Felling So Blah Tuesday

You know when you think everything in your life is going perfect and you say a little praise to God about how blessed you feel and you smile all the way home cause you had a good day at work, and then a great night with your mom filled with a wonderful movie (The Vow) and a terrific meal (at Cornerstone's) and my mom and I had lots of laughs and talked and like I said a overall great night. So back to saying my praise to God, on the way home I am thinking about how blessed I feel with my family and that I am heading home to my husband and to my Sugarbug (that is my nickname for Lil Hoff) and I'm hoping that he is still awake - (when I say "he" I am basically meaning either one, Farmboy or Lil Hoff) and I was excited when I pulled up and the lights were still on in Lil Hoff's room and my heart fluttered a little bit that I would be greeted with a smile from my little guy and get caught up with my husband. As I walked into the house I am greeted by Roscoe and I talked to him as I am making my way through the house and as I walked into the living room I was taken back with a mess. Lil Hoff's quilts are all over the ground and I walked into the kitchen and Farmboy's meal is still spread all over the kitchen with a plate of food still sitting on the island I think to myself "This can't be good" So then I hunt down my family and find Lil Hoff waking up in our bedroom and starting to cry and Farmboy was in the shower. When he saw that I was home he was very excited and I heard a big sigh of relief and then the words "Lil Hoff is not feeling good" and my heart stopped. As I picked him up, I could tell right away that Farmboy was right. He wasn't grinning and he just had a glazed look to him. He was just so serene and that might be nice if that is they way Lil Hoff  usually is, but my baby at 8:30 at night is crying and wanting his bottle and wanting to go to bed. Farmboy then said that he has held him most the night and that is why the house looks like it does (I think he was just covering up so I didn't get mad, ha).  At 9:30 he was still just as quiet and when we put him down he barely ate 3 oz. when normally at night he eats between 6 oz and 8 oz. He slept pretty good until 4:30 this morning when he nose got so congested that he couldn't breathe and then he started coughing and woke himself up. I went in twice to put a pacifier in but he couldn't hold the pacifier in and breathe so I gave up and really woke him up with cleaning his nose out and changing his diaper. We then ate a little bit and I put him in his swing and he spent the rest of the morning coming and going from sleep.

 It broke my heart this morning to think of taking him to the baby sitter's, but he didn't have a fever so I had no other choice.

This morning was very quiet.

A little too quiet.



He was just so content but then he would cough and it sounded so horrible.

So I took his chair, Vick's, saline drops, and nose syringe to the baby sitter's today and said good luck. Kissed my sugarbug several times and walked slowly away.







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So Sleepy!

So I reported in a blog not to long ago that my mother and I have a constant battle going back and forth over Lil Hoff and swaddling him. And in my head I keep going back and forth imaging how I could permanently be dislocating his shoulders cause I have him swaddled up so tight and that the Velcro holds him in place and he doesn't move his arms for several hours.

 For example.....

Now I take this picture one of two ways. Look how soundly he is sleeping and he does sleep through the night from about 10:00 at night to 7:30 - 8:00 in the morning which makes for a very happy mommy, which in turns leads to a calm mommy and a happy baby. All are good things!

I would also like to mention that being swaddled does not slow this boy down at all. He does circles all night long in his crib and is never in the same spot as where we lay him down at. So another point I would like to use with my argument that he does not mind being swaddled with Velcro. But certain things are starting to happen that makes me think that I might want to come up with another sleeping pattern for him. I have told everyone at four months we will not swaddle anymore. I have picked four months because due to my extensive GOOGLE research, it is about four months when they quit their involuntary movements, so he will not be waking himself in the head with a out of control hand and in return will sleep and then I will sleep. I do often ponder if I should move that four month marker up. I went into his room the other morning and was greeted with this.

After I stopped laughing every so softly not to disturb him, my heart broke a little bit that all he could get free was one little finger and he was making the most out of it. An eternal optimist, that is my boy!

Then this morning was the big sign that I might not make it to four months. He had broke free and loving it!

So to my mom I just have to stick my tongue out and do a little dance that even Velcro will not hold my baby in and he is fine and can escape at any time. To my husband I just have to shake my head and say that we have a long road ahead of us and maybe not so restful nights of sleep.

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What he teaches my Son

I would like to start a segment that I am sure will be the first of many titled "What he teaches my son" and in this segment what you may or may not be aware of is the item he is exposing my son to is a very sore spot in our marriage and I think it takes up too much of Farmboy's time and is just a all around nuisance and now he is already teaching Lil Hoff to be addicted to it as well.

How dare he expose my sweet baby to the likes of the Internet? All those sites of trucks, tractors, and ugh...craigs list!

"HI MOM! How come you never showed me this pretty object before? It has pretty lights and sounds and is soooo cool."

"Never mind, I'm bored"

There is hope that he is mine :)



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'WE"dnesday

I am so blessed and lucky to have Wednesdays off to stay at home with my little man. Today is the first Wednesday since I have returned back to work that I actually am staying at home with him. We have had appointments and what not to get caught up on but today was just get to spend the day together. We woke up about 7:00 and Lil Hoff drank 8 oz and was in a very good mood.

Then while I was working around the house, ie. doing laundry, washing bottles, straightening the house up, this little man took a nap in his new swing. We had borrowed a lamb swing from a friend and while I LOVED the lamb swing it no longer would swing Lil Hoff. I put new batteries in it hoping it would work, but it did not. So this past Sunday we bought this little swing and it swung my little chunk. For about 20 mins. he slept peacefully.

After he woke up we changed the diaper and drank another 6 oz bottle and then I decided it was time for some tummy time which is always a huge hit around here.

After about 3 minutes of tummy time, he had all he wanted, so we moved from the tummy time mat to the high chair and that lasted while I worked on lunch and then he was getting a little fussy there so I moved him back to his piano mat so he could lay and stretch for a while and I was finishing up lunch I noticed that he had gotten really quiet and I looked over there and he had fallen asleep! So Farmboy and I got to enjoy lunch while Lil Hoff took another 20 min nap.

After I picked up from lunch and we got another bottle in this fella both of us got a nap in and I felt once again very blessed to be able to spend my afternoons with the boy that steals my heart.

XOXO - Sandi Rose

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Good Morning!

I was so very proud of myself for all the posts I have done and I thought I can keep up with this and I can keep this going and this isn't too hard and then last week I didn't do a darn post at all. Phooey! So here is a new week and I just have to keep in mind that if I just do a little post, it is still a post and that I blabber too much and all I want to do is keep memories of Lil Hoff and not all the details of all my thought and feelings and what not, those are private and not to be shared with the public, and here I go again blabbing. So here is a picture of the happy child that I get every morning!

OK - One happy feeling I want to share.

I used to be terrified when Lil Hoff woke up. What if he woke up crying and wouldn't stop crying and I could get him to stop and he just cried and cried and cried? But now I have gained some sort of confidence in myself as a parent and now I can't wait for him to wake up. He is in such a good mood and talks to me and smiles at me and even is starting to laugh at me or with me or I at least am going to say with me. He will have plenty of years to laugh at me with the occasional eye roll.

And to make it even more exciting here is a video! I know, you are thrilled. Please tone out the over excited mother voice that you will be hearing and concentrate on the uber adorable child. Happy Monday!

XOXO - Sandi Rose

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