Big Changes are a Comin'

We have a lot of changes happening around this house! For starters I decided to stay home with our baby for a few more months! I'm super excited about it, it's just a few months that I'll never get back if I don't take advantage of it now. Baby boy is starting to do so many new things now. He has discovered the tv and actually watches it! The iPhone and iPad are also really exciting to him. I'm blown away that an almost 3 month old is fascinated with a cell phone. I think it's more about the light and the scrolling screen than anything. He's holding up his head and can go from his back to a seated position and then to standing!! (all with the help of us holding his hands, but still... that's amazing!)

Conor's first visit to a Pumpkin Patch

 The next exciting change is the potential to move to another state! I'm so excited about the places our little family is going, and where we may magically end up. For now we're doing all the things necessary to make Conor's first few months well documented and taking lots of embarrassing pictures to put in the slide show at his rehearsal dinner before his wedding day ;o)

Halloween & Pumpkins

This is the best time of year! The weather is finally starting to change, the humidity is a bit less and every day seems a little more festive! We took a trip to visit my brother in Austin in which my sister from Atlanta was in town too, for the Austin City Limit music fest. While we were there we went to see my brother at his crossfit workout. We stayed for the night and then took off to Temple to visit my M&F in law. The weekend was great until halfway thru Friday I started to have some severe boob pain, so that next morning at 5am we took a trip to the ER, 3hrs later I got an antibiotic for mastitis. It was insanely painful. I had some serious cold chills and sweats so I was pretty sure there was an infection that needed some medical attention. I just finished 10 days of antibiotics and feel pretty normal now, back to the same ol' routine.

We had plans to visit a pumpkin patch that Sunday with some friends for baby Conor but he turned out to have a head cold! He still sounds like a snorty bull dog but is so much less snotty. We did a quick buy for a Crane humidifier and a Nose Frida to suck out the snot (so fun, let me tell ya).

Crossfit Central gym

Pumpkin Pants

Hopefully we'll get to take a trip to see pumpkins with baby boy, if not you know i'll be putting together a pumpkin patch photo session in my house! 

Post Baby Body

Gaining weight is part of the getting pregnant game, I knew it would happen but I was totally blown away with how far you can get in to a pregnancy and not gain much weight ( I only gained 9lbs at 20 weeks)... And then you hit a turning point and you literally just pack on the pounds. Right after I hit the third trimester I gained around 6-8lbs every two weeks for about a month (- again, blown away). I would almost get mad at the nurse adjusting the scale at my dr appointments bc my weight was literally leaping across the scale in the heavier direction. My OB didn't want me to gain more than 25-35lbs and I balanced out at 32lbs total because I lost a few pounds towards the end (I literally couldn't breath and eat at the same time, I was that big.)

Baby was 8lbs 7oz at birth and I was 151 pounds on delivery day.  The goal weight now is 115lbs (I was 119lbs at 7 weeks pregnant.) And today im 126lbs! woohoo!

I finally bought a scale with the intention of keeping track of baby's weight gain, but I figured I can keep track of my weight too. I'm slowly getting back into a small workout routine. Basically taking walks in the morning and doing lunges and leg lifts, all while pushing the stroller. Every day I feel like very little changes are happening and that's good enough for now.

Before and After Baby Boy

During the Day with Baby

What is it I do all day long? Well, I've just gotten down a semi-good routine of how to go about the day, and keep me and the baby happy... as well as fitting in must-do important things like dr appt's or grocery shopping. I have to think about this stuff a day in advance so im prepared. We start out by waking up around 5 or 6am for a baby breakfast feeding that usually lasts about an hour. I call nursing Breakfast, lunch or Dinner. (Nursing sounds so graphic. His diapers are also his Shorts. Rarely are they a diaper, they are shorts.) I hope that after eating baby gets a little tired so I can put him in the car seat and we can get out of the house for a walk around the neighborhood. For now this is my only form of exercise for the day which is fine b/c I'm still feeling a little sore from the delivery (6 weeks recovery, my bew-ttocks!). I just got cleared to exercise by I have numbness on my right hip and possibly a cracked tail bone, got a neurologist apt coming up to get it checked out. Before we get out the door I make oatmeal with slices of banana in a to-go bowl and put in the holder of the stroller so I can get in breakfast while walking, all while also holding the leash of our precious baby Maltese, Maddie, b/c I cant leave her inside while we go walking - cant trade one baby for another.  This all sounds so simple, but mornings are kind of a toss up. I get thrown curve balls ever so often (a blow-out diaper which usually means a emergency bath for baby), and then I get a shower when there's time... hopefully before 9 or 10am. Most of the day is all about getting baby fed before he starts screamin', and at least two naps. I keep reading how a baby who naps well, will sleep really well at night time so getting two naps in during the day makes him pretty happy. We just got him to a 5hr stretch, but that only happened one time. I'm happy with 4 for now really. :o)


one month
 Glider, Elephant, Baby Throw
 

One Month Old Conor