Fast as fast can be...

Davey has really taken off! He's crawling so much faster and has started to pull up on everything and even stand by himself for a few seconds. This video shows him crawling, standing and laughing at mama. Daddy still gets the best laughs, but I can usually illicit a chuckle or two.

He has at least 5 more teeth that I can see coming in right now, so he's really not been himself the past week or so and his sleeping patterns have gotten very sporadic. Last night he was up at 12pm, 2am, 3am, 5am, and 7am. He only stays up for a minute but it really takes a toll on me the next morning! Those sweet baby smiles and giggles the next day totally make up for it. :-)

He's having his 9 month portraits done at the end of February, a couple of weeks early, because he will have nearly outgrown the cute outfits that I got for him. Plus, we're doing pictures with the live bunnies for Easter at Precious Memories too. I will have to get a picture from Linda to post on my blog. They are SOOOO cute!

Box baby

Since my last post, I've decided that I really need to update my blog more often so that I don't get overwhelmed by trying to catch up on 1 or 2 months at a time. So, I'm going to try to do a short post each week with pictures. I feel like I'll forget all of the little details otherwise.

So, this week Davey has discovered boxes. We invested in a learning program called "Your Baby Can Read" which came in a Davey-sized white box that he just loved! he likes the sound that the flaps make when he beats on them!

As I was doing laundry today I decided to put him in the laundry basket to see if he liked it and he did. There were no flaps to beat on, but he loved putting his mouth on the sides. He sat in the laundry basket for 20 minutes while he watched his DVD and looked in the mirror. What a cutey!

Crawling

Yes, we have a crawling baby! Well, he is starting to at least... I took this video today and just HAD to post it so that the world can see how advanced my child is! (That's a joke, btw. I'm not one of THOSE parents.) Davey has grown so much. He has the cutest little laugh and daddy is best at getting it out of him. I'll have to upload a video of it sometime so that you can hear him... it's TOO cute! I can hardly believe the little man that he is turning into before my eyes. I see him change every single day

Major Updating

31 weeks

30 weeks

29 weeks

28 weeks, Merry Christmas!

27 weeks kissing Claire

Disney

26 weeks, yes those are pants on his head

25 weeks, Thanksgiving

24 weeks

23 weeks

22 weeks

21 weeks

Well, I guess I'm not getting blogger-of-the-year awards for 2008... Can you believe it's been over 2 months since my last post? He's already over 7 months old! Those of you who know me well can certainly believe it. I'm going to try much harder to keep things current this year! So, these are the pics of Davey for all of the weeks I've missed. At least I remembered to take his picture, right? :-D

New pics

Hey, hey! He's a monkey!


Halloween w/ Claire

Week 20- 2 teeth!!

Week 19 w/ Camper-bear

4 months... What a BIG boy!

18 weeks
17 weeks
16 weeks
15 weeks
14 weeks

I just can't believe how much he has changed and how quickly! He's a chunky little booger, isn't he? So... things are going well with Davey- he's reaching new milestones every week. He's just recently found his little monkey toes, but has not put them in his mouth yet. He has rolled over both front to back and back to front, but has not rolled off the bed or couch yet. Thank goodness! He likes to sit up, but has a bad case of what his nanny, Jenn, calls the round bottoms where he kinda tumbles over without support.

As for breastfeeding: he is still doing pretty well. In the past few weeks I've had clogged milk ducts several times, which are very painful. And for the past week or so he has seemed a little disinterested in nursing during the day. I guess there's too much other stuff to do and look at! He is still solely on breast milk, but the fewer feedings during the day don't seem to be bothering him at all. He's certainly not loosing any weight as you can see in his pics!

As for cloth diapering: we're still doing pretty well. He wears cloth diapers most of the time when I'm home with him between Thursday - Monday. We still use disposable at night and when we're out and about. I think we save ourselves 10-15 diapers a week at this point.

Enjoy the pics! More to come very soon!

Rollin' right along...

13 weeks

GO DAWGS!
12 weeks
11 weeks

So, today is Davey's 3 month milestone. It feels like he's been part of our life forever. And I can't believe how big he's getting! Carolyn and I have an ongoing joke about how "advanced" our little ones are. Although he's not as dexterous as Claire (Carolyn's 15 week old), he's rolling over (video soon to come) and showing a lot of strength in his neck and kicking his legs. He loves to walk up and down mommy's tummy!

Davey is my little morning lark and is happiest around 6 a.m. He laughs and talks and giggles at us in bed as we struggle to wake up. I'm a morning person anyway, so I'm okay to be up with him. Daddy's a little tougher to rouse that early, but I've never seen him more thrilled to be awake than when his baby boy is laughing at him.

I finally feel like we're getting into the grove of things. We are not on a "schedule" per se because our lifestyle doesn't require that, but we are definitely communicating with each other and the baby more effectively. I can't wait to hear him say "I love you." I think those will be his first words because he hears them SO much! Mommy-hood definitely suits me and I'm eager to have another baby as soon as possible. For now, I am thoroughly enjoying the one that I have.