what a joyful day adam and i shared today. he is quite a pleasant date!
we spent our morning at home, eating, napping, coffee drinking (me) and bottle drinking (him). during his morning nap, i made our plans for the afternoon, wrote out all my lists, and when he woke up we hit the road.
(side note, for those of you who haven't figured this out now, i work a compressed work week, allowing me to have a special day off on fridays with adam!)
first stop, the library. i had a LONG list of books i wanted to check out. and adam had never been there, so i knew he'd enjoy all the new sights, smells and faces. i was right-- he gawked around and flirted with all the old ladies who populate the library in the middle of the day, and i checked out about 6000 books.
next stop, a baby boutique in old town. mr. adam has his six month bday coming up and i wanted to get him something super cute for some photos i have scheduled. i think we found what we were looking for, so the trip was a success. this store we went to also has SO many toys and neat little things for children. it was my first time wearing adam in the bjorn facing outward-- eric has, but i have not-- and he was definitely mesmerized by all the colorful toys and books. while in old town, we made a pitstop to visit with the owner of the store above which i teach my yoga class. it was adam's first time meeting her, so he made a new friend!
last stop, we scooted over to whole foods and got our groceries for the week. i got lots of fresh, organic veggies and fruits to puree for adam.
tonight, i made more carrots. i made squash, which will be new for adam. i made pears. and lastly, i made apples. one thing learned-- i probably won't make apples again. first of all, i had to get the peels off. second, i had to bake them to soften them up before i pureed them. and then, when i pureed five apples, it only yielded 3 cubes of food. :( all that work for such little payout! not to mention, five apples costs more than, say, five squashes or a bunch of carrots. three yellow sqaushes tonight yielded a whole tray of cubes! so i think from now on, we'll be buying jarred organic apples. (for the record, i also made pesto and hummus tonight while i had the processor down and out, for eric and me. wooo hooo!)
after all that processing and running around town, adam and i are both pooped out. he's konked out in his crib and i'm relaxing too. but, again, no fussing, no crying all day! adam was pleasant and friendly, smiling at new friends, and playing with his toys while i shopped. he never slept or got cranky, just seemed happy to take in the sights and spend time together. phew!
tonight, he did do something new, however... as i put him in his crib for his nap, as i walked out of the room, he turned his head and rolled up on his side to see me behind him and watched me walk away, and then started crying. he's NEVER turned to watch me go and started to panic as i left before. and a few days ago, i put him in his exersaucer, which he loves. he was perfectly happy, and then as i walked out of the room (probably to get more coffee or hit the bathroom...), adam started to cry, big sad tears and sad cry. when i came back, he chilled. i think it's still early for separation anxiety? but i wonder if this is the beginning...? lord, i hope not...!
February 27, 2009
February 26, 2009
baby photos
we've thought that adam looks like me-- mostly-- since he showed his little face to the world nearly six months ago. while i think he has his dad's personality for the most part, and his dad's priceless facial expressions (including mirror-face, for those of you who know eric...), he definitely looks like mommy right now.
my mom scanned in photos of me at 6 mos and sent them to me, and i juxtaposed one with a recent photo of adam.
February 23, 2009
weekend fun
we had a wonderful weekend! my parents came from SC to visit. adam was his happy little self as we went all enjoyed special time together. we went to lunch on saturday in old town and adam played in his stroller and then decided to take a big nap while we were there. he's at such a great stage-- can play on his own, or be blissfully happy with friends and family. sleeps well when he's tired, and eats just a four bottles per day now, making getting out and about much easier.
dad (and adam) laughing at eric and me behind the camera.
mom looking away!
dad looking away!
then, sunday night, adam and eric had special daddy-baby time when i went to teach yoga. all in all, a perfect weekend!
one of the funniest parts was the very end of the weekend... my parents wanted a photo of adam sitting with them. eric and i, old pros at baby-photo-taking by now, started our routine. goofy faces, farting sounds, and toy shaking. the baby responded with smiles and giggles all in the right direction. but my parents?! they laughed harder than the baby at mine and eric's attempts and/OR they didn't look in the right direction... etc. who would have thought that the baby would be the agreeable party in this photo op? :)
dad (and adam) laughing at eric and me behind the camera.
mom looking away!
dad looking away!
also, little adam has always been fascinated with his feet while sitting. just now, he's located them while lying down.
after his bath tonight, while getting dressed in jammies...
yukky avocado face!
mommy and adam, 5mos old.
we tried adam on a couple new foods this weekend-- avocado and green beans, both fresh and pureed by yours truly. he gobbled the green beans up, but the avocado was less than desirable to our baby! his faces were priceless. we will wait to try it again. i can't let myself believe he won't like avocados... i mean, eric and i have been known to eat entire tubs of guac for dinner, so....
yukky avocado face!
finally i am starting to feel back to "normal." that, or i am just getting used to my new self, can't decide which! regardless, the scheduling with the baby/eric/work is getting easier, my body feels more and more like its old self every day. things are finally into more of a groove and i feel less like a postpartum lady and more just like myself. still not totally like before though... but getting closer. who knew it would take this long?!
mommy and adam, 5mos old.February 18, 2009
a happy wednesday
today, i walked into daycare to pick up adam and, when he saw me, he looked up from the play mat and gave me a huge grin, like he'd been waiting for me and suddenly there i was. it melted my heart completely. as we left the center, i bounced us up and down as we walked down the hall toward the door and he giggled and giggled.
tonight when we came home and played, i put him on his tummy and got on the floor myself to encourage him. for the first time, he lifted up on hands and knees and pushed all at once. much to his surprise, though, backwards he went! i had to laugh at the shock on his little face.
i think peas are adam's favorite food so far. bananas might be a close second. tonight he had peas and started crying between each bite. mommy isn't fast enough with that spoon! a few whimpers and then happiness as the peas entered his little mouth. hilarious.
our happy little dude yesterday...
February 14, 2009
one, two, three, four, FIVE
adam had his five months birthday yesterday. where has the time gone? five months ago. i still feel like time has been both long and short at the same time. the words five months sound so brief, but the time that has passed seems like forever. probably because we're all such different people than we were on september 13.
little adam, at five months you...
-amaze me everyday, of course! you are generally the happiest person that i know. you smile almost constantly, are happy to go anywhere and be with anyone. you hang out and play, or you love looking at things when we're on the go. just today, you and i went to target for WAY too long (sorry about that, but you loved looking at everything and watching all the new people), we went to a restaurant and waited in line to pick up lunch, we went to the base and met daddy for lunch. he loved seeing you and you loved seeing him too, smiling and giggling at him all the time. you light up when you see his face and it makes me so happy-- him too!-- to see. after that, we went to the commissary and then home, where you played in your new high chair and i put away all our groceries and target purchases. you then ate carrots and rice for dinner and are now taking a nap. and.... the REASON i am telling you all this-- you did not cry a tear or fuss during any of our escapades all day! you were just basically happy to be alive, entertained by all the new things to see-- ok, and by the toys i packed for you to play with while were were out. you are such a happy baby and bring us so much joy. i know that might sound cliche, but really, your dad and i are totally head over heels in love with you. when your dad is home, we come in your room to look at you sleeping at least three times a night just because we think you are so handsome and cute. we want to pick you up and squeeze you and kiss you, but you're asleep so we wait until morning. this week, you were already asleep one night when i came home from work and so i came in your room to see you sleeping. you had your binky in your mouth as you slept, and i leaned over and kissed you on your forehead. and behind your binky, in your sleep, you smiled. you melted my heart! i will never forget that, ever.
-eat rice cereal, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas and bananas. this weekend i hope to work in pears, just so you have another fruit to add to the mix. i have been making your food myself. however, at school you do eat jarred food. but, it does make me happy that i can make you and feed you fresh foods here at home. this weekend, the highchair i ordered for you arrived and you sit in it nicely. i loved the design and it folds almost totally flat, which is why i got it. you've eaten a couple meals there already with flying colors. daddy is gonna be so happy to see that you have a real place to eat-- other than our laps-- when he gets home. you LOVE food, adam. you cry almost every time your bottles are over and you sometimes start to cry in between bites of food if you feel we're not getting it to you fast enough. (i see you have your mom's patience. darn, i was really hoping you'd get your dad's....) you haven't met a food you don't like yet, so i hope this is a good omen of things to come-- a healthy, happy eater. you're down to four or five bottles a day and a couple real foods per day. i know you love the real food a lot, so i have to be careful not to let it eek out your bottles just yet! you're still too young, sir!
-taste any and everything that will fit in your hands. just this week, i had you in your bumbo seat near a plant of mine. a plant you never paid interest in... until now. i watched you, in mere seconds, reach over, grab the plant, pull with all your might until it broke, and start to put it in your mouth. luckily i stopped you, but i also learned that you are getting more and more curious with each day that passes. i think our days of plopping you somewhere and not having to worry too much are ending soon. this morning, as you played on your belly and i made a grocery list, i watched you squirm and turn in a circle to get another toy on your blanket. you lift your chest completely off the floor with your arms straight, but have yet to figure out that your legs need to get in on the action. you're not rocking on your hands and knees, but i know you will soon... you're too curious to stay in one spot for much longer.
-sit! you started sitting on your own a little after your four-month birthday and each day you get better and better. you still mostly sit like a frog/gorilla with your hands either on the floor in front of you or on your lap. but sometimes you get brave and let go, reaching for a toy. i know your teacher at school lets you sit up a lot and so do we at home. you like being up where you can see everything. you also like to be propped up on the couch or chair with a toy so you can watch us, otis and everything going on around you.
-laugh! this is a very new addition, but really cracks us up. you have the funniest, cutest laugh and we've had the opportunity to record it a couple times.
-babble almost constantly. mostly, you say ahhhh, oooh. sometimes it sounds like uh-oh. you change pitch and length of syllables and blow bubbles and make fart sounds with your mouth often too. you also squeal in high pitches, and if someone does it to you, you'll respond with a squeal of your own, back and forth. we do our best to talk to you often, and you almost always reply with your own language of baby talk. just last night, though, something very exciting happened. as i was undressing you for your bath, you looked up at me and said, b-b-b-b. almost like ba-ba but the vowel was so short-lived i wouldn't even go so far as to say you said bah. anyhow, i was just so happy because other than uh-gah, this was the first time i'd heard you say a consonant other than g. i repeated b-b-b-b to you, and you said it again! you excited me so much i started saying all the words i could think of that start with b. binky, baby, banana, bootie! you haven't done it since, but i was sooooooo excited to hear that! you are growing and changing everyday, and it is so neat to see you learning about the world-- from even the smallest of things, like how to place your lips and make sounds that sound like what your mommy and daddy say. amazing.
-still sleep 10-12 hours at night, thank you thank you thank you. your daddy and i are going to have to have another baby soon because soon we'll be too old to have the energy required to handle the colicky baby that's SURE to follow the easy baby you've been. you make us feel so lucky. you also nap (USUALLY) twice a day, once in the morning after you've been up for a couple hours, and then again in the early evening around 5. we still are religious about our bedtime routine, and we feel that's helped you be the sleep champ you are. you love your bath and kick and splash in it every night. you're almost too big for your baby bathtub and soon we'll need to move on to the big bath. you were like a tiny little peanut in that thing just a couple months ago!
-are a BIG boy. you are bigger than all the other five month old babies in your class at school. you wear 9 month clothes, mostly. i just ordered you a TON of new clothes from Gap and bought 6-12 mos size. adam, they JUST fit-- i'll be ordering new clothes in a month, i know it! this week, i went through all your drawers and closet and took out the clothes that were too small. they filled a giant trash bag. it was sad for me to see that pile of clothes-- some things you only wore once, things that seemed to just fit you perfectly YESTERDAY. you have grown and changed so much in such a short time... when you were born, someone bought you a 9month footsie-jammies from carters that's for winter time. i remember thinking that you'd be 9 months in june and ALMOST returned it for a smaller size. who knew you'd wear 9 mos size from carters in FEBRUARY? when you were born, your daddy bought you a coast guard tee shirt from headquarters downtown. we were bummed at time because the smallest size they had was 1-year. my sweet little adam, you wore this shirt last week. LAST WEEK. fits you to a tee. and, today, you're wearing a redskins shirt that dan had as a baby. the tag says 18 mos but you fit it wonderfully. enough said.
-LOVE television. i only know this because anytime we're walking through a room or you happen to catch a glance, you're transfixed. i'm certain it's because of all the colors and sounds, but we don't like to let you watch it. we always try to prop you so that you can't see it and lately we've turned it off all together often, opting to listen to music instead. you LOVE music too, much to our relief. it seems to calm you, and you bounce in your exersaucer while it plays.
happy five months, baby boy! and happy valentine's day. you're my date tonight, since daddy has to work. we'll (you'll) be having a lovely meal of pureed carrots followed by enfamil for dessert and a snoozefest around 8pm. sounds perfect! i love you!!!!!!
little adam, at five months you...
-amaze me everyday, of course! you are generally the happiest person that i know. you smile almost constantly, are happy to go anywhere and be with anyone. you hang out and play, or you love looking at things when we're on the go. just today, you and i went to target for WAY too long (sorry about that, but you loved looking at everything and watching all the new people), we went to a restaurant and waited in line to pick up lunch, we went to the base and met daddy for lunch. he loved seeing you and you loved seeing him too, smiling and giggling at him all the time. you light up when you see his face and it makes me so happy-- him too!-- to see. after that, we went to the commissary and then home, where you played in your new high chair and i put away all our groceries and target purchases. you then ate carrots and rice for dinner and are now taking a nap. and.... the REASON i am telling you all this-- you did not cry a tear or fuss during any of our escapades all day! you were just basically happy to be alive, entertained by all the new things to see-- ok, and by the toys i packed for you to play with while were were out. you are such a happy baby and bring us so much joy. i know that might sound cliche, but really, your dad and i are totally head over heels in love with you. when your dad is home, we come in your room to look at you sleeping at least three times a night just because we think you are so handsome and cute. we want to pick you up and squeeze you and kiss you, but you're asleep so we wait until morning. this week, you were already asleep one night when i came home from work and so i came in your room to see you sleeping. you had your binky in your mouth as you slept, and i leaned over and kissed you on your forehead. and behind your binky, in your sleep, you smiled. you melted my heart! i will never forget that, ever.
-eat rice cereal, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas and bananas. this weekend i hope to work in pears, just so you have another fruit to add to the mix. i have been making your food myself. however, at school you do eat jarred food. but, it does make me happy that i can make you and feed you fresh foods here at home. this weekend, the highchair i ordered for you arrived and you sit in it nicely. i loved the design and it folds almost totally flat, which is why i got it. you've eaten a couple meals there already with flying colors. daddy is gonna be so happy to see that you have a real place to eat-- other than our laps-- when he gets home. you LOVE food, adam. you cry almost every time your bottles are over and you sometimes start to cry in between bites of food if you feel we're not getting it to you fast enough. (i see you have your mom's patience. darn, i was really hoping you'd get your dad's....) you haven't met a food you don't like yet, so i hope this is a good omen of things to come-- a healthy, happy eater. you're down to four or five bottles a day and a couple real foods per day. i know you love the real food a lot, so i have to be careful not to let it eek out your bottles just yet! you're still too young, sir!
-taste any and everything that will fit in your hands. just this week, i had you in your bumbo seat near a plant of mine. a plant you never paid interest in... until now. i watched you, in mere seconds, reach over, grab the plant, pull with all your might until it broke, and start to put it in your mouth. luckily i stopped you, but i also learned that you are getting more and more curious with each day that passes. i think our days of plopping you somewhere and not having to worry too much are ending soon. this morning, as you played on your belly and i made a grocery list, i watched you squirm and turn in a circle to get another toy on your blanket. you lift your chest completely off the floor with your arms straight, but have yet to figure out that your legs need to get in on the action. you're not rocking on your hands and knees, but i know you will soon... you're too curious to stay in one spot for much longer.
-sit! you started sitting on your own a little after your four-month birthday and each day you get better and better. you still mostly sit like a frog/gorilla with your hands either on the floor in front of you or on your lap. but sometimes you get brave and let go, reaching for a toy. i know your teacher at school lets you sit up a lot and so do we at home. you like being up where you can see everything. you also like to be propped up on the couch or chair with a toy so you can watch us, otis and everything going on around you.
-laugh! this is a very new addition, but really cracks us up. you have the funniest, cutest laugh and we've had the opportunity to record it a couple times.
-babble almost constantly. mostly, you say ahhhh, oooh. sometimes it sounds like uh-oh. you change pitch and length of syllables and blow bubbles and make fart sounds with your mouth often too. you also squeal in high pitches, and if someone does it to you, you'll respond with a squeal of your own, back and forth. we do our best to talk to you often, and you almost always reply with your own language of baby talk. just last night, though, something very exciting happened. as i was undressing you for your bath, you looked up at me and said, b-b-b-b. almost like ba-ba but the vowel was so short-lived i wouldn't even go so far as to say you said bah. anyhow, i was just so happy because other than uh-gah, this was the first time i'd heard you say a consonant other than g. i repeated b-b-b-b to you, and you said it again! you excited me so much i started saying all the words i could think of that start with b. binky, baby, banana, bootie! you haven't done it since, but i was sooooooo excited to hear that! you are growing and changing everyday, and it is so neat to see you learning about the world-- from even the smallest of things, like how to place your lips and make sounds that sound like what your mommy and daddy say. amazing.
-still sleep 10-12 hours at night, thank you thank you thank you. your daddy and i are going to have to have another baby soon because soon we'll be too old to have the energy required to handle the colicky baby that's SURE to follow the easy baby you've been. you make us feel so lucky. you also nap (USUALLY) twice a day, once in the morning after you've been up for a couple hours, and then again in the early evening around 5. we still are religious about our bedtime routine, and we feel that's helped you be the sleep champ you are. you love your bath and kick and splash in it every night. you're almost too big for your baby bathtub and soon we'll need to move on to the big bath. you were like a tiny little peanut in that thing just a couple months ago!
-are a BIG boy. you are bigger than all the other five month old babies in your class at school. you wear 9 month clothes, mostly. i just ordered you a TON of new clothes from Gap and bought 6-12 mos size. adam, they JUST fit-- i'll be ordering new clothes in a month, i know it! this week, i went through all your drawers and closet and took out the clothes that were too small. they filled a giant trash bag. it was sad for me to see that pile of clothes-- some things you only wore once, things that seemed to just fit you perfectly YESTERDAY. you have grown and changed so much in such a short time... when you were born, someone bought you a 9month footsie-jammies from carters that's for winter time. i remember thinking that you'd be 9 months in june and ALMOST returned it for a smaller size. who knew you'd wear 9 mos size from carters in FEBRUARY? when you were born, your daddy bought you a coast guard tee shirt from headquarters downtown. we were bummed at time because the smallest size they had was 1-year. my sweet little adam, you wore this shirt last week. LAST WEEK. fits you to a tee. and, today, you're wearing a redskins shirt that dan had as a baby. the tag says 18 mos but you fit it wonderfully. enough said.
-LOVE television. i only know this because anytime we're walking through a room or you happen to catch a glance, you're transfixed. i'm certain it's because of all the colors and sounds, but we don't like to let you watch it. we always try to prop you so that you can't see it and lately we've turned it off all together often, opting to listen to music instead. you LOVE music too, much to our relief. it seems to calm you, and you bounce in your exersaucer while it plays.
happy five months, baby boy! and happy valentine's day. you're my date tonight, since daddy has to work. we'll (you'll) be having a lovely meal of pureed carrots followed by enfamil for dessert and a snoozefest around 8pm. sounds perfect! i love you!!!!!!
(took this photo today, having lunch with daddy at his work. happy valentine's day to both my valentines!)
February 10, 2009
sleeping
adam has inherited sleep habits from both eric and me.
from eric, he got waking up happy. he wakes up in the morning and within minutes has a giant smile on his face, ready to play and hang out, talk and see the world. i, on the other hand, wake up like a troll. i can't talk to anyone coherently or pleasantly before at least two cups of coffee. i then drink coffee until lunch.
so yeah, he got his wake ups from his dad.
and he got his heavy sleep from his dad too. i am an insomniac. i haven't been able to sleep well since i was a teenager. i haven't been able to fall asleep without reading since around that same time. even in college (and ok, once or twice in the years since...) i have come in at 3am with several of the night's beverages coursing through me, and read several pages before turning out the light. i have to. but eric? if he's horizontal and warm, he can sleep. and alllllll night. sitting up on the couch? no problem. in the car? not an issue. adam has slept the night through since he was 8 weeks old, sleeps like a rock. like his dad. once he's out, we can put him in the carseat and take him almost anywhere with no issue.
also, from the beginning, adam preferred sleeping on his belly. i know lots of babies like belly-sleeping, but it was the ONLY way adam would BE, period. bathtime? we held him over our forearms on his belly to be washed. diaper changes? he screamed the entire time. getting dressed? an unpleasant experience for all involved. he's since gotten over it and can sleep on his back or belly, bathes on his back in the tub like a normal human, and loves smiling and blowing bubbles while we wipe his hiney and dress him. but, he still PREFERS to sleep on his belly. and he definitely got this from eric. eric rolls over to his belly every night and, in bed, cannot sleep any other way. he simply can't.
but from me, mommy, he got...
he cries when he is tired. he rubs his eyes. since i've noticed him doing this, i've also noticed myself doing it. since most days i am wearing makeup, i sometimes divert to rubbing my forehead. but i definitely rub my eyes or head when sleepy. and i whine. i do.
when on his back, he sleeps with his feet together and knees apart. i sleep this way sometimes and especially did when i was pregnant with adam. it's a yoga pose, actually, called supta badha konasana or reclining bound angle pose. given that i slept this way when pregnant, and all the yoga i practiced while pregnant, i'd say he got this from me.
and though he wakes up happy, it takes a moment to get there. before the smile and happiness, he rubs eyes, rocks head from side to side and grunts and snorts. i would guess i make these same noises, and definitely take a few minutes to figure out that i'm coming out of sleep and back into the real world.
from eric, he got waking up happy. he wakes up in the morning and within minutes has a giant smile on his face, ready to play and hang out, talk and see the world. i, on the other hand, wake up like a troll. i can't talk to anyone coherently or pleasantly before at least two cups of coffee. i then drink coffee until lunch.
so yeah, he got his wake ups from his dad.
and he got his heavy sleep from his dad too. i am an insomniac. i haven't been able to sleep well since i was a teenager. i haven't been able to fall asleep without reading since around that same time. even in college (and ok, once or twice in the years since...) i have come in at 3am with several of the night's beverages coursing through me, and read several pages before turning out the light. i have to. but eric? if he's horizontal and warm, he can sleep. and alllllll night. sitting up on the couch? no problem. in the car? not an issue. adam has slept the night through since he was 8 weeks old, sleeps like a rock. like his dad. once he's out, we can put him in the carseat and take him almost anywhere with no issue.
also, from the beginning, adam preferred sleeping on his belly. i know lots of babies like belly-sleeping, but it was the ONLY way adam would BE, period. bathtime? we held him over our forearms on his belly to be washed. diaper changes? he screamed the entire time. getting dressed? an unpleasant experience for all involved. he's since gotten over it and can sleep on his back or belly, bathes on his back in the tub like a normal human, and loves smiling and blowing bubbles while we wipe his hiney and dress him. but, he still PREFERS to sleep on his belly. and he definitely got this from eric. eric rolls over to his belly every night and, in bed, cannot sleep any other way. he simply can't.
but from me, mommy, he got...
he cries when he is tired. he rubs his eyes. since i've noticed him doing this, i've also noticed myself doing it. since most days i am wearing makeup, i sometimes divert to rubbing my forehead. but i definitely rub my eyes or head when sleepy. and i whine. i do.
when on his back, he sleeps with his feet together and knees apart. i sleep this way sometimes and especially did when i was pregnant with adam. it's a yoga pose, actually, called supta badha konasana or reclining bound angle pose. given that i slept this way when pregnant, and all the yoga i practiced while pregnant, i'd say he got this from me.
and though he wakes up happy, it takes a moment to get there. before the smile and happiness, he rubs eyes, rocks head from side to side and grunts and snorts. i would guess i make these same noises, and definitely take a few minutes to figure out that i'm coming out of sleep and back into the real world.
steam, smoke, vicks, marijuana. yes, all in one post.
a very scary situation ended just ended sorta funny...
i have been running our steam vaporizer nearly nonstop for, well, for a long time. the air here is SO dry in the winter. so, even before adam's sniffles and cold i was using it in his bedroom at night just to add some moisture to the air. and, since he's been sick, i have pretty much run it nonstop when he's home. i move it from room to room so we/he can reap the benefit no matter where we are.
tonight, i put adam down for sleep and filled up the trusty vaporizer with fresh water, plugged it into his room and shut the door. i hopped in the shower, got dressed in my jammies and, for some reason, decided to check on the baby. i don't check on him often, but for some reason i felt like checking him out. when i opened the door to his room, i immediately noticed something was wrong.
smoke-like steam (maybe it WAS actually smoke?) was collected around the top of his room and a funny smell was in the air. immediately, i unplugged the vaporizer, turned up the ceiling fan and grabbed the baby, leaving the room. the air cleared fast and i'm still not positive if it was smoke or what, but the water in the vaporizer is totally black.
i'm guessing i overworked the motor on the machine and am just thanking GOD i didn't turn it on and go to bed, letting it run all night, as i have so many nights now. seriously, this is really really scary. i am actually considering calling vicks and asking them what the heck? this could have been a very, very bad situation...
so, in a quick attempt to figure out what the heck happened to my trusty little machine, i googled "vicks vaporizer smoke" and got a ton of returns about how to smoke marijuana using the vaporizer, questions about whether or not it would work to smoke weed, and tips from those who have tried it. what?! wrong kind of smoke, people!!
needless to say, the little-vaporizer-that-could has seen its last day. and i will be shopping soon for a heavy duty humidifier that can handle my level of near-constant need!
i have been running our steam vaporizer nearly nonstop for, well, for a long time. the air here is SO dry in the winter. so, even before adam's sniffles and cold i was using it in his bedroom at night just to add some moisture to the air. and, since he's been sick, i have pretty much run it nonstop when he's home. i move it from room to room so we/he can reap the benefit no matter where we are.
tonight, i put adam down for sleep and filled up the trusty vaporizer with fresh water, plugged it into his room and shut the door. i hopped in the shower, got dressed in my jammies and, for some reason, decided to check on the baby. i don't check on him often, but for some reason i felt like checking him out. when i opened the door to his room, i immediately noticed something was wrong.
smoke-like steam (maybe it WAS actually smoke?) was collected around the top of his room and a funny smell was in the air. immediately, i unplugged the vaporizer, turned up the ceiling fan and grabbed the baby, leaving the room. the air cleared fast and i'm still not positive if it was smoke or what, but the water in the vaporizer is totally black.
i'm guessing i overworked the motor on the machine and am just thanking GOD i didn't turn it on and go to bed, letting it run all night, as i have so many nights now. seriously, this is really really scary. i am actually considering calling vicks and asking them what the heck? this could have been a very, very bad situation...
so, in a quick attempt to figure out what the heck happened to my trusty little machine, i googled "vicks vaporizer smoke" and got a ton of returns about how to smoke marijuana using the vaporizer, questions about whether or not it would work to smoke weed, and tips from those who have tried it. what?! wrong kind of smoke, people!!
needless to say, the little-vaporizer-that-could has seen its last day. and i will be shopping soon for a heavy duty humidifier that can handle my level of near-constant need!
February 9, 2009
yummy yummy in his tummy
this weekend, i made adam home-made sweet potatoes and carrots. i was so proud of myself that i took some photos! :)
it was so easy. i literally steamed the carrots, baked the potatoes, pureed them in the processor with a wee bit of water. then i freezed them in a an icecube tray. then i transferred the frozen cubes to freezer bags. easy as heck! and this food is FRESH and PURE. i love it. this weekend i'm going to take on fruits and green veggies. wish me luck! all we have to do is thaw a cube or two for a meal and that's it. oh yes, and have i mentioned how well-priced this option is?!
adam is still sick. :( we took him to the dr. today for the second time. his cough is getting worse and i can't stand watching him cough and not be able to breathe when he wakes from his naps. since he gained a pound in a week since we last took him to the dr (17.4!!) they weren't concerned about anything too serious, but did say he has a deep chest cold. the dr. prescribed cough syrup for babies and also some antibiotics, just in case it is bacterial. i am not fond of taking antibiotics "just in case." not at all. but... i also am not a dr. with years of medical training, so... i will do what they say. they let us know if he isn't starting to get better in a few days, to bring him back. let's all hope he's getting better soon! poor lil dude. :(
the good news is that, even though his cough is just heart breaking, he is in good spirits most of the time (see below) and sleeping like a champ-- i can only imagine that's because he's trying to get better, but it sure is nice for mommy and daddy right now. ha.
February 4, 2009
our sweet potato gets sweet potatoes
tonight i am going to feed adam sweet potatoes. well, maybe just A sweet potato. a portion of one. he started rice cereal last month and now that five months is looming ahead, i think we're a-ok to start some veggies. i bought them last weekend with intentions of making them for him this weekend and, since he was sick, i skipped it. now that he's doing a little better, i'm going to make them tonight.
yep, make them.
i am going to try to make all his baby food for him. i know there will be times when we're on the go or traveling and pre-jarred baby food will be handy. but if we're home i want to make his food. this way, i know exactly what's going into his round little body. i know i have a lot going on, and all you veteran moms can laugh, it's ok. i'll figure it out. but steaming up a vegetable, puree-ing it, and then freezing it doesn't seem like such a big deal. i mean, i make my own self veggies nightly, usually steamed. with one more step (puree or mash), adam will have his too.
piece of cake! er, i mean potato...
i'll post photos soon.
yep, make them.
i am going to try to make all his baby food for him. i know there will be times when we're on the go or traveling and pre-jarred baby food will be handy. but if we're home i want to make his food. this way, i know exactly what's going into his round little body. i know i have a lot going on, and all you veteran moms can laugh, it's ok. i'll figure it out. but steaming up a vegetable, puree-ing it, and then freezing it doesn't seem like such a big deal. i mean, i make my own self veggies nightly, usually steamed. with one more step (puree or mash), adam will have his too.
piece of cake! er, i mean potato...
i'll post photos soon.
February 1, 2009
a lovely weekend, but with a cold
this weekend brought lots of new things! first of all, the best NEW thing was Baby Sully!! courtney , my best friend, gave birth to a beautiful little boy, via c-section, on friday afternoon. he weighed a healthy 7lbs 9oz and was 20.5 inches long! i already knew he'd be perfect and beautiful, and the photo i saw confirmed this fact. congrats to john, courtney and their new little family!!
in other news...
this month started out with adam's first big cold. he had the sniffles before, a cold, i've had to suck some snot out of his nose. but i had NO idea what a true baby cold was like until this weekend.
our friday together started with waiting for some service people to come to our house who never came. (grrrr.) so when they didn't show, we went to enterprise and got a rental car-- finally-- after the bumper cars incident on tuesday. after getting the rental, we scooted to lowe's and i picked out some paint colors. my friend, sarah-- one of my best friends from college--, was coming to hang with adam and me while i painted our dining room, hallway and our bedroom if i had enough time. satisfied with my color choices, adam and i went home and had a fabulous friday-night-in together.
saturday morning, sarah arrived and spoiled adam with hugs and love all day while i painted the dining room. (she spoiled me too by giving me an extra set of arms!) we gabbed, adam chimed in with ah-ah, ah-ohhhh, and squeals when he felt it appropriate. i finished up the dinig room and adam's little sniffles took a turn for the worse... he had globs of yellow and green snot coming out of his nose and a dry, hacking cough. when i say hack, i do mean HACK. his little eyes were red and watering, and his nose dripped like a faucet. it broke my heart to see him like that, so we gave him a nice warm bath and put him down. i should have known when he barely touched his bedtime bottle, we'd be in for a long night...
as sarah and i caught up all night and tackled the hallway together-- have i mentioned how amazing she is?!-- we frowned and sighed every time, in his sleep, adam would hack and cough. i checked on him about a bazillion times while we were still up, attempted feeding him more-- he wouldn't have it-- and refilled his humidifier.
all night, he would hack and cry, hack and cry. i would rush into his room to check that he was still alive (of course he was alive, but you know...) and each time he'd have a giant snot bubble coming out of his nose, teary eyes, a rumbly nose. i would suck his nose out and wipe his little face and head back to bed, only to hear him cry out again in a few minutes. talk about a looooooooooooooooooong night....
he finally was "up" for the day around 8 this morning. but all day, he slept a ton. we watched the sopranos and took naps together on the couch. i kept the humidifier nearby and cuddled him all day. i let him take naps in his swing too so he'd be upright. and, at my mom's advice, i took him in the shower with me for the first time. i let it run awhile and got the bathroom all steamy and then we hopped in. if you ever have a sick baby, try this!! maybe everyone does this?, and it was just my first time, but he was finally able to BREATHE normally afterward. and tonight, instead of his normal bedtime bath, we took another steamy shower. i also inclined his mattress and said a prayer to the sleep gods that we don't have an instant replay of last night...
it is just SO hard watching him being sick. i HATE it. if we adults have all those symptoms, we feel like pure crap. we call in sick from work, drink hot tea, lay on the sofa, take nyquil and sleep/watch E! all day. well, maybe just me, but surely we all feel so terrible and whine about it. poor little adam can't say Mommy I feel TERRIBLE! but i can see it all over his red, puffy, snotty, teary, congested little face. and the worst thing is that there is NOTHING i can do. all i can do is cuddle him, keep him warm, keep the air from being dry, suck out his snot, etc. it's just too bad there isn't anything you can give a baby to alleviate cold symptoms when they're truly at their worst. (there isn't right?) i mean, you can't even use baby vick's anymore. ahhhh! torture for us both, i swear. luckily, despite all his napping, he was in pretty good spirits while awake. he would babble and play with toys in my lap. when he'd look at me and grin with a big snot bubble and a tear dripping from his red eye, it took everything i had not to hug him to pieces.
thank God sarah was here last night, reassuring me each time adam would bark from the bedroom that it was just a COLD, it was OK. if she wasn't here, not only would i not have gotten any rooms painted at all, i would have truly considered loading adam up in the car and going to find a doctor.... at 10pm on a saturday night. she also held him while i made warm bottles and went to walgreen's for saline nose drops, and wiped up his mucus-y spit up all day. each time he cried through the night, she offered to be the one to go check on him. of course, i'd never let a friend do that in the middle of the night, but just having her there made me feel so much better. i am so grateful!
instead of going to daycare tomorrow, adam's going to stay home from "school." first of all, if i had the symptoms adam has had, i wouldn't want to be stuffed in a car seat and taken to school, where i'd have to "play" and be around other people all day. i'd want to be safe and warm in my jammies, in my own house. and secondly, if another parent brought their baby to school with adam's same symptoms, i'd be pissed! so, he's not going. his Mamama (eric's mom) is coming early to spend the morning with adam at home until eric gets home from work around lunchtime. i know eric can't wait to see his little guy-- he's missed him and i know feels hand-tied not being here with our lil' buddy so sick and sniffly. we're all ready for daddy to come home, for sure.
some pre-sniffles photos:
in other news...
this month started out with adam's first big cold. he had the sniffles before, a cold, i've had to suck some snot out of his nose. but i had NO idea what a true baby cold was like until this weekend.
our friday together started with waiting for some service people to come to our house who never came. (grrrr.) so when they didn't show, we went to enterprise and got a rental car-- finally-- after the bumper cars incident on tuesday. after getting the rental, we scooted to lowe's and i picked out some paint colors. my friend, sarah-- one of my best friends from college--, was coming to hang with adam and me while i painted our dining room, hallway and our bedroom if i had enough time. satisfied with my color choices, adam and i went home and had a fabulous friday-night-in together.
saturday morning, sarah arrived and spoiled adam with hugs and love all day while i painted the dining room. (she spoiled me too by giving me an extra set of arms!) we gabbed, adam chimed in with ah-ah, ah-ohhhh, and squeals when he felt it appropriate. i finished up the dinig room and adam's little sniffles took a turn for the worse... he had globs of yellow and green snot coming out of his nose and a dry, hacking cough. when i say hack, i do mean HACK. his little eyes were red and watering, and his nose dripped like a faucet. it broke my heart to see him like that, so we gave him a nice warm bath and put him down. i should have known when he barely touched his bedtime bottle, we'd be in for a long night...
as sarah and i caught up all night and tackled the hallway together-- have i mentioned how amazing she is?!-- we frowned and sighed every time, in his sleep, adam would hack and cough. i checked on him about a bazillion times while we were still up, attempted feeding him more-- he wouldn't have it-- and refilled his humidifier.
all night, he would hack and cry, hack and cry. i would rush into his room to check that he was still alive (of course he was alive, but you know...) and each time he'd have a giant snot bubble coming out of his nose, teary eyes, a rumbly nose. i would suck his nose out and wipe his little face and head back to bed, only to hear him cry out again in a few minutes. talk about a looooooooooooooooooong night....
he finally was "up" for the day around 8 this morning. but all day, he slept a ton. we watched the sopranos and took naps together on the couch. i kept the humidifier nearby and cuddled him all day. i let him take naps in his swing too so he'd be upright. and, at my mom's advice, i took him in the shower with me for the first time. i let it run awhile and got the bathroom all steamy and then we hopped in. if you ever have a sick baby, try this!! maybe everyone does this?, and it was just my first time, but he was finally able to BREATHE normally afterward. and tonight, instead of his normal bedtime bath, we took another steamy shower. i also inclined his mattress and said a prayer to the sleep gods that we don't have an instant replay of last night...
it is just SO hard watching him being sick. i HATE it. if we adults have all those symptoms, we feel like pure crap. we call in sick from work, drink hot tea, lay on the sofa, take nyquil and sleep/watch E! all day. well, maybe just me, but surely we all feel so terrible and whine about it. poor little adam can't say Mommy I feel TERRIBLE! but i can see it all over his red, puffy, snotty, teary, congested little face. and the worst thing is that there is NOTHING i can do. all i can do is cuddle him, keep him warm, keep the air from being dry, suck out his snot, etc. it's just too bad there isn't anything you can give a baby to alleviate cold symptoms when they're truly at their worst. (there isn't right?) i mean, you can't even use baby vick's anymore. ahhhh! torture for us both, i swear. luckily, despite all his napping, he was in pretty good spirits while awake. he would babble and play with toys in my lap. when he'd look at me and grin with a big snot bubble and a tear dripping from his red eye, it took everything i had not to hug him to pieces.
thank God sarah was here last night, reassuring me each time adam would bark from the bedroom that it was just a COLD, it was OK. if she wasn't here, not only would i not have gotten any rooms painted at all, i would have truly considered loading adam up in the car and going to find a doctor.... at 10pm on a saturday night. she also held him while i made warm bottles and went to walgreen's for saline nose drops, and wiped up his mucus-y spit up all day. each time he cried through the night, she offered to be the one to go check on him. of course, i'd never let a friend do that in the middle of the night, but just having her there made me feel so much better. i am so grateful!
instead of going to daycare tomorrow, adam's going to stay home from "school." first of all, if i had the symptoms adam has had, i wouldn't want to be stuffed in a car seat and taken to school, where i'd have to "play" and be around other people all day. i'd want to be safe and warm in my jammies, in my own house. and secondly, if another parent brought their baby to school with adam's same symptoms, i'd be pissed! so, he's not going. his Mamama (eric's mom) is coming early to spend the morning with adam at home until eric gets home from work around lunchtime. i know eric can't wait to see his little guy-- he's missed him and i know feels hand-tied not being here with our lil' buddy so sick and sniffly. we're all ready for daddy to come home, for sure.
some pre-sniffles photos:
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