Party On

It’s been a full year and one week since our lives changed forever. Our little guy is so sweet and smart- it’s been a joy. A lot of work and sleepless nights and stress and worry- but always joy. I wouldn’t change it for anything. On the sleep front- Well, I don’t know what my assessment is. On the one hand, he’s gotten down to only waking once a night now that we’re home and back on a schedule. He’s going to sleep now without me holding him, but with me just singing to him in a chair next to his crib. This also means that he’s got to be feeling better. On the other hand, when he does wake he’s up for 2 hours. More often than not one of us takes him to the guest room to sleep with him while the other gets some (much needed) rest. With me, he’ll wake repeatedly even doing this- and it would be nice to spend a whole night a) asleep and b) asleep next to my husband. On the feeding front- we made it! We made it all the way to a year. Now we’re on the task of weaning. I started introduc...

This is a mash-up of my ‘must-have’s’ for baby’s first year plus advice I wish I would’ve had (or listened to!). So hold on to your horses! Let’s go. Birthing Pandora , heating pad , massage ball (like this one , but it vibrated too) 1. Hold off on the epidural until you seriously need it. Don’t risk the chance of using up your tolerance toward the meds when you’re only “uncomfortable” 2. Try music. I don’t care if it sounds cheesy, it works. We also used a massage ball and heating pad (which, by the way, they make you get rid of once you have the epidural) for pain relief, but what helped the most- see #3. 3. Have your mom there! She helped me through transition like Josh couldn’t, because she had been there and knew where it would hurt. This was particularly helpful when I was in so much pain I couldn’t speak. She knew- and she helped. 4. Don’t worry about other people. I tend to be very empathetic towards others and spent a lot of my labor worrying about others (What if Jo...

Y’all, all I want to do is stay at home, wear pajamas, and watch Netflix all day. Somehow I never seem to accomplish that. Sure it may not be a profound life goal, but it’s a goal nonetheless. I almost didn’t blog this week, but we’re at WEEK 51! Eli is legitimately one year old in, oh, 4 days. No big deal. On the sleeping front…I’m so tired I literally had a dream about trying to take a nap and being constantly interrupted. The irony was that the dream itself was interrupted by having to wake up to take care of Eli. He is feeling miserable today. He spiked a fever last night and we took him in this morning for a checkup, since he’s already on antibiotics for his ear infection. He has a 103.5 fever and some random virus that has terrible timing. It is not fun being helpless and watching him suffer through the pain. So on that note- let’s make this short and sweet. Week 51 I fell onto the bookshelf while I was cruising one day and wound up with a Tommy Boy-esque bruise right acro...

Heads up- I wrote this yesterday but was a good girl and didn’t finish it until I finished my work! * What a day! We just got home, 29 hours later than anticipated. Our flight got cancelled, Eli got an ear/eye infection, we went straight from the airport to the Urgicare, and it just wasn’t as planned. A very little amount of sleep and a lot of coffee got me through the past 48 hours. But- if that’s all I have to complain about then I’ve got it pretty good. We had family to sit with us while we waited during our 6 hour delay from Riverton, we were able to see a pediatrician on New Year’s Eve, my mother-in-law got our pups from boarding and brought them to our house so we didn’t have to make an extra trip, our pharmacy is 24/7. Hey- not bad. I’ve got so much to do- 40 more pictures to edit and get out by tomorrow , three business blogs, follow-ups with two clients , editing pictures from my Pearls and Poinsettia’s party and my sister’s family photo shoot, invitations to get out ,...