Random pics of the week

We had a play date with Miss Sophia Santoro. So happy these two are only nine months apart. It feels like forever right now but in a few years it won't matter.

Took him for his first walk in the baby bjorn and he fell asleep, it's a keeper!

Pretty much the best aunt on the planet!

Seriously people! How am I ever going to say no to this face?!?

Caiden's 2-month check-up

Caiden had his 2-month check-up this afternoon. He did very good in the beginning, especially for the pretty blond nurse. When Dr. Roberts came in and started inspecting his body he got a little irritated though. Then he became really pissed off when he had to get four, yes FOUR shots. He pretty much screamed bloody murder until a few minutes after he got them and we were able to calm him down. Wow, and we have to go through that 2 more times, at both his 4 and 6-month appointments, lovely.

He has a few things we're still trying to work on. The Dr. said his eczema is still pretty bad so we need to keep applying the Vaseline or Aquaphor. Pretty much keep him lathered up all the time, which means we have Vaseline all over everything all the time; him, me, my clothes, his clothes, blankets, his car seat...everywhere. My elbows are sliding off my knees as I type this right now. We also discovered he has a stork bite on the back of his neck. We thought it was just a dry patch but nope. And, since I know some people will call and ask what it is, here is medicaldictionary.com's definition:

A stork bite is a common type of birthmark seen in a newborn. It is most often temporary. Stork bites occur in about one third of all newborns. A stork bite is due to a stretching (dilation) of certain blood vessels. It may become darker when the child cries or the temperature changes. It may fade when you push on it.

He weighed 14 lbs. 0.5 oz. (93rd percentile), 24.25 inches long (89th percentile) and his head is in the 65th percentile (yes, I would have thought that last one was a little higher, too ;). All in all another great appointment and we have a big, happy, healthy baby.

I love this picture, it looks like Caiden is saying, "Daddy why are you letting this man mess with me so much, HELP already!"

Hands to the face

Caiden has found his hands. Well just his right hand so far. Yesterday I started noticing he'll put it in front of his face and stare at it until he goes cross-eyed. I got a few pics of it today.

Smiley baby

Warning: this post is picture heavy. We had an amazing visit with my Aunt Sue who flew in from Nebraska this week. We did lots of shopping for Caiden's room and she was able to spend some quality time with us. Thanks for everything Aunt Sue!

At the Catamaran Resort looking at the ducks.

He is smiling like crazy this week. I couldn't help but post this succession of ridiculously cute pictures of great aunt Sue making him smile.

Bottle time

We introduced the bottle this week, at 6 weeks! The first night was pretty good. He played around with it for about 10 minutes, but then he drank all 4 ounces! Marc was so excited and happy, he came into our room with a big grin on his face saying how happy he was that he was able to feed our baby. It was so cute. As relieved as I was that he took the bottle and that I now get out of one of the feedings it was still a little sad to see him taking the bottle and not needing me. But really, it's so nice that I can go to bed a little early and Marc can take care of putting him down in his crib for the night. Now I just need to go to bed instead of sitting there watching him eat the bottle, haha. 

The second night was a little different. It's the one right before we go to bed, between 9-10pm. Caiden is sleeping during this time so it's supposed to be a "dream feed", where he doesn't really wake up and just starts sucking. But that night he did not want to eat and just slept. Marc gave up and tried about 30 minutes later and viola! Just had to wait till he was ready I guess.

Overall I think it's totally going to work, we've used a couple different bottles because we wanted to do 5 oz instead of 4 and the first bottle we were using was only a 4 oz bottle. But he doesn't really seem to care about the nipple shape or bottle or whatever so that's good. I still have to pump before I go to bed otherwise I'm in some pain by the time he wakes around 3am to eat again but that's okay.

It's also the start of the NFL season which means Sundays are now reserved for the couch and the tv. Marc's team, the Washington Redskins played the Saints and they won, 40-32!

Marc's parents in town

We've had a full house this past week and lots and lots of pictures have been taken. Marc's mom has been extremely helpful, like letting me sleep in till 10 and pretty much just holding Caiden all the time while I can do anything I want, well, as long as it doesn't last longer than 3 hours. The minute he realizes he's hungry he lets us all know. A couple times Marc's mom called us, "When are you coming home, he hasn't stopped crying in 20 minutes and he's eating my arm?" Poor Grandma. But we were able to go on our first date night, just the two of us. I was able to get my hair done, all kinds of stuff we're going to miss doing once they leave. Luckily we still have my sister!

His eczema has got so much better. We pretty much lathered his face in Vaseline for 5 days and now you can't even tell. I can't say the thrush has got much better...stay tuned for one more week, if it still hasn't changed then I may try something called gentian violet, it's an over the counter topical antiseptic. A lot of the mommy blogs swear by it, the only problem...it turns EVERYTHING purple that it touches, including his mouth so you have to be very careful you don't get it everywhere.

Somehow whenever he is sleeping on Aunt Sara he is in the cutest positions.

Grandpa Mashhoun and Caiden sleeping. Pretty much the same thing my Dad did with Caiden when he was here...haha.

We were able to go to our yoga class on Tuesday night, the first time back since I gave birth. So many people in the class that I've never talked to remembered me and were asking about the baby.

Doing some stretches with Caiden before class. His face looks so funny in this picture I couldn't help post it.

Grandma and Grandpa Mashhoun

And of course...GO BIG RED! His first Husker game, broke out the red!

He's finally starting to be entertained by his activity gym. Yes, he's asleep here but before he was entertaining himself for a good 30 minutes.

We mailed out his announcements last week and here they are. Marc and Sara took the pictures, amateur hour over here but we just weren't on top of it the first few weeks at home and the last thing I was thinking about was getting his newborn photos taken. I wish we had a photographer friend that lived here, would have made it much easier.