A Crawling Pro!

It's been a while since i've posted anything, life has been a little crazy with figuring out how to baby proof better, Jordon has been doing the real crawl for a couple of weeks now, he's very cute when he starts to crawl really fast towards you to give you a hug or kiss or snuggle. But i'm starting to miss the days of him being immobile. Oh well, he is getting to be almost a year old soon, it's time for him to be active and moving, and he's much happier being able to get to the things he wants to. He's a big boy, but very strong, try doing a tug a war with a favorite toy, his hands are like glued to that thing!

He has also been quite the climber, i'm hoping i don't find him on top of the refrigerator one day!

I have a few pictures for you all, since that's what you all like. There are a few pics of Daddy and Jordon doing the "baby bazooka"!

Nothing quite like Daddy and I time! I love my Dadda! Since i say it over and over again!

Nothing like settling down to a good book before bedtime! It's almost bedtime, can you tell!

Other than Jordon, Chris and I are doing quite well. The days go by way too fast, we always look forward to the weekend. It seems like as soon as Chris gets home from work, it's our dinner time, trying to get Jordon down for bed, with maybe an hour or so before we crash. Some nights are better than others, Jordon does pretty good with sleeping all night, but sometimes he fusses a bit due to teething or being hungry. Sundays are the worst, because he doesn't eat that well at church with all the distractions so he doesn't get enough of a lunch making him hungry at 3 or 4 in the morning. But he normally sleeps from about 8:30/9 pm until 6 or 7 in the morning. Not too bad. We're trying to start planning his birthday party which is only 5 weeks away! How crazy is that! It should be a lot of fun, especially with his first cake!

I've been recooping this week from strep throat, my family tends to know right away when you have strep throat, we had it so much as kids. So i got the strongest medicine they could give me, the last time i had strep, it went to pneumonia, so i have to be careful. But i'm doing great, the medicine kicked in after the 2nd day and i'm all done with it and feel 10 times better. Tonight at Mutual we're celebrating the girls Personal Progress achievements from last year, we had a contest between the girls and the leaders, and the girls won, so we're taking them out to dinner tonight. It should be a lot of fun. Chris is doing well in his calling, a bit frustrated at times, they took away his assistant executive secretary, so now a lot of work is piled back on him. Pray that they will find another assistant for all of our sanity, espeically mine!

Hope all is well with you guys!

What a Great Day!

Today has been such a great day. Today was our chiropractic visit, after three weeks of not going. We were given three weeks to see if Jordon could go that long without any treatment and today Dr. Shelton told us that he was good, his head shape is fine, it didn't shift, and to come back if we needed anything. It was the best news anyone could give me. I am so thankful that we didn't have to do the helmet route, after 4 months of chiropractic work, it has finally paid off. It has been a long haul, and quite frustrating at times, but it has definitely been worth it.

It is our official announcement that Jordon is done with treatments, no torticollis, no head tilt, no flat spot. He is a happy kid who loves life and is as energetic as can be. We love our Jor Jor! Way to go pal!

Sleep Training

Today is day 4 of sleep training, so far it's going a lot better. The first night he didn't fuss too much, the 2nd night he cried bloody murder and it took me 6-7 tries to get him down in 20 minutes. Last night he realized that this is the routine from now on, so he went back to fussing for about 5 minutes, and tonight it was only about 2 minutes of mild crying. So I'm so proud or our little "inker dinks" as we sometimes call him. Jordon is doing well, he is on a different kind of routine now, which works out better for all of us, especially for Chris. With him working all the way in Dallas and having to make such a long commute, we have Jordon awake at 6 in the morning to have breakfast with all of us and being able to see Daddy until he has to leave around 7 or so. And Jordon is awake until about 10 and takes a huge morning nap, about 2 1/2 hours. He is down in bed for the night at 8 or so, letting Chris spend about an hour or so with him. Before he wouldn't see Jordon each day until the night time, and even then he would only see him for maybe 45 minutes before it was his bedtime. I know a lot of babies sleep 12 hours at night at this age, but Chris needs to have time with Jordon during the day. Plus Jordon is actually waking up at 6 anyways for his morning bottle, i haven't had to wake him up all week since we started this schedule. So far so good, his sleep training at night is going well, of course he is fussing a bit around 2 but since it's a mild fuss, i try to sleep through it. I only go in to his room if it's a painful cry. If anyone has good tips about sleep training for naps in the daytime, that would be great. I still have to rock him to sleep for his day naps, i think it's too light in his room for him to realize it's time to sleep. I'm going to try to put up a dark sheet over the window to darken the room to help him lull to sleep. But at least he's mostly sleep trained at night, which was what i was aiming for. Now it's training for day naps, and then i'll have to take the paci away. Try to, he's a bit attached to it, By the time he's a year, i hope to have him off of it.


I thought i would post a couple of pictures to show everyone how he likes to try to stand up on his own, so far it's just up to his knees!

Enjoy!

I love being mobile! This is so cool!

Pictures!

This is me thinking about doing a pull up! I have great strong arms! But I need to give this some thought, mommy is trying to take my picture of me pulling up, but i don't want to show off my great talent yet!

Talk about a drooling machine, i'm still trying to cut my 4 teeth!But i'm all smiles right now!

I love books, i just wish i knew how to read, i'd read to my daddy!

Aren't I the coolest 10 month old ever! You gotta do the backwards hat punk look! Happy 10 month birthday to me!

Our 10 monther!

It is so crazy how time flew by this year. Everyone says that the first year of a baby goes by fast, but i didn't realize how fast. To just think in 2 months we will be having his first year birthday. I havent weighed or measured him yet, but he seems to be still around 21 lbs and possibly 30 inches long. He is very active and tries to get to anything he can get a hold of. He is down to 1 nap a day. We started sleep training today and i did my normal routine and gave him the rest of his morning bottle before his first nap and i read him stories, and i thought he was tired to take a little nap, and so i told him to take a good nap and i reassured him i was still there for him and put him in his crib to fall asleep by himself. He played for the next 45 minutes, wouldn't nap, so we gave up and i gave him his lunch early and he had his lunch bottle and we read more stories and at 12:30 he was rubbing his eyes pretty good, so i put him in his crib and he fell asleep in 15 minutes of playing and trying to get to sleep. He actually didn't fuss that much, he fell asleep really fast. He was very cranky at lunch time but at least he's napping longer. I would be so worn out. He'd nap for about 45 minutes and go for another 3 hours and nap another 1 to 1 1/2 hours, if i was lucky. Just when the church schedule changed for our good, he goes down for a nap just once a day. Sundays, i might have to wake him up early to possibly get a morning nap in. Any suggestions?

Ok, so i didn't have time to finish this post on the day i started it, but things have changed, he is still a 2 a day napper. It's just the sleep training part he's having a hard time with. The first day went great, he did one huge nap without a problem. The last couple of days, he would not fall asleep on his own, yesterday he fell asleep on the bottle at 12 and slept til 3, but i'm not doing that again, it's bad to have babies fall asleep on the bottle, i don't want him to get the bottle mouth caries dental problems. So i'm doing a new schedule where he's down at night at 8 or so, wake up call at 6 am, morning nap from 10 -11:30, and afternoon nap from 3-4:30. He hates sleep training, last night was pretty bad. It took me 6 tries in 20 minutes for him to finally go to sleep without me. It was the toughest thing to do to hear your screaming child, and hold back from going in to comfort him. I'd let him cry a few minutes at a time since he's getting used to me leaving him in there without rocking him to sleep. Wish me luck, Chris and I hardly got much sleep last night. He fussed quite a bit, also due to teething, but still, it was quite an ordeal for all of us. At least Jordon took a 3 hour nap this morning, and another good nap this afternoon. He's a good little boy, but he has a bad case of mommy seperation anxiety. Aah, the joys of parenthood, take the good with the bad! But i love it at the same time, wouldn't ask for anything different. He is a great kid and we love having him in our family.

Hope everyone is doing well! Until the next post, aurevoir!