Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Miracle of Miracles
I never thought that it would happen, but The Bear has decided to sleep--ALL NIGHT WITHOUT WAKING. I'm not sure if I can put into words how excited this makes me. I actually want to cry a little when I think about it because it makes me so happy. Sure, most babies start sleeping through the night around 4 or 5 months, some even as late as 7 or 8. But almost a year? Dear Lord. But I'll take it.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Jack at Two Weeks
I've been uploading pictures to Flickr and here is one from when Jack was just two weeks old. I can't believe how tiny he was!
Month Eleven
Month Eleven
Dear Jack,
So much has happened over the past month that it’s hard to find the place to start. I guess the biggest thing that has happened is that you have officially begun crawling. No longer do you just sit idly by waiting for your toys to come to you--now you are able to go to your toys. Everyone has been amazed by how quickly you have learned to get around. At first, it was just a few feet, but within a week, you were crawling from room to room, no end in sight, just the steel bars from the babygate stopping you from heading down the stairs and out the door.
With the crawling came the standing. You love to pull yourself up, especially when you are in your crib. Unfortunately, it took you a little longer to figure out how to get yourself back down again. There have been many times over the past month that I’ve had to rescue you from your crib, where you are standing and crying, unable to find a way back down. It was tough for me (especially when I hear you cry), but I realized that I needed to let you figure it out on your own, without my rescuing you. It only took a day for you to learn, once I gave you the chance to figure it out. Now, you just plop yourself down on your bottom when you are done standing.
You also received your first (and second!) haircut this month. Your Aunt Gigi was so sad to see the end of the mohawk era, but since your mohawk had grown so long that it looked more like a poof on your head, I decided that it was time to get the buzzers out. I took you to a haircutter that specializes in kids and they did a fantastic job. You weren’t overly excited about having your haircut, and tried swatting the clippers away from your head several times, but in the end it was worth it—you looked cuter than ever. And your hair ended up growing back so quickly, that I pulled out your daddy’s clippers and shaved your head again last night. Two haircuts in one month! Your hair is really short now, though, and I don’t think you should need another haircut for at least six weeks. Mommy needs a bit more practice in this haircutting thing.
We also celebrated your first birthday early with all of your friends from the breast feeding group. It was a fun and chaotic day which ended with bedlam, um, I mean a group picture. I’m not sure if I can express how exhausting that was. As your Aunt Gigi said, it was like herding cats. The day was memorable and I will laugh every time I look back at the pictures.
We love you and are looking forward to celebrating your first birthday (officially) in one month!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
Dear Jack,
So much has happened over the past month that it’s hard to find the place to start. I guess the biggest thing that has happened is that you have officially begun crawling. No longer do you just sit idly by waiting for your toys to come to you--now you are able to go to your toys. Everyone has been amazed by how quickly you have learned to get around. At first, it was just a few feet, but within a week, you were crawling from room to room, no end in sight, just the steel bars from the babygate stopping you from heading down the stairs and out the door.
With the crawling came the standing. You love to pull yourself up, especially when you are in your crib. Unfortunately, it took you a little longer to figure out how to get yourself back down again. There have been many times over the past month that I’ve had to rescue you from your crib, where you are standing and crying, unable to find a way back down. It was tough for me (especially when I hear you cry), but I realized that I needed to let you figure it out on your own, without my rescuing you. It only took a day for you to learn, once I gave you the chance to figure it out. Now, you just plop yourself down on your bottom when you are done standing.
You also received your first (and second!) haircut this month. Your Aunt Gigi was so sad to see the end of the mohawk era, but since your mohawk had grown so long that it looked more like a poof on your head, I decided that it was time to get the buzzers out. I took you to a haircutter that specializes in kids and they did a fantastic job. You weren’t overly excited about having your haircut, and tried swatting the clippers away from your head several times, but in the end it was worth it—you looked cuter than ever. And your hair ended up growing back so quickly, that I pulled out your daddy’s clippers and shaved your head again last night. Two haircuts in one month! Your hair is really short now, though, and I don’t think you should need another haircut for at least six weeks. Mommy needs a bit more practice in this haircutting thing.
We also celebrated your first birthday early with all of your friends from the breast feeding group. It was a fun and chaotic day which ended with bedlam, um, I mean a group picture. I’m not sure if I can express how exhausting that was. As your Aunt Gigi said, it was like herding cats. The day was memorable and I will laugh every time I look back at the pictures.
We love you and are looking forward to celebrating your first birthday (officially) in one month!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
Month Ten
Dear Jack,
This past week you turned ten months old and it feels very strange to say that. I don’t know how it’s possible, but ten months seems to have flown by and yet feels like an eternity.
This month has been a really nice month because we seem to have fallen into a fairly predictable schedule. You take two naps each day, that last anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours. I didn’t realize how much you or I needed a schedule, but it has been a benefit to both of us.
This month you learned how to hold your sippy cup and drink from it. While bottles have never been your thing, you seem to have developed quite the infatuation with your sippy cup (especially the new one you just got that has a straw! Oh, how you love your straw!). Sometimes I have to hide your sippy cup from your sight or you get really upset that you can’t have it (especially when I am trying to feed you and all you want is your sippy).
This love of your sippy cup is actually a little bit of a relief to me, as I was starting to wonder how much longer the breast feeding will continue. As you get more teeth, you are more determined than ever to find things to bite. This has led to less-than-pleasant breast feeding sessions between you and me. While it makes me sad to think about the end of breast feeding (since it feels like such a special quiet time with my little guy), I also know that this is the normal progression of things and I feel hopeful that you won’t die of malnourishment now that you are willing to take a sippy cup. I think that ultimately I will try to hold out to your first birthday before we end the breast feeding, but I’m relieved to know that there are other options in case that doesn’t happen.
One new skill that you picked up this past month was the ability to get yourself into a sitting position from lying down. You wouldn’t have believed my surprise walking into your room one day after your nap to discover you SITTING UP in your crib. It was so startling, that I started to doubt whether I had laid you down in your crib for a nap. When it happened again a couple of days later, I knew that something new and strange was happening. And when I observed you doing it one day while playing on the floor, I realized that we had reached a new milestone in your physical development. Almost everyone that I’ve talked to has said that once their babies could get themselves from a lying down position to a sitting position, that crawling soon followed. I can tell by your movements that you are very close to this transition. Which means daddy and I need to get our tushies in gear and start the baby-proofing!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
This past week you turned ten months old and it feels very strange to say that. I don’t know how it’s possible, but ten months seems to have flown by and yet feels like an eternity.
This month has been a really nice month because we seem to have fallen into a fairly predictable schedule. You take two naps each day, that last anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours. I didn’t realize how much you or I needed a schedule, but it has been a benefit to both of us.
This month you learned how to hold your sippy cup and drink from it. While bottles have never been your thing, you seem to have developed quite the infatuation with your sippy cup (especially the new one you just got that has a straw! Oh, how you love your straw!). Sometimes I have to hide your sippy cup from your sight or you get really upset that you can’t have it (especially when I am trying to feed you and all you want is your sippy).
This love of your sippy cup is actually a little bit of a relief to me, as I was starting to wonder how much longer the breast feeding will continue. As you get more teeth, you are more determined than ever to find things to bite. This has led to less-than-pleasant breast feeding sessions between you and me. While it makes me sad to think about the end of breast feeding (since it feels like such a special quiet time with my little guy), I also know that this is the normal progression of things and I feel hopeful that you won’t die of malnourishment now that you are willing to take a sippy cup. I think that ultimately I will try to hold out to your first birthday before we end the breast feeding, but I’m relieved to know that there are other options in case that doesn’t happen.
One new skill that you picked up this past month was the ability to get yourself into a sitting position from lying down. You wouldn’t have believed my surprise walking into your room one day after your nap to discover you SITTING UP in your crib. It was so startling, that I started to doubt whether I had laid you down in your crib for a nap. When it happened again a couple of days later, I knew that something new and strange was happening. And when I observed you doing it one day while playing on the floor, I realized that we had reached a new milestone in your physical development. Almost everyone that I’ve talked to has said that once their babies could get themselves from a lying down position to a sitting position, that crawling soon followed. I can tell by your movements that you are very close to this transition. Which means daddy and I need to get our tushies in gear and start the baby-proofing!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
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