Sunday, June 29, 2008
Taking some time off
Just a note that we are taking a week off or so from the blog. We are going out of town for the week and I forgot a few things for the camera and cords to keep the lap top going. We will update more later.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Last few days
It has been a simple few days.
Tuesday we went to Mom's work and visited everyone. I didn't take any pictures (sorry). We were there for an hour or so and got the latest work news and how things are going with our clients. One outing a day is enough so we headed back home to normal life.
Wednesday we decided to stay in all day. Brandon and I hung out in bed until noon. We normally don't do that but one day won't hurt. I actually took something to help me sleep. It was a prescription that is safe for nursing moms. Well it really isn't because it makes you really sleepy and hard to pay attention to your baby. I was a little sleepy all day. Dad came to the rescue that night for a couple of hours so I can sleep. I have been having sleeping issues and not because of Brandon. He is sleeping better and better. While I lay in bed awake.
Thursday Brandon helped me with laundry (got to teach them young). Grandma Kay came over so mom could run some errands and do date night with dad. Mom got her errands run but date night was spent at the management office discussing the dog issue. GRRR!!!! They are going to resolve it by letting us move. How wrong is that!!!! Mom and Brandon took a walk to the pool to dip his toes in however he fell asleep before we were out of the driveway. So we just went for a little walk minus the pool. It was packed anyway.
Brandon has had fussy moments off and on. He loves going for walks outside, still loves his swing and bouncy seat. He LOVES when dad comes home and spends time with him. Dad makes funny faces and noises and entertains Brandon really well. He is loving his baths (learned how to splash with his feet now). He loves eating his hands (both at the same time sometimes). He is now able to see better. We have Christmas lights up in the living room and I change them to twinkle and race so he can focus on them better. We will eventually take them down but for now they are up for Brandon. He also can see from further away. When I shower in the morning now I put on channel 2 for him to watch and he likes it. Today he saw Big Bird. He also has noticed the cats when they walk by.
I am off to enter Rob in the Hot Dad contest for Parenting Magazine!
Tuesday we went to Mom's work and visited everyone. I didn't take any pictures (sorry). We were there for an hour or so and got the latest work news and how things are going with our clients. One outing a day is enough so we headed back home to normal life.
Wednesday we decided to stay in all day. Brandon and I hung out in bed until noon. We normally don't do that but one day won't hurt. I actually took something to help me sleep. It was a prescription that is safe for nursing moms. Well it really isn't because it makes you really sleepy and hard to pay attention to your baby. I was a little sleepy all day. Dad came to the rescue that night for a couple of hours so I can sleep. I have been having sleeping issues and not because of Brandon. He is sleeping better and better. While I lay in bed awake.
Thursday Brandon helped me with laundry (got to teach them young). Grandma Kay came over so mom could run some errands and do date night with dad. Mom got her errands run but date night was spent at the management office discussing the dog issue. GRRR!!!! They are going to resolve it by letting us move. How wrong is that!!!! Mom and Brandon took a walk to the pool to dip his toes in however he fell asleep before we were out of the driveway. So we just went for a little walk minus the pool. It was packed anyway.
Brandon has had fussy moments off and on. He loves going for walks outside, still loves his swing and bouncy seat. He LOVES when dad comes home and spends time with him. Dad makes funny faces and noises and entertains Brandon really well. He is loving his baths (learned how to splash with his feet now). He loves eating his hands (both at the same time sometimes). He is now able to see better. We have Christmas lights up in the living room and I change them to twinkle and race so he can focus on them better. We will eventually take them down but for now they are up for Brandon. He also can see from further away. When I shower in the morning now I put on channel 2 for him to watch and he likes it. Today he saw Big Bird. He also has noticed the cats when they walk by.
I am off to enter Rob in the Hot Dad contest for Parenting Magazine!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Doctor Visit
We had our 2 month visit. It took 2 hours which we weren't too happy about but we survived. Brandon was already having a fussy day so we were glad it was 'shot' day too.
Dad met us at the clinic. He got weighed, measured, and checked out. Everything looks great. He is right on track and doing well. She gave us some tips on feeding (I found I am dehydrated which is causing my milk supply to go down so I have to work on that).
Then came SHOT TIME! He had one oral vaccine which he did really well. We made sure he was hungry at the end of shot time. He sucked down the oral med and liked it. The shots were in his thigh- 2 on one thigh and one on the other. Dad couldn't watch so I held his arms and sang to him. She was fast but we have never heard a scream like that before. We flipped him and she did the last shot. That was all I could handle too before my tears started coming. I didn't freak out though...just a little tear. I looked over at dad to see the same little tear. I cuddled Brandon and quickly sat down to feed him and he calmed down in less than 2 minutes. We were so proud of him. He did good.
Then came SHOT TIME! He had one oral vaccine which he did really well. We made sure he was hungry at the end of shot time. He sucked down the oral med and liked it. The shots were in his thigh- 2 on one thigh and one on the other. Dad couldn't watch so I held his arms and sang to him. She was fast but we have never heard a scream like that before. We flipped him and she did the last shot. That was all I could handle too before my tears started coming. I didn't freak out though...just a little tear. I looked over at dad to see the same little tear. I cuddled Brandon and quickly sat down to feed him and he calmed down in less than 2 minutes. We were so proud of him. He did good.
Here are some photos of the visit....with the statistics.
In the waiting room...very hungry. 
Measuring his height.
Measuring his head.
Saying AHHHH
The stats.Motherhood...You Just Have to Laugh
So Monday was a Motherhood Day of Hell....but all I could do was laugh about all of it. I will try and give you the short version.
Woke at 7am to no cable, phone or internet. They disconnect our service instead of the next townhome because they just moved out. It was going to take up to 4 hours to fix. They needed to send out a Comcast van. Reason numer 200 why we don't like Comcast. We finally got it back on at 6pm tonight. I am already stir crazy at time being home full time...add to it we have no tv (not even local channels), no internet (which I live off of) it was not going to be a fun day.
We went to my mom's house since they are out of town. Brandon was fussy from the get go and screaming when we got in the car. He stopped when we started to move only to get not even a mile and be surrounded by construction. What should have taken 3 minutes to go not even 2 miles took over 20 minutes with a screaming baby. Poor guy.
Spent some time at their place checking emails and trying to feed Brandon. He really didn't eat well at all today. He didn't nap more than 20 minutes here and there. He was in his cutest favoritest outfit that is easy to get on and off for the dr. apt. He decided right when we were getting ready to leave to poop. I decided to wait till we got home to change him since it takes him usually a few minutes to finish. Luckily it only took a few minutes to get home- not 20.
Got home to find an explosion in his diaper, on his pants, all over his shirt/onsie. GRRRRR!! Got him undressed (with half of it now on me). Got him upstairs, into a bath (him screaming the entire time), he peed on me once his bum hit the water. He stopped crying though. Allie decided to come visit (our little devil cat). She decided to climb a drawer thing we have and knocked it over- everything was all over the floor with some liquid leaking. I was able to clean that up while standing next to Brandon. Took Brandon out (he hates getting out so he screamed), bundled him up while Allie was ready to jump in his tub. So I dumped his baby tub...all over the bathroom counter and floor. I threw Allie out, threw towels on the floor and left it. Laid Brandon on our bed (post diaper). Cleaned myself up...pee free. Headed downstairs to rush to deal with the dog issue. Came downstairs to see that Allie decided to use her full water dish as a hockey puck. Put Brandon in his car seat to clean up the water and his dirty clothes which the cats attempted to investigate. This cat is going to give me a heart attack. Went and dealt with the dog issue to hear what we didn't want to hear.
Went back to my moms to check more emails (this is all happening from 7am to 1pm). Brandon didn't sleep at all. It was finally time to get to his Dr. Apt. Which took over 2 hours. GRRRR!!! On the way some kids decided to ignore the DO NOT WALK sign (I had a green light). They flew through the intersection on their bikes. I slammed on my breaks (to make Brandon mad) while a truck coming the other way slammed on his brakes. That kid actually fell off his bike but wasn't hit. I just kept driving. Wrapped up Dr. visit, went home, Brandon fell asleep, I cleaned, refused to cook so Dad brought us Subway....Finally at 10pm went to bed!
You just have to laugh at the wonderful day.
Dr. Visit update on next entry.
Woke at 7am to no cable, phone or internet. They disconnect our service instead of the next townhome because they just moved out. It was going to take up to 4 hours to fix. They needed to send out a Comcast van. Reason numer 200 why we don't like Comcast. We finally got it back on at 6pm tonight. I am already stir crazy at time being home full time...add to it we have no tv (not even local channels), no internet (which I live off of) it was not going to be a fun day.
We went to my mom's house since they are out of town. Brandon was fussy from the get go and screaming when we got in the car. He stopped when we started to move only to get not even a mile and be surrounded by construction. What should have taken 3 minutes to go not even 2 miles took over 20 minutes with a screaming baby. Poor guy.
Spent some time at their place checking emails and trying to feed Brandon. He really didn't eat well at all today. He didn't nap more than 20 minutes here and there. He was in his cutest favoritest outfit that is easy to get on and off for the dr. apt. He decided right when we were getting ready to leave to poop. I decided to wait till we got home to change him since it takes him usually a few minutes to finish. Luckily it only took a few minutes to get home- not 20.
Got home to find an explosion in his diaper, on his pants, all over his shirt/onsie. GRRRRR!! Got him undressed (with half of it now on me). Got him upstairs, into a bath (him screaming the entire time), he peed on me once his bum hit the water. He stopped crying though. Allie decided to come visit (our little devil cat). She decided to climb a drawer thing we have and knocked it over- everything was all over the floor with some liquid leaking. I was able to clean that up while standing next to Brandon. Took Brandon out (he hates getting out so he screamed), bundled him up while Allie was ready to jump in his tub. So I dumped his baby tub...all over the bathroom counter and floor. I threw Allie out, threw towels on the floor and left it. Laid Brandon on our bed (post diaper). Cleaned myself up...pee free. Headed downstairs to rush to deal with the dog issue. Came downstairs to see that Allie decided to use her full water dish as a hockey puck. Put Brandon in his car seat to clean up the water and his dirty clothes which the cats attempted to investigate. This cat is going to give me a heart attack. Went and dealt with the dog issue to hear what we didn't want to hear.
Went back to my moms to check more emails (this is all happening from 7am to 1pm). Brandon didn't sleep at all. It was finally time to get to his Dr. Apt. Which took over 2 hours. GRRRR!!! On the way some kids decided to ignore the DO NOT WALK sign (I had a green light). They flew through the intersection on their bikes. I slammed on my breaks (to make Brandon mad) while a truck coming the other way slammed on his brakes. That kid actually fell off his bike but wasn't hit. I just kept driving. Wrapped up Dr. visit, went home, Brandon fell asleep, I cleaned, refused to cook so Dad brought us Subway....Finally at 10pm went to bed!
You just have to laugh at the wonderful day.
Dr. Visit update on next entry.
Weekend is over
Well it was one of the most uneventful weekends ever! We went to visit Gma and Gpa Jurgens. We haven't been over there in months...even before Brandon was born I think. We just had burgers and played with dogs.
We have napped, watched movies, walked outside, napped some more, did one load of laundry. It was really a relaxing weekend at home. We have had a lot of those lately, but this one was different. I think it was also because mom hasn't been feeling really well lately and has been fighting some headaches. Sunday night we took a blanket outside and laid with Brandon. He loves being outside. The issue is we have a big black lab that runs loose in the townhome development we live in and causes problems. He is a mean dog and last night at 9;30pm noticed the cats looking out our sliding glass door and attacked the door. We have a nice hole in the screen door (the second one he has caused in the last 6 months). We have complained many times and called the police on them. We'll see what happens.
Off to the 2 month checkup. Any guesses on height or weight? We'll let you all now how the shots go.
We have napped, watched movies, walked outside, napped some more, did one load of laundry. It was really a relaxing weekend at home. We have had a lot of those lately, but this one was different. I think it was also because mom hasn't been feeling really well lately and has been fighting some headaches. Sunday night we took a blanket outside and laid with Brandon. He loves being outside. The issue is we have a big black lab that runs loose in the townhome development we live in and causes problems. He is a mean dog and last night at 9;30pm noticed the cats looking out our sliding glass door and attacked the door. We have a nice hole in the screen door (the second one he has caused in the last 6 months). We have complained many times and called the police on them. We'll see what happens.
Off to the 2 month checkup. Any guesses on height or weight? We'll let you all now how the shots go.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
So Brandon is a hilarious pooper. Watch his funny face and noise he makes. Sorry if this is too much info or gross- but we think it is super funny. Notice the pics below too.
And this is the result of that video....Both Mom and Dad had to do the bath. It was a 2-person one. We were laughing the whole time too. And you won't ever see this outfit on him again. It ended up all over the outfit and we have many of these kinds of pj's so we placed it in the hazardous waste bin. Enjoy our laugh of the day!
End of the week
Sorry I haven't posted. I (mom) have been in bed off and on the last few days with migraines and just not feeling too hot. I think it is a sinus infection and ear infection. My right ear is on fire and hurts all the time.
Because of that dad has been the hero taking care of Brandon. He is up with him in the morning which lets mom sleep in (today until noon). They have had fun bonding together.
Friday night Mom and Brandon went to Gma/Gpa Herbst's. He got to meet Great Grandma Shirley (Tim's mom) and cousins. They are all going up north to a rented cabin for a week so Friday was a perfect opportunity to meet some more family. They all live out of state so it was a good time.
The rest of the time we have all been at home. Brandon is spending lots of time in his bouncy seat. He is grabbing the rings more and 'laughing' at them. He really likes his bouncy seat.
I am going to post a great video (maybe 2 of them). They are short. They are funny...it is of Brandon working his bowels which is really funny. All I can think of right now is what is he going to say to me when he is 18 and finds out I did this!
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