This has gone from my spot to share all my questions, fears and experiences to a necessary outlet for the good, bad and the ugly that goes along with having two boys. I wouldn't change it for the world!






Monday, March 21, 2011

Precious Boy

No Photoshop. Just his natural beauty! Enjoy...






Play Dates

Since he was born, Baby Johnny has been more popular than I could've imagined! He gets invited to play groups, dinner dates, afternoon "drinks" (boobies only), breakfast, exercise plans. I mean he's more popular than we are!! It's hard to keep up with all his invites and scheduled dates. Everytime he gets around another baby, he LOVES it!! He loves to see other babies, touch them, talk to them and just stare. It is absolutely the cutest thing! He's figured out that the baby in the mirror is a trick.  It makes me wish we had another baby for him to play with. Ha!! He'll have to be happy with his friends at play dates for now. 
Amazing we could get them all to sit still that long!!



Joey loving on Baby Johnny. These two are guaranteed trouble when they are older. We can't wait!!!


This was Johnny's first real play date, with his pal Bo. They stared at each other for so long. ;0) 




This play date was with 4 other babies last week. Baby Johnny was smitten with Mattie. What girl wouldn't love that sweet face?!!! Hey Ladies....

My New Toy

Check out my new toy!! Funny how life changes, huh?! This is my new obsession....a baby food maker. It is absolutely Ahhh....maaazzzing!!  At first I was sad that Baby Johnny was moving on to "real food" but now it's fun to experiment together and watch him try new things.
I have made Baby Johnny carrots, sweet potatoes, pears and peas. He'll try the peas next week and is not a big fan of the carrots or sweet potatoes but LOVES, LOVES, LOVES pears!!! This may not look good to you, but the foods are fun to make and as long as baby loves them, I will continue to be the Barefoot Contessa of baby food making!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Laughing Is Contagious

Baby J's laugh is absolutely contagious! I love to capture him laughing, although he laughs way more than I could catch on video. If this doesn't make you smile, you're made of stone.

February 22nd

On the Move

It seems like so long ago that Baby J started rolling over. It's so funny the things we get excited about once we become parents, huh?!  So exciting!! This was on January 17th.

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Every time I look at precious Baby Johnny I am in awe of his beautiful features.  Occasionally this served as a great reminder as to why I could go days on little or no sleep.  The first couple months were trying as Wee and I adjusted to the two-hour-nap sleep pattern. I'm not gonna lie. There were days that I broke down and cried over spilled milk, no literally... I spilled milk and then I cried, from being so tired. There were a few times that Johnny had to wake me up to feed, because I was so dead asleep that I could not hear the baby crying next to me! 

There were nights that the baby would only sleep in his swing, other nights he would only sleep in our bed and some nights he would only sleep if I held him. On the other hand, I could have slept in line at the grocery store, in my car at a stoplight, during a cavity filling, at a packed restaurant or after a quadruple espresso which I'm sure I did. There were days that I thought he would never start sleeping more than 4 hours at a time. Some of my friends kids were sleeping 10 to 14 hours and I thought maybe Baby J just didn't like to sleep. Truth be told, I realized that part of the problem was that we had him sleeping in our bed. ;0(
I don't know who fought it more, me or Johnny.


At our 5 month appointment the Dr said to get him in his crib asap and start him on food (more on that another day). We worked inconsistently on putting him in his crib, I'm not gonna lie. When Mother Mary came last week she watched him one night while we were at a class and got him to sleep in his crib. That set the momentum for crib training. He's now slept in his crib for the last 3 nights. He wakes up once and I feed him in his room and put him back down. He's sleeping an average of 10-12 hours. What a big boy!! If you ever find me cuddling in his crib, be sure to drag me out by my hair!!