Kelvin is sitting up by himself!
Wtf, right? One day he is just did it. It was really weird. Now when he is back in his crib I hear these random thuds every once in awhile when he falls over. Yesterday, I found this...
It looks like someone fell asleep while actually sitting up. I didn't know that was possible. Oh, and yes, if you are wondering if that is a binks slightly poking out of his mouth, you are correct. We did really really good for three days without the binks, but it looks like he might be getting a tooth. And I could not handle him getting his first tooth and taking away the binks in the same time frame. I caved. I am weak. But, once the first tooth is here, that binks is out of here.
Binks situation.
We have a bit of a binky situation. The babes wakes up every single morning around 6 ish for his binky. I will go in and give it to him and then he will go back to sleep for about an hour. But this whole getting up at 6 thing has gotten super annoying. Not to mention the nights he will wake up at 2:30 or 3 for it. So, I am thinking...this must stop. My thinking is, if he doesn't have it or remember having it, he won't wake up for it anymore. So this Thursday night...no more binks. I am starting it on Thursday because that is when the weekend starts for us and I am going to need Brady here to make sure I don't go completely insane. He never has it during the day, only for naps and bedtime. But wow, if he doesn't have that damn thing he lets us know. It shall be an interesting weekend. I would rather just get it over with now anyway. And if I don't do it now, I never will. And then I will become the mom and the five year old kid at Target that still has a binky. And from what I hear, that's not a good thing to be.
If we have another one, I am not allowing binkys (well I say that now. I don't think some babies can live without binks). If I could, I would start them on sippy cups from the day they are born instead of bottles too. A girl can dream right?
So everyone...please...please send us your best wishes on our taking away the bink weekend. I am excited for it to be over with. Hopefully I will stay strong and won't give in. I am planning on throwing them away or cutting them up so there is no possible way I will give in. I am hoping he will just find his thumb and suck on that for awhile. Because thumbs don't get thrown at of the crib onto the floor for the very unexpecting me to step on in the mornings.
Oooopsy
I moved our blog and didn't have everything quite backed up correctly so please be patient as I work to correct any issues.
We are truly living on the edge.
Brady and I got to talking last night about a few things. It first started off with what we should do when he gets his tax return back. I made a suggestion that we should put together a little 72 hour emergency kit. Then we starting thinking....wow we are idiots we should already have some of this stuff to being with. Like bottled water for instance? That stuff is about 4 dollars a case, why the hell don't we have that already?! Not to mention the fact that we would be completely one hundred percent screwed if, for example, a huge earthquake was to happen. We live in the Bay Area and you cannot tell me that that is not a very big possibility. Actually, it will happen. Someday, yes, indeed a big earthquake will happen here. I may be 79 years old when it does, but it will. We are totally on our own here. We live about 30 minutes away from Brady's dad, but you have to cross a bridge to get there and what if the bridges are collapsed? His mom, and my family all live in Utah, pretty sure we aren't going to be able to get out there! Not to mention the fact that we don't know anyone up here in Fairfield at all. This is just proving my point that we would be fending for ourselves big time.
Once we got to thinking about things we could of made a list a mile long of everything we would want to get. I was really just in shock about how stupid it is not to have some basic stuff. Especially if you have no family or another person's home you could go too if there was an emergency. My first instinct if there was an earthquake would to be, get the baby, and sit under the desk or door frame and wait. Most likely cry a whole bunch too. That is seriously what I would do. And that's all I would do. I have no clue what do to after that! Call 911? Uh, yeah pretty sure they are going to be busy. Try calling Brady? I don't know. I've obviously never have been in a big earthquake before...I did actually feel my first one a few weeks ago though.
I look forward too putting some stuff together. Now that we got to talking about it I am paranoid about things now. I will feel better once we have some cases of water and tons of extra formula in the house. I am really glad I brought up doing that. Because you never know. You cannot predict these sorta things. You don't ever think about it until it happens, and by then it is too late! I love how super paranoid I have become ever since the babes was born. It is so funny because I never ever was like that. I didn't ever really think things through before I did them. My hands are so dry and cracked now, not because it's colder (although that doesn't help any) but because I wash them literally 30 plus times a day. I am so scared about germs and the baby. When he was still a newbie it took me 10 minutes to make him a two ounce bottle. I had to make sure I filled the water up EXACTLY too the two ounce line. Everything had to be perfect before I would feed him. It was ridiculous, I am much better with things now. Besides the OCD hand washing.
A little talk.
I had to sit down Kelvie the other day...we had a nice little chat about holding his bottles. I told him I quit! As of yesterday I put my foot down and said no more. We talked about how he is a big boy, nine months old now, and big boys hold their own bottles. I have been putting him in his swing and having him hold it as best as he can. We shall see how this turns out. He does quite well with it really, but I still sit with him and help him with it as needed. I give him a few more weeks before he is bottle holder champ of the world.
I decided to put him in his walker today. His feet don't touch the floor, it looks rather funny. I know those aren't recommended to use, and Pam says that we shouldn't, but quite frankly...I don't know one parent that hasn't used one of these before. Have you ever seen an adult walking around with a limp due to an old exersaucer injury? I highly doubt it. The way it holds him looks like he is sitting in his high chair or something right now. All he does in it is try to eat the little toys that are on it. I am hoping keeping him in that will maybe lengthen him out a little bit, haha. Looks like he is taking after his mother, he has very very short little leggys, as do I. He is extremely flexible, much more then he should be. Even for a child with Down syndrome, he is quite the loosey goosey. I am also like that. I think he got most of his body make up from me, and facial features from Brady. He looks much more like Brady than me.
Anti fruit situation…somewhat solved!
It seems the babes has very specific tastes. He likes all the veggies we have given him, but hates fruit and juice. Except for...drum roll please...pears, and the apple and sweet potato mix. I am thinking about trying some mashed potatoes soon. I mean, who doesn't love mashed potatoes? They are delicious!
Don't mind the coffee stain on the counter. It wouldn't be there if a certain silly silly someone (me) didn't decide to stay up until midnight even when she knew, another certain silly silly someone (babezilla) was going to wake up at 5 am.
Oh, and fyi...just because some baby foods smell good DOES NOT mean they taste good. I had to learn that lesson the hard way. On more then one occasion.
Where's Kelvin at?
It looks like the babes has finally caught on to the whole peek-a-boo game. He thinks it is hilllllarious. These past couple weeks he has seemed to be really thriving. He will be nine months old on Wednesday! That is crazy to think about. When I went to Babies R' Us today I got him some handles that you attach to bottles to try to encourage him to hold his own bottle. Hopefully that will help him. He can't keep his hands still enough to grasp it so we will see how these work. I had a 5 dollar off coupon, and those were 4 bucks. Total steal. I don't know what I will do with all my free time once he is able to hold his own bottle. It is nice feeding him though. For the most part it is relaxing. As long as he isn't trying to pull my glasses off of my face. It appears that is his goal all day, everyday...must get mommy's glasses...the little dude has gotten quick at it too!
Babes is a monster. He probably weighs in at a good 22 pounds now. Friggen huge. I don't know what he are feeding him but it all goes straight to his thunder thighs. He is still in size four diapers. He has definitely been in that size the longest now. Although we do put him in size 5 overnight diapers at night. Those things are fantastic, I love them. I really think he will be crawling in the next few months here. He has reached a pretty big milestone recently, he is able to figure out how to get things. For example, if a toy is on the opposite side of the blanket on the floor then him, he will roll his way over and get it. He will turn himself all the way around on his stomach now as well. He almost got up on his knees today. It's getting close. I can feel it. I am thinking about getting some baby proofing stuff here pretty soon. Our apartment is definitely not safe for a baby on the go! We really need to get all that done in next few weeks.
We also have his six month evaluation for his EI coming up on the 9th. I don't really know how I feel about that. I know it's a good thing, but, meh, I could do without it. I think I might be a tad over protective of the babes. Oh well, what can you do right? I don't see how that is a bad thing, and I don't see that ever changing. I am going to be a disaster on his first day of school. And on his second day. And third day...and probably for every other day following that...Yikes. What can I say? I love the little guy. He can do no wrong.
His new thing. He will roll himself up in the blanket and play peek a boo.
Sleepy sleepy week.
This past week hasn't been so good. Monday started off fine (it was my birthday!) but then Tuesday things started getting crazy. Ever since Kelvin got sick he has decided to start waking up anywhere at 5:45 to 6:30 in the morning again. It is very very tiring when he wakes up that early. Since it has been raining pretty bad all week as well Brady got sent home from work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It was hard though because he still had to get up at 5, get ready and go in, only to be sent back home in an hour. Because of that he had to work Friday and Saturday to make up for it. Usually he works Monday through Thursday, ten hours a day but we haven't had a normal week like that since Christmas. Those weeks are awesome.
On top of all this sleepiness our car also has November tags on it. For the past two months I have been paranoid Paulie every time we leave the house. But, tomorrow it will all be solved!! I am going to go to the DMV first thing tomorrow morning and get it all up to date. I am in no way looking forward going there tomorrow, but it will be nice to be able to drive down the street to the store without having a panic attack. Wish me luck that I don't have to spend the entire day there. I hate the DMV. Hate the DMV. And the social security office. Going to those two places is the equivalent of a complete rectal examination.
Tomorrow is going to be busy busy for me. I need to go to the DMV, Babies R' Us, JcPenny, and Costco. We will see how that turns out. It's not so much fun going to all those stores hauling around like million pound baby by yourself. At least I am not going to be freaking out about the registration. That will be a change. After this week things should be back to normal. Get back into our routines. For some reason Kelvin acts differently when Brady is home. He doesn't nap or eat as well. It has always been like this, it's quite weird. But it has especially messed up his kind of sorta schedule I have with him because Brady was home a lot more last week. Hopefully Tuesday he will get back to normal. I would really love for him to go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 9 again. That was the greatest three weeks of my life when he did that. Too bad it was extremely short lived. Now he is going to bed anywhere from 7 -9 and getting up at 6. Stupid colds. Messes everything up.
Oh yes I also got a new phone on Friday! Yay! We were watching tv on Tuesday night and a T-mobile commercial came on, and I remember that I qualified for an upgrade two months ago. So I got online and looked at them and decided to go with the Motorola Cliq. Very funnsies. And it was freeeeeee. Besides shipping, which we don't even have to pay until March. I wish all bills worked how phone bills do.
It's raining and pouring the Kelvin is rolling!
So this week has been a little slow, it has been raining since Monday. I worked Monday in the rain, had Tuesday and Wednesday off and today (Thursday) we were only able to work a half day. So I thought I would go ahead and throw some new pictures of Kelvin up on the blog. Enjoy.
I don't know why we bother to buy toys.
It's such a waste of time and money when the only thing Kelvin can play with forever is his socks and hands. I have no idea why. He will pay attention for a rattle for a few minutes, but he will look and stare at his hands for hours it seems. If he isn't wearing something with footies on them he will have his socks off in two seconds and then he tries to eat them. Strange little boy. He was more interested in the wrapping paper on Christmas then the actual gifts. Maybe next year we will just get him a few rolls of that instead. And more socks of course. Those appear to be the biggest hit with him. It is totally pointless to put them on his feet when he just goes and takes them off right away. What a weirdo.
I think I may try to blog more often. Although, this is quite difficult when nothing blog worthy ever really happens. I usually do it when the babes is taking his nap to past the time, but I never really can think of anything to say. Everyday is pretty much the same. Except for this past week, both of us have had a cold. So his kind-of-sorta-schedule is totally messed up. He doesn't want to eat, play, sleep, or be held. I'm surprised I haven't pulled all of my hair out yet because this is driving me craaazy. It wouldn't be so bad if he would at least eat. He will fuss because he is hungry, but won't eat hardly anything. I feel so bad for him and I wish I could help him but he won't let me do anything for him! He wiggles right out when you are holding him and makes a huge fuss. I try to put him in his swing and he fusses in there. Seriously, I am at my wits end with all of this. I am very excited for this to all be over. He is getting a little bit better each day, but I am going to take him to the doctor Monday if he is still a little snot factory. We shall see how that goes.
