While it pains me to pay money to have someone else take pictures of my kids, we have to bite the bullet occasionally in order to get a family photo.
Here are some pictures we had done back in May – Carson was ~6wks old here.
I really think I can take pictures like this of my family & friends. Anyone want to be my guinea pig?
Carson on the left, Mallory on the right. Both at 8wks.
Thoughts?
My new favorite photo of my baby boy Carson.
Carson. My sweet child who can be put down in his crib awake and will fall asleep without crying and waking up his big sister. My sweet little boy who wakes up only once in the night to eat and even then it’s really only like a tiny little appetizer and then he goes right back to sleep. We’ve been putting him back to sleep in the pack-n-play in our room but I think we could actually put him back in his crib. But the only reason I wouldn’t do this …
My sweet baby boy is eight weeks old already. I can’t believe how big he is getting and how much less fragile he seems. We’ve settled into an eating routine (every three hours) and he’s staying awake more and is spending more of his awake time just chilling and not crying. He weighs ~13.5 lbs according to my measurements. We have his two-month appointment next Friday so we’ll have official stats then.
Carson started daycare on Tuesday and is doing fine with it. He pees on the daycare ladies too so it’s good to know it’s not just us that …
I am surviving my week of single-parent-ness. Barely, but I am surviving.
Our schedule for the beginning of the week was bath for Mallory as soon as we get home, then dinner, and then book & bed time and I was able to have her in bed by 6.45p with lights out for me by 9p. Thus I was able to function fairly well Wednesday & Thursday. Carson woke up only once per night those nights and went back to bed easily (I should raise his allowance!).
Thursday night we went to my dad’s to watch the Michigan softball game that started …
I have a feeling that there will be lots of posts with the title “Catching Up” in the future.
Anyway, here are the pictures from our boat trip this week:
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I’m going to do these in bullet format to get them documented:
Mallory & I were eating breakfast yesterday – when Rick & Carson came downstairs, Mallory said “here come da boys!!!”
We’ve been getting lots of great gifts for Carson; Mallory has started to imitate me when we are checking out the clothes. She’ll hold stuff up and say “Dis is SUPER CUTE!” or “How cute is dis?” or …
So, I’ve determined that I can’t eat chocolate and I can’t have caffeine. Both cause my sweet little baby’s tummy to get very grumpy and that isn’t so fun for mom & dad. Luckily I can survive without caffeine (just need to make sure I have caffeine-free coke on hand) but the no chocolate thing has been sort of hard. And you know I’m making sure Rick knows all about my dietary sacrifices for his son. His response? “Oooooh, so I can finish off those Oreos?”. I performed (and failed) a caffeine test yesterday and Carson was horrible all afternoon …
I realized the other day that I hadn’t gotten much video of Mallory lately and I had to rectify that. I don’t want to forget her little lisp and her raspy voice.
Anywho, here are Mallory & Carson pre-bath time last night. In the very beginning you hear Mallory say “…be quiet a second” – I didn’t start recording fast enough to get her saying “HEY WICK” before the “be quiet a second”. Rick was in the kitchen doing the dishes and I wanted him to be quiet while I videoed (is that really a word?) the kids…so I hollered out …
I was chatting with a friend today about Carson and his gassiness and she was telling me about her son cried a lot when he was an infant because he had a lot of gas. I replied that Carson seems to cry a lot too – but she didn’t believe me since I hadn’t blogged about it. So Kim – here you go (I advise you to turn down your speakers):
All during this crying spell, he was kicking his legs trying to work out the gas. Poor kid!
I’ll add that Kim said she cut chocolate out of her diet for …
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again – for as ornery and grumpy as Mallory is with us for bringing home a baby, she is in love with her baby brother.
After her failed attempt to pick Carson up in the video above, Mallory wanted to hold him on her lap:
And here is a close-up of her making she she is holding his head:
And here she is burping him. What you can’t see is the burp rag across her chest/under her arms…