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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After the smoke clears....

To quote a co-worker "being a mom sometimes isn't very much fun" and I have to totally agree. Last night as the night wore on and around 8:30 - 9:00 when he is usually screaming cause he wants his bottle and to go to bed, last night he was coming in and out of conciseness with around a 100 degree fever and was whimpering my heart was breaking. We gave him his bath and bottle and laid him down and waited.....2 minutes later he was crying. As we picked him up out of his crib he was wet with sweat on his back so we took a layer off and let him sleep in just his onesie with his swaddle sac on. He finally dozed off about 11 only to wake back up at 3:30 which then it was daddy's turn to take care of little man. The report from Farmboy was that he dozed off and on from 3:30 to 4:00 and then slept from 4:00 to 5:00 then was up at 5:30 and took a bottle, when I got up at 6:00 I gave him some more medicine and he ate a couple more ounces. He was still pretty fussy and still running a little fever until about 7:45 when we had this......A nice peaceful, resting baby.

(I had to put this little outfit on to make myself feel better! ha)

And when I left for work his head felt so much cooler and he was grinning and talking to Grandma Pat. So I know he is in good hands. I hated to leave him so much!

XOXO - Sandi Rose

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Shots Stink!

Today was a very traumatic day not only for Lil Hoff but for momma as well. Today was Lil Hoff's two month check up as well as the first batch of vaccinations. I have been dreading this for at least a week. I was nervous as we drove to the doctor's and I was praying as we waited to be called in and too soon we were waiting for the doctor to come in.

This is a pretty happy little boy not knowing what is to come.

And we wait......

And wait.....

After being weighed and measured here are the stats:

Lil Hoff weighs 16 pounds and 3 ounces which is in the 98 percentile

He measures 24 and 3/4 inches which is in the 96 percentile

And his head measures at 16 and 3/4 inches which is the 91 percentile

The doctor said everything is perfect and he has no problem gaining weight..ha! She had nothing but good to say. His lungs sound good, his eyes are good, and his ears looked good.

Now comes the fun part.

"Mom what is happening?"

"Mom why are you crying?"

"OH! That hurts!!"

"That really hurts!!"

"You have to do both legs?"

Farmboy had to take over while mommy gained back her composure. After several Kleenexes and lots of kisses on Lil Hoff, Farmboy had to pry Lil Hoff away from me to get him dressed to leave. By the time I made his next appointment Farmboy had Lil Hoff calmed down.

We have made it home but he is pretty fussy, I am beginning to think this could be a loooong night.

XOXO - Sandi Rose

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The race is on

Saturday was a very fulfilling day. Some days you just feel so blessed with what the Lord has given you and you have a full heart. Saturday was one of those days. It started off dropping Lil Hoff off with my sister and brother in law so that I could head over to the bowling alley and participate in an Optimist activity. Optimist has teamed up with S.C.A.N. (supporting children with additional needs) and a couple volunteers are signing up each Saturday to spend the morning helping a child bowl.  I had such a good time. These kids are so delightful to be around and have such wonderful personalities that you forget that they do have additional needs, but the kids are bowling and laughing and having such a good time. And the parents are just hanging out with one another and laughing and have a equally good time. I left that morning feeling so unbelievably humble by what I have in life and I could not wait to see Lil Hoff and smother him in kisses.

I then meet up with my sister and brother in law and nephews at the derby race. My nephew is in cub scouts and this is his first race. They get a block of wood and they can shape it into whatever they want, the only rule is that the car can't weigh more than 5 ounces. It was fun to watch him get excited as his car was beating out others, we are not sure yet if he won but he defiantly had a fast car.

Here he is with his car. He had designed and named it "The Hawk". My sister said he did most the work himself and did such a good job.

Get ready, set, go! Each car raced in each lane so that it was completely fair and no one could say that one lane was faster than the other.

They can really gain some speed coming down that hill.

And the crowd went wild!

Good job Steven! I am so proud of you.

XOXO - Sandi Rose

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