Brightness

So, Maddux has now been sleeping through the night in his crib for a week. PRAISE THE LORD!! Now that doesn't mean that I get any more sleep.... we have a video monitor, worth the money by the way, and everytime he coughs, grunts, moves, rubs his eyes I wake up. But as the week has gone by it get's less and less. I am just thankful that he is doing so good in his crib. My friend Shari told me, "he will tell you when he's ready for his crib", and sure enough she was right! :) It is a HUGE blessing! We put him down at 8pm and he sleeps until around 5:30 or 6:30a.m. which I think is really good. Then Andy will feed him and bring him to bed with me and he will sleep for about another hour to two. And I get the snuggles!! :) Ahhhh, the pleasure of some sleep! Tonight our next big test. We are leaving Maddux with his Grammie (my mom) while we go out to dinner with some friends. She is coming over, but it is still hard to leave him in someone else's care you know? I...

So as far as news goes on our family, there is just little to talk about and all of it is about Maddux. He is getting BIG! On the 28th of this month he will be 6 months old, my how the time did fly! He is healty and growing, almost out of his 3-6 months clothes, which is pretty sad. 6-9 month clothing seems so big, but his other clothes are getting so tight, I think it's time for me to switch up. A sad day for a Mommy!! :) He has been eating rice cereal for almost a month now and we started vegetables earlier this month too. He didn't like the texture of rice cereal at first, but now grunts everytime you don't feed him fast enough. We started with peas and he seemed to like them ok until he got diarreah. I don't know if he had a virus or if he was allergic but let's just say after one day of changing 20 VERY poopy diapers and not having my son feel good for 3, I am NOT about to start him with peas again. We have tried sweet potatoes and squash. Our next step is Carr...

So I guess this week is a week for firsts in our family. Thursday Maddux got shots again, booo. He did ok, screamed like a stuck pig, but hello they give them 3 shots, it really sucks for them and they don't understand. It was harder on me this time than the last. But that wasn't our week of firsts that was just a side note. :) It started off on Friday Maddux ran his first real fever, 99.5, that's pretty high for the little guy who runs around 97.6! So that made me sad. But than Friday night we had our first bites of rice cereal. He took 2 bites then wouldn't open his mouth at all for anymore. In fact, he pursed his lips together and wouldn't open them until the bottle came! This could be a harder transition than I thought it would be! :) Then today, Saturday, he had his first hair cut. Yes at 4 months old he needed a hair cut. So we went to Cookie Cutters and they did AMAZING! They are a little pricey, $16.95 for a hair cut with a certificate is a little high but i...

So my baby is getting big. He turned 3 months the 28th and although I am enjoying the 7-8 hours of sleep we are getting now (still not uninterupted) I miss those newborn snuggles. Why do they have to grow up so fast? It kinda sucks. Oh well. He is now grabbing things (mostly with his left hand) and kicking the crap out of everything! It's funny cause he concentrates so hard on kicking and than just goes to town. He is SO precious to us. Those days that I don't think I can be a mom anymore, because lack of sleep, selfishness, whatever, he just smiles or laughs at me and I realize I can do it. At least until his Daddy gets home and I get a break. Thanks Andy for giving me an hour to myself! :) Things are good. Still struggling with expectations. With the holidays coming up everyone has their own expectations. It's hard to meet everyone's "needs" and still be a mommy and a wife. But I'm working on it. I will probably always work on it. My friend Shari told me...

So this is my first official blog on this interesting website. All my friends have blogs so I thought I had better too, although I have no idea how to work it or if I will even be able to keep up with it! :) So you might wonder why I chose the name Brightness as my title. Last night as I was reading I came across an old verse (of course they are all old, ha) that struck a chord with me. "Let your light shine before others that they may see you good deeds and glorify your father in heaven." Now I don't want people to see "good deeds" but I do want to shine. I was to be a beacon in this dark world, so I chose the name brightness. Maybe I'll be able to live up to that title, maybe not. :) So I guess I just talk about my life and my thoughts now... My son (who will be 3 months on Friday) is regressing back to old habits in his sleeping area. We were up to 6-7 hours straight of night sleep but last night he woke up at 2:30 (yes a.m.) and thrashed about for half a...