Tummy Sleeper

B is now a tummy sleeper at night and sometimes at naptime. Yikes! I must say it does put a little more worry in my mind, but I know that he can easily roll himself over if he needs to. I've read that once they can roll from front to back and back to front and lift their head it's OK if they sleep on their stomachs, but it still is strange. With all the "baby back to sleep" talk I feel like I'm doing something wrong by letting him stay on his tummy, but every time I roll him to his back he just flips right over. This made me feel better...from sidscenter.org: "Once babies start rolling and choosing their own sleep position, you do not need to keep turning them over onto their backs."

On the bright side B has slept a full 12 hours the past few nights. He hasn't woken up for a feeding. That's been strange for me, but I'll take what I can get. He has also put himself to sleep much better both nights.

Here are a few pictures of my tummy sleeper.

This is from a nap one day this week. He wears a sleep-suit as a blanket. Yep, next item on the "to buy" list is a breathable bumper.


A picture of the video monitor from tonight


I'll take any words of wisdom to ease my mind : )

Sweet B,

You are 7 months old today! You are such a bundle of joy these days. I can’t believe you are closer to being a one year old than a newborn. This past month you have gotten 4 top teeth in., and it makes you look so much older.

You have done great with your doc band and we got it decorated today. You have also started going to physical therapy to help straighten out your neck and work on pushing up, rolling, and the beginning stages of crawling. You are such a trooper with medical things and you are making great progress! You take 3 naps each day (9,12:30, and 4ish) and go to bed between 6:30 and 7:00 each night. You still wake up one time each night usually around 4am, have a bottle, and then you sleep each day until 6:30 or 7:00. You are eating 2 meals each day. You have fruit in the morning and a veggie at night. You have becoming a pro with eating off a spoon and you sure do love to eat! You seem to like every food we give you. You have learned how to use you fingers rubbing on your mouth to make noise. It’s so cute! You are becoming such a wiggly worm when I hold you. This is a new thing for you, but it’s neat to see you develop in different ways. I can’t wait to see what this month brings!
Love you little one.

New Look

Today we got B's band decorated! A place in Austin that does vynal wraps for business wraps bands for free. This is a service that would normally cost 200 dollars but they do it for free. Such and amazing service they provide for these babies. I thought for a while about what I'd like B's band to look like and looked at a lot online. I finally decided on a baseball since it's baseball season and it has somewhat neutral colors. I didn't want anything too bright or flashy. I think the final product turned out great!

Here he is showing off his new bling!

6 month photos

I decided I didn't want to pay to get 6 month photos of B taken and thought I'd try my hand at photographing him. Here are some of the shots I took and used Photoshop to help make them more professional looking.

Enjoy!

Doc Band!

Introducing "Buddy the Band"



And B showing it off...

New Seat!

We finally decided on a high chair to get for B. This was a big decision in my mind. I wanted one that would look good in our house (not too "baby") but one that was functional and got good reviews. Up until now we have been doing meals in his Bumbo chair which was fine, but it was time to transition.

The chair came in the mail today (LOVE Amazon Prime!) and I put it together by myself! We decided on the Fisher Price Zen Collection high chair.

Here is a picture of B after I put it together. Oh and BTW I change his bibs about every 3 hours...he just drools and blows raspberries that much!


Here is his first dinner in it...Avacados...yum!


So far so good. I give it 5 stars!

Little B Today

The comments I get most about B when we are out:

He has beautiful eyes
He is so big
He is very alert

Yep, all of the above are true but the big thing kinda gets me...he is only in the 50% for weight right now so I'm curious what the babies in the 90% are like. I also just wonder if people don't have a ton of experience with babies and they think 6 month olds are still newborns. He is not a newborn in my eyes anymore. He is a smart baby who knows what he wants and will let me know it.

Today I am savoring the time I have kissing his sweet little head and snuggling close because tomorrow he gets his doc band and we won't be able to do those things 23 out of the 24 hours in each day. Pictures will be forthcoming.

That's what's on my mind today : )

Flexibility = Becoming a Better Mom

If you know me well you know flexibility and spontaneity are things I don't deal with too well. This past week has tested me as a mom and person in both of these areas.

I'll explain: My parents are renovating our house on Kiawah Island and they were going to be driving there to start to put the house back together (furniture and decorations). They were driving so they could fill up my dad's truck with furnishings for the house that my mom has bought here in Austin. Long story short...I decided to go with them. One major part of me going with them is that I would see my grandparents and other family members. I know everyone would love to see B and I couldn't pass up that opportunity. The downside to this trip is that it was a looonnnggg car ride. We had to drive about the same distance at Christmas becuase of the blizzard in NYC and I wasn't too excited about doing it again, but it was free and with my parents so I decided to go for it. I questioned my decision many times before we left but I'm SO glad I went in the end.

The week was full of things we didn't expect and I didn't have my usual comforts of home (the house was still a little chaotic at the 1st of the week). I had to be super organized with formula and bottles for the car ride and all of Bennett's things once we arrived. It was a lot of prep work. All of this to say that I had to be flexible and so did B. He slept in a different room almost every night and napped in random places through the day (thanks for the P&P Colleen!). I couldn't depend on my glider to put his down for his nap so we had to get creative. I also didn't have the support of Dave and although my parents were helpful it just wasn't the same. I have no idea how single parents do it all! Overall the week was a chance for us to be out of our comforts of home and live in the moment as my mom would say. I'm so thankful for this trip because it showed me that I can trust myself and B more with things I was nervous to do before. I know we can adapt to different situations and I don't have to rely so heavily on our "schedule."

Here are some pictures from the week...who wouldn't have wanted to go!?