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And (drumroll) HERE'S our 7th Anniversary last month - looking back, I realized it's the ONLY picture I took that day! haha!! How things change :)
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Monday, August 26, 2013
seven
This post is a bit late, but we just had our seven year anniversary last month and I thought it would be fun to go through some photos of us on July 15th through the years (minus '08 & '10 for some reason?). I'm lucky to be married to such a hardworking and caring person. An amazing husband, and the most loving daddy to our two sweet babies, he certainly is!
And (drumroll) HERE'S our 7th Anniversary last month - looking back, I realized it's the ONLY picture I took that day! haha!! How things change :)
And (drumroll) HERE'S our 7th Anniversary last month - looking back, I realized it's the ONLY picture I took that day! haha!! How things change :)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Nathan - two months
So the first month totally FLEW by. We had a ton of help from family and both Anne and Kristen were able to visit. The second month draaagggggggggggged. Man, is it tough being by myself with a 2.5 year old and a newborn (I swear, if it's true what they say about age 3 being harder than 2 I may just lose my mind).
OK I'm making a serious effort for this post to be all about Nathan, and not Gwen's reaction to Nathan. Poor second kid always gets compared to the first, I'm hoping I can avoid that....
So I know I didn't write a 1 month post, but I'll just try to cover everything here. First, let me say that breastfeeding [comparatively speaking]...oh crap there I go again.... has been a piece of cake. I had some pain in the first week (and the uterine cramping the first 3 days UGH!), but nothing I couldn't handle. I was very happy about this because I really questioned whether I was going to be able to do it again if the first 2 weeks were anything like I remembered. Well, now we're into the third month and it's going great!
At around 3 weeks we had one night in particular that we questioned if we'd make it through. Nathan was up the ENTIRE night wanting to nurse constantly, but then choking and crying, and his breathing was very shallow and labored. It was so bad that we called the on-call Dr and she had us bring him in the next morning. Physically, he was fine so she thought it could be reflux.....OR.....the dreaded "C" word. Yes, COLIC. AHHHHHHH!!! No parent ever wants to hear that word. Luckily, it turned out to be an isolated event. We held off on the reflux meds and although he spits up more than any child I've ever seen, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have reflux. And although he can be a bit fussy when he wants to be, he most certainly does not have colic (phew).
Nights have been going great. He's still in our room in the pack n' play because he'll eventually be sharing a room with Gwen, and she sleeps so well that we haven't wanted to make the move yet. For the last few weeks he's been sleeping anywhere between 5.5 - 7 hours, and one night he slept 8!! Hallelujah! I'm pretty sure this is all due to the swaddle (which is something we never did before). He was moving around a lot, and we thought he was keeping himself up because of it. He seems to instantly relax when I swaddle him.
The boy is growing like a weed. Most people are shocked when I tell them his age because he looks older. Here are his stats:
Birth:
7lbs 10oz, 21in
2 wks:
8lbs 7oz, 22 in
2 mo:
11lbs 15oz, 23 in
At his 2 month appt, the Dr told me that he's above the 90th percentile for both height and weight. Grow baby, grow!
In the past few weeks, he has been super smiley, talkative, and responsive to us. The Dr told us that he's very "flirty" for a 2 month old. I think he's going to be a very animated little guy and I'm really looking forward to watching his personality develop.
Here he is, happy as can be, at 2 months old:
OK I'm making a serious effort for this post to be all about Nathan, and not Gwen's reaction to Nathan. Poor second kid always gets compared to the first, I'm hoping I can avoid that....
So I know I didn't write a 1 month post, but I'll just try to cover everything here. First, let me say that breastfeeding [comparatively speaking]...oh crap there I go again.... has been a piece of cake. I had some pain in the first week (and the uterine cramping the first 3 days UGH!), but nothing I couldn't handle. I was very happy about this because I really questioned whether I was going to be able to do it again if the first 2 weeks were anything like I remembered. Well, now we're into the third month and it's going great!
At around 3 weeks we had one night in particular that we questioned if we'd make it through. Nathan was up the ENTIRE night wanting to nurse constantly, but then choking and crying, and his breathing was very shallow and labored. It was so bad that we called the on-call Dr and she had us bring him in the next morning. Physically, he was fine so she thought it could be reflux.....OR.....the dreaded "C" word. Yes, COLIC. AHHHHHHH!!! No parent ever wants to hear that word. Luckily, it turned out to be an isolated event. We held off on the reflux meds and although he spits up more than any child I've ever seen, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have reflux. And although he can be a bit fussy when he wants to be, he most certainly does not have colic (phew).
Nights have been going great. He's still in our room in the pack n' play because he'll eventually be sharing a room with Gwen, and she sleeps so well that we haven't wanted to make the move yet. For the last few weeks he's been sleeping anywhere between 5.5 - 7 hours, and one night he slept 8!! Hallelujah! I'm pretty sure this is all due to the swaddle (which is something we never did before). He was moving around a lot, and we thought he was keeping himself up because of it. He seems to instantly relax when I swaddle him.
The boy is growing like a weed. Most people are shocked when I tell them his age because he looks older. Here are his stats:
Birth:
7lbs 10oz, 21in
2 wks:
8lbs 7oz, 22 in
2 mo:
11lbs 15oz, 23 in
At his 2 month appt, the Dr told me that he's above the 90th percentile for both height and weight. Grow baby, grow!
In the past few weeks, he has been super smiley, talkative, and responsive to us. The Dr told us that he's very "flirty" for a 2 month old. I think he's going to be a very animated little guy and I'm really looking forward to watching his personality develop.
Here he is, happy as can be, at 2 months old:
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Sibling Love
Someone is over the moon with her new baby brother!
Gwen was thrilled to meet Nathan in the hospital, she welcomed him from the second she saw him. In the first few days he was home, any time he would cry, Gwen would calmly walk over and sing to him. It's like she knew it was her job as Big Sis. As she's gotten more used to the crying, she doesn't sing to him quite as much. But if I'm slow to get to him now, she'll either make sure I know he's crying, or she'll go over to him and try to calm him down herself "It's ok, Nay-fen"- sometimes trying to shove the pacifier into his face (which we're working on). She's still excited to see him in the morning, and if she doesn't see him right away will always ask where he is. We're so lucky to have such a loving little girl, and I'm sure "Nayf" (as she so lovingly calls him sometimes now) will be the same to his sister.
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