This is a pic post bath yesterday. Then he went pee on mom.
20071110
Work, work, work, work.
Thursday night and Friday day guess what I did, made more cheesecake. I was at work, so i missed out on the most recent "advancements." But I was able to have an interesting conversation. How interesting is it that when you are a baby you get celebrated for every little achievement. simple thins like opening your eyes and keeping them open, and is it not also interesting that now those things are expected, such as opening your eyes and keeping them open. I guess it is not a good thing to nap at work :)
Anyway we did get some good pics over the last few days. I will get them up a little later today.
Anyway we did get some good pics over the last few days. I will get them up a little later today.
20071108
A morning for the boys
It has been a good week for us all, but this morning was the cherry on top (that is until tomorrow, 2 weeks old). Mom had to go to a meeting this morning from 7 to 9, so that means from about 6:00 until about 9:00 the house is full of boys (and Ashton). Try to make it as easy as possible a few extra events transpired this week, and this morning.
First and foremost, mom has mastered the breast pump. We have a few days of food in the freezer (he only eats about 2 oz per sitting). To back track one second, I am supper glad I dropped the big bucks and bought the top line, double barrel, fast sucker, in a nice briefcase style tote. We looked at some of the hand operated ones, and some of the foot peddle operated one (think old school sewing machine), and some of the "cheep" ones that pumped one breast at a time, or had one setting, no let down/warm up stage, etc. With the first use, I realized that this is one of the things that you certainly get what you pay for, and though it was a investment, it is going to be a good one. The instructions were the length of a small novel, and the machine itself as more nobs and dials then a conventional oven, but it works, and it works good.
Also to help with the am adventure, mom got up a little early, showered and got ready, woke X up and feed him, burped him, changed his dipper, put him back to sleep, and put him back in his crib. This was all in the hope to stave off the next hunger fit until she got home. Well I am sorry to report this was all done for not.
At about 6:30 X woke up with the biggest set of hiccups I have ever seen him with, and he gets the hiccups allot. After that we walked the dog, changed our very full fuzzy bun, picked out our play clothes for the day. We cuddled through a couple cry fits then at about 8:00 I pulled out his first bottle to thaw. This was both a happy and a somber moment.
Firstly , i must admit I am a little jealous of Mommy's roll in X's life. I am am sure it is a pain in the behind to get up every few hours to give Xavier the sustenance that keeps him alive, but this is a mommy thing that i do not get to partake in. That is until today, so that is the happy part. The sad part is that Mommy was not here to see his first bottle feeding. After a 20 minute hot water bath, the milk was thawed and the bottle was set. Thank goodness he took to it with no delay, well a little delay.
We have two types of bottles. The first one came with the medela pump, and they have newborn friendly nipples. I did not understand them, they are shaped oddly and have weird groves and I could not discern 1) how far in the nipple should go and 2) which side was up. Apparently neither could Xavier. With this nipple we had a problem with keeping the milk in the moth, I think half of it went down the front of him. Luckily we also have "Avent Naturally" bottles on hand. These are the bomb. they have simple. soft, straight nipples. No top, no bottom, simply insert and go. Also there were no progressive ridges. Simply insert until he latches and you are set. And we were set. He downed two ounces and passed out. Now he is sleeping on my lap while I type.
Mom is going to be so proud, both because X ate, and because i figured it out.
First and foremost, mom has mastered the breast pump. We have a few days of food in the freezer (he only eats about 2 oz per sitting). To back track one second, I am supper glad I dropped the big bucks and bought the top line, double barrel, fast sucker, in a nice briefcase style tote. We looked at some of the hand operated ones, and some of the foot peddle operated one (think old school sewing machine), and some of the "cheep" ones that pumped one breast at a time, or had one setting, no let down/warm up stage, etc. With the first use, I realized that this is one of the things that you certainly get what you pay for, and though it was a investment, it is going to be a good one. The instructions were the length of a small novel, and the machine itself as more nobs and dials then a conventional oven, but it works, and it works good.
Also to help with the am adventure, mom got up a little early, showered and got ready, woke X up and feed him, burped him, changed his dipper, put him back to sleep, and put him back in his crib. This was all in the hope to stave off the next hunger fit until she got home. Well I am sorry to report this was all done for not.
At about 6:30 X woke up with the biggest set of hiccups I have ever seen him with, and he gets the hiccups allot. After that we walked the dog, changed our very full fuzzy bun, picked out our play clothes for the day. We cuddled through a couple cry fits then at about 8:00 I pulled out his first bottle to thaw. This was both a happy and a somber moment.
Firstly , i must admit I am a little jealous of Mommy's roll in X's life. I am am sure it is a pain in the behind to get up every few hours to give Xavier the sustenance that keeps him alive, but this is a mommy thing that i do not get to partake in. That is until today, so that is the happy part. The sad part is that Mommy was not here to see his first bottle feeding. After a 20 minute hot water bath, the milk was thawed and the bottle was set. Thank goodness he took to it with no delay, well a little delay.
We have two types of bottles. The first one came with the medela pump, and they have newborn friendly nipples. I did not understand them, they are shaped oddly and have weird groves and I could not discern 1) how far in the nipple should go and 2) which side was up. Apparently neither could Xavier. With this nipple we had a problem with keeping the milk in the moth, I think half of it went down the front of him. Luckily we also have "Avent Naturally" bottles on hand. These are the bomb. they have simple. soft, straight nipples. No top, no bottom, simply insert and go. Also there were no progressive ridges. Simply insert until he latches and you are set. And we were set. He downed two ounces and passed out. Now he is sleeping on my lap while I type.
Mom is going to be so proud, both because X ate, and because i figured it out.
20071107
Picture of the day
Nothing much happened today, it was mostly a lazy day in and around the house. Maybe something fun will happen tomorrow.
20071106
lets go big blue
Bringing up baby the right way. We had to bundle up to go out to a shindig, so we decided to show some team spirit. UK won, I think it was the hat.
no pictures.
Yesterday was my first day back to work. I was there for a normal work day of 8-5, well 6 actually but i was up to my elbows in cinnamon cheesecake pumpkin pie mix. This was very sad. I did not want to go in, but i had too. Lucky for me, my beautifully wife and my baby boy came to visit me at lunch, so i did get a little baby fix. After work we went over to a friends house and hung out for about two hours before coming home and going to bed. So unfortunately, we did not get a picture of X yesterday. So to compensate, expect two pics of him later today.
Little Jack Horner had it right
Xavier has found a new treasure. His thumb.
this is both a blessing and a curse. First it is a blessing because X's is learning to self sooth. in other words when he cries, if we do not react right away and feed or pop in a passy, he finds his thumb and falls back to sleep. the down side is is do to the fact he likes to nurse with his hands by his face. When Karen outs baby to breast he does his rooting thing, and there is a 50% chance that he will find a nipple and a 50% chance he will find a thumb.
on another note, here is a fun sight that i found http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/index.asp
check it out.
this is both a blessing and a curse. First it is a blessing because X's is learning to self sooth. in other words when he cries, if we do not react right away and feed or pop in a passy, he finds his thumb and falls back to sleep. the down side is is do to the fact he likes to nurse with his hands by his face. When Karen outs baby to breast he does his rooting thing, and there is a 50% chance that he will find a nipple and a 50% chance he will find a thumb.
on another note, here is a fun sight that i found http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/index.asp
check it out.
20071104
happy picture for today
We went on a small outing today. We got together with some of the wives from the IUEM department. Everyone loved X's hat. One of the wives went in to the hospital shortly after the get together to go through the induction process like Karen did a little over a week ago. So we wish the best of luck to Jen, Tomo, and the soon to be born Kaitlyn.
now for the pic.
now for the pic.
baby boys grow up
as you probably know by now I am a proud daddy and I like to take pictures. Well here are a few I cam across as i was filing the latest shots.
Those were taken about 1 year ago.
This is how he looks today.
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