they say having a baby changes your life. and i guess it does, but when you have a second one, it doesn't seem to change as much since you're already used to not being able to go out much without dragging a kid around. of course when there is a larger age difference, you have to get used to someone depending on you for everything once again, but that doesn't even seem that bad.
now, almost 8 months later, is when my life is changing. talan is now getting around. i now not only have one child i have to say "no" to, i now have two.
talan discovered on monday that he could get himself from one end of the room to the other by scooting himself along using mostly his upper body strength. while i was washing bottles out yesterday morning i heard a crash. dave went out to see what it was and found that talan had scooted across the room and wound up by the tall candle stick holders with the big fat candles sitting on top of them. and he managed to pull the tallest one down. i think it must have barely missed him as he didn't make a sound. although, he could just be like his big brother and not really care about pain. so now, every time we put him down, he remembers how cool those candles are and he heads right for them.
i try not to "baby proof" my house too much because i like them to learn from their mistakes. like, realizing that EVERY TIME they stick their finger in an electrical outlet, they will be shocked. and, if you drink poison, we will have to call an ambulance every time. or maybe i just try to make them understand that every house isn't going to have a baby where they put everything away to keep them out of trouble. so they need to get used to the word "no" and the fact that certain things should not be touched. it can be a lot of work for me, but in the long run, it works. well, at least it did for hayden, and usually things like that don't work on that kid, so i'm swearing by it.
so yes. here is the video of him getting around. he's so determined that he doesn't even realize he crawled right out of his pants. does anyone make baby belts?! if not, i'm starting and i'm gonna make a fortune.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
a vegetarian?!
it appears as though talan is a vegetarian in the truest sense of the word. we moved him on to eating fruits and he really doesn't like them. doctor's tell you to start babies on vegetables first so they don't get addicted to the sweet fruit and then won't take veggies. not this guy. he's had banana's, peaches and applesauce now and he turns his lip up at 2 of the 3. for whatever reason he has decided that applesauce is ok. i'll feed him a jar of veggies and he'll cry for more so i'll pull out a jar of fruit. suddenly his mouth closes up and you can't pry the thing open with a crowbar. i keep trying but it doesn't seem to get any better. this evening he ate about 5 spoonfuls of banana's, pretty much making a "this is the most disgusting thing i've ever had" face with every single bite. we really aren't sure where he came from cuz nobody in this house really likes vegetables at all. not sure where he's gonna eat when he gets older and the jarred food just won't cut it anymore.
banana's:
peaches:
the first attempt at applesauce when he thought he didn't like it:
so he decided to play with it instead:
the good news is, as you can tell by the applesauce photos, we finally got off our lazy butt's and cleaned the highchair off and brought it upstairs. so now there is no danger of him throwing himself backwards and out of his recalled bumbo seat. phew.
banana's:
peaches:
the first attempt at applesauce when he thought he didn't like it:
so he decided to play with it instead:
the good news is, as you can tell by the applesauce photos, we finally got off our lazy butt's and cleaned the highchair off and brought it upstairs. so now there is no danger of him throwing himself backwards and out of his recalled bumbo seat. phew.
Friday, November 9, 2007
7 months
today talan turned 7 months old. last month was quite the busy month for him with many firsts including laying in a pile of leaves and standing inside a pumpkin for mommy's crazy photo ops. talan continues to be a happy, fun baby however, nite time has changed. for the past month and a half he has been waking up anywhere from 2-3 times every nite. pretty much every 3-4 hours. i took him in for his 6 month check up to find out he had an ear infection. so i blamed his restlessness on that. he was put on medication and was seen by the dr. 2 weeks later and we were told the ear infection was gone. once again, he wasn't able to get his flu shot because he was congested. ok. so he has a bad cold and is having a hard time breathing. that's why he's still waking up. well. the congestion is gone and the kid is still up several times a nite. it's possibly a tooth thing but it's also possible he's gotten used to the half asleep feedings and doesn't want to give them up. in any case, this better end soon cuz we're dyin' over here. he didn't do this when he was a month old.
he has moved his way through all of the vegetables that gerber has to offer and we are about ready to start him on either meats or fruits. possibly meat so that we save the sweet stuff for last. hayden ate the fruits after veggies and he still had no problem eating the nasty canned meat. years later he eats all of 4 things. so we're just trying to decide what might give us a better eater than our first. he's enjoying his food much more than before and it's not nearly the chore it used to be to feed him. he typically eats a jar at lunch and a jar at dinner. and happily. he still gets distracted easily and if hayden is in the room it's next to impossible to get talan to eat. or the cat. talan just loves that cat. this afternoon i was feeding him lunch and we were almost done when dante walked in. and that was it. talan was fixed on dante and wouldn't budge his head or open his mouth to finish the jar. dante finally left and talan finished up his lunch. i think mealtimes i'll start taking talan into a private room with a lock on it so he doesn't get distracted.
on thursday, november 1st we were watching hayden at his bowling league and i asked jessica to check and see if she felt any teeth in talan's mouth. i thought i might have seen a couple of bumps, but is it ever hard to get a kid to open their mouth and let you examine it. she felt and looked in and we discovered that his two front bottom teeth were starting to pop up. i can't believe it. a kid that got 2 teeth before 7 months! he's been shoving stuff in the back of his mouth as well so i'm wondering if there is something coming in back there as well.
just this week talan has more or less mastered the art of sitting. on monday he sat for a good amount of time on his own and each day after he has sat for long and longer stretches of time. today he was sitting in the living room on his own for well over 10 minutes. if he's too tired he'll just gently fall to the side or straight back, but i believe at this point i can say that talan is sitting by himself.
talan, like hayden, is still just fine with strangers and with me leaving him. he's never had one bit of worry when i've handed him over to someone and just walked out. i'm hoping for a good santa picture this year. i got the best one when hayden was just about a year. after year after that it's been downhill. we've talked a lot about it and we're now using the big brother card telling him he needs to show talan how to do it. so we'll see. talan may just have his picture taken alone with santa.
he still isn't crawling but he moves himself around in a circle anytime he needs to. he can roll across the floor to get him places or just somehow scoot himself there. either way, he usually gets to where he wants to be.
the only positive sleep thing we have to report on is that we've given up the nite time swaddling. we have put him to bed every nite this week without being swaddled and it really hasn't been too much different than getting him to sleep while swaddled. i still tend to swaddle him at naptime because it just seems a little different with it being light and all. he tends to fall right to sleep at naptimes so i kinda don't want to mess with that right now. so i'll wait a little bit longer. maybe he can get into some record books for being the oldest baby that has to be swaddled to go to sleep. he's usually gotten himself out of it by the time you go in to get him, but it's the fact that he has to be in it when you put him down. but at this point we're almost to a swaddle free baby.
while in for his 6 month check up we were sent home with a nebulizer to help with his 80 year old smokers cough that he's had since he was born. and it actually seems to have worked. at first i just noticed that the cough seemed looser. now, there have been full days where i've only heard him cough once...maybe not even at all. so hopefully that is passing.
talan claps and waves. he loves when you say "mama." he'll just sit there and stare at your mouth while you say it. he has excellent motor skills, says my dad, and i agree. he will take the string of a balloon and just grab at it with his fingers and then just play with it. he was putting shapes inside his shape sorter, moving them around with his hand in order to make noise, pull a couple out, bang them together and then put them back in. he still loves being in his jumper and will immediately stop fussing when put in there. he's even fallen asleep in it more than once. i took him to target yesterday and couldn't believe what a difference i felt with him and hayden. talan was awake the entire time and didn't even have a binky in his mouth, yet he was quite almost the whole time. with hayden i would freak out if he would wake up. i'd grab what i had to and run out of the store before the screaming began. i think i still do that with him. but yesterday was so pleasant just getting a little bit of christmas shopping done with talan.
so once again, another great month, except for the sleep thing. something he really must work on cuz we just can't keep living like this. i'll have to try some teething medications and see if that works. if not, there's always soundproofing the room like i always swore i'd do.
happy 7 months, talan!
he has moved his way through all of the vegetables that gerber has to offer and we are about ready to start him on either meats or fruits. possibly meat so that we save the sweet stuff for last. hayden ate the fruits after veggies and he still had no problem eating the nasty canned meat. years later he eats all of 4 things. so we're just trying to decide what might give us a better eater than our first. he's enjoying his food much more than before and it's not nearly the chore it used to be to feed him. he typically eats a jar at lunch and a jar at dinner. and happily. he still gets distracted easily and if hayden is in the room it's next to impossible to get talan to eat. or the cat. talan just loves that cat. this afternoon i was feeding him lunch and we were almost done when dante walked in. and that was it. talan was fixed on dante and wouldn't budge his head or open his mouth to finish the jar. dante finally left and talan finished up his lunch. i think mealtimes i'll start taking talan into a private room with a lock on it so he doesn't get distracted.
on thursday, november 1st we were watching hayden at his bowling league and i asked jessica to check and see if she felt any teeth in talan's mouth. i thought i might have seen a couple of bumps, but is it ever hard to get a kid to open their mouth and let you examine it. she felt and looked in and we discovered that his two front bottom teeth were starting to pop up. i can't believe it. a kid that got 2 teeth before 7 months! he's been shoving stuff in the back of his mouth as well so i'm wondering if there is something coming in back there as well.
just this week talan has more or less mastered the art of sitting. on monday he sat for a good amount of time on his own and each day after he has sat for long and longer stretches of time. today he was sitting in the living room on his own for well over 10 minutes. if he's too tired he'll just gently fall to the side or straight back, but i believe at this point i can say that talan is sitting by himself.
talan, like hayden, is still just fine with strangers and with me leaving him. he's never had one bit of worry when i've handed him over to someone and just walked out. i'm hoping for a good santa picture this year. i got the best one when hayden was just about a year. after year after that it's been downhill. we've talked a lot about it and we're now using the big brother card telling him he needs to show talan how to do it. so we'll see. talan may just have his picture taken alone with santa.
he still isn't crawling but he moves himself around in a circle anytime he needs to. he can roll across the floor to get him places or just somehow scoot himself there. either way, he usually gets to where he wants to be.
the only positive sleep thing we have to report on is that we've given up the nite time swaddling. we have put him to bed every nite this week without being swaddled and it really hasn't been too much different than getting him to sleep while swaddled. i still tend to swaddle him at naptime because it just seems a little different with it being light and all. he tends to fall right to sleep at naptimes so i kinda don't want to mess with that right now. so i'll wait a little bit longer. maybe he can get into some record books for being the oldest baby that has to be swaddled to go to sleep. he's usually gotten himself out of it by the time you go in to get him, but it's the fact that he has to be in it when you put him down. but at this point we're almost to a swaddle free baby.
while in for his 6 month check up we were sent home with a nebulizer to help with his 80 year old smokers cough that he's had since he was born. and it actually seems to have worked. at first i just noticed that the cough seemed looser. now, there have been full days where i've only heard him cough once...maybe not even at all. so hopefully that is passing.
talan claps and waves. he loves when you say "mama." he'll just sit there and stare at your mouth while you say it. he has excellent motor skills, says my dad, and i agree. he will take the string of a balloon and just grab at it with his fingers and then just play with it. he was putting shapes inside his shape sorter, moving them around with his hand in order to make noise, pull a couple out, bang them together and then put them back in. he still loves being in his jumper and will immediately stop fussing when put in there. he's even fallen asleep in it more than once. i took him to target yesterday and couldn't believe what a difference i felt with him and hayden. talan was awake the entire time and didn't even have a binky in his mouth, yet he was quite almost the whole time. with hayden i would freak out if he would wake up. i'd grab what i had to and run out of the store before the screaming began. i think i still do that with him. but yesterday was so pleasant just getting a little bit of christmas shopping done with talan.
so once again, another great month, except for the sleep thing. something he really must work on cuz we just can't keep living like this. i'll have to try some teething medications and see if that works. if not, there's always soundproofing the room like i always swore i'd do.
happy 7 months, talan!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
corn and sweet poatoes together at last
we are finally picking up speed and moving quickly through the vegetable family. a few days ago talan was given sweet potatoes. he seemed to love them. i think he's finally getting the hang of eating normal food that doesn't come out of a bottle because for the past week he's eagerly eaten a jar at a sitting of vegetables. i was thinking it was just the sweet potatoes that he loved but then i found he's eaten the same way when given peas and carrots.
after no allergic outbreaks i decided this evening to move him on to the last vegetable we have. corn combined with sweet potatoes. for whatever reason they don't just have corn. it's corn and sweet potatoes. together. ok. whatever. we know he's not allergic to the sweet potatoes so if an outbreak happens, we know to blame it on the corn. he quickly went through yet another jar this evening. after a few days we'll finally be moving on to either fruits or meats. i can't decide. i want to do everything in my power to make sure he's a much better eater when he gets older than hayden is. but hayden loved his baby food. even the meat. so, who knows.
so here they are. more pictures of him trying foods for the first time that look like all the other pictures i've posted of him eating different foods for the first time.
so happy for the sweet potatoes:
moving on to corn with sweet potatoes:
i have no idea what's up with his hair this evening:
he got tired of me taking pictures and having to wait to be fed so he took it upon himself. too bad he had the wrong end in his mouth:
after no allergic outbreaks i decided this evening to move him on to the last vegetable we have. corn combined with sweet potatoes. for whatever reason they don't just have corn. it's corn and sweet potatoes. together. ok. whatever. we know he's not allergic to the sweet potatoes so if an outbreak happens, we know to blame it on the corn. he quickly went through yet another jar this evening. after a few days we'll finally be moving on to either fruits or meats. i can't decide. i want to do everything in my power to make sure he's a much better eater when he gets older than hayden is. but hayden loved his baby food. even the meat. so, who knows.
so here they are. more pictures of him trying foods for the first time that look like all the other pictures i've posted of him eating different foods for the first time.
so happy for the sweet potatoes:
moving on to corn with sweet potatoes:
i have no idea what's up with his hair this evening:
he got tired of me taking pictures and having to wait to be fed so he took it upon himself. too bad he had the wrong end in his mouth:
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