Saturday, March 31, 2012

“families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts”

Troy got to meet two aunties and two cousins last weekend – what a lucky and loved boy!  And of course, he got to see Memere again – very lucky indeed.  It was so much fun to have my Mom, sister, Lia, and my nieces here for the weekend.  Troy was loving all the excitement.  P and Piper were SO cute with him – I think he smiled more at them over the weekend than he’s ever smiled at me!  He’s started making a lot of noises while he’s sleeping like he’s dreaming wild dreams, I think he is re-living the weekend with Piper around.  We went strawberry picking and picked 22.7 pounds of strawberries on Thursday – and are now loving strawberries with/on every meal until we move!  We swam, ate, played, went to the Museum of Natural History, talked, ate some more (we ate really well – thanks to Lia, Mish and Mom), and just loved baby Troy.  It was perfect.

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Auntie Mish!  And cute smooshy sleeping face.IMG_3567

Auntie Lia  :)IMG_3539

  Just napping in the sun…hey we live in Florida!  After spending the weekend with these girls I don’t think I take as much advantage of it as I should…IMG_3552

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I love my family.  I can’t wait to spend 5 (or 6?) whole weeks with them this summer!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

One Month!

Troy 1month

Has it already been a whole month??  Crazy.  I can already picture myself next year, saying, “Has it already been a year??”  Time flies! 

For memory’s sake (since mine is not so good), here is what Troy is up to:

-he is a wiggle worm.  Even while nursing, unless he’s falling asleep, which makes it a little more difficult than a couple weeks ago…

-he nurses like a maniac, and requires my full attention nowadays (because he is squirming so much)

-still sleeps a lot, but only if he’s being held during the day – or sometimes, like right now, he’ll sleep in his swing.  He also sleeps in his carseat and during walks – this makes it hard to do the whole “sleep when your baby sleeps” thing (he’s better at night, thank goodness!).  I’m getting pretty good at doing everything with one hand.  When he is awake he is super alert and wants to be eating.

-the last couple of nights he’s slept for 3hr stretches!  Lets hope that keeps up…

-poops a lot, but only during the day, which is weird (I think, maybe it’s not)

-likes being outside.  Usually if he is fussy and rooting and he just ate for like an hour, if I walk a lap around the house outside he’ll calm down.

-is 8lb 13oz as of Tuesday!

-according to the “1 month care” sheet I got from his Dr. on Tuesday, I’m supposed to be reading him lots of colorful books (who knew?  He’s a newborn!), so I read him Dr. Seuss this morning – he seemed to like it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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