update

wow its been a while since i have blogged. all is well in baby land. noah is now a little over 5 months and has started solids. so far cereal and we just started bananas last night. he seems to really like it. he is cutting a few teeth on top but they are not thru yet. we took him swimming for the first time last week. he seemed to enjoy it!
on my end things are about the same. work is SUPER BUSY which is great! we are having record months!! i am feeling good and starting to be less tired. I am still stuck with the last of the baby weight. it just stopped coming off. i have heard you dont loose the last till you stop nursing. we will see. i have been trying to exercise more now that its nice outside and he is more able to be taken out and about.
Mothers day is coming up and we are looking forward to it. going to the inlaws to cook out and my mom is coming too. should be fun as long as someone is good in the car!
Thats about all for now. Noah is swinging and starting to get the grumpys, meaning he wants busted out. LOL.

Here and there

Noah is now 4 months old! I cant believe how time flies. We have decided to wait on solids till 6 months. It definitely wont hurt to wait so we are gonna try to make it.
On another note, we put a bid on a house close to work that way i could come home for lunch and not lose almost an hour a day in drive time, plus we wanted a fenced yard for the dogs.........but we were outbid =( we have to sign a new lease for this house soon so i think we will have to wait another year.
not much else is happening. work is going great. noah is growing. we are happy for spring to come. Other than that same old same old.

solids

I am really debating when to start Noah on Solids. Everyone says 4 months for cereal but all the current research says 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding. I am not sure what to think. Part of me wants to wait as long as possible to let him develop his digestive system completely, the other part says he is showing signs. Stares when I eat, lots of drooling, chewing on hands ect. I dont really know what to think.
I am open to any input!

sweet baby sleep

Noah is doing soooo great sleeping at night for the last week or so. He has started getting into the routine of going to bed around 8:30 and he has been sleeping till 6:30 or 7. For a 3 month old baby that is great! This morning I had to wake him at 6:30 so that I could nurse him before work and he was not crazy about being awakened!
I am so proud of him for sleeping so well. And I have even been putting him to bed not all the way asleep. Tonight he was still pretty awake, I laid him down and sang to him and rubbed his belly but even before he was asleep i snuck away and got ready for bed myself and he didnt even cry and laid and looked at the animals on his wall drifted off on his own. What a good little man!

sling DUH!

We are so silly. I have been having a really rough time getting Noah to nap. he is sleeping very well at night. sleeps almost 12 hours and gets up only once or twice but refuses to nap. then he gets cranky, I mean very CRANKY. so cranky i cant do anything. he wants held or he screams. so you are stuck holding him all afternoon and evening. Now I love holding my baby but I also need to get stuff done around the house. then today hubby said try the sling. DUH. Why didnt i think of that. we had used it a few times when he was little but it made me so nervous bc he was so small and fragile so I hadnt used it lately. but i thought why not give it a try so I did. and he has been sleeping in it for 2 hours now!!!! Its great he gets the nap he needs and i can get work done! granted its heavy on my shoulder and back but its totally worth it. why didnt i do this months ago!
Now I know this is not a permanent solution. we need to get him to nap in his bed but its a temporary one at least. I am reading a great book called becoming babywise (thanks Lea) and its is very good. we are working on a night schedule and putting him to sleep drowsy but not asleep. that is working pretty well. but for some reason day is another story. maybe once the night routine is solid we can incorporate a day one in slowly too! Here is crossing my fingers but for the meantime sling it is!

busy busy bee

Life has been so busy lately! I feel like I dont have a single second to myself. Dont get me wrong I like my job and I adore my baby but its exhausting to leave work and come home and take care of N till I go back to work. Once he starts sleeping better it will really help. Last night was great. N slept from 9 till 2:15 then went in his swing from 3 till 8:30. I actually got up before him! I could use about a months worth of nights like that!
In other news last weekend I took N home and we took a 5 generation picture on my mom's side. It was really cool to get everyone together! I am so blessed to have so much family only a few hours away!! Nothing exciting planned for the entire month of February. Just work and spend time with my boys =) N's first shots are in a week and I am dreading it. Then both mom's have march birthdays. For now I am just planning to relax and wait for spring!

Babies on the brain

It is baby time right now!
First of all Noah is 2 months old today! He is changing so much. He stays awake most of the day now, with only one afternoon nap and a few catnaps while nursing but other than that awake all day. We are enjoying him being up and alert more, but he is grumpy in the evenings now. The last 2 nights have been terrible trying to get him to go to bed. He fusses unless he is nursing. Both times I had to lay down in bed with him and nurse him till he fell asleep then move him to his bassinet. Also on the sleeping front we are going to move his crib into our room and start him sleeping in it. I want to start using his breathing monitor which can only be used in the crib but I am not ready for him to be in a separate room so he is moving in with us for now. I plan on starting the crib probably this week so we will see how that goes.
On a more exciting note he is showing so much more personality. He is smiling all the time and has laughed a few times and even rolled over once! My little boy is getting so big.
In other baby news I threw my friend a baby shower this weekend and it was a lot of fun. We did an ice cream sunday bar. It was yummy. She had several other showers so I wanted to do something a little different. A couple of her friends and I worked together to get everything ready. I was very thankful for their help. A good time was had by all.
Two of my other friends are due this week with their babies!!!! One is having a girl, the other is a surprise! I cant wait to hear that they are in labor and to find out the sex of baby N!! Like I said its babypalooza right now.
I am so glad to have so many friends starting families at the same time as us. Its great to have people to share these experiences with!