and remember the glorious 7th month.

That is all for now. 

Giggles

 

The first one should be a cute little video of Josh making Vincent laugh. The second is the same video but Josh style. It's pretty funny.

*Just tried to watch these and the volume doesn't work. At least not on mine. I'll try and figure it out. 

Christmas Pictures. Just a few.

 Christmas Eve at the Bellistan party

 Mama couldn't wait any longer for him to wake up

 Just cute

 Sitting in his new chair playing with his new lap top.

 Vincent with handsome cousins Grayson and Archer

Bullet Point Update On My Life

I don't like to write. Largely because I feel I am no good at it. So here are some bullet points.

-I haven't been drinking diet soda or anything artificially sweetened. Just shy of a month. This is Big.
-I love Vincent
-And Josh
-My goal of eating little to no refined or processed foods is going just ok. But I am happy with my progress
-Today I had a migraine, not a common occurrence. I used essential oils in hopes to help or alleviate. Nailed it.
-Speaking of O'ccurrence, I don't work there anymore.
-Speaking of not working anymore, I don't have to use drugs to make me sleep during the day so I can be awake at night.
-Practically drug free these days and doing well.
-I'm glad I wasn't on that Carnival Triumph
-I still want to go on a cruise
-Vincent gets constipated a lot. And I do things for him. And that's how I know, love really does have no bounds. 

First 9 weeks...loosley

week 1- didn't notice much of a change. Slept, ate, slept ate, slept ate. Opened eyes occasionally and stared. woke up every 1-2 hours to eat.

week 2- a few more wakeful hours. Josh goes back to work and I cried. started getting a little fussy when awake. Luckily not awake much still at this point. Seems like he wants to eat ALL the time. bottomless pit. I worry he's eating too much.

week 3- two week dr visit. went from 5 lbs 5 oz to 7 lbs 2 oz. He's a healthy eater! Dr pleased with the weight gain and eased my worry by letting me know he can eat as much as he wants right now. they squeezed blood out of his little foot and it about killed me. hated that. glad janine was with me on that visit. i'd have had a hard hard time dealing with that trip. also suzanne in town and got some great help from the two of them.

week 4 i dont recall anything inparticular about this week. All I know is he was still sleeping awfully and eating all the time. I was still struggling with quite a great deal with recovery and adjusting to this motherhood thing.

week 5- at the end of this week we went to the cabin. It marks a great turning point. He slept better up there and i think almost reached a three hour block. i was elated. this is also the first time i really saw him content with kicking and having fun on the floor. I think he really liked his little companion Archer who was also running races on the floor.

weeks 6- settling into motherhood much much better. enjoying vincent so much more. he's sleeping a little better and making eye contact with me and focusing in a little better.

First time I saw him studying his arm 9-12-12
Raspberries 9-12-12
cooing about 8 weeks old but really started talking a lot at 9 weeks


That up there is the what has kept me from posting. I didn't want to edit it, or add to it. Then I realized I can just post it the way it is. I have a journal going from things I thought to write down since that I will post at a later time. Also, if someone were to buy me say, an Iphone or some sort of droid with a decent camera, I would post a lot more. I swear. I hate lugging out Josh's fancy camera. Just sayin.