Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Levi's 2 Month Check-Up and Shots
Today Levi had his 2 month check up. He has grown a lot! 13 lbs 2oz and 24 1/4 inches long! He's in the 90th percentile for height and the 85th percentile for weight. Mike was super proud, especially the height, his dream of having a super star basketball player son might just happen. So that was the good part of the appointment. Then came the bad part... The shots. He had an oral vaccine (never heard of that until today) and two shots. All together I think he got 6 or 7 immunizations. He handled it really well and so far no fever, just sleeping. Lots of sleeping.
I made Mike come with me for this appointment. And I will for every appointment when Levi gets shots. I don't think I would have been able to keep it together if I had been by myself. As it was I only teared up, no real crying, that's a success in my book. Next appointment is when he is 4 months and he will get more shots then too. Ugh.
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I made Mike come with me for this appointment. And I will for every appointment when Levi gets shots. I don't think I would have been able to keep it together if I had been by myself. As it was I only teared up, no real crying, that's a success in my book. Next appointment is when he is 4 months and he will get more shots then too. Ugh.
Levi before his shots...
Levi's Quilt
Last Wednesday my Mom drove Evie here from her Dad's house and brought a gift for Levi. She made a quilt for Levi, from scratch. My Mom is super crafty and the quilt is gorgeous! Evie tried to "borrow" it already.
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Thank you Mom!!! <3
4th of July Weekend at the Beach
We went to the beach with our friends for 4th of July. It was a BLAST! They brought their 8 yr old daughter (Bailey's bball teammate and BFF) and the girls had a blast. Evie didn't come with us this time, she was in NJ with her Dad. Here's some pics of the fun:
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Shrek Baby!
Dinner at Senor Frogs
Levi and Grandma
A good time was had by all. Bailey and I danced at Senor Frogs and on the pier, super cute and fun :) And we hit Broadway at the Beach and even squeezed in a run while we were visiting. All and all the trip was a success!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Can you tell?
Can you tell that we went to the beach again and then Evie came home and I have been too busy to post?
Yeah, I thought you might have noticed my lack of posting. Sorry about that. Here is a little teaser to get you through til Monday when I will have time to really post again.
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Yeah, I thought you might have noticed my lack of posting. Sorry about that. Here is a little teaser to get you through til Monday when I will have time to really post again.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Bonding Moment
I was watching Levi today while Mike tried to get some sleep so he could drive us to the beach tonight. Of course the one time I need Levi to be quiet he is squirmy and fussy. I wanted to just bounce him on my knee while I watched Tom Hanks on Inside the Actor's Studio. Levi was not so into that idea. He kept fussing, I kept bouncing. Finally it got really loud and I had to stop watching my show. I took Levi outside onto the front porch swing and started rocking with him. He still didn't settle down for a few minutes.
Finally he started to relax. I got a good steady but slow pace going and I just looked into his eyes. The wind was blowing lightly. And as I looked into Levi's eyes I thought about how much I want to stay in this house. How I want to sit in that exact same spot with Levi's baby in my arms as I rock. And it got really quiet, the wind blew my hair and suddenly it was gray. My hair was gray, the baby I was holding was my grandson. The cars parked in the driveway belonged to my grown children. I was a grandmother and I was rocking my grandbaby on the same porch swing I had rocked my babies. My eyes started to burn and the tears started flowing. All the while Levi is just looking back at me with his huge deep blue eyes. And I am just crying. Crying tears of joy. Tears of hope. Tears of thankfulness. How lucky I am to have Levi. How amaming he is already. What kind of man will he be? I start to think about him as a little boy, as a teenager, as a grown man. I just see my son, as he is today and as he will be. And then Levi makes an expression on his face, an expression like "Mom, you are so overreacting!" And then I start to laugh as I cry. Because it's true and it's funny. And then Levi, little baby Levi, starts to gurgle and laugh with me, he's smiling at me with those big blue eyes. Suddenly all the sounds come back, a fire truck in the distance, a lawn mower next door, cars coming around the corner street. The world comes back to us. Or we come back to it.
Mike and I joke about how his family is witchy. How they see things before they happen. How they have intutions about events and people. In that moment I felt like Levi was showing me something. I don't have that intuition, but Levi does. I have never had such vivid truthful dreams as I did when I was pregnant with Levi. And today, on that porch swing, I felt that truth again. I felt my connection to Levi strengthen.
I am so lucky to have this little soul in my life. He is such a gift. He really will be a great man. I am honored to have him.
Finally he started to relax. I got a good steady but slow pace going and I just looked into his eyes. The wind was blowing lightly. And as I looked into Levi's eyes I thought about how much I want to stay in this house. How I want to sit in that exact same spot with Levi's baby in my arms as I rock. And it got really quiet, the wind blew my hair and suddenly it was gray. My hair was gray, the baby I was holding was my grandson. The cars parked in the driveway belonged to my grown children. I was a grandmother and I was rocking my grandbaby on the same porch swing I had rocked my babies. My eyes started to burn and the tears started flowing. All the while Levi is just looking back at me with his huge deep blue eyes. And I am just crying. Crying tears of joy. Tears of hope. Tears of thankfulness. How lucky I am to have Levi. How amaming he is already. What kind of man will he be? I start to think about him as a little boy, as a teenager, as a grown man. I just see my son, as he is today and as he will be. And then Levi makes an expression on his face, an expression like "Mom, you are so overreacting!" And then I start to laugh as I cry. Because it's true and it's funny. And then Levi, little baby Levi, starts to gurgle and laugh with me, he's smiling at me with those big blue eyes. Suddenly all the sounds come back, a fire truck in the distance, a lawn mower next door, cars coming around the corner street. The world comes back to us. Or we come back to it.
Mike and I joke about how his family is witchy. How they see things before they happen. How they have intutions about events and people. In that moment I felt like Levi was showing me something. I don't have that intuition, but Levi does. I have never had such vivid truthful dreams as I did when I was pregnant with Levi. And today, on that porch swing, I felt that truth again. I felt my connection to Levi strengthen.
I am so lucky to have this little soul in my life. He is such a gift. He really will be a great man. I am honored to have him.
Levi's "Christening"
Yesterday Levi and I were on the go most of the day. We got up and got ready so we could meet Mike for lunch at his work. It was soooo much fun to show Levi off, everyone at Mike's work is so nice and they all doted on Levi, that made me super happy. Mike just got promoted to Sales Manager at his company on Monday and I am SOOOOOO PROUD of him! So he got to change desks and now has a real office with a door and everything. So of course while we were visiting Levi had a giant poop and we had to figure out how to change his diaper in Mike's office. We put Levi on one of the guest chairs in his office and I sat on Mike's rolling chair and proceeded to change Levi's diaper. Mike held the dirty diaper for me while I wiped and put the soiled wipes in the dirty diaper. Wouldn't you know that Levi decided to keep pooping once the diaper was off. Mike and I were scrambling to keep the poop on the wipe and off the furniture and my hands. It was HILARIOUS! I was crying I was laughing so hard. And all this time Mike is now holding the dirty diaper literally in my face, he didn't realize it because he was so focused on poop not getting everywhere. He and I had quite a laugh and as Mike said, Levi christened his office.
After visiting Mike Levi and I returned the birth pool (finally!) to the lady we rented it from and then we hit Target. I wanted to get a Bumbo chair for Levi because he can hold his neck up and I am tired of propping him up with pillows and worrying that he'll fall over. When I saw the price of the Bumbo I was a little disappointed. It costs $38 and it is just a chair, no snack tray, no activity panel. Just a chair. I kept looking around and found a SuperSeat, it is the same chair but comes with a snack tray, activity panel, and can be transitioned into a booster seat for Levi to sit in a regular chair at the dinner table. Score! And it was only $7 more, double score!
After getting home I was sure Levi would pass out for at least a few hours since we had been on the go all day and he hadn't napped at all. But alas, he was not on board with taking a nap. He wasn't fussy, he just didn't want to sleep. When a 7 (almost 8) week old doesn't sleep you really can't do much but keep an eye on him. I attempted to clean and cook but it wasn't very easy because I had to keep checking on him and making sure he was entertained, etc. Finally I decided to take him with me on my nightly walk that I go on with my BFF Teresa. Also Mike wasn't going to be home til after 8PM because he got his haircut. So as soon as I got Levi in the stroller he passed out. Perfect. I walked with Teresa and he slept, for a little while. He woke up while we were walking but he was calm and not fussy so it didn't interfere with my exercise. But holy cow, the kid didn't sleep all day! Maybe 30 minutes at a time a few times throughout the day. So we got home and had Mike work his Daddy magic and put Levi to sleep on the front porch swing. And Levi fell asleep and stayed alsleep for 9 hours!!!!!!!!! Holy Sh*t!! That is the longest he has ever slept, I actually woke up throughout the night certain that he had stopped breathing because there was no way he could sleep that long. Yeah, he slept that long and I am so well rested today, oh man. I just hope this is his new and permanent sleep pattern.
And I am glad I got a lot of sleep because we are driving to the beach tonight and will be on the road til about 1AM so now I can stay up without much difficulty. We are bringing Bailey and LEvi, Evie is with her Dad in New Jersey. And we are bringing our BFFs Teresa, Greg, and their daughter Mackenzie who is Bailey's BFF. It should be super fun! Thanks for Mike's parents for letting us bring our friends!
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After visiting Mike Levi and I returned the birth pool (finally!) to the lady we rented it from and then we hit Target. I wanted to get a Bumbo chair for Levi because he can hold his neck up and I am tired of propping him up with pillows and worrying that he'll fall over. When I saw the price of the Bumbo I was a little disappointed. It costs $38 and it is just a chair, no snack tray, no activity panel. Just a chair. I kept looking around and found a SuperSeat, it is the same chair but comes with a snack tray, activity panel, and can be transitioned into a booster seat for Levi to sit in a regular chair at the dinner table. Score! And it was only $7 more, double score!
After getting home I was sure Levi would pass out for at least a few hours since we had been on the go all day and he hadn't napped at all. But alas, he was not on board with taking a nap. He wasn't fussy, he just didn't want to sleep. When a 7 (almost 8) week old doesn't sleep you really can't do much but keep an eye on him. I attempted to clean and cook but it wasn't very easy because I had to keep checking on him and making sure he was entertained, etc. Finally I decided to take him with me on my nightly walk that I go on with my BFF Teresa. Also Mike wasn't going to be home til after 8PM because he got his haircut. So as soon as I got Levi in the stroller he passed out. Perfect. I walked with Teresa and he slept, for a little while. He woke up while we were walking but he was calm and not fussy so it didn't interfere with my exercise. But holy cow, the kid didn't sleep all day! Maybe 30 minutes at a time a few times throughout the day. So we got home and had Mike work his Daddy magic and put Levi to sleep on the front porch swing. And Levi fell asleep and stayed alsleep for 9 hours!!!!!!!!! Holy Sh*t!! That is the longest he has ever slept, I actually woke up throughout the night certain that he had stopped breathing because there was no way he could sleep that long. Yeah, he slept that long and I am so well rested today, oh man. I just hope this is his new and permanent sleep pattern.
And I am glad I got a lot of sleep because we are driving to the beach tonight and will be on the road til about 1AM so now I can stay up without much difficulty. We are bringing Bailey and LEvi, Evie is with her Dad in New Jersey. And we are bringing our BFFs Teresa, Greg, and their daughter Mackenzie who is Bailey's BFF. It should be super fun! Thanks for Mike's parents for letting us bring our friends!
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