bedtime

when grayson first came home from the hospital it was chaos. no routine. no schedule. just trying to stay afloat. now we are more in the swing of things. 

after making the mistake of letting him take a 6 hour nap one day and him not sleeping all night i realized we need to enforce a routine. 

he can nap all he wants during the day but once 6pm hits we keep him up until 930/10. he usually is up from his naps by 6 anyway. it's just a matter of entertaining him until bedtime. he usually starts to loose it around 8ish so thats when the bath happens. this child loves his baths. he is a water baby for sure. we let him hang out in his whale tub and on more then one occasion he has been in there too long and we have ended up needing to repeat the bath. oops. after the bath he gets his baby massage which he looooves. then his daddy reads him a book. he eats, and then he is free to sleep. 

it's so nice that he's starting to sleep longer. we are getting more and more 4 hours stretches between feedings during the night. usually the one from the time he goes to bed till the next one lasts the longest. he still has his bad nights where he refuses to sleep but they are fewer and farther apart then the good nights. 

i have also learned to get by on very little sleep. i am not a napper, and even if i was there really is never time because when he sleeps i use that time to get some of the millions of things on my list done. 

this is by far the hardest job ever, but we're learning. 

cute like his daddy

love

i love spending my afternoons like this

to the mister

happy two year anniversary to my husband! 

roll over!

when grayson is on his playmat he likes to rock himself back and forth. yesterday he was able to completely roll himself over onto his tummy.


yay grayson!

hello fishy!

grayson seems to have found a friend

yardwork

this is what happens to your garden when you are gone all summer!

those are weeds! lots and lots of weeds. 

so this is how we spent our weekend. mulching and pulling weeds. fun.

here is how grayson spent his

what a good helper!

men in women's bathrooms

some of the nicer stores have women's lounges in their bathrooms. nice areas with couches and chairs. perfect for mom's who breastfeed. 

when entering the restroom area there is clearly a direction marked men, and one marked women.  

after changing grayson yesterday while out shopping he decided he was hungry and had to eat right away. i walk into the lounge and there are two men sitting on the couches. one is around my age and one is a much older gentlemen. i simply say "i believe this is the women's restroom". the younger man gets up and walks out. the older man however has a fit and refuses to leave. he feels that because he is not in the actual stall it doesn't matter.

"okay well i am about to whip out my boob so as long as you are okay with that"

the guy simply stared at me. he showed no intention of getting up. i warned him. i was adjusting myself to start feeding grayson and the man continued to STARE at me. at this point another girl in the restroom commented on how awkward this was and my friend jumped to offer a blanket to cover. 

when i finally did "whip it out" he adverted his eyes. 

i did not realize asking a MAN to leave the WOMEN'S bathroom would be so offensive. when your child is screaming to eat though you do what you have to do. it is afterall the women's lounge. 

rip shoe collection

i am a huge shoe freak. so much so that i have two closets full of them. when i was pregnant my feet swelled up so much that the only things i could wear were flip flops, and i stretched the heck out of them. 

remember this?

well my feet are no longer swollen but they are BIGGER! devastatingly so. i first discovered this as i was getting ready for a wedding and i couldn't get my feet into any of my heals. i thought maybe it would change but almost three months later and still i can't fit into my shoes. 

i have to wear a 9.5, sometimes a 10. they don't have as many options for the larger sizes as the more average. 

so many beautiful shoes and now i have to start all over. so sad. 

my sister just started a job and moved up to new york so before she left she came and went shopping through my shoes. it was sad but at least they are going to a good home. two large bags full. gone. 

see them by the door there? 

bye bye shoes :( 

beach baby!

grayson's first trip on the beach

 

good morning!

runaway baby

grayson likes to be held at all times but there are certain situations where i have just got to put the child down. bathroom breaks are one of those situations. 

i left him on his playmat and when i came out of the bathroom he was gone! i had a mini panic for a moment- where is the baby!!?

then i walk around the corner and found he had scooted his way behind the couch. oops.

look what we tried today!

he does such a great job holding his head up (he' been doing it literally since the day we brought him home) i thought maybe i would check out the bumbo to see if he was big enough for it yet. horray!

sleepy boys

bark park

i promised the dogs that once i was no longer working i would take them to the dog park all the time (it's one of their favorite places). i figured it was about time i fulfilled that promise. so off to the park we went!

night!

one month old grayson

some pictures i shot of him at one month

are you ready for some football?

it's back. grayson is a sports fan in the making (at least his daddy hopes so).

too bad the eagles lost. e-a-g-l-e-s eagles!

carnival

we live on the same street as the high school in our town. at the end of the summer they always throw a carnival. the last couple years we have walked down with the dogs. it's a small little carnival but they have funnel cake and snow cones so it makes it all worth it! this year i thought we should skip it because grayson is too little. mark thought otherwise. 

guess who won..

it was a very quick trip. just for a snowcone. grayson is sleeping in the picture above but he was actually awake prior to that and loved all the lights. 

till next year.