Tyler started walking on August 7th and hasn't looking back since. He gets sturdier every day and I still catch myself in awe that this is little baby Tyler! Along with walking, he is apparently getting taller because he now ends up with things in his hands that used to be just out of reach.
Some days he's a jabber jaw and some days he's not, and while he's not really saying many words- I think "da" and "up" are both part of his repertoire. Also, sometime in the last few weeks he learned how to point. I don't remember the date but I remember the scenario...Kevin walked in the door from work, Tyler pointed at him with definite purpose, Kevin said "when did he learn how to point", I said "today, I guess, since yesterday he didn't". Change happens fast around here!
Tyler got his first box of legos for his 1st birthday and they are a definite hit. He has learned how to put them together and take them apart, put them all away in the box and then dump the box out again, carry them one by one and hand them off to whoever is around like he's Santa Claus delivering gifts. On the positive side, he only loved putting them in the bathroom garbage can for 1 day so none have been gifted to the garbage man (I think)!
When it comes to eating, he's got a mind of his own. He loves cottage cheese, apple sauce, cheerios, avocado, banana, spaghetti and meat sauce, burritos, meatloaf, lasagna, and pretty much anything else we can come up with. He loves all of these things until he decides he doesn't- at any given moment on bite 2 or bite 25 and then it's actually impressive how strong-willed he remains in protest. Wonder where he got that from?! He started using a sippy cup recently, another one of those things where I was gone for one day and when I returned Kevin said "oh he drinks out of his cup now". WHAT?! I'd been trying for weeks and then Kevin swoops in and he just does it....ahhhhh it's true, dads rule and moms drool (in some situations).
Some stats worth recording-
Weight: 23 lbs and change
Diaper Size 4
Clothes Size- 18 months
Sleep- Bedtime- 7pm, Wake up- around 630am
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
Music Monday- Anniversary Edition
August 11, 2012- the day we said "I Do"
Music Monday....August 11, 2014- our 2nd anniversary, so this one goes out to Kevin.
A reminder of that first year we dated by talking on the phone from Iowa to Kentucky, sometimes passing the phone time by listening to songs because there wasn't always something to say.
"a soft place to land and a good feelin' knowin'"
Friday, August 8, 2014
Music Mondays- Birthday Edition (so not a Monday)
"I think I'll take a moment to celebrate my age. An ending of an era, and the turning of a page.
Now it's time to focus in on where I go from here. Lord have mercy on my next 30 years..."
Now it's time to focus in on where I go from here. Lord have mercy on my next 30 years..."
Monday, August 4, 2014
Music Monday
This one is in honor of July 18, 2009
The day Kevin and I met at our friends wedding.
5 years ago...and here we are.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Confessions of a Nursing Mom
So, I fed Tyler a bottle today. The second bottle I've ever fed him. The first one I ever fed him was just a few short days ago. And yes, he's just a few days away from being 11 months old. I am starting the process of weaning and reducing my milk supply so I took advantage of a particularly busy time with work to drop the first feeding of his day. So when he needs to eat around 1pm, a bottle it is.
I have lots of thoughts, but to sum them all up in one short sentence...this is awesome and sad at the same time. Awesome because I don't have to pump in the middle of the day anymore when I'm away from T and going 6 full hours without checking into that lame black bag is totally glorious. It's actually kind of interesting that this one small change, because I'm still pumping at 10am, 4pm and 7pm when I'm away from him, already feels like I'm getting some freedom back.
Being a new mom (especially for the first time) brings so many immediate changes- the biggest is a "restructuring" of time. AKA a LOT of time now belongs to the baby, not the mom. So when I say I get a little freedom back, I mean I get about 20 minutes that used to be devoted to Tyler (in a round-about way through the pump) that can now be devoted to whatever it is I need. Usually, more work or lunch at work. Either way, it feels good.
(Above portion originally written on June 4th)
Fast forward to July 29
Tyler is now a full-on whole-milk-drinking 1 year old. From the time I originally started writing this post to now, we have weaned from most nursing sessions and incorporated whole milk (in bottles, because he doesn't love sippy cups) into his routine 3 times a day. He still nurses when he wakes up and when he goes to bed which works for both of us. I am amazed at how much different I feel- and how much less nursing affects me on an hourly basis. Now I literally just feed him twice and don't think about it at any other given time during the day. It's freeing (just like I said it was when I first started the process).
A friend told me that while I might miss nursing and the quality time spent with Tyler, I would find other replacements for that time with "older baby" type things. Totally right on. Now, usually around the same times every day, Tyler crawls into the kitchen sits down on the floor and looks at us with those eyes that say "can I have some milk, please?" because he's really not a talker yet. When he wants a bottle of milk, this is what he does...without fail, every time, like clock work. In the last few days, he has even added hitting the kitchen door to his repertoire of "signs."
Another thing I've caught him doing- pretty much every bottle I give him, at some point while drinking it, he stops, takes the bottle out of his mouth, twists and wiggles his body all around until he ends up sitting on my lap in somewhat of the opposite direction he was just facing, then puts the bottle back in and continues on. I can only imagine this is him "switching sides" mid-nursing as he's been so used to doing for the past however many days it's been.
In all the lead-up to weaning, I had a lot of ideas in my head of how it would go. So far, it's been far easier than I imagined it would be. However, we did just recently determine that it'd be fine for me to keep nursing him at wake-up and bed-time for however much longer it goes so I guess we aren't 100% done with the process yet...
Either way, I've spent some time thinking back to those first 6 weeks of nursing- which I don't know if I gave any airtime (blog time) to in the thick of it- and I'm so glad (and proud) we made it to 1 year! I have said, and will always say, that delivering Tyler was the easy part compared to breastfeeding Tyler during those first 6/7 weeks...and delivering Tyler wasn't easy, my friends.
I have lots of thoughts, but to sum them all up in one short sentence...this is awesome and sad at the same time. Awesome because I don't have to pump in the middle of the day anymore when I'm away from T and going 6 full hours without checking into that lame black bag is totally glorious. It's actually kind of interesting that this one small change, because I'm still pumping at 10am, 4pm and 7pm when I'm away from him, already feels like I'm getting some freedom back.
Being a new mom (especially for the first time) brings so many immediate changes- the biggest is a "restructuring" of time. AKA a LOT of time now belongs to the baby, not the mom. So when I say I get a little freedom back, I mean I get about 20 minutes that used to be devoted to Tyler (in a round-about way through the pump) that can now be devoted to whatever it is I need. Usually, more work or lunch at work. Either way, it feels good.
(Above portion originally written on June 4th)
Fast forward to July 29
Tyler is now a full-on whole-milk-drinking 1 year old. From the time I originally started writing this post to now, we have weaned from most nursing sessions and incorporated whole milk (in bottles, because he doesn't love sippy cups) into his routine 3 times a day. He still nurses when he wakes up and when he goes to bed which works for both of us. I am amazed at how much different I feel- and how much less nursing affects me on an hourly basis. Now I literally just feed him twice and don't think about it at any other given time during the day. It's freeing (just like I said it was when I first started the process).
A friend told me that while I might miss nursing and the quality time spent with Tyler, I would find other replacements for that time with "older baby" type things. Totally right on. Now, usually around the same times every day, Tyler crawls into the kitchen sits down on the floor and looks at us with those eyes that say "can I have some milk, please?" because he's really not a talker yet. When he wants a bottle of milk, this is what he does...without fail, every time, like clock work. In the last few days, he has even added hitting the kitchen door to his repertoire of "signs."
Another thing I've caught him doing- pretty much every bottle I give him, at some point while drinking it, he stops, takes the bottle out of his mouth, twists and wiggles his body all around until he ends up sitting on my lap in somewhat of the opposite direction he was just facing, then puts the bottle back in and continues on. I can only imagine this is him "switching sides" mid-nursing as he's been so used to doing for the past however many days it's been.
In all the lead-up to weaning, I had a lot of ideas in my head of how it would go. So far, it's been far easier than I imagined it would be. However, we did just recently determine that it'd be fine for me to keep nursing him at wake-up and bed-time for however much longer it goes so I guess we aren't 100% done with the process yet...
Either way, I've spent some time thinking back to those first 6 weeks of nursing- which I don't know if I gave any airtime (blog time) to in the thick of it- and I'm so glad (and proud) we made it to 1 year! I have said, and will always say, that delivering Tyler was the easy part compared to breastfeeding Tyler during those first 6/7 weeks...and delivering Tyler wasn't easy, my friends.
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