Lucky In Love

Friday, June 15, 2012

Eli - 10 weeks

My 10 week old baby!

Here are some pictures we took today on a couch at my dad's office... this is actually our families old couch that we had when we lived in East Hill 1995 - 2001,... and before it was recovered it was me and my mom's couch in our little yellow house from 1991 - 1995.

I love this couch

Loving his buddy El

War Eagle!

I love his sweet profile

we took these for daddy for Father's Day!

Finally!
This week I finally ordered Eli's baby announcements,.... here they are! If you see a typo please do not tell me because I have ordered over 80! :)

Big milestone - This week Eli has been excommunicated from me and Christian's room and now sleeps at night in his big boy crib!

So I stare at this all night

Having Eli in his room by himself made me very nervous.... so we installed a security system in his room...

All the years of telling Cowboy to stop barking will pay off,... if something happens in this room, Cowboy will let me know.

Eli's 2 month check up recap:

Weight - 12 lbs 10 oz
Height 95th percentile
Weight 75th percentile
Head size 50th percentile
Dr. O'Grady said that Eli acted like a 4 month old! She was very impressed with how he could stand and hold his own weight

Asleep at the Dr.s

2 month shots, I talked Dr. O'Gradys ear off about these shots,... I was very nervous about them,... but after we talked about the pros and possible minimal cons we decided that it was the best thing for Eli to be vaccinated

Eli's shots. He was so brave. He had fallen asleep waiting for the nurse to come in. When he got the first 2 shots he whimpered, but the last one made him very upset. But he only cried for a moment. After he got the baby tylenol he was very tired the rest of the day.

Waiting for the nurse

Looking forward to this weekend - Father's Day! I am so excited for what Eli and I got Chris for Father's day! I will have to tell yall next week. But also this weekend we are going to try to go to the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival in Foley. And we are going to go to the Floral Tree Gardens and pick out some plants for our yard, this is part of Chris' Father's day gift I got this off of Groupon (which I am addicted to!) Here is the Groupon link

Special outings - Eli and I kept very busy this week... we had lunch with our Landrum buddies bidding Laurie a bon voyage for California, Eli's 2 month check-up, 4 Jazzercise classes, an eye doctor appointment and lunch at Panera with Laurie and her sweet baby girl Eleanor.

This is at the optometrist office when I found out I have an eye infection and can't wear my contacts for 1 week

Eli's new favorite toy -

He isn't quite big enough for it, I have to put blanket around him to keep him supported.

You may wonder what Eli is staring at,...

You may not be able to tell but he is staring and laughing at himself :)

My new favorite toy - I ordered this wrap from Snuggly baby off of Etsy, and Eli & I LOVE it!! CLICK HERE They have a lot of different patterns, and are super comfortable. I like that they distribute the weight evenly, and are super cute!

Wearing the glasses because of my eye infection.

Side view

I ordered some pictures when I ordered Eli's announcements, so I got to go pick out some super cute frames...

We put Eli's hospital picture up -

How is nursing going - Great!.. I got an Udder Cover and I love it. My friend Joyelle suggested them, they come in all different designs. They are perfect for nursing indiscreetly. They make me feel more comfortable with the thought of nursing in public. But I am nervous that now that I am working out more I could lose my supply. If that happens all exercise stops. Eli comes first.

Favorite day - We had so much fun with Rachel and her boo Cary,... they came over Wednesday night and we had dinner out under our vineyard,... we are calling this the romantic grotto,... then we watched The Vow

It is very romantic at night, kinda like camping though

What our schedule looks like - Our schedule looks the same as last week... Except he was doing 6-7 hour stretches at night and is now down to 5-6. Super sucks. I am blaming this on going out of town for a week and his 2 month shots. Last night he did his 6 hour stretch again, but Wednesday night he woke up at midnight and 3 AM!! He hasn't been that bad since we brought him home. So I am hoping that now that we are back home and his shots are behind us, we can get back on track with good sleeping.

Funny story that most parents have - Eli and I were laying in bed, playing our version of "airplane"... where I lift him over me then bring him in for a kiss.... well you can see where this is going... I was bringing Eli in for a big ol' kiss when he spit up all over my face. It was ridiculous, and hilarious. Here is a picture of the aftermath....

My cutie pie

Christian made me this table when we got engaged. Eli would not cooperate with this photo shoot... he was distracted...

What is Eli staring at?

His new favorite toy!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Eli - 9 weeks old

Eli is 9 weeks old!

Sorry for the delay in posting... last week Eli and I were out of town in Gadsden, AL teaching the Varsity and JV cheerleading squads at Westbrook Christian School

Big milestone - Eli had his first road trip! Sunday we left after Eli's 11AM feeding. We stopped in Montgomery to feed him at 2, then made it to Gadsden in time to feed him at 5. The entire trip lasted almost 6 hours. And Eli was great until the last 30-45 minutes. He didn't start wailing but was fussy. So I rolled down the windows and this made him settle down.

This is what it looks like for us to travel with a 9 week old... so much for being a minimalist

Watching cartoons

Special visitors - This week I worked two cheerleading camps at Westbrook Christian School in Gadsden, AL. My best friend Haley is the coach of the varsity, and everyday after camp she would drive me back to where we were staying and spent time with me and Eli. It was so great to get some quality time with Haley! While I was working the camps from 9-3 my MIL watched Eli back at the cabin.

Weight - 12.5 lbs

Looking forward to this weekend - What Eli and I were looking forward to this week was coming home to Christian! As fun as the camps were, we missed being home! It was rough on Christian having us gone for almost a full week.

Looking forward to this week - This week I am looking forward to going to lunch with my buddies from Landrum, this will be their first time meeting Mr. Eli! My friend Laurie is moving to California so we are getting together to bid her farewell!

Special outings during the week - We were soo blessed to be able to stay at a cabin at the Big Oak Boys Ranch, Haleys parents are "house parents" at the Big Oak Boys Ranch, and they let us stay at the retreat cabin! This was so much better than a hotel!! Not only was it spacious but every morning we woke up to a beautiful view of the lake and horses. So our special outing everyday was going for a walk around the lake! We also had fun going to an ice cream pool party.

The view from the cabin

Going for a walk with Haley

While on our walk Haley's friend Trey and Ky joined us, sooo cute!! Ky asked what kind of baby Eli was, we told him a boy! lol

This is the cabin that we got to stay at

Special outings that weekend - Saturday before we left to go to Gadsden, we had lunch at the Fish House with my MIL Susan (where I had an amazing salmon salad). When we were heading home when we saw the Historic Society hosting a museum open house. We only had about 45 minutes till time to feed Eli so we quickly toured the museums and visited the archaeological dig. Very cool stuff. I love living in Pensacola.

A bicycle built for three!

Fish House with my MIL Susan, Christian and Eli

This is the salad that I got from Fish House, photo credit The Pensacola Fish House

How is nursing going - This was the first time that I had to pump... I missed 2 feeding while at camp (11 & 2) So everyday at lunch Haley drove me to her house about a 1/2 mile away from the school to pump. And then when I got out of the camp at 3 I would pump before I fed Eli at 5. This worked very well, and Eli had plenty to eat!

What our schedule looked like this week - (except for last night when he woke up at 2:30 AM -eek where did that come from?? I guess the road trip messed up his schedule)
5:30 - 6 Eli woke up to eat
6:30 - 7:30 we fell back asleep
7:30 I would get up to get ready
8:00 I woke Eli up to eat
8:30 we left the Ranch and headed for the school
9:00 camp starts
3:00 camp ends and Haley took me back to the Ranch
3:30 love on Eli and pump
4:00 take Eli for a walk
5:00 feed Eli
7:30 feed Eli
8:00 Bath time
8:15 Baby massage