Week in review

Sorry I have not updated the blog lately. My goal is once a week but we got a little busy (ie. my child just didn't sleep) and therefore the blog didn't get updated. So quickly I will recap what we have been up to for the past week and a half. Brayden had his first visit to the dental office. He loved flirting with all of the staff and best part, no cavities!!! He had a special outfit that he wore that day. His shirt said "Teeth are overrated", very appropriate at this age.

The dentist office wore me out!!

The next day we headed out again for a 3 hour car ride to see Jon's family. He is actually a really good traveler, he usually passes out about 2 minutes into the car trip and stays asleep the whole time! Here he is all bundled up and ready to go.

I'm ready for another car ride.

The last time we went to the mall we saw the line for Santa. We decided while we were at Auburn, we would take a trip to see Santa on the square. There were only 2 people in line in front of us and best part was that you could take as many pictures as you wanted with your own camera. On Saturday morning Brayden got a bath and all dressed up in his Christmas outfit to go see Santa. We bundled him all up and headed out on the 2 minute car ride that it would take us to go see him. Well by the time we got there Brayden was passed out. We tried everything we could to get him to awake to take a picture with Santa, and needless to say we failed. Funny thing is the second we snapped him back in the car seat he was wide awake. The only ten minutes he slept all morning were on Santa's lap. Just goes to show who is the boss around here!

Dreaming of all the good stuff he will get for Christmas

Since we have been traveling so much for the past few weekends, we have not put up the Christmas tree. So we decided to take some candid pictures by the grandparents tree so that someday when we look back on it, he won't feel deprived that we didn't really celebrate his first Christmas.

His bib says "Result of mommy kissing Santa"
(Thanks Aimee for the bib)
We had a great trip to Auburn, Brayden was an absolute angel and slept great. Of course, we returned home and found out how quickly things change. The kid wouldn't sleep at all!! When we have help to watch him he just sleeps, then we get home and it is just him and I, he sleeps maybe an hour all day. So once again, nothing gets done and I am extremely exhausted. At this point, I will take sleep wherever and whenever it comes. Thank goodness for my mom, she came up and relieved me for a night and let me sleep and she took him all night (Jon was out of town).

Getting some Z's in mommy and daddy's bed

Passed out in the boppy pillow
His shirt says "Dear Santa, I've been good all year. Just ask my mom"
Jon comes home from work and almost every night Brayden is up for about an hour to play with him and then he nicely lays down for bed and is out for the night. So Jon jokes around with me and is like I don't know what you are doing, but look how good he is for me. I had a doctors appt. on Friday and had a serious talk with Brayden before I left. I told him if he give daddy hell the whole time that I am gone, I will get him a really big Christmas present. I left hoping that Jon would see how Brayden really is all day long and why I am so tired. Well of course, I come home to find Brayden all snuggled in his swing. He slept the whole 3 hours I was gone. Not a peep!! He never does that for me which is not fair at all!!
I guess Daddy has the magic touch!!

The only other exciting thing that has been going on this week is that we were on poop watch. Funny how your life changes in every aspect when you have a kid. Sorry if this is a little too graphic for some!! Brayden pooped on Monday and then for the next five days we had nothing. Poor guy, we called the doctor several times, put suppositories in the little guy, and we still had nothing!! The doctor told us that he could be going through a growth spurt right now, so he could just be using all the milk and having no waste. Well that was definitely not the case. After 5 days of not pooping, you will see in the picture below what we got!! So hopefully we will have a better week this week in many different aspects.