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the wild rumpus start learning about motherhood one day at a time post navigation older posts four months june 29 2014 by thewildrumpus12 dear augustus augustus james you are four months old and i completely adore you i can not get enough of your sweet chubby cheeks and your beautiful laugh you are the best baby in the world you ve learned a lot this month you just started rolling from back to front so now you can wiggle all over the floor sometimes you can get your knees up under you when you re on your tummy which means crawling is not far off i m not ready for that you weigh 15 pounds and you are 26 inches long your yucky tear duct finally cleared up which is great you love to chew on your fists and blow little spit bubbles and sing little nonsense songs this month we did a lot of fun stuff including a trip to the lake for the weekend you are a really easy baby who just looks around and takes it all in and is happy 90 of the time sleep has been really bad really really bad but we are getting that on track with some sleep training this weekend you re doing great at daycare i love this age and i love your sweet personality that shines through i know in the next few months we re looking at crawling teeth solids and sitting up and i m excited about all of it but for now i am really enjoying your squishy sweet chubby babyness love mom posted in uncategorized leave a comment three months may 27 2014 by thewildrumpus12 dear augustus today you are three months old in the past month you have become more interactive you talk to us a lot in sweet happy baby cooing noises you notice when we enter a room and smile so big it makes us melt you adore your mom dad big brother and dogs gazing on in awe when any of us are around recently you have been batting at toys and will hold them when we place them in your hand you went through a weird thing a couple of weeks ago where you were very clingy and fussy only wanted to be held and would only sleep in my arms for at least two weeks i went to bed at 7 30 every night so you could sleep next to me in my bed it was mildly frustrating because i wanted a little time to myself but i also enjoyed lying there in the dark with your sweet body next to mine me reading my kindle you snoozing away now you sleep in your pack n play for the first couple of hours of the night and then come to sleep with me i keep telling myself i m going to get serious about making you sleep in your own bed but every night i kind of want you next to me there s plenty of time for you to be a big boy i think for now i m enjoying the snuggles i went back to work last week and it was a big transition for us all your first day at daycare you only ate 4oz all day which worried me but by the end of the week you were downing 12oz like a champ you ve also learned to take naps without the swing which is huge you ve started holding your neck steady when we pick you up and you bear weight on your legs you roll over belly to back and are acting like you want to roll the other way too i m proud of you augustus you are a sweet baby i love to show you off you get fussy sometimes when you are gassy or tired or just want someone to hold you but for the most part you are a happy boy these days i m looking forward to having you with us as we enjoy the summer ahead of us love mom posted in uncategorized leave a comment two years may 19 2014 by thewildrumpus12 dear alexander the last time i wrote to you was a short while before your baby brother was born boy have things changed since then you turned two this month you are delightful you are silly sweet loving as well as independent stubborn and fierce you challenge me and reward me every day of my life i have spent the past twelve weeks at home with you while on maternity leave with your brother and these weeks have brought us memories i will cherish my entire life the first part was very difficult as you adjusted to not being an only child anymore and i adjusted to being a mother of two but once we got through that we have become very good buddies i have loved having you around hanging out with me every day you are a happy well adjusted kid you talk a lot you have so many words i wouldn t even want to count them and you learn more every day you mimic us perfectly you have about a thousand inflections for the word mama loving awestruck reproachful inquisitive and many more you sometimes stop playing just to give me a kiss you love choo choo trains going down the slide by yourself daniel tiger fruit snacks your new big boy bed with the dinosaur sheets that say rawr books going for walks in the stroller bubbles dandelions chocolate and dancing you have the funniest facial expressions and the sweetest heart you are a caring big brother who loves to show off his baby to anyone and everyone we had a birthday party for you music themed your whole family came and everyone loves you so much you make me so proud i just can t explain to you how much i am enjoying this age and how much i love you it blows my mind that we ve spent the past two years together the two best years of my life and you likely won t have any memories of them but i will do the remembering for you or at least i ll try i never want to forget how cute you are right now with your flippy hair silly mispronounced words strawkey for strawberry wacker for water and unconditional love for your mama you are my sunshine love mom posted in uncategorized 1 comment two months april 26 2014 by thewildrumpus12 dear augustus oh auggie what to say about the past month it has gone by in the blink of an eye for about a week you kind of forgot how to sleep at night and it made me go a tiny bit crazy but things are back on track now sleep is something i get very stressed out about and i wish i could be cooler about it right now you sleep in your bassinet most of the night and then come to bed with me around 3am i am torn between trying to encourage you to learn to sleep more on your own and just enjoying the snuggles your baby only cuddles up to you in bed for a brief window of time as i have learned anyway this month you have become a little more interactive you ve been making eye contact smiling a lot and talking baby gibberish which i love your smile is just about the best thing in the world and i swear you have chuckled a few times too this past week your dad and i took you out of town for a few days while your brother stayed at grandma s it was really nice to be able to spend one on one time with you you were a trooper i even took you to see a movie alex loves you a lot and always asks me to put you next to him on the couch he introduces you to everyone we see in stores etc if anyone says hi to him he immediately says hi back and then baby and points you out to them you are an extremely sweet boy and i m really savoring the next few weeks before i go back to work love mom posted in uncategorized 1 comment march 30 2014 by thewildrumpus12 oh hey look at me out at a starbucks on a saturday night with a caramel hot chocolate and a laptop writing a blog post with no children to care for since i ve been full time sahming two kids under two for four and a half weeks both andy and i have realized that on the weekends i must get out for a couple of hours for some me time everyone is much happier that way everything is going well for the most part the past week has been our best yet auggie is a pretty easy baby and really the majority of my challenges the past month have been from alex the initial adjustment period was very difficult for him and it broke my heart there was a lot of hitting and screaming and power struggling now there is still a significant amount of that but it has calmed down a bit alex has loved the baby since he met him well actually before that because he always fawned all over my belly but it was hard for him to realize that the baby didn t come with his own mommy and he needed to share pair that with me being tired and recovering from child birth and having less patience than normal and we had some difficult days i remember one day in particular when alex took a handful of dog food and dumped it in the dog water bowl for the third time in a row and i lost it and yelled at him he looked at me and i swear i could read his mind and it said i want my nice mama back mama never yelled at me like that before and i have to admit that while watching him smack the dogs over and over because he knew i was nursing and didn t have any free hands i thought to myself i want my sweet alex back slowly but surely though we are all in a groove auggie sleeps really well lately if i can get him to bed around 8 30 or 9 then he sleeps until 1 30 or 2 30 nurses and goes back to sleep until around 4 he is often very restless after 4 and doesn t necessarily cry but whimpers and thrashes around on my chest while i try to get a bit more rest before our day begins i didn t get sleep like that with alex until he was around 6months old and we had ferberized so i really cannot complain in the sleep department nursing is also going really well auggie is good at it he had a shallow latch at first but time and practice have improved that significantly my supply seems to be better too auggie is a much bigger baby than alex was 2 lb 13 oz larger at birth alex was still a couple of oz short of his birth weight at two weeks while auggie was 7 oz past his birth weight at the same age i m positive auggie has already passed the 10 lb mark and i think that being bigger makes him a more efficient nurser and a better sleeper my main concern about auggie is that the poor kid just lives in chaos there is always a dog barking or a child yelling or a tv playing and he just takes it all in alex s infancy was like a peaceful bubble not so for this kid who gets smacked on the head while eating also if i m being honest i think this has inhibited my bonding with him because i have been so distracted and busy if alex were in daycare even part time and i had time to sit on the couch and just stare at auggie s face all day like i did with alex maybe i d feel better as it is i just try to drink him up during naptime and after bedtime overall i feel much better than i did after having alex my physical recovery was night and day seriously even with asecond degree tear all i kept saying the first week was this is so much better than a c section and in the hospital i was all i can take a shower i can eat whatever i want and i m getting way more sleep one thing i really struggled with the first time around was a total lack of routine and that drove me crazy luckily we have a routine now because alex pretty much demands it and auggie just has to fit into it that has really helped me i am up at 6am every week day to shower and dry my hair before my husband gets ready for work then i pump and get breakfast ready for alex and get everyone s diaper changed and dressed for the day the mornings are long so we usually try to do something run errands go play at the library visit friends etc and then have lunch and go down for a nap i am far more interested in leaving the house than last time if we don t do something every day we are all desperate by the time andy gets home at 4 30 i just figure if the toddler has a meltdown or the newborn cries or i have to nurse so be it at least we got out of the house my marriage is okay doing pretty well only one big fight in the middle of the night which i felt was our norm after alex was born i am not cleared for sex yet but i feel i am still really failing him in the intimacy department but i honestly just can t care for anyone else at this point i need to work on that but we did get out for a date night last weekend and that was good for us i am feeling fat and out of shape and i can t wait to start running soon i am going to do couch to 10k and i want to get my strong fast flexible body back even if that means i never get back in my prepregnancy jeans other than the new baby stuff alex is doing well he is getting big and his language has exploded he speaks all the time and will repeat anything you say and has begun stringing together crude sentences it is so cute to watch him communicate mama blanket book rock night night please mama love you mama dada bye bye car he has been extremely into his books lately i think because it s all starting to click and he can point to things and name them now and he enjoys that overall i am happier than i have been in a long time certainly happier than i was during that pregnancy honestly that was a difficult pregnancy for me and the end was especially tough i am falling short in many ways the house should be cleaner we could all eat more fruits and vegetables and watch less tv and i could do more educational things with alex rather than letting him help me put away laundry in the mornings but i feel that both of my boys are happy at least the majority of the time and honestly i m impressed that i ve been able to keep the plates spinning that i have i am more confident and far less stressed than i was during alex s infancy i think because this time i know exactly how fleeting it is and i know not to get too attached and too stressed about the way anything is because it all changes every few weeks i am proud of myself for what i have proven to be capable of ps i am so sorry i ve gotten so bad at commenting blogs i m not even going to lie and say it will get better soon i only read on my phone and it is difficult to comment on those damn things but i am still reading and following along with your lives posted in 1 3 months 18 24 months alex auggie breastfeeding bringing home baby 2 c section giving birth motherhood newborn sleep vbac 2 comments post navigation older posts search archives archives select month june 2014 may 2014 april 2014 march 2014 february 2014 january 2014 december 2013 november 2013 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 june 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 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