Posted by: jandprowley on: March 29, 2009
Oden has taken to a new kind of playing in the last couple of wks. He now plays w/ his stuffed animals as if they were babies. His favorite last wk was “Princess”, the build-a-bear gift he got from the Corral’s. This wk it’s “Bunny”, the pink bunny I got from So-Fro WAY back when. [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 28, 2009
Shai is just over 7wks old now, yay!! And we are thriving and surviving
I’ve become accustomed to his sleep habits now and feel pretty good about reading his sleep cues. He is still much like a newborn and sleeping most of the time. He is up b/w naps for anywhere b/w 5mins and [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 28, 2009
Mommy, like Oden, has dreams that make her really upset and cry too… I had a dream 2 nites ago that I witnessed a large dump truck lose control and hit a family standing on the side of the road. There were 2 kids that flew up into the air like bowling pins getting hit by [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 24, 2009
This morning Oden woke up after a bad dream… He dreamt that a girl sent him to sleep on the street. He was very sad and upset. And as usual, he asked me to give her a time out…
While Oden was playing this morning, he declared… ”I have an awesome idea! I can juggle 50 [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 21, 2009
For the 1st time today, Shai intentionally smiled at me today. I was face to face with him and making baby talk with him, when the corner of his mouth turned up. At 1st I wasn’t sure it was real, so I did it again and then again… and Shai responded. It made my heart [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 17, 2009
Shai had his 1st official bath today… and yes, it took me 6wks to feel ready for it. It’s been so cold that I wasn’t feeling the need to do much more than the sponge bath. But since his belly cord stump fell off some time ago, he was def ready. Plus, his hands have [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 15, 2009
Shai is 5.5wks old now and more like a newborn than a preemie. It literally started when he officially became “full term”. I asked for it…
He is much more alert now and is awake more than before – somewhere along the lines of 3+ hrs/day. And it’s not forced! He WANTS to nurse, and a [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 13, 2009
Well, we’ve had numerous challenges w/ Shai since his birth… respiratory distress, nursing, jaundice, thrush (which STILL isn’t gone yet), clogged tear duct, yeast in diaper area, and now it’s reflux!!
Last wk we had his 1mth well-child appt. Jon described the strange gurgling sounds Shai makes when he lays down to sleep after nursing. It [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 13, 2009
Shai turned 1mth old last wk!! A major milestone since he finally reached his “due date” and officially full term!! I am now looking forward to him being more alert and more “normal” as opposed to this preemie state of constant sleeping (so much so that he doesn’t even want to nurse!!).
Oden ADORES (pang Baby [...]
Posted by: jandprowley on: March 2, 2009
Oden is a BIG fan of being SILLY these days!!
Today he said… “Mama look at the steam! It’s coming out of Gma’s eyes!”
And he thinks he can tell jokes altho he hasn’t grasped the full concept of what a joke really is. For example… “Knock, knock. (who’s there?) Cow. (Cow who?)” And he just ends [...]
