He Rolled Over!!

Brayden learned to roll over yesterday and I missed it!! I was at work and Jon was doing some tummy time with him and he became so exhausted that he put his head down and rolled over. Jon knew that I would not believe him that he really did it so he was smart enough to video tape it for me. Luckily as soon as I got home from work he did it for me. When he finishes rolling over he gets super excited that he did it. He did it five times yesterday, but of course we can't get him to do it today.

Jon was out of town this week, so it was definitely an exhausting week. Luckily my mom came up for two nights to help me with night duty. So when Jon got home on Friday, I got the night off and a full nights rest without any interruptions, it was definitely needed. Brayden is back to his typical 3 hours of sleeping before he wants food again, so I feel like I am up all night feeding him. So Jon and I decided that maybe he is not getting enough milk, so we decided that we would try a little formula to hopefully help coat his tummy a little bit. I decided I would try it on Friday morning since I would be home all day with him, just in case any problems or an allergic reactions occur. I only gave him 2 oz. of formula and he took it like a champ. I was like this is great, he didn't even notice a difference. Maybe this will solve some of our sleeping problems. Well, I was wrong, about 4 hours later, the poor little guy puked everywhere!! Now I felt like a horrible mother because I was trying formula for the benefit of us getting a little more sleep. So needless to say it will be awhile before he gets formula again and we get good sleep!!

We have an exciting week ahead of us. Brayden has an appointment with the pediatric neurologist on Tuesday. Hopefully we will find out how much longer Brayden will have to be on the anti seizure medicine. And the other exciting thing going on this week is Jon's sister Jamie and her husband Josh are going to welcome their baby into this world. We can't wait, they are planning on getting induced on Tuesday night, so hopefully Wednesday morning we will have exciting news.

Here are some pictures from the week...

Brayden completely exhausted from learning how to roll over

All dressed up in the outfit Great Grandma O made me and yes that is my milk belly hanging over my pants

Just laughing at the things mommy tells me

Us at the Butler game last weekend

Brayden rolling over, notice the nice mullet hair-do that he has going on

Let's Go Butler!!

We have had a little bit of a trying week with Brayden and his lack of sleeping. He was doing great for about a week where he would do a six hour shift and then a three hour shift. Well that all changed ever since he got his shots last week. We just thought he was a little off because of that, but he hasn't seemed to get back to that sleeping pattern again. So needless to say we are back to just three hours of sleep at a time. Good thing I have coffee to get me through the day!

Besides that lack of sleep, which I am sure everyone can relate to, we are having a great time enjoying Brayden and all the fun things he is doing now. He is laughing and smiling a ton, pretty much at anything we say he laughs at. Brayden is also loving tummy time. He is learning to lift his head up really well and looking all around.

Brayden also went to his first Butler Basketball game this weekend. He was such a good baby at the game. He even took a little nap during the bad parts of the game, but overall he loved it.

Since I have to work half days on Saturdays, I always ask Jon what him and Brayden will be doing while I am gone. Well you will see in the video below where they would like to go without me being around. It's pretty funny.

Tummy time with daddy

Just checking things out

Getting an airplane ride from daddy

Let's go BU!!

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

It's Brayden's grandma's birthday today, we had a fun day celebrating with her. Happy Birthday!!!

Just a little flashback of when we got to bring Brayden home (9 days old)

2 months old

Hanging out with Grandma on her birthday

Chillin with Uncle Jimmy

Asleep in Uncle Josh's arms

2 Months!!

Brayden is 2 months today. We had a pediatrician appointment today so we got all the latest stats on him.
Length 23 3/4 inches - 75-90%
Weight 12 lbs. 14 ozs. - 75%
Head 39 cm - 25 %
I guess he is going to be a big kid with a small head!! They said that as long as he grows proprtionally all is well. We thought that his head looks really big, but I guess there are bigger.

Brayden has really been changing over the past couple of weeks. He is starting to smile at everything. He loves to be talked to and he also loves to talk back to you. The only problem is that he usually starts this talking at like 6 in the morning, when we are still trying to sleep. Since it is so cute, we usually can't resist going in there and talking with him. I have posted a video below of him talking, it's pretty cute.

Brayden had his first appointment with the NIC follow up clinic on Wednesday. There they monitor his progress and make sure he is developing and hitting his milestones. He got evaluated by the physical therapist at this appointment. She had a great report and was very pleased with Brayden's progress. Our main concern right was that we thought that he might be weaker on the right side than the left. According to her assesment, she actually thinks that Brayden is stronger on the right now then on the left, so that is great news. She really didn't have any concerns about his growth and progress at this point, so we don't have to go back until 6 months.

I started back at work this week. I wasn't really ready to leave Brayden yet, but I don't think that I would have ever been ready to leave him. I was completely fine on Monday, I only called once to check on him. Then it hit me on Tuesday. When I came back from work he was already sleeping for the night and I just broke down crying. I don't like the idea that sometimes when I get home he is going to be in bed already. So this week has been a trial for all of us. Since I don't have a whole lot of time with him in the evening, I have been getting up early and playing with him before I go to work. I think Brayden knew I was going back to work because on Monday night for the first time ever he slept for a full 6 hours. And you know what he has been doing that ever since. So that has definitely helped Jon and I as we transition back to working again. Unfortunately Brayden got 3 shots today and he is not a happy camper today, so I don't know how well he will sleep for us for the next couple of days.

I don't know if I believe what Daddy is telling me

All dressed up in my Colts gear ready to cheer them on with Daddy

2 months old today!!!

Merry Christmas (A Little Late)

Merry Christmas!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We had a great week of celebrating Christmas and having Brayden meet the rest of the family. Below are a bunch of pictures that tell the story of our week.

Daddy thinks I need a haircut, what do you think?

Playdate with the boys: Colin (11 weeks), Mason (16 weeks), and Brayden (6 weeks)

Mommy's wish for Christmas, A silent night

It didn't happen, but he has been doing much better sleeping at night

Daddy got me a book about going to the dentist

We opened our presents on Christmas Eve morning since we were traveling

All dressed up ready for Christmas Eve dinner at Great Grandma O's house

Waiting for Santa and his reindeer to come

Opening presents Christmas morning

Daddy has found my tickle spot

Sorry I couldn't resist putting him in a sweater vest for Christmas

Look at my new hat (I love this picture)

Our First Christmas

He has so much hair, we couldn't resist giving him a mohawk

My first pony (Thanks to uncle Jimmy)

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.

Indy trip

We made it!! We had a great trip down and back from Indy. Brayden did really well considering we were gone for three nights. He didn't seem to mind sleeping in the pack and play, so that is a great thing. We just hope that our neighbors at the hotel got some sleep.

We had a busy couple of days meeting up with college friends and their kids. I forgot to get the camera out and take pictures of all of them, so there are a few pictures below. Brayden got to meet Zachary, Layne, Hayden, Cole, Lilly, and Addy.

We are 0 for 1 on babysitters so far too. We thought that we would try to run out to dinner one night since both of our brothers are down there and just have one of them watch Brayden for a little bit. It sounded like a good idea, but didn't exactly work out that way. Joey was sick with the flu, so we wouldn't allow him near Brayden at all. So Josh (Jon's brother) offered to watch him. When we left the hotel room Brayden was laying in his pack and play almost about to fall asleep. So we all thought, he would just sleep the whole time. We literally went out to dinner about one block away from the hotel, so just in case there was any problems we could get home quickly. I guess Brayden woke up not long after we left and cried the entire time. Josh tried to feed him and he didn't want that. He said the only thing that worked was putting his pacifier in, but as soon as he spit it out the crying would start again. So needless to say I don't think Brayden left a good impression on him, so he probably won't babysit for us again. Maybe when he gets a little bigger.

On a different note, Brayden's great grandpa Oley Worthington passed away last night. We were truly blessed that Brayden got to meet him a couple weeks ago when we were home for Thanksgiving. He loved meeting Brayden and actually was following the blog on his progress. I have included another picture of him holding Brayden in remembrance.

Great Grandpa Worthington

Brayden's favorite stretching position

I just thought this pictures was funny, so I included it

Just relaxing in my pack and play

Jon, Brayden, Chris, and Zachary (Jon's college friend)

Aimee with her twins Addy and Lilly (my college friend)

Olivia and Brayden (my college friend)