Almost 8 Months Old Already

Loves his baths!

Crazy how time starts flying by once you have a child. The first few months dragged on and on but now we can't get them to slow down. Baby boy is quite active these days. Crawling like a champ and pulling himself up to stand on everything. He even stands up on his own sometimes if he's watching his baby channel on TV. He goes 50 MPH through the house in his walker, and even the dog knows to stay out of his way. His "ahhhhhhhhhhh's" are turning into more babbling sounds now. We try to pick out a "mama" or "dada", but it will be beter once he says them intentionally.

Jonny finally has a few weekends off from his race schedule and Ollie and I are taking full advantage of him being home. This week we finally started putting him in his crib in his own room. Went cold turkey from him sleeping with me every night. I dont know who's more sad, him or me. I loved cuddling him every night and put off making the switch for way too long. His separation anxiety was getting worse by the day. He'd cry every time I walked in the room just for attention. Yes, after years of saying I'd be the stickler, he labeled me the softy. It was clear it was time to make the big change. Plus, you never sleep well having a squirmy baby next to you all night. Let's just say Jonny is thrilled to be getting his bed back. We started the process Monday night and each day gets consecutively better. He's no where near as cranky during the day, he's finally getting a good rest. He's only been waking up twice a night now rather than 5 times. He's eating less and less overnight also. I felt like such a bad mom for letting him sleep with me so long, especially seeing how well he's accepting this change. I think it was harder for me to realize it was time than it was for him to adjust. We got him a crib soother from Babies R Us. A whopping $50 bucks for lights and lullabies. But hey, if it helps (which it has), it's priceless. We got one that has a remote so we can shut it off or turn it on without him seeing us enter his room. When turned on, it gets quieter and dimmer every ten minutes until it eases it's self off. We were originally just going to go with a light up mobile, I'm so glad we went this route instead.

Mr.Purple Lip 7/14

Two weeks ago we had a little scare while Jonny was out of town. I stayed with my mom for the weekend since she's so much closer by now. Ollie woke up from a very late nap one afternoon and we noticed his lips were turning blue. We took him down to John C. Lincoln's children's ER, Mendy's Place. I'm not usually so fast to go to the ER, but since we were 30 minutes away and didn't know what was going on (in fear it might be respiratory related), and didn't want it to get worse, we made the call to take him. Initially they thought he might have had a mucus plug or GERD situation where he might have lost his breath for a while. I've seen him also suck on his bottom lip, but they said a baby couldn't bruise his lip from sucking/chewing (without teeth). His lips were back to normal once we got there, of course! So they didn't have much to go off of. They took his sats and kept him on a pulse ox for a while and everything was completely normal. They discharged us to go home within an hour. I felt so bad for wasting their time, but I'd rather be safe than sorry since we live so far away from hospitals. Of course, the doctors were wonderful and tried to tell me he was fine. I barely slept that night and kept checking to see if he was breathing and if his lips were turning any bit blue again. His lips only turned blue when he'd wake up for bottles.... so strange. The next day we caught him chomping and sucking on his lip A LOT! The little dude bruised his bottom lip (basically gave himself a hickey). Even his pediatrician had never seen anything happen like this, so we took in pictures and had him checked just to be safe. Ollie hasn't taken a pacifier since he was a newborn, but he seems to like his lip just fine. Things turned back to normal after a few days. The bruise progressively turned all shades of purple before disappearing. That's going to be a lovely hospital bill for a hickey...  ***Sigh***

Desert Ridge splash pad with Daddy 7/21

Cool guys with their shades

Over pictures and ready to play!

All in all, things are great and we are doing wonderful. Each week gets easier and harder in new ways, but we're loving every minute of it! In my spare time I've been training for a 10K race in October and am getting ready for my goal half marathon in Dec/Jan. I'm dying to have a pink 13.1 sticker on my back windshield. I used to run every morning before I got prego, so making the jump back in was pretty easy. The first few weeks were a bit tough, since my cardio endurance is shot. However, I'm using a training app called Couch to 10k (then 10k to Half Marathon), and it really helps get back into the swing of things. I'm in no way as fast or fit as I used to be yet, but I feel better everyday and have really started to enjoy my runs again. Pants are getting looser and I'm a happier me again. Combine that with more sleep at night and I'm a lucky girl. Woot woot!