It's been a while.
We've been busy enjoying our summer with our sweet baby boy!
I have some catching up to do...
A few weeks ago I decided enough was enough and it was time to get back to the gym. I started going to the gym when Beckham was 7 weeks old, but, when him and I fell sick with a cold when he was 3 months old, we took time to recover and poof! It (the gym) quickly worked it's way out of our routine. I'm happy to be back at it again.
Our high chair was delivered last week and I was SO excited to start Beckham on solids, though he was a couple weeks shy of being 6 months old. My gut feeling was that he wouldn't like solids, because let's face it, this babe is a boob man and will not take a bottle. I was right. He hates solids. He quivers and gags and refuses to even swallow anything. We've tried rice cereal, prunes and pears (the last two because he hadn't pooped in 12 days and we were desperately trying to get him too! To much information? I apologize). It's been 6 days of trying. I hear this is normal and sometimes it takes up to 15 days before they actually swallow food. Well lets hope, because he will be cut off from nursing when he's one year old.
He started rolling from his back to his tummy last week and now he is a rolling machine! As soon as you place him on his back, he rolls to his tummy. Changing him is becoming more and more difficult to do because he just wants to roll onto his tummy, constantly. Sleeping is another thing. Oh how I long for the day of an 8 hour uninterrupted night of sleep. I used to be able to brag at how well he slept, well those days are long gone. He is a terrible sleeper most nights. He seems to be waking up at 3am and thinking its time to get up for the day. So some nights I'm up with him from 3am - 4:30am and then he'll fall asleep until 6am. 6 is his new number. It used to be 9 and then 830 and now 6. 6 is way too early to be starting my day! I don't go to bed until 11:30 and I can be up anywhere from 5 - 15 times a night with him. He also needs to eat every 3 hours, and this is why he needs to start liking food, maybe he will stay full for longer than 3 hours. Luckily my husband's home on weekends who is more than willing to get up frequently throughout the night with him and then get up with him at 6, to let this mama get some rest!
I joined a moms group in the spring and absolutely loved it!! Four of us from the group decided to join a summer moms group too, which has been great. I have a hard time staying at home. I have always had to be on the go and that has not changed with having a baby, though it will have to once he starts napping for longer than a half an hour at a time. Three of us from the group have become really close and try to get together once a week aside from attending our moms group once a week. We have really bonded and I love these sweet ladies and their sweet babes! Our babes are only a couple weeks apart so Beckham will have a great time with their children in the years to come!
We are headed to Calgary next week. My husband has to be there for meetings with work, so we decided it would be a good opportunity for me to go visit friends and to see how Beckham does away from home. I'm so darn nervous. He is in such a routine/schedule and I'm terrified to throw him off of it, by having him sleep in a hotel, and not in his crib. We are going to Maui in September so this will be a good test for us.
That's is all for now.
Oh and I must add how stinken much I love our sweet boy! Though he is such a terrible night sleeper, he is such a great baby! We truly are so lucky and blessed. It is very rare to ever hear him cry, he has even significantly improved in the car and if he were to cry that is the only time he would cry in a day. He is the light of our lives!
xo
A
