Giggle Monster!

Today, he started to really show off how well he giggles.... :)


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The Life of Three

It's been three months of our new life, now. I have to say that things have changed pretty seamlessly, if only with a few snags here and there. As of late, Ryden smiles all the time, and coos pretty often. He is starting to get a bit of a giggle down, but not too much just yet. We have been doing tummy time lately, and he is pretty so-so about it. Sometimes he enjoys it and sometimes he could care less. I think for the most part he has been meeting most of his milestones roughly around time. He is however off the charts when it comes to his height and weight. I have weighed him in the past week or so, but I am sure he is around 17-18 lbs. I think his mission in life is to see how many chins he can collect. He has already collected quite a few.

It's amazing how many things you figure out the hard way as a first time mom and first time parents. After a couple of weeks of him getting pretty fussy at times, I realized he needed some type of routine. I thought that if he was tired he would go to sleep and I would just watch for his hunger cues. I feed on demand not by a set schedule. How much he eats during the day also depends on how much he ate through the night. The longer he sleeps in between feedings the more he eats during the day. Well, after going through the couple of fussy weeks, I realized I had to watch for his sleepy cues, too. Apparently just because a baby is awake for two-three hours straight doesn't mean that is what they wanted. I have now noticed that he starts showing signs of sleepiness around an hour and fifteen to an hour and a half. So, that is when I start putting him down. He falls asleep much quicker and without fuss if you catch him in that window. I think putting a baby down is an art to be mastered, and we are still working on it.

Eric just said that Ryden's nakie butt is like cashmere. I felt that was important to add... haha.

I took a few pics of Ryden this morning........








You can go here if you want to see more pics of him.

Here he is hanging out in his crib with the Rockabye Baby lullaby version of Coldplay playing in the background.



I guess that is enough cuteness for one entry,

Michele, Eric and of course Ryden

The New Life.....

Well, the little man is now 1 month old. I can't believe that much time has passed already. The first week and a half was us getting to know each other, the week and a half after that we got to spend with my mom here and this last week or so, with my mom gone and Eric back to work, Ryden and I have started to get a routine down. It really gets better and more fluid each day.

I don't half a lot of time to write, but I am going to post a couple of videos.

This one is Ryden cooing a couple of times. I recorded it a couple of days ago during his morning time-happy time. It's when he is really alert and just likes to look around.




and this one is from today. This is what a full time, stay at home mom does with her time. A couple of days ago, I started to try a little EC-elimination communication with Ryden. I know y'all are probably laughing at me, but I haven't changed a single full on poopy diaper in like 4 days. He still ends up with little skid marks on his diapers from when he toots and he had a really small poopy diaper the other morning when he woke up, but that's it. I don't EC in the middle of the night. The rest have been in the toilet. However, the pees are a lot harder to catch because he does them every 30 mins. or so when he is awake. I miss a lot of them, but I'm getting better. Eric recorded this video this morning and it is him pooping over the toilet incase you don't want to see it. I would understand. We found it quite funny!




anyhoo, I am nursing and typing right now (not so easy) so, I will write something more substantial later.

michele