Fall-back Friday, Foto Friday, whatever you want to call it. Mostly an opportunity to share some pictures with you. Some relatively new, some super old... just things I've been looking at and that make me happy.
Nine Months
Nick Names: The Bubba, Sweetness
Height: 27.75 inches (21st percentile)
Weight: 19 pounds, 4 ounces (40th percentile)
Head: 17.25 inches (15th percentile)
Special Outings: THE BIGGEST OF BIG OUTINGS! 30,000 feet in the air!! To a completely different part of the country!!!
Visitors: Becca, Oppedisanos
Loves: The Kitty, warmer weather, making friends
Hates: Getting face/nose cleaned, being tired or hungry
The Small Moments
Inside My Mind
Although most days I'm back to feeling like myself - calm, level headed, in control, uncaring about obnoxious people - there are still occasional days where I can't turn it off. The anxiety that has popped up sporadically since giving birth makes a reappearance and there seems to be nothing to do but wait it out.
A Weekend in the Life
Warning: This post is obnoxiously long, filled with pictures (seriously it may not even load on your phone - I actually didn't post half of what I took because it was taking so long), and maybe not be that interesting to many people, but I like to post snap shots of our life from time to time and see how they've changed. Here's a peek into our life right now (on the weekends at least)
Not Worse, Just Different
Lately
I've been in such a countdown and list mode lately. Countdown to visits or vacations or SPRING. Lists of things to pack or finish or put away. Constantly running through my head. And because of that I feel like I haven't let myself sit back and enjoy lately.
On the rare mornings when I get to wake E up, I'm thinking about getting him dressed and getting him a bottle more than just sitting and playing with him. At night I'm running schedules through my mind and making sure he's napping or eating or ready for bed instead of enjoying the minutes I have with him.
New Trick
The Bubba
The Bubba is a funny creature. Once a baby that easily startled, he's now pretty easy going. Ice machines that used to make him cry, now make him laugh.
The Bubba can crawl now, but he'd like you to believe he can't. Until you leave your phone somewhere and then ZOOM! he's off to stick it in his mouth.
Teething, or Not
It's a weird thing, teething.
It can happen at any time, with little to no warning. And it's impossible to predict. You can guess, you can assume, but you won't really know until a tooth shows up. Oh but there are symptoms, you say. Sure - drooling, irritability, trouble sleeping, putting things in mouth, pulling at their ears... all symptoms.
January Happenings
Even though I'm quite happy that we are DONE with January, I'll look back for just a moment. It was a quiet month, with a lot of time at home, and a lot of time squeezing the Bubba. You can see for yourself, since we've posted the January summary video - found below and on our video page here.
Missing Pieces
When you're younger and you think about your future, there might be a hypothetical family. With some fuzzy, undetermined number and gender of kids running around. It's all purely theoretical, so I never worried too much about it besides to know that I'd like to head in that direction.
I’ve officially moved from the “I’d like to have a family and kids someday” to being in the middle of making it happen. But I’m not on the other side yet, where I’ll know what that family looks like. It’s a weird place to be. A short period of your life when things change very rapidly. I’ve gone from being single, to married and living with someone, to having a kid, in a relatively short period of time. But even with all that, there’s more change to come. Our family is unfinished, and there’s no way to look ahead and know when it will be finalized.
This is Probably My Fault
Eight Months
Nick Names: The Bubba, Bubba-bee, Sweetness
Height: 26.5 inches (Estimated because no doctor's appointment)
Weight: 20 pounds (Estimated)
Head: 17+ inches
Special Outings: None? We were total home bodies unless you count shopping trips..
Visitors: Raina & Zaida
Loves: Being surprised, cousin Zaida, poking at faces
Hates: Getting face/nose cleaned, being tired or hungry, not being able to crawl
The Thing That Shall Not be Named
"Oh he's almost there!"
"It's going to happen so soon!"
"He's almost got it! I bet it happens this weekend!"
I try not to pay too much attention to milestones. I certainly don't care if they happen early or late, and it doesn't bother me when another baby checks something off before we do. I know it will all happen eventually. If anything, I usually tell myself whatever it is will happen way later, so that I'm pleasantly surprised when it does happen.
All the Small Things
These are the days I'm going to forget. The days where nothing happens, but that make up the essence of our life. Scheduling our days around naps. Teaching E how to eat and cleaning up so many messes. Jumping in the car and walking around AC Moore or Lowe's or the supermarket so we have a chance to get out of the house and E gets some stimulation and people to look at.
Sitting on the floor playing with toys, watching the kitty and building towers out of blocks. Tossing cat treats that make Maia run in circles and E belly laugh. Watching the world pass by out the window. Turkeys and cars and the neighbors and snow.
The Cure to the Winter Blues
Worth Every Penny
When I was pregnant and we'd walk through Target looking at baby clothes, Tom was always drawn to the socks. He'd talk about one day possibly having matching socks with E. Somehow when I was looking for Christmas presents this year, I stumbled upon Happy Socks and fell in love. They come in awesome designs, they have sizes (not just one size fits most) so they actually fit Tom (!), AND they have matching baby socks!!
No Winning
The mom guilt is real, y'all.
What do you do when there's only two options, and both of them have negative consequences? There is no winning no matter what you choose. Do you make a choice and move on? Or do you cry yourself to sleep trying to figure out what the magical third option that doesn't exist is, and wonder why you didn't do that instead?