6 Weeks!!

I really don't have much to talk about but I will do a quick post to let everyone know what my little man is up to!!  Notice I said little man cause he is getting so big he just doesn't even seem like a baby to me anymore :(  Dr. Dimmick didn't make us come back for a 1month check up so that means we haven't been weighed again and I have been curious how much he has gained cause you can definetely tell he's put on some weight.  So the other day at mom's I weighed myself (which by the way I was very happy with being I had just had a baby 5 1/2 weeks ago at the time) and then I weighed holding him and well it showed he weighed 12lbs!!!  That is one big boy!!  I really think that he just ran out of room in me cause he has been growing like crazy.  He is still eating 4-5oz of formula every 3 hours.  I make him 5 everytime and sometimes he eats and sometimes he doesn't.  For some reason the past week he has been fighting me a little finishing a bottle.  He will shake his head and stretch his body out just trying to get the bottle out of his mouth and then he seals his lips shut and I will wait a minute or two and he will act like he is starving again and take it.  He is still a little bit of a cryer but he is getting over that some.  Still not sleeping 100% through the night but he usually only wakes up twice for a bottle and I feed him and swaddle him and he is back to sleep so it's not to bad.  And know to the best part of it all....he started smiling!!!  He gave me his first gummy smile last Wednesday and I was just the happiest mommy ever.  Right after that I called Bert in and he started talking to him and there was that smile again!!  He usually will only give us a smile in the mornings and every know and then in the evenings.  This morning while Daddy was feeding him and came in and started talking to him and bottle in his mouth and all he just started smiling and couldn't stop!!  He is so sweet!!!

Know to the worst part of my week!!  I started work Monday :(  The beginning of last week I had come in to do payroll and stuff and my boss had asked when I planned on coming back cause my higher up boss was asking.  I originally was going to try and stay with my baby until 8 weeks which would have been the beginning of September but after he had said that I figured I should come back.  So August the 8th I called Dory and told her she would be starting her job sooner since she will be keeping Brody for us.  Well that didn't work out as planned.  August the 6th we had Coopers 1st B-Day party and all it was was just family.  Well Dory got a call the following Monday from Brent's sister and her youngest daughter had hand, foot, & mouth disease and for Dory to keep an eye on the kids since we were all just there Saturday.  As of Tuesday everyone was ok and mom and Dory were planning on taking the kids to Splashway and I was gonna keep Cooper and Brody (they wanted to go before I went back to work).  Wednesday morning Dory called to say hold off on coming to town Cooper's not feeling good.  By Wednesday afternoon she was taking both of her boys to the Dr. and sure enough all 3 of her kids had it.  We were at the party to so I was worried about my baby getting it.  She told the Dr. we were there he said Brody should still have some of my immunities in him and should be fine but to keep an eye on him and bring him in if I notice anything and he also said that she could not keep him that this stuff needed to run it's course since there's not treatment for it.  Thank goodness my baby didn't get it but I still needed to figure out what I was gonna do with him.  Mom and Dad had finally gotten to go to the bay and weren't coming home until Monday evening and then mom had a Dr.'s appt Tuesday morning.  So since my bosses were ok with Brody coming to work that's what we did.  I guess my son doesn't like the work environment cause he was not a very happy baby Monday and I pushed it and made it at work until about 2.  Tuesday he was coming back with me until mom got out of her appt.  well that lasted longer than we thought so I had him until about 11:15 which wasn't bad but he still wasn't too happy.  Then Wednesday came...my 1st whole day without him and I hated it.  Even though I took a longer lunch and spent it with him I barely made it to 3:45 before I left to pick him up.  I don't know how today is going to go but hopefully better than yesterday.

1 Month Old!!!

Ok I am going to go ahead and post a 1 month blog while I have time and feel like doing it!!  Our little Brody is growing like crazy and changing everyday.  When I feed him I put my boppy around me and lay him across it, well it doesn't look like I will be doing that for long since he barely fits on there anymore.  We won't be going to the Dr. for a 1 month checkup so I won't know how much he weighs until 2 months unless I figure out a way to weigh him at home.  At our 2 week appt. when we left they told me to make a 2 month appt and I didn't think about it and made it and left, but then I thought he needed to go back at 1 month so I called and they said he was doing well and the Dr. didn't need to see him until his 2 month shots. 

So let me talk about what all is going on with him right now.  He is eating 4 oz. every 3 hours and he loves to eat and normally does not miss a feeding.  Every now and then he is super tired and won't finish a bottle but it doesn't happen often.   He is doing pretty good with his schedule.  Usually he will stay up between his 7:30 feeding and 10:30 p.m. feeding which is fine with me I can feed him at 10:30 and we both go to sleep pretty good.  He does usually have his time at night that he stays up between feedings and lays in bed and cries and I try to sleep through it but that is pretty hard.  I was kind of worried about him crying because I feel like that is all he does when he is awake Bert just thinks that I have him spoiled and he wants to be held and I do think that is some of it but not all.  Dory had told me she remembered with Cooper she had the same problem so I went back on her blog and sure enough Cooper was a crier which is weird cause now he is such a happy baby and I don't think I have ever heard a real cry out of him.  Dr. Dimmick had told her it was normal and should go away by 8 weeks so we have 4 more weeks to go.  When we first got home from the hospital we tried swaddling but he would through a fit until he could get his arms free and then he was happy so we just stopped swaddling.  Last night was the first night I have tried it since and he did ok, still woke up every 3 hours and still had his time in the middle of the night he was up between feedings but he also is a very warm baby and he sweats like crazy in that thing.  We keep it at 74 in the house which we think is a good temp, I guess he's just gonna be a hot one.  I think he is holding his head up pretty good already and he throws that thing around like crazy.  We also think that he is getting close to rolling over.  He gets so close to it all the time and usually when I first put him down to sleep and I randomly go check on him he is laying on his side.  I know that sounds crazy but one day he will do it accidentally.

Brody had his first modeling gig the past Monday.  A photographer out of Wharton had done pics with Dory and the kids a few months back and she did a wonderful job.  Since then I have been following her on facebook.  The other day she posted that she needed a model between newborn-4 weeks so I hurried up and messaged her since she seems to book up pretty quick and we got it!!!  She had got some new things she wanted to try out with a baby boy so the session would be free and I could get 5 digital images for free.  Well since my baby seems to be a bit of a crier I figured it wasn't going to go to good and we wouldn't be there long but he did excellent and we were there for 1 1/2 hours!!!  Of course she has all the pics ready and they are all so good so we do have the option to purchase one of her packages which we are going to do!!!  I still can't believe how well he did!!  I guess that's all for now and I will leave y'all with some pics from our photo shoot!