My Little Pumpkin

For months I've been coming up with all these cheesy halloween costumes for Amos.  When it came down to it, I decided to take the easy road for this first Halloween.  I'll save all my other ideas for years down the road when I he'll really appreciate it!

Meet My Little Pumpkin...

Thanks Grandma for the new black pants!

"Be Thou My Vision"

Right after Amos was born, we chose “Be Thou My Vision” as his lullaby that we would sing to him before naps and bedtime.  This morning, as we were playing in his room, I started singing it to him with a big smile on my face.  He looked up at me and started smiling and “singing” right along.  I think he is going to take after his Daddy and be a singer!

Pirate Monkey and Bananas????

It’s been a crazy week, and I thought we needed some crazy material to remember it by.

Tuesday night, Amos discovered he had a voice!  He’s made lots of noises before this point, but on the way to friends house, and back, we were entertained with a constant, “Uh…uh…uhh,” from the back seat.  Our giggles from the front seat I’m sure egged on his nice, baby bass voice.  Although his favorite place to “talk” is in his car seat, we caught some “talking” on camera at home!

Thursday, Amos was a trooper!  Rachel Eden and I hit the road and headed to Springfield for some shopping!  I learned that Amos no longer sleeps in his car seat!  Not even during an hour-long drive home that is right in the middle of naptime!  That should make our 3-hour drive to Lebanon this weekend interesting!

Friday brought an unwelcomed visitor….the growth spurt!  Just as I was thought we were headed to a 3-½ hour schedule, Amos had other ideas.  Those ideas involved eating every 2 hours and waking up in the middle of the night!  It took three LONG days, but we are on the other side of it and back to sleeping through the night and 2 hour naps! Yea!

During the growth spurt, Amos kicked his rolling into gear.  He’s been at it off and on for about 3 weeks!  However, now I can barely put the kid on his stomach without him kicking/rolling onto his back!  Jason had to hold him down so that I could get the video camera to catch this roll!  We’re still working on rolling back over!

Amos had lots of visitors this week.  He got to see Nanny, Grammy, Gramps, Uncle Joe, Aunt Amelia and Cousin Josie!

The cousins!

Cute Rainbow Josie!

         

 

We love each other!

Here I am with Gramps!

I'm starting to chew on things...like my fingers!

Yep!

I'm getting better at sitting!

And I'm such a good boy in my exesaucer!

If you look very closely, you will see that...

...I'm standing all by myself.  That's right, just leaning on my exesaucer!

Camping Top 10

"I'm serious about camping."

The highlight from week 15 was camping!  Amos was born to camp and Jason is thrilled!  Ok, maybe it is a little too early to tell, but with the first camping trip dubbed a success, I see many more like it in Amos’ future!

Top Ten of Camping

10.  I didn't have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night!  Always a plus while camping!

9.  Smores-in-a-Can…thank you Sarah Corcoran!

8.  Cheap Campsite!

7.  The only essential forgotten was the headlamp (even after going to Wal-mart to get batteries for it.) But luckily we had nice friends who loaned us one of theirs!

6. Amos open his eyes up fully while outside.  I don’t think that had happened yet!

5.  Uh oh! I found out Amos looks adorable in hats! He had better watch out...

                

 

               

 

4.  Mom had an enjoyable second camping day, even going on 3 hours of sleep!

3. Amos slept through the night!

Good Morning, Mr. Red Nose!

2.  The weather was A-MAZING!

               

 

1.  Jason Coffee in the morning and quality time with friends can’t be beat!

I don’t think I would have done much differently as far as Amos goes!  He either took a nap strapped on to me, or in his little pop-up tent.  And the smoke really didn’t seem to bother him much.  In the morning, his nose was just about as red as could be, but he was smiling, so I don’t think he minded too much!  I took a lot of things that I didn’t use, but it is always best to be prepared!  A baby that doesn’t “move” yet isn’t too hard to camp with!

Here's a couple other pictures I snapped throughout the week!  

                

           
 

Change...Week 14

This past weekend, Amos and I got the chance to hang out with Grammy, Aunt Amelia, and cousin Josie!  On the way home, I was talking to Amelia about how weird it is that in some ways, babies change everything, but in others it’s like nothing changed!  We can still go to a craft fair and hang out with babies.  Getting around just becomes a little more difficult!  While there, we successfully got on and off a bus with two strollers, two diaper bags, one car seat, and two babies…twice!  I think you just have to decide what’s important and make it happen!  Sure, Amos naps a lot better at home, (I don’t think the kid slept more than 1 hour total on Saturday) but he still slept that night and just got a little cranky at the end of the day – maybe a lot cranky!  But it wasn’t the end of the world!  He’s pretty resilient.  Sure I don’t want to do that everyday.  We just have to decide when it’s worth it! 

 

Mommy and Amos at the Craft Fair

Things have changed – the amount of laundry, using the ice-maker during naps, smelling like spit-up – but for the most part, Jason and I just choose what we want to keep the same, and make sure we find a way to do it with Amos.  For example, we’re going camping this weekend, and we are excited about it!  I’ll tell you how it goes next week!

But I will tell you someone who is constantly changing… this guy! He loves standing, is getting good at sitting up, shaking his rattle, and just started hanging out in his exesaucer!  He even realized he could stand up all on his own in it!

 Big news this week, he’s rolling over…like crazy!  We have now rigged up the blanket to act sort of like a seatbelt across the little guy’s tush to keep him from squirming up and tipping himself over.  He does not like to sleep on his back, and wasn’t sleeping on his back.  However, last night, we got a solid 10 hours without a peep! Yay!

Also, we have major spit-up and major hair loss going on (and not just Amos)!  Is it normal for me to be losing tons of hair?  I have no fear of going bald anytime soon, but man, I am really shedding.

Dad’s still working hard at school and riding the scooter hot rod to work!  He’s looking forward to a few upcoming short weeks as he ends the first quarter at the middle school! 

Amos’ favorite thing this week…standing on Daddy’s stomach (and Mom’s)!  It’s a sure fire way to get a BIG SMILE!

 

 

Check out these crazy faces! I had trouble picking just one!