Welcome to the Mommy World

As Kelly, Beth, and I were dining at our new McAlister's on Wed I decided I needed my haircut! Yep they both have super cute short hair styles and I felt like I needed to join in the fun. Kelly said that "I now need a mommy hair cut". Well I obliged and went today and chopped, I mean really chopped, off all my hair. It is still growing on me but I absolutely love the back of it! It is the front I am having a hard time getting used to. Well anyways onto the pics!

PICS TO COME ... JERMS IS ON THE XBOX AND FORBIDS ME TO DOWNLOAD PICS WHILE HE IS ON THERE ... IT MAKES his CONNECTION TO SLOW!! :)

In mommy news ... Bronner is doing wonderfully! He is batting at toys in his gym and his little daycare teacher has mentioned what great hand eye coordination he has. Do we have a little athlete on our hands? We sure hope so! He is getting really really big. I mean like huge ... we will be in 6 month clothes before we are 3 months old I have a feeling. Oh well maybe he will be tall like his daddy.

My mom has gone back to Houston and we miss her! People kept asking if she was still here and up until last week she was ... yep that right she was here for about 10 weeks ... well she did go home for a week at the beginning of Dec. We loved it!!

Last but not least I am going back to work on Monday night. It is going to be a sad day ... not to go back to work, I am looking forward to that ... I won't be seeing my B as much. He will be going to daycare a lot and I am not looking forward to that. But finances and my sanity don't allow me to stay home so off to work I go. On the sanity end I can't wait to fill my nights with birthing moms, their families, the drama that brings (mainly with the families not the pt although sometimes the pt is a little dramdram ... yeah we work in homewood/mt brook :)), and the drama of working with 7-10 females!! I can't wait! Anyways the finances can't wait either! We are doing good, getting through Christmas and all the ish that happened while I was out without using savings but it is getting close, we need a good night shift sized check! How do you dayshift girls have any fun money I am not loving this without my shift dif!

Jerms is keeping B all night Monday night by HIMSELF for the first time ever and he doesn't want a run through. I pretty much have begged him to let me sleep in the other room and let him get up with B all night tonight just to make sure he A: hears him and actually gets up and B: if he has any questions can ask me now and not call me at work when I prob wont have time to answer. Well Jerms has refused. He says he will be fine and isn't worried about it. I think he has a great big rude awakening coming his way on Monday night. So start praying for him now he is going to need it!

Something New

I am in need of something new! Let me know what you think about this! I am going to try and get an appt for this week and if I do I will let you see the before and after pics!

Leave me a comment: girl 1 or girl 2! I really like girl 1's front and girl 2's back! Maybe they can be combined! But I am scared the hair in the eye thing would get on my nerves.

Day Care

Day care started Monday. So we have now been two days! Yay for me! I have to encourage myself to take him, then again when I get there to get out of the car, and then throughout the day not to go get him. I know this may seem silly to some but I would rather him be with me. I am so ready to go back to work and get some adult interaction and the adrenaline that comes with my job but I will miss my boy! Pray for us as we transition into this new phase. I start back to work Monday night. Friday night is going to be our trial run ... you might want to say extra big prayers for Jerms next week ... I think he might have a rude awakening coming his way! Anyways gotta run and feed little B before bed but just wanted yall to know that we have made it through the first day and we are all okay! Many tears lighter but still doing well!

Shots, BW Day 3ish

UPDATE **** Bronner slept through the night last night ****

Loving me some baby wise! God works in great ways! Bronner woke up at 730 yesterday and I was able to work his nap in, in his bed before we left of the doc appt which was awesome. Unfortunately he missed his next two naps that afternoon ... well really he dozed in the car seat. He was back to his old self last night, naps are a great thing at this age I guess! He did well with the shots and only screamed for about 20 secs. The nurse was fast and that made it a little easier! He went to bed last night at 1130, woke up at 645ish, ate, and back asleep while burping, so back to bed he went and not another peep until 955! Way to go little man! It was great ... except for the incredible engorgement I felt when I woke up :)! Hopefully this will be his schedule for awhile. It would be awesome. I could come home from work, get his ish ready for daycare, shower, feed and then we could sleep until 1000, wake up, feed, go to daycare, mom can come home and sleep till work time! Am I dreaming? Probably so but oh well. It may work for a few months anyways! Thanks for all the prayers! Hopefully he will keep the same schedule tomorrow and then we will know it is working!

Baby Wise Day 2

So day 1 went well! He only cried a max of 8-10 mins with nap times and slept well with all of them! He did sleep last night until 430 which is our normal time to feed so I didn't immediately get him and within 5 mins he was back to sleep. At 545 he woke up again and ate well! He then slept until 810!! He didn't eat great and woke up from this cycles nap early and then ate great! His naps have been b/t 1.5 to 2 hours today just like the book says! He has not cried with the past 2 naps and is now laying in his bed looking around and hopefully will fall asleep shortly without crying. The hard part is to keep him awake after feedings since he is used to going to sleep. Hopefully this will get easier. Pray tonight is a little better than last and we are headed on the right path. His little cry sounds hoarse from all the crying but hopefully that will get better shortly. If that is all that happens in the process and we end up with a schedule and a happy baby then I think I can live with a mild sore throat! Pray for my sanity too ... it is hard listening to your child cry knowing that if you pick them up they will be comforted but I am doing good so far! Tomorrow is the big shot day. Unfortunately it is at the end of a nap so what I am thinking is putting him down in his car seat at home. Then while napping ... since he loves the car seat ... go to the doc office, do the appt, then nurse in the car. I might take a bottle too just in case.

Any other suggestions appreciated!!

Thanks for your prayers! Love yall!

Starting Baby Wise

After much night time fussiness and Bronner not sleeping much or at all during the day I decided something had to be done. I mean he has to sleep sometime. Well last night Jerms and I went on a date night, thanks auntie cait for babysitting! Well we ended up at the bookstore and I was looking for a book about sleep training / helping ... anything really to get some sleep. Well I saw Babywise and picked it up. I had heard about it from many people but had always heard about the ridged scheduling that came with it and that was why I wasn't really interested from the beginning. Well we have been doing the eating schedule from day one but sleeping has been another story. I didn't want to be that mom that had to stay home to let her kid nap. I am a go person and wanted to continue to be able to do that. Well while Jeremy was off and about I read the first chapter and it was all about choosing how to use the book and being flexible. I decided to buy it and try it out and see how it worked for us. Nothing could hurt right! Well after a long long night be started this morning. He is doing good so far. Napping with only crying for the first 10 mins or so before putting himself to sleep. Yes he is going to the pack and play awake and putting himself to sleep!! Now tonight will be the true test! He went down at 1030 and slept till 11. He isn't supposed to eat again until 1200 ... I am giving him this late night feed to hopefully make a later morning instead of the other way around due to the way I will be going back to work. He has been whimpering / crying for 3ish mins every 6-7 mins since 11. Jerms nor I have looked at him or picked him up yet! We are struggling listening to him cry but so far so good! Hopefully after his 1145/1200 feed he will be asleep for the night. We are praying after a week or so he will be sleeping through the night ie 1200 to somewhere between 6-8am. So pray for our sanity over the next few days and I will keep you updated with our progress. Little B also goes to get his shots on Tues so pray it all goes well. This probably won't be the best baby wise day!

8 Weeks Old

Little B turned 8 weeks old today! I can't believe it ... can you! He is getting so big ... I promise pics to come soon. He is now wearing 3 month clothes and pushing them in length. Hopefully we can make them last a few more weeks ... I mean who ever heard of a 2 month old in 6 month clothes ... really we need to stay in them a little longer! We had our last family Christmas on the 1st and were are Jeremy's family for the weekend. Jeremy's great aunt died so we had those arrangements to attend and were gone much longer than planned. Never have either of us been so glad to see our own house and bed than we were last night! Thank you Jesus for our bed and our house! We LOVE it! Little B is sleeping much better and last night slept for 5 hours! We are so thankful. We watched the sad Alabama game and are so sad to see the football season end. Anyways not much else going on except I am supposed to be on a diet to loose this baby weight ... see my previous post! Gotta go for now ... B is hungry! Love yall!