Rocket Ships and Baseballs

I often wonder if the clothes that I dress my son in depict what I am interested in or if it's just a broad range of the things he could be into. His dresser is full of clothes with dogs, sports, robots, rocket ships, ducks and even a squirrel (well I think it's a squirrel). Baby boy clothes (while very cute) are just so random! I try to dress him in everything at least once since most of his clothes were gifts. But I just wonder if when he gets older and sees these pictures of what he wore as a baby if he is going to be like "I can not believe I had to wear robots....or ducks..." you know? Well he is a boy so I'm sure he will not even care what he had to wear. But you get what I mean...He could totally hate rocket ships when he is older. I just don't know. When we decided what his nursery theme would be, my husband was like "SPORTS!" but then as I looked at the sports bedding and the different things out there I thought...you know, he is going to have NO IDEA what sports are for at least the first year. Why not create a nursery that we like that is not so busy but more simple and modern. Save the sports themes for the years ahead when he is totally into it....Or the rocket ship themes...see we just don't know what it will be.

My whole idea behind this is I am realizing as parents we try so hard to mold our baby's personality into one of our own. We want him to be a fan of Oregon Ducks, Red Sox, Kentucky basketball..we want him to be a lefty so that he can become a really good pitcher in baseball, we want him to play all sports. Yet, he could grow up to be complete opposite. He could love to play music (which neither of us have that gift), draw, be into science (also which neither of us are good at)....So no matter how many football onesies and Oregon Duck outfits he wears, that doesn't mean that's who he will grow up to be. But it sure is cute for now!

Daycare is HARD

Yesterday we visited an in-home (sorta) daycare in hopes to find the perfect safe place for Landon to go while we slave away at work (ok not slave but hey I'd rather be home). Let me just say how the hell did this place become a daycare? It was GROSS! And that made me sad. Sad that we still are looking for daycare and sad that parents actually agree to this place. It is a converted "barn" or so they say. Looks more like a falling apart little house. Duct tape over the door frame (Is this to keep water out??), gross dirty play pens for babies to sleep, dishes piled high, furniture that looked like it was picked up out of a dumpster. Ok I know Im a bit of a clean, neat freak, but I'm not exaggerating people. The topper for me was when she picked up a 5 month old (the only kid there by the way) out of the exersaucer he was hangin out in, the bottom of his bare feet were dirty! Like crums attached dirty. EW! ok so is this what my money gets me? Please tell me NO! I know it was only 1 place and thankfully Landon slept the whole time we were there. I wouldn't want him waking up to see this hell-hole of a place and worry that I was going to ditch him there. I'll sneak him into my work in my purse before I leave him there. Daycare....bleh!

In other news, for all you Android users with babies, I highly suggest the app called Relax and Sleep (or something like that)...It's a bunch of white noise sounds and Landon has been crashed to the sound of the ocean (I know...he'll probably wake to a full diaper too) for 2 hours now. Mommy loves!

Here he is ready for some time out on the town. I know...he's so cute huh?

Ready...Set...Sit...

mmmm maybe not yet. Soon we will love the Bumbo chair....soon.

Till next time

Turkey Dinners.

Live. Laugh. Love

Check it out...He DOES smile! I was beginning to think he was so serious. He always means business....eat business. sleep business. poop business. Serious stuff there. But hey! Landon is living LAUGHING and we are loving it! Also please note: my baby is wearing (loosley) size 3 Months now!! And at his weight check yesterday, he had gained 1 pound in a week. We have ourselves a chunk here. The dr is very pleased with him.

On another note: Yesterday was also his foot dr appt for cast #5. This casting process has been flying by! Before we know it he will be running and playing ball. Anyway, yesterday consisted of cast #4 OFF, xrays (in which he bawled...sad), sizing for his Ponseti Shoes and finally a big bottle to drink while they put cast #5 on. He does great with getting the cast off and on. His dr determined from the xrays that his foot is correcting so well that we don't need to have the heel nick surgery next week. yay! However if in a few months his foot is still a little tight, they will do it. But for now...Yay! I hope you are enjoying watching the process of his foot like we are. Amazing what dr's can do. They are my heroes!

Lincoln City

Last weekend we took Landon to the Oregon Coast for the first time...

I think he loved it ;)

Maybe next time we can run on the beach and splash in the water...maybe.

Precious Portraits

Jenny Hill Photography you are AMAZING!!!

Feeding Frenzies

So for the 1st 2 weeks of Landon's life, we were convinced we had a pissed off baby. We spent every other night or more sleeping on the couch because holding Landon was the only way he would sleep. He was like clock work...Every night about 1am he would scream and scream and there was no getting him calm. So...I would wake up my loving husband and tell him it's time to move downstairs. Feeding Landon was the only way to get him to sleep and continuing to hold him after that was the only way for everyone to get a little shut eye. By the 3rd week I finally called his pediatrician to get some advice. With the crying and all the tummy aches we thought it was a sensitivity to something in my milk...so we tried switching to a hypoallergenic formula to see if it was dairy causing the problem....I was so worried that it was because in that case I would have to take all dairy out of my diet...umm not sure how I would manage!!! HELLO!! Milk and cheese are my lifeline. So the bad news was the formula didn't help his tummy feel better but the good news is that meant it was not a dairy problem. Hooray! We went to the lactation nurse and the first thing she said was feed him more! He was not gaining nearly enough weight and his fussiness was because he was still hungry. So we doubled the food and put him into food comas at every feeding. What do you know?? He's a whole new baby! After 5 days on the food coma diet...or the "turkey dinners" as we call it, he gained 10 oz and is so much more content. I never thought that his crying would be his way of telling us he is a hog kid and wants more food! So FOOD FRENZY it is! Since we doubled the food, we still have to supplement since my milk isn't up to par with his need for so much but it's going well and it gives my husband the opportunity to feed him as well. Win Win Win!

Turkey Dinners!