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!

"I'm 3 months old, and I'm sooo HAPPY!:

I put the post off a day so that we could celebrate Amos turning 3 months old today!  All along, I’ve been told that 3 months is the turning point.  They go from being a newborn to a baby!

A Day in the life of Amos:

I generally wake up really hungry for something at about 5:45 am.  After a long night of sleeping, Mom always knows what hits the spot.  I want to stay up and play before Daddy leaves for school, but I can’t ever quite keep my eyes open!

Before I know it, its brighter outside and Mom is waking me up singing some song.  I really love when Mom sings, but at this time it makes me cry because I remember how hungry I am!  After eating breakfast, Mom and I sit and rocking chair and I tell her all about my dreams.  I also stare at the tree above her head while she tells me what we are going to do today.  I practice standing, do quite a bit of spitting up.  Mom cleans me up really nice.  The time passes so quick with Mom reading and singing to me that I hardly realize how tired I’m getting.  Off for Nap #1, as Gramps like to put it.

I sleep and sleep and sleep until I’m more hungry than tired and I let Mom know in my own special way!!  After all the important things are taken care of, eating and diaper change, its time for my bath!  I’m always a little unsure of the water until I get used to it.  I’m pretty sure that I like bath time, but I don’t smile about it yet!  Grammy came for a visit and dressed me up during my bath!

After my bath, I practice sitting and standing!  I’m actually getting pretty good if I do say so myself.  But all of this normally wears me out just in time for Nap #2.

I’m a really good napper, so time passes quickly, and I get really hungry, by 1:00 I’m really for lunch!  After lunch, I normally spend time on my tummy looking at books.  I love picture books!  Now that I can push myself way up on my tummy, I don’t mind tummy time so much!  I can still look around.  Sometimes people come over and visit me.  My cousin Josie and I like to hang out together!  But I have to squeeze in Nap #3 so that I am really well rested for when Daddy gets home.

After second lunch, Daddy is home and ready to play.  He normally takes me outside.  

Apparently I am allergic to the Sun, because I sneeze every time I see it!  

(Here's a picture of me sneezing on Daddy!)

Daddy hopes the more exposure I get, the less allergic I will be!  I love playing with Daddy.  

He does lots of funny things!  

I play with Mommy too, she is just normally the one taking all the pictures of me!

My last nap, Nap #4 is a short one.  I get too tired to stay up any longer, but I don’t wake up hungry either!  Normally I just catch the end of Mommy and Daddy’s dinner and hang out with them in the bumbo!   We play a little, and then I have my dinner!  After Dinner I get to spend time with Mom and Dad together.  They do lots of funny things to try to get me to look at them.  They just don’t understand how enthralling the lamp behind their heads is!  I will give them a quick smile from time to time though so they know that I know they are they!

7:30 is bedtime, so I get my pajamas put on me, listen to Daddy sing, say goodnight to the folks and head for dreamland!

What a good Mirthday!