Firsts – Page 47

Sick and Pitiful

December 13, 2010

Happy Monday everyone. Unfortunately, our weekend wasn’t as holly jolly as it was supposed to be. Friday night poor little Maxwell did not feel well at all…and did not sleep at all. Robert and I were up with our crying, miserable guy all night. I finally got him to sleep with me in the glider chair from 3 to 5 am. Luckily our doc has Saturday office hours so we were up there by 8:15 am to see the pediatrician. I think Robert and I were honestly hoping it was an ear infection just to know there was an actual problem, but, no. Maxwell just has his first cold with lots of congestion. Unfortunately, the congestion makes his reflux hurt even more causing a very unhappy little boy. He was pretty pitiful all day Saturday. Robert and I were dreading Saturday night in fear of no sleep again but, luckily, we were able to get him snoozing pretty much all night by letting him sleep on us in the chair as we were able to hold him more upright to keep the reflux from hurting as bad. I think he also just wanted to be loved on…don’t we all want that when we’re sick? One of the saddest things is that he’s totally hoarse from all the drainage and crying. There’s nothing more pitiful than a tired, cranky baby trying to cry with no voice! Sunday has been much better so far…hopefully he’ll recover quickly.

Looking so tired and pitiful on Saturday…

Some of you might find this gross, but it’s the reality of babies…you’ve got to suck their snot out for them. The bulb syringes work good but I also got this neat little invention that works great! It’s a Nose Frida Snot Sucker. (www.nosefrida.com) You put one end on the baby’s nostril, the other end in your mouth and you suck the snot out!! Don’t worry, there’s a filter than keeps any of the gunk from reaching your mouth. Gross? totally. Satisfying? totally.

The good part about having to go to the doctor on Saturday? Maxwell got weighed and he’s up to 13 lbs, 11 oz! Our little CHUBBO!! We love it! He weighed 11 lbs, 15 oz at the beginning of November so that’s almost a 2 lb weight gain in a little over a month! He’s got at least a few ounces in his cheeks for sure! 🙂

Maxwell also got to experience his first snow this weekend! It wasn’t much but we had some flurries here on Sunday – pretty exciting.

Feeling better on Sunday…

p.s. Happy Birthday to my cousin, Laura, last week! Hope it was a great one!

Oh Christmas Tree!

December 7, 2010

On Saturday Robert, Maxwell and I went to get our Christmas Tree! Ho Ho Ho! We found a great one and the house smells so good now! The best part of it all? When we got home, Maxwell took a THREE hour nap in his swing giving us a chance to get the tree into the house and completely decorated with time to spare. I guess he was just filled with the spirit of the season. 🙂

At the tree lot…

Our little elf was afraid we were going to put him to work stringing lights when we got home…

He decided the best way to avoid working was to sleep. Fine by me! (sorry for the blurry pic, the swing was swinging!)

Our Christmas tree!

Then, because I’m a dork, I made both of us pose in front of the tree with the baby. Gotta capture the memories! 🙂

If you’re curious after my post Sunday, here is the original and edited versions of the header shot:

Not perfect but I’d rather see some blurry trees than those people! I also took out the cars in the background. Pretty neat!

Quick update

December 4, 2010

As you can see by the new header, guess who got a Christmas tree?! Ho Ho Ho! Can I tell you how badly I wish those random people weren’t in the background of the photo?!! Oh well. Off to decorate…

Update – attempted to remove the people in the background using photoshop. Definitely not perfect but better! I’ll keep working on it.

Friday Favorite

December 3, 2010

First, guess who rolled over yesterday?! 3 times!! We even caught it on video and if I can ever figure out how to put a video up here I’ll show you all! Our little guy is growing up!!

Today’s Friday Favorite is my iPhone. My i don’t know what i would do without it iPhone. When I’m rocking Maxwell to sleep at night or trapped while holding him for a long nap (he’s not so good at napping in the crib yet) I love that I can use my iPhone to check my email, read my gossip websites (love you Perez), and play games all with one hand. Even more, I love that I can take pictures and videos of Maxwell whenever he does something cute and email them to Robert immediately. Those Apple folks really know what they’re doing.

My latest favorite iPhone app? Words with Friends. Obsessed. Do you play? If so, leave your username in the comments. I’d love to play a game with you! I’m sjpbrown.

Some recent funny pictures taken with my iPhone…

ps – I promise I’ll get back to the baby gear next Friday!

Have a great weekend! We’re planning to get a Christmas tree! Ho Ho Ho!

A great Thanksgiving

November 29, 2010

Maxwell had a very nice first Thanksgiving. Robert and I packed up the car and the 3 of us headed down to Montgomery for the night. Maxwell got to meet his Great Aunt Betty and Great Uncle Don for the first time as they drove down from Huntsville. We had quite a feast and lots of good conversation.

Maxwell looking cute in his courdory Thanksgiving outfit…too bad it was 75 degrees that day!

I think he liked his little frog jumper despite the heat…

Hanging with Granddaddy…

and sitting with Lou Lou checking out his very favorite thing in the world, the ceiling fan!

Getting lots of attention as always…

Kicking it with Aunt Betty….

and Uncle Don.

Looking well fed just like we all were that day! 🙂

We stuck around Montgomery on Friday to watch the Iron Bowl – Alabama v. Auburn. While the first half of the game was great, the second half was not so great with a disappointing AL loss by one point. Oh well, there’s always next year!

Game day!