Dragon boy got his first taste of Reese's and was very interested in checking out all the costumes who came by for candy. Very successful All Hallows Eve!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Happy Halloween!
1 year, 18 days old
Dragon boy got his first taste of Reese's and was very interested in checking out all the costumes who came by for candy. Very successful All Hallows Eve!
Dragon boy got his first taste of Reese's and was very interested in checking out all the costumes who came by for candy. Very successful All Hallows Eve!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Project 365: Week 43
1 year, 24 days old
10-22-12
Barrett had his first full day in the Toucan classroom. Let's just say the big kids didn't like the new kid.
10-23-12
If only this was as peaceful as it looked.
10-24-12
The neighbor cat is an indoor/outdoor cat. B is scared to death of them. That's our kid! :)
10-25-12
Bubs loves flipping around spoons and taking the lids off pots and pans. Also notice he is wearing shorts. The weather today was fantastic.
10-26-12
Warm weather didn't last long. We had to bust out the winter coat for our walk today.
10-27-12
Dragon has found his next victim.
10-28-12
Don't let this fool you. He sat here for like 2 minutes and it was only because Aunt Allyson shared her goldfish.
10-22-12
Barrett had his first full day in the Toucan classroom. Let's just say the big kids didn't like the new kid.
10-23-12
If only this was as peaceful as it looked.
10-24-12
The neighbor cat is an indoor/outdoor cat. B is scared to death of them. That's our kid! :)
10-25-12
Bubs loves flipping around spoons and taking the lids off pots and pans. Also notice he is wearing shorts. The weather today was fantastic.
10-26-12
Warm weather didn't last long. We had to bust out the winter coat for our walk today.
10-27-12
Dragon has found his next victim.
10-28-12
Don't let this fool you. He sat here for like 2 minutes and it was only because Aunt Allyson shared her goldfish.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Birthday cake
1 year, 22 days old
I realized I never got around to uploading the footage from Barrett's birthday party. Like you saw in the pictures, cake was a hit!
I realized I never got around to uploading the footage from Barrett's birthday party. Like you saw in the pictures, cake was a hit!
Friday, October 26, 2012
Power of the Post
1 year, 20 days old
Apparently, I should vent on the blog more often when B is being a bear. Today was absolute perfection. Giggles, laughs, tons of smiles, talking, and no whining. Pretty much zilch.
A friday miracle!
Apparently, I should vent on the blog more often when B is being a bear. Today was absolute perfection. Giggles, laughs, tons of smiles, talking, and no whining. Pretty much zilch.
A friday miracle!
I'm at my wits end
1 year, 20 days old
You may notice that I label each blog post with Barrett's age. I do this so in the future I have record of what age he was when we do certain things or he reaches certain milestones. Well, this is an event that I need to record for my sanity if/when we get around to a sibling....because I'm taking a long vacation away so I don't have to deal with it again. :)
Not to be completely melodramatic but I don't really like Barrett right now. A few weeks ago, I could have said that 12 months was my favorite age yet. He is really turning into a kid who interacts and you can play with. He learns something new every day and it's a joy to watch. He's just fun. Then this week happened.
It all started last Friday. We had his 1 year well visit with the pediatrician. Prior to this, he was sleeping mostly perfect and acting normal. Whiney at times but mostly out of boredom. We had his regular scheduled 1 year shots, along with the flu shot. During the check up, we found out that he has another ear infection. He had no temperature so we went ahead with the shots. None of this phased us. Shots have been a synch in the past and we know that antibiotics usually clear up the ears pretty easily. We can deal. It was also at this appointment that we found out Barrett finally had more teeth coming in! On Thursday, we found the 1 bottom tooth but at the visit, we could see 4 more top teeth coming. Again, we can deal.
Saturday, Joe and I left B with the Easton's all day while we made a trip to Effingham for Linds and Troys bridal shower. Other than a few incidences of throw up, things went smoothly. I'm pretty sure the throw up was a teething symptom as he has been randomly puking clear liquid from all the extra saliva he has.
Sunday rolled around and it was like a flip was switched. He is non-stop clingy. He's been a really clingy baby most of his life, never wanting to lose sight of a person but nothing like this. He wants up, no he wants down, back up, back down. All the while he is crying. Tears will stream down his face. We go outside (his MECCA!) and he pouts, whines and latches on me. We'll try to get toys out to play on the floor and he climbs on me (wanting to get closer) while screaming. Then he wants nothing to do with me so he runs away. Then runs back because he wants to be near, then the cycle continues. All while he screams!
The first 10 or so weeks of his life, Barrett was colic-y at 9pm nightly. That was nothing compared to this. It's constant. I can't figure out what he needs. He doesn't want anything but he wants everything! He was switched over to his new room at daycare on Monday. In his old room, he never once cried or whined for me when I left. 4 days in a row now, I've had absolutely holy terror cries and latching on to me each morning. When I walk in to pick him up, he sees me, runs to me and tears start streaming. The only "silver lining" in this whole thing is that he's still sleeping great....maybe too great. He's been in bed about 5:45pm every night this week as a result of his behavior. We get home at 5:00 and have just enough time to feed him dinner before he is ready for bed. He practically launches himself into his crib and passes out. 13 hours is a normal night for him. He went 13 1/2 hours one night. He wakes up in the morning and does nothing but cry and whine.
I have no idea what to do. I don't think that anything is necessarily "wrong" and my personality is not one that can just sit back until the problem passes. I need to fix it. At first, I thought it was a mixture of shots, flu, teething, ears, new classroom that were all throwing him off. But I don't think so.
I've been a long time follower of the Babywise method since he was young and I have known about wonder weeks for a long time. Of course, I looked it up yesterday and we could easily be in the thick of Wonder Week 55 (technically based on due date, we would be in Week 54). I really hope that this is all that it is. If that's the case, they say we have potential 6 weeks of this behavior. I'm telling you I will go nuts if this lasts 6 weeks.
I want to enjoy him again. Be able to play and laugh and smile. That is not him right now. This too shall pass. This too shall pass. This too shall pass.
You may notice that I label each blog post with Barrett's age. I do this so in the future I have record of what age he was when we do certain things or he reaches certain milestones. Well, this is an event that I need to record for my sanity if/when we get around to a sibling....because I'm taking a long vacation away so I don't have to deal with it again. :)
Not to be completely melodramatic but I don't really like Barrett right now. A few weeks ago, I could have said that 12 months was my favorite age yet. He is really turning into a kid who interacts and you can play with. He learns something new every day and it's a joy to watch. He's just fun. Then this week happened.
It all started last Friday. We had his 1 year well visit with the pediatrician. Prior to this, he was sleeping mostly perfect and acting normal. Whiney at times but mostly out of boredom. We had his regular scheduled 1 year shots, along with the flu shot. During the check up, we found out that he has another ear infection. He had no temperature so we went ahead with the shots. None of this phased us. Shots have been a synch in the past and we know that antibiotics usually clear up the ears pretty easily. We can deal. It was also at this appointment that we found out Barrett finally had more teeth coming in! On Thursday, we found the 1 bottom tooth but at the visit, we could see 4 more top teeth coming. Again, we can deal.
Saturday, Joe and I left B with the Easton's all day while we made a trip to Effingham for Linds and Troys bridal shower. Other than a few incidences of throw up, things went smoothly. I'm pretty sure the throw up was a teething symptom as he has been randomly puking clear liquid from all the extra saliva he has.
Sunday rolled around and it was like a flip was switched. He is non-stop clingy. He's been a really clingy baby most of his life, never wanting to lose sight of a person but nothing like this. He wants up, no he wants down, back up, back down. All the while he is crying. Tears will stream down his face. We go outside (his MECCA!) and he pouts, whines and latches on me. We'll try to get toys out to play on the floor and he climbs on me (wanting to get closer) while screaming. Then he wants nothing to do with me so he runs away. Then runs back because he wants to be near, then the cycle continues. All while he screams!
The first 10 or so weeks of his life, Barrett was colic-y at 9pm nightly. That was nothing compared to this. It's constant. I can't figure out what he needs. He doesn't want anything but he wants everything! He was switched over to his new room at daycare on Monday. In his old room, he never once cried or whined for me when I left. 4 days in a row now, I've had absolutely holy terror cries and latching on to me each morning. When I walk in to pick him up, he sees me, runs to me and tears start streaming. The only "silver lining" in this whole thing is that he's still sleeping great....maybe too great. He's been in bed about 5:45pm every night this week as a result of his behavior. We get home at 5:00 and have just enough time to feed him dinner before he is ready for bed. He practically launches himself into his crib and passes out. 13 hours is a normal night for him. He went 13 1/2 hours one night. He wakes up in the morning and does nothing but cry and whine.
I have no idea what to do. I don't think that anything is necessarily "wrong" and my personality is not one that can just sit back until the problem passes. I need to fix it. At first, I thought it was a mixture of shots, flu, teething, ears, new classroom that were all throwing him off. But I don't think so.
I've been a long time follower of the Babywise method since he was young and I have known about wonder weeks for a long time. Of course, I looked it up yesterday and we could easily be in the thick of Wonder Week 55 (technically based on due date, we would be in Week 54). I really hope that this is all that it is. If that's the case, they say we have potential 6 weeks of this behavior. I'm telling you I will go nuts if this lasts 6 weeks.
I want to enjoy him again. Be able to play and laugh and smile. That is not him right now. This too shall pass. This too shall pass. This too shall pass.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Pardise by the Dashboard LIGHT
1 year, 19 days old
Who doesn't love Meatloaf, I say.
When we bought our house last Fall, the exterior lights that came with the house were ugly. I don't even remember the shape or style but they were rusted over and gross. I'm very much a cheapskate though. They worked so we're keeping them until we started to work on the front of the house. I was almost 9 months pregnant and the ugly outside lights were so far on the bottom of the To-Do list.
Or so I thought.
Labor Day weekend, I had to travel home to Pontiac but Joe needed to get some more renovations done on the house so he stayed in Chatham. I had a nice weekend (what would be my last in town until after Baby B was born) and Joe knocked out painting a few rooms and you guessed it....installing new exterior lights.
That's kinda how Joe works. He gets something in his head and he wants to do it. He did the same thing when he decided to install automatic lights for when you walk down the basement steps (no need to manually flip the light switch) or when he installed piping to constantly circulate hot water throughout the house so that no matter where we are in the house, it had hot water immediately.
Anyways...I'm rambling. Joe likes random projects.
I came home after the holiday and as soon as I pulled in the driveway, I noticed the new lights. They were plain, simple, not very attractive but not really ugly either. So we had new lights. Whatever.
Back to present day, we needed to pick out a light for out on the deck. I found one that I liked but instead of installing it in the back where no one but us would see it, we decided to put the new light out front and install one of our old lights in the back. Eventually, we will get them all to match.
I found this old picture from when we first moved in and it's pretty accurate. We've removed some of the excess landscaping and cleaned things up but otherwise, still the same. Save for the new light.
Our spring project for next year will be the front of the house. You can see that there are accents of black in the brick so we are following that along in our changes. We already painted the front door black, which you can't see much of since we still have the storm door. Besides the new black lights, we will paint the shutters black and probably move them to the bedroom window on the right.
Before: LAME
After: Much better
You can see that the light is not quite symmetrical between the windows and door because of the shutters so I think I'll like it better if we moved them. Regardless, the shutters are getting painted black. Painting the garage door and trim is also happening. TBD on color.
It never ends, but slowly we'll get there.
Who doesn't love Meatloaf, I say.
When we bought our house last Fall, the exterior lights that came with the house were ugly. I don't even remember the shape or style but they were rusted over and gross. I'm very much a cheapskate though. They worked so we're keeping them until we started to work on the front of the house. I was almost 9 months pregnant and the ugly outside lights were so far on the bottom of the To-Do list.
Or so I thought.
Labor Day weekend, I had to travel home to Pontiac but Joe needed to get some more renovations done on the house so he stayed in Chatham. I had a nice weekend (what would be my last in town until after Baby B was born) and Joe knocked out painting a few rooms and you guessed it....installing new exterior lights.
That's kinda how Joe works. He gets something in his head and he wants to do it. He did the same thing when he decided to install automatic lights for when you walk down the basement steps (no need to manually flip the light switch) or when he installed piping to constantly circulate hot water throughout the house so that no matter where we are in the house, it had hot water immediately.
Anyways...I'm rambling. Joe likes random projects.
I came home after the holiday and as soon as I pulled in the driveway, I noticed the new lights. They were plain, simple, not very attractive but not really ugly either. So we had new lights. Whatever.
Back to present day, we needed to pick out a light for out on the deck. I found one that I liked but instead of installing it in the back where no one but us would see it, we decided to put the new light out front and install one of our old lights in the back. Eventually, we will get them all to match.
I found this old picture from when we first moved in and it's pretty accurate. We've removed some of the excess landscaping and cleaned things up but otherwise, still the same. Save for the new light.
Our spring project for next year will be the front of the house. You can see that there are accents of black in the brick so we are following that along in our changes. We already painted the front door black, which you can't see much of since we still have the storm door. Besides the new black lights, we will paint the shutters black and probably move them to the bedroom window on the right.
Before: LAME
After: Much better
You can see that the light is not quite symmetrical between the windows and door because of the shutters so I think I'll like it better if we moved them. Regardless, the shutters are getting painted black. Painting the garage door and trim is also happening. TBD on color.
It never ends, but slowly we'll get there.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Project 365: Week 42
1 year, 17 days old
10-15-12
B loves to mess with the water spout and raise the lever that starts the shower. Drives.me.nuts.
10-16-12
Walking in and out the door can entertain this kid for way longer than it should.
10-17-12
Barrett hanging out with Crush on his new bean bag he got from Grandpa T for his birthday.
10-18-12
It's amazing to me that Bubs can pick up a phone and know exactly what to do with it especially since Joe and I rarely talk on the phone. This is one of 3 phone that B can claim as his own.
10-19-12
I don't know what's bigger.....his tummy or butt.
10-20-12
After both Christmas and Birthdays, we keep all the toys in the boxes and each month will get out something new. We just got through the Christmas stuff from last year and are slowly working our way through his birthday. Today's new toy was the lawn mower.
10-21-12
Bubs got to have a special treat with Mom after dinner. Vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce!
10-15-12
B loves to mess with the water spout and raise the lever that starts the shower. Drives.me.nuts.
10-16-12
Walking in and out the door can entertain this kid for way longer than it should.
10-17-12
Barrett hanging out with Crush on his new bean bag he got from Grandpa T for his birthday.
10-18-12
It's amazing to me that Bubs can pick up a phone and know exactly what to do with it especially since Joe and I rarely talk on the phone. This is one of 3 phone that B can claim as his own.
10-19-12
I don't know what's bigger.....his tummy or butt.
10-20-12
After both Christmas and Birthdays, we keep all the toys in the boxes and each month will get out something new. We just got through the Christmas stuff from last year and are slowly working our way through his birthday. Today's new toy was the lawn mower.
10-21-12
Bubs got to have a special treat with Mom after dinner. Vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce!
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Family pictures 2012
1 year, 15 days old
I asked my sister Allyson to take our family pictures this year.
1. I'm cheap
2. I like to have control
This is perfect for me. As long as we got 1 good one with the three of us, I would be satisfied. She would take them and I would edit them. We took about 250 total but unfortunately, I didn't prepare her enough and only about 10 are in focus. BUT it's better than none. Barrett was pretty cooperative since he was outside but he did want to run around the whole time. We went to the park about 8:30am which is my favorite time to take pictures and as you can see the weather could not have been better.
All group pictures taken by Allyson. Barrett pictures taken by me.
I asked my sister Allyson to take our family pictures this year.
1. I'm cheap
2. I like to have control
This is perfect for me. As long as we got 1 good one with the three of us, I would be satisfied. She would take them and I would edit them. We took about 250 total but unfortunately, I didn't prepare her enough and only about 10 are in focus. BUT it's better than none. Barrett was pretty cooperative since he was outside but he did want to run around the whole time. We went to the park about 8:30am which is my favorite time to take pictures and as you can see the weather could not have been better.
All group pictures taken by Allyson. Barrett pictures taken by me.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Tidbits
1 year, 12 days old
*Yesterday, at 1 year 11 days old, B's first tooth popped through. It's about time!
*The changing table is outta here. We practically have to tie him down to get a new diaper on him so gone it is. Since he won't be up there messing with things, I hung his picture banner.
*This past weekend, I ordered what I think (hope?) to be my last ever bridesmaid dress for Rachel's wedding. There have only been 5 total so not an obscene number but more than enough. Somehow I managed to get dresses that are all completely different for each wedding though which is nice. It looks really cool on. It was a unanimous decision, too.
In a darkesh purple color
*Bubs has his last day in the infant classroom at school tomorrow. Monday will be his first full day as a Toucan! He's been going in to play all week, each day the time gets longer and longer but drop offs and pick ups have still been in his normal classroom. The girls said he's been having a blast. He has so much new stuff to play with and more interactive kids since this is the 1-2 year room. I think he's ready to move. I'm just a teeny bit nervous about not dropping him off to Ms. Tricia in the mornings. He's getting so big!
*Barrett has been waving for a while now. Joe and I crack up every time he does it. We probably say "bye bye" and "hello" 80 times a day and no matter what he's doing, B will stop and wave.
How can you not smile at this?!
*Yesterday, at 1 year 11 days old, B's first tooth popped through. It's about time!
*The changing table is outta here. We practically have to tie him down to get a new diaper on him so gone it is. Since he won't be up there messing with things, I hung his picture banner.
*This past weekend, I ordered what I think (hope?) to be my last ever bridesmaid dress for Rachel's wedding. There have only been 5 total so not an obscene number but more than enough. Somehow I managed to get dresses that are all completely different for each wedding though which is nice. It looks really cool on. It was a unanimous decision, too.
In a darkesh purple color
*Bubs has his last day in the infant classroom at school tomorrow. Monday will be his first full day as a Toucan! He's been going in to play all week, each day the time gets longer and longer but drop offs and pick ups have still been in his normal classroom. The girls said he's been having a blast. He has so much new stuff to play with and more interactive kids since this is the 1-2 year room. I think he's ready to move. I'm just a teeny bit nervous about not dropping him off to Ms. Tricia in the mornings. He's getting so big!
*Barrett has been waving for a while now. Joe and I crack up every time he does it. We probably say "bye bye" and "hello" 80 times a day and no matter what he's doing, B will stop and wave.
How can you not smile at this?!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Project 365: Week 41
1 year, 10 days old
10-08-12
B and Dad read "The Bearenstein Bears B Book". If you haven't read it before, it's a tongue twister.
10-09-12
These two have no shortage of pictures together.
10-10-12
There isn't much Barrett loves more these days than bananas.
10-11-12
In the mornings, Bubs likes to play the game of run in circles around the glider.
10-12-12
Little man has a strange interest in his closet. He will just sit here and study the things inside.
10-13-12
After dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's, Barrett got a hold of Aunt Allyson's purse and played with it for a long time.
10-14-12
There is nothing B loves more than being outside.
10-08-12
B and Dad read "The Bearenstein Bears B Book". If you haven't read it before, it's a tongue twister.
10-09-12
These two have no shortage of pictures together.
10-10-12
There isn't much Barrett loves more these days than bananas.
10-11-12
In the mornings, Bubs likes to play the game of run in circles around the glider.
10-12-12
Little man has a strange interest in his closet. He will just sit here and study the things inside.
10-13-12
After dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's, Barrett got a hold of Aunt Allyson's purse and played with it for a long time.
10-14-12
There is nothing B loves more than being outside.
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