Thursday, July 2, 2009
I suddenly feel as if we are living in Seattle
Ryan had adopted a crazy new cry. He did it first last night on the way home from grocery shopping. It is very girly sounding, high pitched and just plain funny actually. He did it once last night and a lot this morning. I am not sure why. Do babies cries change? It's kinda weird. He is getting some swing time right now after a good amount of time on the floor. He has a full tummy, a clean diaper and he is good to go for a nap while Mommy gets some things accomplished around here. Poor guy (so I thought), during feeding, he came off the breast for a second and got hit with the milk sprinkler all over his face. Funny thing is though, he started smiling! He loves his mama's milk! Yesterday he laughed for the first time. He is also starting to reach for his toys.
Monday, Ryan and I met Adrienne and her boyfriend's son down at Clearwater Beach. We talked while he played on the playground. He's 3. She got us subs from Publix so we had lunch down there. It was super hot so we stayed a few hours, but then had to go home. We just made it to the car when it started pouring rain. It has basically been pouring since then. We have had flood warnings and tornado watches and some pretty awesome thunder and lightning. Lots of rain! It has cooled things off though so that's been nice. Adrienne wasn't so lucky and got caught in the rain walking home. Ryan was very good at the beach until the end. I need to ask our ped if I can put sunscreen on him because the bottle says 6 months. For now, I just have to make sure he is out of the sun and covered well and so sometimes it makes him hotter. I stripped him down to his diaper for a bit and that helped. Man o man, it was just really hot. We got home and I started working on all his pictures from birth day on. I finally got his frames filled, magnets and toy pic inserts done, his books filled out more, my prego journal completed, his growth charts started, his calender started and now I am scrap booking the rest of his pics. I have been working on it for 3 days now and today I should be totally done. Well, I guess I will never be done (we are picture crazy around here these days), but done with the stack that has been sitting in my closet for a month.
Tuesday I met Angele and Lenore and their baby girls for lunch at Rumba.
Yesterday was my big grocery shopping day. I even sat down and planned meals for the next week from different, very interesting recipes (ever had goat cheese?) and went through the Publix ads to pick sale items. I spent a good amount of time doing all this. Well, it poured all day and I was not brave enough to go to Sam's and Publix with the baby in the rain and a gajillion bags of groceries. So, we decided not to help with the youth group last night and instead went shopping. With Sean's help, it was much easier. I mean we had nothing to eat so we had to do it last night. Our newspaper once a week prints meal ideas and recipes so that is what I used and I am excited about cooking new and different things for dinner every night. I am becoming a real housewife and mom! I was very confused. We put a big box of Dove ice cream bars in our cart at Sam's, but they never made it home with us and we didn't pay for them either. Hhmmm. I guess God said no chocolate for us! I do have quite the addiction and especially so now since I thought we got them.
Well, I guess that's it. Ryan is still getting gifts in the mail, which is nice. :) Oh and I guess I am officially a SAHM. No more working for me, not now any way. I love it! Thank you Lord. :) Every day I get to spend with my little one is a blessing. I can't wait for you Becca. I am excited for you to get that opportunity!
Monday, Ryan and I met Adrienne and her boyfriend's son down at Clearwater Beach. We talked while he played on the playground. He's 3. She got us subs from Publix so we had lunch down there. It was super hot so we stayed a few hours, but then had to go home. We just made it to the car when it started pouring rain. It has basically been pouring since then. We have had flood warnings and tornado watches and some pretty awesome thunder and lightning. Lots of rain! It has cooled things off though so that's been nice. Adrienne wasn't so lucky and got caught in the rain walking home. Ryan was very good at the beach until the end. I need to ask our ped if I can put sunscreen on him because the bottle says 6 months. For now, I just have to make sure he is out of the sun and covered well and so sometimes it makes him hotter. I stripped him down to his diaper for a bit and that helped. Man o man, it was just really hot. We got home and I started working on all his pictures from birth day on. I finally got his frames filled, magnets and toy pic inserts done, his books filled out more, my prego journal completed, his growth charts started, his calender started and now I am scrap booking the rest of his pics. I have been working on it for 3 days now and today I should be totally done. Well, I guess I will never be done (we are picture crazy around here these days), but done with the stack that has been sitting in my closet for a month.
Tuesday I met Angele and Lenore and their baby girls for lunch at Rumba.
Yesterday was my big grocery shopping day. I even sat down and planned meals for the next week from different, very interesting recipes (ever had goat cheese?) and went through the Publix ads to pick sale items. I spent a good amount of time doing all this. Well, it poured all day and I was not brave enough to go to Sam's and Publix with the baby in the rain and a gajillion bags of groceries. So, we decided not to help with the youth group last night and instead went shopping. With Sean's help, it was much easier. I mean we had nothing to eat so we had to do it last night. Our newspaper once a week prints meal ideas and recipes so that is what I used and I am excited about cooking new and different things for dinner every night. I am becoming a real housewife and mom! I was very confused. We put a big box of Dove ice cream bars in our cart at Sam's, but they never made it home with us and we didn't pay for them either. Hhmmm. I guess God said no chocolate for us! I do have quite the addiction and especially so now since I thought we got them.
Well, I guess that's it. Ryan is still getting gifts in the mail, which is nice. :) Oh and I guess I am officially a SAHM. No more working for me, not now any way. I love it! Thank you Lord. :) Every day I get to spend with my little one is a blessing. I can't wait for you Becca. I am excited for you to get that opportunity!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Weekend Times
This is going to be a quick post because I have to get in the shower. I am meeting Adrienne soon for a play date and Ryan's swing batteries died so I am just buying time and manually swinging him as I type! :) He is going to notice soon, I'm sure!
Friday was the usual - cleaning and Capogna's with the family.
Saturday Sean and I (and Ryan of course) were lazy around the house most of the day. When we did finally get motivated, we went to downtown Dunedin. There was an arts and crafts festival. We ran into some old friends from high school. Also, even more exciting, there was a booth with handmade clay jewelry pieces with names carved in them. The boxes were alphabetized and you could search for your name. He (the artist) had really odd names so we figured, hey he could actually have my name and guess what HE DID! Sean found it within 5 seconds. I was so excited and I know that sounds really silly, but my name is so uncommon and I have never seen it on anything and ya know growing up it is always fun to find your name on key chains and little souvenirs. So we got my name, Sean's and Ryan's. Then we sat by the water and had a drink and rented Bedtime Stories, which was really cute.
Yesterday was church of course. It was a little hard to concentrate on the message because I was nursing in the way back corner of the sanctuary and then Ryan had to be changed so we left and did that in the nursery and then I had to pee twice, so you get the picture. We got bits and pieces of it.
We met Kari down at Sand Key Beach yesterday afternoon, cooked chicken on the grill at home last night and went for a long walk.
Ryan got a really nice toy box from my aunt and uncle.
Ryan is 2 months old today! Oh yah, Saturday he rolled over from tummy to back. I didn't see it, but Sean got to! How exciting. It is so funny how things like this are so thrilling to parents when it is your own child. I remember when people would tell me you know "Little Johnny put his fingers in his mouth for the first time" and I would be like oh hooray all sarcastic. Now I get it!!!!!!!!!
Happy Monday!?
Friday was the usual - cleaning and Capogna's with the family.
Saturday Sean and I (and Ryan of course) were lazy around the house most of the day. When we did finally get motivated, we went to downtown Dunedin. There was an arts and crafts festival. We ran into some old friends from high school. Also, even more exciting, there was a booth with handmade clay jewelry pieces with names carved in them. The boxes were alphabetized and you could search for your name. He (the artist) had really odd names so we figured, hey he could actually have my name and guess what HE DID! Sean found it within 5 seconds. I was so excited and I know that sounds really silly, but my name is so uncommon and I have never seen it on anything and ya know growing up it is always fun to find your name on key chains and little souvenirs. So we got my name, Sean's and Ryan's. Then we sat by the water and had a drink and rented Bedtime Stories, which was really cute.
Yesterday was church of course. It was a little hard to concentrate on the message because I was nursing in the way back corner of the sanctuary and then Ryan had to be changed so we left and did that in the nursery and then I had to pee twice, so you get the picture. We got bits and pieces of it.
We met Kari down at Sand Key Beach yesterday afternoon, cooked chicken on the grill at home last night and went for a long walk.
Ryan got a really nice toy box from my aunt and uncle.
Ryan is 2 months old today! Oh yah, Saturday he rolled over from tummy to back. I didn't see it, but Sean got to! How exciting. It is so funny how things like this are so thrilling to parents when it is your own child. I remember when people would tell me you know "Little Johnny put his fingers in his mouth for the first time" and I would be like oh hooray all sarcastic. Now I get it!!!!!!!!!
Happy Monday!?
Friday, June 26, 2009
Shame, Shame, Shame
Sean really enjoyed his birthday. I surprised him and brought Starbucks to him at work. Then I came home and baked him a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and confetti. We went to Arigato's with the family for dinner. I gave him 3 shirts. I know he is never too thrilled about getting clothes (he really wanted a helicopter), but he needed some new stuff. I have to keep my man looking good! :) It was for me really, not him!
Wednesday was his day off. He worked on Dad's house for a little bit, while Ryan and I went grocery shopping. I had my WORST mommy moment yet. You see, Ryan was screaming in Publix and multiple atttepts at pacifying the wailing did not work, so I snatched him out of his carseat and struggled with carrying him and guiding our grocery cart with Allie's 40 pound bag of dog food around the store. So as we are chcking out, I place Ryan back in his seat so I can write a check. Meanwhile, the bagger is trying to put his paci in his mouth and I am getting irritated because I am sure his hands are germ ridden and he is going to give my son swine flu. The bagger helps us with getting the groceries into my trunk, I not so gracefully get Ryan into the car (those seats are heavy and awkward and it is almost impossible to be gentle with them!) and we head home with a pit stop to Dad's so I can give Sean a slice of cake to give to the Asian neighbors. They used to bring us random things when we lived with Dad. This day they brought over a frozen fish, 2 Fanta oranges and a bottle of soy milk. We had to repay them with something so I got them a slice of chocolate cake. Any way, then we get back to the house. I bring Ryan inside and start to get him out of his seat when lo and behold I notice he was NOT strapped in that whole time. I felt like I should be arrested and my son taken away from me for doing such a careless thing and risking his life like that. I praised God for keeping him safe, hugged and kissed him all over and apologized for being so horrible. Lesson learned.
We made homemade lasagna for our Pastor and his wife and then went to school so Sean could get more stuff done for enrolling. He is in the process of getting his transcripts from high school and 2 colleges he attended sent to SPC and filling out more VA paperwork.
We had youth group for the high schoolers that evening.
Ryan was weighed and measure yesterday at an appointment we had to go to. He is 11 lb 8 oz now and 25 inches long!!!!! Yes, 25 inches!!!! In one of my baby books it says a child is not 25 inches until he is 5 months old and Ryan is 8 weeks! They said he is REALLY tall, so tall that the weight/height ratio is really off and while they do not think he is actually underweight because he looks healthy and has plenty of wet and poopy diapers and eats enough times a day, they said I should try to nurse him even more because he is underweight. Maybe we have a future baller! I was weighed and measured and my iron level was taken and everything checked out good. Well, I don't really like where my weight is at, but my pants fit again, so that's good. I just need to tighten these flabs....I mean abs.
Last night, we took the homemade lasagna and salad over to Pastor Trail's and Faithlyn's and ate dinner with them. She is doing better. She has to be laid up for 3 months while her heel heals and then it takes a year to completely get back to normal. We enjoyed our evening with them.
This morning we have gotten a lot of rain and I have been enjoying that. The Today Show dedicated the whole morning to Michael Jackson's passing. Friday is cleaning day for me.
Enjoy the weekend!
Wednesday was his day off. He worked on Dad's house for a little bit, while Ryan and I went grocery shopping. I had my WORST mommy moment yet. You see, Ryan was screaming in Publix and multiple atttepts at pacifying the wailing did not work, so I snatched him out of his carseat and struggled with carrying him and guiding our grocery cart with Allie's 40 pound bag of dog food around the store. So as we are chcking out, I place Ryan back in his seat so I can write a check. Meanwhile, the bagger is trying to put his paci in his mouth and I am getting irritated because I am sure his hands are germ ridden and he is going to give my son swine flu. The bagger helps us with getting the groceries into my trunk, I not so gracefully get Ryan into the car (those seats are heavy and awkward and it is almost impossible to be gentle with them!) and we head home with a pit stop to Dad's so I can give Sean a slice of cake to give to the Asian neighbors. They used to bring us random things when we lived with Dad. This day they brought over a frozen fish, 2 Fanta oranges and a bottle of soy milk. We had to repay them with something so I got them a slice of chocolate cake. Any way, then we get back to the house. I bring Ryan inside and start to get him out of his seat when lo and behold I notice he was NOT strapped in that whole time. I felt like I should be arrested and my son taken away from me for doing such a careless thing and risking his life like that. I praised God for keeping him safe, hugged and kissed him all over and apologized for being so horrible. Lesson learned.
We made homemade lasagna for our Pastor and his wife and then went to school so Sean could get more stuff done for enrolling. He is in the process of getting his transcripts from high school and 2 colleges he attended sent to SPC and filling out more VA paperwork.
We had youth group for the high schoolers that evening.
Ryan was weighed and measure yesterday at an appointment we had to go to. He is 11 lb 8 oz now and 25 inches long!!!!! Yes, 25 inches!!!! In one of my baby books it says a child is not 25 inches until he is 5 months old and Ryan is 8 weeks! They said he is REALLY tall, so tall that the weight/height ratio is really off and while they do not think he is actually underweight because he looks healthy and has plenty of wet and poopy diapers and eats enough times a day, they said I should try to nurse him even more because he is underweight. Maybe we have a future baller! I was weighed and measured and my iron level was taken and everything checked out good. Well, I don't really like where my weight is at, but my pants fit again, so that's good. I just need to tighten these flabs....I mean abs.
Last night, we took the homemade lasagna and salad over to Pastor Trail's and Faithlyn's and ate dinner with them. She is doing better. She has to be laid up for 3 months while her heel heals and then it takes a year to completely get back to normal. We enjoyed our evening with them.
This morning we have gotten a lot of rain and I have been enjoying that. The Today Show dedicated the whole morning to Michael Jackson's passing. Friday is cleaning day for me.
Enjoy the weekend!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
My husband's first Father's Day
Today is Sean's birthday!!! He is 29!!!!! Old man!!! Last year before turning the big 3-0. He is working now, but we will be doing stuff for him this evening. More on that later.
We just got a huge box delivered to us from FedEx. I could barely bring it in the house. I wanna know what it is, but I will wait for Sean, mostly cuz it is just too big. I think it's our toy box b/c I saw on our registry that someone purchased it a couple of weeks ago. We STILL haven't gotten our slipcover or other car mirror. Oh well!
So Friday I cleaned the house and we went to Capogna's with the family, OF COURSE!
Saturday Sean had to work. We went to the movies after that and yes we were brave enough to take Ryan! I really didn't even think about it. I just figured it would be easy and he would be a good baby and I was right! We saw The Proposal. It is so cute! I recommend it. He slept almost the whole time and when he started to stir and look for "next meal" I snatched him up out of his car seat and nursed him while we watched the rest of the movie. I am certainly not as timid about feeding him anymore. It is a dark movie theater, but a month ago I probably wouldn't have even done that.
Sunday was a HUGE day! Ryan was dedicated at our church along with about 3 or 4 other babies. My dad, grandparents, aunt and cousin came and we were thrilled about that. They have never been to our church (well, my aunt once, but not with us and when it was a different church). We had a guest Pastor that day, which was a little disappointing because I wanted our family to hear our Pastor, but I guess that is not what God had planned for us. Grandma said, "Wow they clap a lot and are loud", meaning our congregation. We are a lively bunch. My family was certainly not used to our church. They have always gone to a much more traditional church. Any way, I hope they enjoyed it, but more importantly I was happy they were there to support us as we dedicate ourselves as parents to raise Ryan in a Christian home, teaching him about God, being examples of God's children and helping him along his journey of knowing and loving the Lord. Everyone there also has the responsibility of helping us with Ryan. It was really quite amazing and special. They posted a picture of him on the big screen and Pastor Trail had such sweet things to say. He talked about how Ryan is a little miracle baby and the difficulties we went through with a tough pregnancy, the bed rest and the hospital (it was hard to maintain composure, I really wanted to cry!). He also said how Sean is such an amazing husband and makes the rest of them look bad, but he is an example of a wonderful husband and father. He then asked what was unique about Ryan and Daddy said "He is already a baseball fan, skater, concertgoer, moviegoer", etc. cuz of all the places we have taken him already. He is the man around town! After that, other church members came to congratulate us and give us hugs, kisses and support. Becca, I am so excited that you guys get to do this with Kenzie and just know we are here to support you and Joel with your little one's walk with Christ and you guys as examples of Jesus. Dad gave us one of those bears that has the sounds of the womb for Ryan. I guess I had one when I was little. We turned it on and Ryan grinned from ear to ear like "I have been looking for that place, take me back!" We attached it to the bassinet and put it on to help him sleep at night. I have to say it puts me and Sean to sleep, too. I guess you're never too old to be soothed by womb sounds!!! HA! Grandparents gave him a teddy bear, too, and one of our friends from church gave him outfits, a hat and a toy. Oh, before church, we made homemade banana bread (yums!) and gave Sean his Dad's day gift. Sounds weird, but he was super excited.......I renewed his tags, which has to be done on his birthday, but I got him a USMC license plate. He was thrilled. He has wanted one for 3 years now.
Any way, after church we took Sean to the FL Aquarium. It was free for Dads and of course Ryan was free so we only had to pay for me, not a bad deal. We had never been before and enjoyed it. We took pics, I will post later. Ryan slept in his Bjorn the whole time. After the aquarium we went to my uncle and aunt's for a cookout with the rest of the family. They live right on the water and it is just gorgeous to be there and they have a lovely house. Ryan started out good, but ended up being very fussy. He had, had a BIG day though.
Yesterday Faithlyn (our Pastor's wife) had surgery because she broke her heel so after Sean got off work we drove all the way down to Pasadena to bring them and their kids dinner and to visit. She was in a lot of pain and a little out of it from the pain meds. She hopefully will be going home today. We prayed about whether we should bring Ryan in the hospital because of his age and not being vaccinated, but God said it was OK. We still made it a very quick visit and I was nervous and the nurses gave us "the look" like "why are you bringing a baby in here?"
Well, I have a lot to do today to get ready for Sean's big day. He has had 2 days just for him within the last 3 days. Lucky! He deserves it though and he said he has always dreamed of being a father, one of the only things he was certain of in his life and he had always looked forward to being able to celebrate Father's Day and I hope we made it extra special for him. :)
We just got a huge box delivered to us from FedEx. I could barely bring it in the house. I wanna know what it is, but I will wait for Sean, mostly cuz it is just too big. I think it's our toy box b/c I saw on our registry that someone purchased it a couple of weeks ago. We STILL haven't gotten our slipcover or other car mirror. Oh well!
So Friday I cleaned the house and we went to Capogna's with the family, OF COURSE!
Saturday Sean had to work. We went to the movies after that and yes we were brave enough to take Ryan! I really didn't even think about it. I just figured it would be easy and he would be a good baby and I was right! We saw The Proposal. It is so cute! I recommend it. He slept almost the whole time and when he started to stir and look for "next meal" I snatched him up out of his car seat and nursed him while we watched the rest of the movie. I am certainly not as timid about feeding him anymore. It is a dark movie theater, but a month ago I probably wouldn't have even done that.
Sunday was a HUGE day! Ryan was dedicated at our church along with about 3 or 4 other babies. My dad, grandparents, aunt and cousin came and we were thrilled about that. They have never been to our church (well, my aunt once, but not with us and when it was a different church). We had a guest Pastor that day, which was a little disappointing because I wanted our family to hear our Pastor, but I guess that is not what God had planned for us. Grandma said, "Wow they clap a lot and are loud", meaning our congregation. We are a lively bunch. My family was certainly not used to our church. They have always gone to a much more traditional church. Any way, I hope they enjoyed it, but more importantly I was happy they were there to support us as we dedicate ourselves as parents to raise Ryan in a Christian home, teaching him about God, being examples of God's children and helping him along his journey of knowing and loving the Lord. Everyone there also has the responsibility of helping us with Ryan. It was really quite amazing and special. They posted a picture of him on the big screen and Pastor Trail had such sweet things to say. He talked about how Ryan is a little miracle baby and the difficulties we went through with a tough pregnancy, the bed rest and the hospital (it was hard to maintain composure, I really wanted to cry!). He also said how Sean is such an amazing husband and makes the rest of them look bad, but he is an example of a wonderful husband and father. He then asked what was unique about Ryan and Daddy said "He is already a baseball fan, skater, concertgoer, moviegoer", etc. cuz of all the places we have taken him already. He is the man around town! After that, other church members came to congratulate us and give us hugs, kisses and support. Becca, I am so excited that you guys get to do this with Kenzie and just know we are here to support you and Joel with your little one's walk with Christ and you guys as examples of Jesus. Dad gave us one of those bears that has the sounds of the womb for Ryan. I guess I had one when I was little. We turned it on and Ryan grinned from ear to ear like "I have been looking for that place, take me back!" We attached it to the bassinet and put it on to help him sleep at night. I have to say it puts me and Sean to sleep, too. I guess you're never too old to be soothed by womb sounds!!! HA! Grandparents gave him a teddy bear, too, and one of our friends from church gave him outfits, a hat and a toy. Oh, before church, we made homemade banana bread (yums!) and gave Sean his Dad's day gift. Sounds weird, but he was super excited.......I renewed his tags, which has to be done on his birthday, but I got him a USMC license plate. He was thrilled. He has wanted one for 3 years now.
Any way, after church we took Sean to the FL Aquarium. It was free for Dads and of course Ryan was free so we only had to pay for me, not a bad deal. We had never been before and enjoyed it. We took pics, I will post later. Ryan slept in his Bjorn the whole time. After the aquarium we went to my uncle and aunt's for a cookout with the rest of the family. They live right on the water and it is just gorgeous to be there and they have a lovely house. Ryan started out good, but ended up being very fussy. He had, had a BIG day though.
Yesterday Faithlyn (our Pastor's wife) had surgery because she broke her heel so after Sean got off work we drove all the way down to Pasadena to bring them and their kids dinner and to visit. She was in a lot of pain and a little out of it from the pain meds. She hopefully will be going home today. We prayed about whether we should bring Ryan in the hospital because of his age and not being vaccinated, but God said it was OK. We still made it a very quick visit and I was nervous and the nurses gave us "the look" like "why are you bringing a baby in here?"
Well, I have a lot to do today to get ready for Sean's big day. He has had 2 days just for him within the last 3 days. Lucky! He deserves it though and he said he has always dreamed of being a father, one of the only things he was certain of in his life and he had always looked forward to being able to celebrate Father's Day and I hope we made it extra special for him. :)
Friday, June 19, 2009
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