I don't have much time to write full blog posts lately. So I've decided that I will copy and paste information from emails to my husband, facebook messages, and online chats with my mom (like this one) so that I can still keep this information and update you (whoever you are) on baby Henry! Good idea?
So just so you have some background.. Henry is now 4 months old and I am finally admitting that he is too big for his bassinet. :( I've started trying to have him sleep in his crib in his own room, which is right across the hall from mine. ...This is how its going so far:
[Me]
ok seriously i am having issues with the whole crib thing!!
he doesnt like it!
:(
gahhhh
he is crying right now... i am REALLY hoping he'll just go back to sleep
[Mary Schumacher]
oh no
[Me]
it really sucks.
[Mary Schumacher]
what if you sleep on the futon while he falls asleep
[Me]
.... why would that make any difference
[Mary Schumacher]
then you'd be in the room while he falls asleep and he'd sense you are right there
[Me]
LOL
idk mom..
i put him in his crib to fall asleep. he fell asleep, then woke up 10 min later and started crying.
i rocked him to sleep and put him back
he is now awake again crying.
is this going to just continue forever?? i rock him to sleep, set him down and 15 min later i am doing it again??
[Mary Schumacher]
give him your sweaty tshirt to sleep with
then he'll smell you and feel comforted
[Me]
YOU HAVE THE MOST RIDICULOUS SOLUTIONS!
[Mary Schumacher]
LOL
people do that!
[Me]
i hold him and he's instantly sleeping again
grrrrrrr
[Mary Schumacher]
oh just sleep with him. He'll move to his own bed in a few years.
Gracie and Libby sleep in their own beds now. (sometimes)
[Me]
LOL
uuugh...
& just so you know I really did give him a tshirt.. not sweaty, but i wore it! Wish me luck!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Grandmas, Food, Babies, etc...
Pretty much everyone uses facebook now. Its just convenient for staying in touch with friends and family who aren't close by. And even the ones that are and are just too busy to catch up on a regular basis! Anyway, the other day I asked my grandmother over facebook what her mom (my great grandmother) eats on a regular basis. I have watched a few food documentaries lately and since my great gramma is 103 (or is it 104 now?) I decided it was a good question!! I have also recently decided that I would love to stay alive to see my children's children's children's children!!
Please ignore the fact that I look like a giant whale. This is my gramma, my great gramma, my mom, my sister, charlie (her baby), and me and Henry. So it is all five generations!
Anyway, this was my Grandma's response to my question about what Great Gramma eats:
"Gma eats ordinary food. No nuts, or anything hard to chew. She has her cold cereal every morning with a little milk and sugar, and her cranapple juice. We eat our big meal at noon. Then usually just have a bowl of Moose Tracks ice cream for supper with a cookie. She eats a lot of chicken and fish with potatoes and gravy and a roll. Some mornings we fix eggs and sausage with toast, or pancakes or frozen waffle thingys. Sometimes we fix those things for lunch just for a change. She eats hamburgers now and then. She likes lamb chops but we don't have those often. She doesn't care for Mexican foods, Italian, or Oriental. When she doesn't feel well she eats burnt toast to help settle her stomach, or milk toast with tea. In other words she eats whatever she wants and ignores anything she doesn't care for at the time. She has no special diet."
I thought it was funny for some reason. :) And also a bit relieving.. because I have been so concerned lately about organic foods and what is healthy for Henry, whats not, that its nice to know that you can live a long healthy life just by eating foods that you like and that make you feel good. I will just try not to purchase too many foods with pesticides, growth hormones or too many "enhancements" and I think we will all be fine!
Please ignore the fact that I look like a giant whale. This is my gramma, my great gramma, my mom, my sister, charlie (her baby), and me and Henry. So it is all five generations!
Anyway, this was my Grandma's response to my question about what Great Gramma eats:
"Gma eats ordinary food. No nuts, or anything hard to chew. She has her cold cereal every morning with a little milk and sugar, and her cranapple juice. We eat our big meal at noon. Then usually just have a bowl of Moose Tracks ice cream for supper with a cookie. She eats a lot of chicken and fish with potatoes and gravy and a roll. Some mornings we fix eggs and sausage with toast, or pancakes or frozen waffle thingys. Sometimes we fix those things for lunch just for a change. She eats hamburgers now and then. She likes lamb chops but we don't have those often. She doesn't care for Mexican foods, Italian, or Oriental. When she doesn't feel well she eats burnt toast to help settle her stomach, or milk toast with tea. In other words she eats whatever she wants and ignores anything she doesn't care for at the time. She has no special diet."
I thought it was funny for some reason. :) And also a bit relieving.. because I have been so concerned lately about organic foods and what is healthy for Henry, whats not, that its nice to know that you can live a long healthy life just by eating foods that you like and that make you feel good. I will just try not to purchase too many foods with pesticides, growth hormones or too many "enhancements" and I think we will all be fine!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Henry update.
In one week, my little Henry will turn 4 months old. This week he's suddenly making so much progress developmentally! His hand-eye coordination is really good now. He can pretty much grab anything within arms reach, and quickly too. I can tell that his depth perception is getting better because when I hand him a toy his hands used to try to grab in front of or behind it and he'd have to search for it through the air a little before actually grabbing it, and that process has almost been eliminated now. He can also ROLL OVER now!!! Yay! Two days ago he rolled over from his back to his tummy (over his right arm) and has been practicing ever since! The only problem is that he can't roll from his tummy to his back, which is funny because I've read that most babies figure out how to do that first. He has always hated tummy time until this week, after he learned to roll over. And now that he doesn't mind, we play on the floor all the time! In fact, I am laying on the floor with him right now.
I just measured him from the top of his head to his heel - 27 inches! Wasn't expecting that! According to the internet that's well above the average baby's 4 month weight. And I don't know his exact weight but I'm going to guess its around 16 pounds. He has a doctors appointment in a few days so I guess we'll find out then. I also purchased a high chair and I've fed him rice cereal with a spoon three times now! He seems to like it. I will probably just stick to breastfeeding while he's sick though.
We are both sick today. My poor Henry is teething, has a runny nose, and plenty of boogers. :/ And I can only assume he has a headache, because I sure do. I'm pretty sure he gave it to me actually, because I noticed his runny nose before I felt a thing. I'm going to go to the store and buy this "vapor bath" stuff for him and some cough drops and chicken noodle soup for me! If I make it out of the house, that is...
And Daddy is gone. He's been gone over a week and we've still got over a week to go, but I've been emailing him a lot. I think he'll be really excited to come home to Henry since he has so many new tricks to show him! And of course he is always growing. growing growing growing. Why do they have to do that anyway??
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