18 and 19 weeks update!

So... I am obviously not very good about doing this on Monday's, or really any scheduled day, but I'll get to it when I get to it, lol.

Things are going really well right now with Sam. He's really getting to the point where he is social, he loves to talk to me and AJ, (and pretty much anyone else, LOL!) His favorite thing to do is to lay on the floor on his little toy mat thing and bat at the toys, (can't wait till Christmas, I got him such a fun toy that he will LOVE!) He's really good at rolling from his tummy to his back, but he won't do it unless it's the middle of the night. I've seen him do it like 5 times, but he just refuses to do it during the day! He also is getting really good at sitting (supported), and I'm putting him in his bumbo seat a lot so that he can strengthen his back muscles for sitting on his own soon. He loves, loves loves solid foods, and eats like a little piggy whenever I feed him, (he finishes the whole little jar right now which is about 1/2 the size of a regular jar!)

Unfortunately still not sleeping through the night yet, but I'm starting to wonder if it has to do with the fan, I forgot to turn the fan off the other night and he slept from 8:00 to 4:00 which is 8 hours, then went back to sleep for another four hours. So I have a small little fan that I'm going to set up in his room, so that there is air circulation without it being directly on him. I don't know, we'll see, bottom line is that he'll sleep through the night when he's ready, (I'm just ready for him to sleep through the night!)

Other than that, not much else going on, he's a happy happy little man, and I'm a happy happy momma!

Doing a little home improvement!

So we're doing a bathroom reno. Something that was unfortunately not by choice, we were redoing the caulking in the shower when a tile fell off the wall and we found mold underneath!! Luckily there was minor damage, but we decided that we needed a shower door instead of a shower curtain to keep it from happening again, and since we ripped out the linolium to check the subfloor obviously we have to get a new floor! So here's what's been done so far, AJ has put in the shower door, replaced the floor with tiles (looks really nice!) and we've also decided to do a few other things, we're going to paint the walls and we also ripped out the huge mirror that was in there (don't worry we're going to frame it and use it in another room.) We're also going to put some shelves above the toilet and replace the medicine cabinet as well as the light fixtures, we're also thinking about painting the cabinet. All in all I am excited about it now that we're doing it! And we're going to have plenty of tiles left over to tile Sam's bathroom as well. Then on to the next project! I had no idea how much fun renovating is, (of course I'm not the one doing all the work though, lol!)

17 Weeks Old!

My little man is getting mobile! He rolled over this week! First he did it from back to front, and then he did it from front to back. Unfortunately it may have been a fluke him doing it from back to front, since he hasn't done it since, but I know he's getting the hang of rolling over from front to back as several times I have gone into his room for a night feeding to him laying on his back, even though he's a tummy sleeper. (I even witnessed him doing it a few times!)

I also go the start of a belly laugh today. It was the cutest freaking thing ever! I love that he's starting to laugh like that. And he's sooo full of smiles all the time. I really love the fact that I get to spend time with him during the morning like this, though I do miss rocking him to sleep at night. But in all reality it's probably a good thing since AJ is teaching him to soothe himself to sleep instead of having to be rocked. Hopefully that will spill over into his nightime waking. I just don't know what to do with him since he wakes up and acts like he is STARVING. I think I'm going to try reducing the amount he eats in the middle of the night by half an ounce every few days till he gets the hint that the middle of the night is not eating time, lol. Then maybe he'll be more consistent when eating during the day and he'll start sleeping all night.

Feeding him solids is going great, I started him on green beans this week and he loves them! I also found that Kings has baby food that is half the size of a regular jar (so 2 oz instead of 4 oz) so that I don't have to waste the left over food. I'm going to start him on Squash on Sunday...

Well anyways, this has been a good week, lots of new stuff going on this week!

Oh I'm also going to be changing my update day to Monday since I'm no longer off on Wednesday, that way I will have time to keep this up!

Thankful Thursday's

This week I'm thankful for my husband, AJ. I am so lucky to have him! I look around me and I see all these people who are struggling to figure things out and they have little or no support and it really makes me appreciate even more how much AJ does for me and Sam. He is a wonderful dad and husband. He still finds time to show me how much he appreciates me and tells me all the time that he thinks I'm beautiful, and he absolutely adores Sam and is always there helping me out when I need it. I really am a lucky, lucky woman to have a husband like AJ! I also love the fact that I don't have to worry about car troubles and that he can do little things to make my car better. (He was able to activate the remote start for me! YAY!)

The bottom line is that AJ is there for me always, helping me out, loving on Sam and doing whatever he can to make things easier on me, and he doesn't complain for one minute! Like I said, extremely thankful for him.

Thankful Thursday's

This week I am thankful for Sam. He is my absolute most favorite person in the world and I love him more than words can describe. He is just such a happy baby and despite the fact that he has yet to sleep through the night, it really doens't bother me that I have to get up with him. He makes up for it in so many other ways, in all reality he is a relitively easy baby, he's easy to entertain, he loves to talk to his Momma and Daddy and snuggle with us and he doesn't cry easily, unless he's hungry, lol. I am thankful for the fact that he was able to get past his oxygen issues without any difficulty, that he is growing and he is big and strong. Most of all I am thankful that God chose me to be his Mother and that for the rest of my life I will always carry him with me wherever I go, even when we aren't together, and that when I say: "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be." I really mean it.

16 weeks Old!

Well I am late posting again, it is harder and harder to find time in my day, but I want to keep up with it anyways. Sam still hasn't rolled over yet, but he is soooo close, he got about 90% of the way over today but just couldn't get the last 10% and flopped back on his back, lol. He absolutely loves being on the floor now and it's my favorite time of day when I get off work and just get down on the floor with him and talk to him (while he babbles back, lol.) He's just getting so so big and actually likes to play with toys now, the more stuff he does the more exciting it is, lol. I know that it's going to be any day now that he finally rolls over, I just can't wait! I also started giving him real baby food, I started off mixing it in with rice cereal, I did that for three days and then I finally gave him straight baby food, he's getting over the texture now, but he loves it! I love feeding him too, he's so good, he opens his mouth for the spoon and doesn't spit it back at me anymore, he's just getting so big, my little cuddle muffin is turning into a curious little boy. Now that he can hold his head up by himself it is almost impossible to get him to lay his head on my shoulder unless he's tired! He's going to be an independant baby I think. Well all in all a great week and I am just loving that I get to be his mommy!

Thankful Thursday's (Okay, so I know it's technically friday today)

I know it isn't Thursday, I meant to post this yesterday, but things got away from me, lol. So in the future, this is something I'll be posting on Thursday's, I'm going to try to keep this up throughout the month of November, and maybe beyond if I like it.

This week I am thankful for all of my family and friends, who have been extremely helpful with my transition into motherhood and into being a working mom. I really do not know what I would do without all of your help and support... I am more than grateful that my son is always left with people who love and adore him and who will care for him the way I would. It has made working 100 times easier knowing that I do not have to worry about whether he is getting enough love and attention, to know that he is not just another child to watch, or another paycheck for someone. I know it is not always the easiest thing to change your day around for us, but we appreciate so much what you all do for us. And I love, love, love the fact that Sam is going to be close to his grandparents, cousins and Aunts and Uncles. This is the second best thing to being a stay at home Mom, knowing that I get to leave him with family.

So, to close, I just want you all to know how much I appreciate all you have done for my family. It won't be forgotten!

15 Weeks Old!

15 weeks old already, wow! He's going on four months already! He's so inquisitive lately, he watches everything and whenever I lay on the floor with him he sits there just touching my face like he wants to figure it out. And he's starting to play with toys now. Oh and he talks and talks and talks all the time now! And it's starting to be more than just cooing, he's gurgling and squealing and all of those fun things. I even got him to laugh a few times today!

Other than that he did roll over today! I laid him on his tummy and kind of showed him how to do it, after I showed him he did it again, but only one time, I think it's only a matter of time before he starts doing it all on his own all the time, and he's so close to rolling from his back to his tummy he just can't figure out how to get his arm out of the way.

I also started feeding him cereal twice a day, he absolutely loves it, he has even started finishing the whole bowl. Then he usually eats a few ounces out of his bottle afterwards. I really think he's ready for some baby food, I have a feeling he'll eat it up.

All in all he's just getting so big! I can't believe he's going to be four months old soon!