Sleeping Baby Boy

I LOVE watching Grayson sleep! He is just so gosh darn adorable I can't even stand it!!! Usually the only time I can see him sleeping is when I'm driving in the mirror... ever since he's learned to roll over he usually sleeps on his stomach. And all I want to do is stop the car and go sit back there and just stare at him. I feel like I could watch him for hours. But then again... I don't want to just watch... I want to touch his chubby little cheeks and give him kisses! Sadly for me he is such a light sleeper and would wake up if I tried any of this. Oh how I miss the days when he would just fall asleep on my chest and we could nap together!!!

Ma Ma

So tonight Dave and I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. We ate dinner and gave Grayson a bath and then grabbed Jack and Boomer and started walking. Grayson apparently ate too soon before going in the stroller because about halfway through our walk he spit up all over himself. I grabbed a burp rag and started cleaning him off and he looked up at me, smiled, lifted his arms in the air to be picked up and said "Ma Ma!" :)

I got all excited and looked at Dave and he was pretty excited too! And I started clapping and I said yea! Ma Ma! And Grayson just smiled at me!!! :) Oh my goodness!!!

Dave says he has to say it like that a few more times before he'll believe he said it on purpose... but I think Ma Ma is his first word! Hurray!!!!

Not as Planned

So I was in the car on the way back from Costco today and I have one of those mirrors so I can see Grayson in the backseat. He was holding up his little Winnie the Pooh book and studying it so closely; and I welled up with such huge amounts of love for his serious little face! And I started thinking about how awesome he is and how much fun we have and how really nothing in all of this went the way I thought it would. It started with having to have a c-section has worked its way up to me now no longer breast feeding him. But he's happy and healthy and in my opinion super smart! :) And really I think that's all you can ask for... and I wanted to write down how I was feeling about it all today so that the next time I started feeling guilty about not breast feeding or struggling with things not going just as planned I could read this and realize that it's all ok!

Now... back to Grayson being super smart :) We went to the Dr's office last week and they have these boards on the walls for kids to play with that are like giant mood rings. They are big and black and when you touch them the heat of your hand changes the color and leaves a mark and depending on how long you leave your hand on the board it changes color and stays longer and all that jazz. Anyways I was showing Grayson how it worked while the nurse was taking all her notes and then he started to play with it too... and was smiling and running his hands all over it. And right before the nurse walked out the door she said... "I know it has nothing to do with why you came in but I added to the notes that he's very attentive and alert and curious. That is wonderful!"

We went swimming in Elizabeth's pool with Grayson this weekend and he had sooo much fun! So I've included some pictures of the event below... along with my new favorite of Grayson and Boomer.

Hanging out with Puppy while Mom and Dad do yard work.

Swimming in Lizzers pool with Mommy

The best way to get around the pool was to stand on Daddy's stomach and have him glide us around!

This is the life!!!

Solids!

So Grayson has started on solids! This was an event that I was looking forward to more than you could possibly imagine. I went out and bought bowls and spoons a month before it was time to start. Since Grayson was having a bought of diarrhea, his pediatrician suggested we start with carrots or bananas since they are constapators. I decided to go with carrots... and he loved them!!!

After the required three days, we tried bananas... and again... LOVE! I was so excited! I kept hearing about babies that don't like solids when they start or who only like certain things... and here I had a kid who loved it all! Next I really wanted to give him apples... so I went to the store... bought the organic fujis... peeled them, boiled them, blended them up... and sat down to feed it to him. I was so excited! I love apples! Grayson? Not too excited about them... so I tried again the next day... still not excited about them... so I tried them AGAIN and even mixed them with carrots... still no go... I can not tell you how sad I am about this!

Dave really wanted to give him sweet potatoes so I tried those next and of course... he loves them! Ugh... I really want a kid that will eat anything... and they say if you just keep trying they will eventually come around to it... so I have my ice cube size servings of apples in the freezer and in a week or so... I will try again.

Tomorrow we will try something green... peas or green beans... cross your fingers he likes those!

Pretty excited about his new high chair! (as are mommy and daddy cause we got a super good deal on it!)

Yes that is a very large shot of tequila... Dave thinks it's funny that Grayson wants it... Apparently this is how Dad's bond with their sons?

He wants my phone... I just think he's cute :)

GROSSest Mom Moment (so far)

I've been peed on and pooped on and spit up on and drooled on... I've even had some drool drip right in to my big smiling open mouth... but this is the worst!

While laying on my back and flying Grayson over my head this morning (this is also how I got drool in my mouth... you think I would have learned) I got puked on! On my face!!! There was no warning... he was cooing and smiling and all around very happy and then all of a sudden... puke! All over me! Luckily this time I had my mouth closed... but it still went all over my closed mouth and in my hair and UP MY NOSE! I've blown my nose three times and can still smell it!!!

Time for a very long shower and a trip to the candle store so I can kill any of the smell left in my nose with that of 100 different candle smells. Thanks Grayson...

Frustrated Little Guy

Grayson is finally rolling over onto his tummy!! Knowing how much he hated being on his stomach I was pretty certain he would never be motivated to roll over that direction and also would have bet money that he would be one of the kids that walked before he crawled. However on Friday he started rolling onto his stomach like it was the most natural thing in the world and has since been spending hours a day on his tummy!

This has made me VERY happy! Happier than I thought it would... however Grayson still doesn't seem happy... he rolls over onto his tummy... lays there looking around for a few minutes and then starts crying. At first I thought he couldn't figure out how to roll himself back over so I rolled him back to his back... and he immediately rolled back onto his stomach and would start fussing again... I went through this little routine a few times before just leaving him on his stomach to fuss. I was slightly devistated because everyone is always talking about how smart they think their baby is and I couldn't figure out why Grayson was being so slow about all this... I looked away for 30 seconds and when I turned back around I found this...

So obviously it wasn't that he couldn't roll himself back over. And that's when I figured it out... this kid wants to move!!! He rolls over onto his stomach and he grunts and pushes and tries soooo hard to get himself to move forward and he just can't do it. The poor boy is so frustrated that he just cries. :( I moved his arms army crawls style for him and he thought that was pretty cool... but I think not being able to do it himself only made him more frustrated in the end.

So here is my prediction... in one month he will be crawling... or at least army crawling everywhere he wants to go. I hope!! Because I'm not going to be able to deal with the constant fuss forever!

Other random pictures to enjoy... :)

Lovin the puppy!

Playing with Eli

Humidifier

Tonight I went to Bartells to pick up a humidifier for Grayson's room. His nose has been a bit stuffy and tonight it was so bad that he couldn't suck on his pacifier and still breathe through his nose... which of course meant that he could not fall asleep. So off I went...

When I got to the humidifier aisle I was confronted with 9 (NINE!!!!) different humidifiers. There were cool mist and warm mist, AND cool vapor and warm vapor (what is the difference between vapor and mist???), there were ones with filters and ones without filters, there were ones that claimed they only shot out bacteria free mist, and silent ones and ones with night lights and OH MY GOODNESS!!! It was very confusing... they ranged in price from $19 to $89... and all I could do was stare... I stood and stared for a good 5 minutes before even picking up a box to look at them. I thought about calling Dave at home to get his opinion... but then I knew what he would say... "just get the cheapest one and come home". I thought about calling my mom... but at 9 at night she was probably going to bed... and the thought that ran through my mind was... "for goodness sakes Colleen... YOU are a mom now... and it's just a humidifier... you can pick one out yourself!"

I thought about the humidifier we had as a kid... it was loud and sputtered out a pretty good stream of mist and seemed to do the trick... it was not "warm" or "cool" it was just room temperature... which then made me think... no matter what temperature it gets spit out as... by the time it reaches Grayson in his crib it will be room temperature. There was one labeled "pediatric" (a cool mist humidifier) and it was on clearance... and upon closer examination is was the exact same humidifier as the one next to it just in a box that said "pediatric" so I thought... save $4 and buy one of the cheaper humidifiers... SOLD.

I brought it home... plugged it in... and as far as I'm concerned... it IS silent! And is spitting out misty cool air... cross your fingers that it works!!!