this is going to be quick

because this girl has got to get focused and back to work. wanted to take a minute though to post updates about the davidson clan. here we go:

• miles is getting huge, he goes for a 4 month check up next week so we'll see how much he weighs, my guess is 17 or so pounds.
• he is going to bed, unswaddled i might add, at around 8:30. he seems SOOO tired when we put him to bed but he is somehow waking up. i think he's still getting used to not have his arms stuck to his sides in the swaddle. last night he woke up at 1 and at 4.
• teaching a baby how to sleep is "the pits" as my grandma used to say. we sometimes have the willpower to let him cry it out. it is pure torture but we are doing it not out of frustration with him, but so that he learns that he can do it on his own and doesn't need to be rocked. hopefully not too much longer of this.
• ben and i go to bed EARLY. and by early i mean as soon as we can get our teeth brushed, our golden oreos eaten, and the bottles ready for the night. therefore, we are usually in bed by 9:30 at the latest. one night this week, we were in bed watching tv and this is how our conversation went: ben: "goodnight", me: "goodnight", ben: "and goodnight means I love you and don't talk to me anymore tonight." hahaha. he better be glad i have a sense of humor. we have to take advantage of our own sleep when mr. miles is catching his z's.

that's it for today. oh and happy birthday jonathan!!!

i think i can.....

Let's see if this works. He REALLY wants to turn over, guess I can't walk away from the changing table because for some reason he tries harder there than he does when he is on the floor!!

be still my heart.

so its been a while since i've blogged. I need to be better about this considering when i am feeding miles in the middle of the night i love to catch up on my blog reading on my phone. hopefully those night feedings will be few and far between sooner than i know. He now sleeps from 10-4:30 ish then back down until around 7. We are going to start putting him down earlier and try an 8-8 schedule. we'll see how that goes. i know the whole "cry it out" method is going in effect pretty soon so i'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will not take him very many nights for that.

this weekend is kind of a big deal. miles will be dedicated at our church on saturday, then we are having a cookout afterwards. i got him a spiffy outfit for the occasion. pics to follow of that scene.

other than that we have settled in to our "new normal". i managed to get back on the treadmill last week and ben has been doing yard work. we are still sleeping upstairs in the bedroom next to the nursery, which we actually really like. norm is still norm. just to give you an idea of how our mornings go, one day last week ben had to open at the course and so he fed norm on the way out of the house. norm comes back upstairs and gets back in bed with me (I didn't notice he had gotten up and went downstairs with Ben). Then I get up about 30 minutes later, get Miles, go downstairs, make a bottle, put a pot of coffee on, and feed norm. yep, norm ate 4 cups of dog food and a bone for breakfast. then i checked my phone to see a text that ben said he fed him. if you've ever seen norm eat you know that there is no sign in that bowl that he is ever fed, its always empty. those are the kinds of things that we laugh and say "oh well". no time or energy to worry about it!

my next blog will probably be about the disastrous nights that are ahead when we stop swaddling him when he sleeps!

wrap up

Miles' cousin Sam. What a cool dude. You better believe those glasses went home with him.

Miles on the way to Easter at Southport Presbyterian

The Easter bunny came!

We really need to get Norm a playmat of his own.

we have been busy in the davidson house lately so i'm going to catch up from the last few weeks. here are some highlights:

• miles went to his first birthday bash. miss liv barrett turned three and this was no ordinary birthday party. she had pony rides and a petting zoo come to her house. it was a-ma-zing. i was tempted to put miles on the pony. but i didn't. good job on the party erin, it was a real crowd pleaser.
• stacie and i had a fun saturday playdate at the mall. we both had gifts to get for people so we took the boys and headed out. sam found those awesome sunglasses at nordy. he was excited about them. obviously.
• he likes to have a personal best with sleeping then keep us on our toes by having a bad night the next night. for example saturday night slept from 10-4:30 straight. awesome. i thought i had died and gone to heaven. sunday night? 9-12, 1-4 and 5-7. that little stinker.
• easter was great. we went to greenwood/franklin to spend the day with ben's family. we took him to church with us. while i was supposed to have the fear of God in me I had the fear of larry davidson in me that if miles made noise i was in trouble. so the slightest grunt and i was out of there. to the nursery we went. to my delight, there were 2 babies, one of which was playing with blocks on the floor, and 2 ladies. so one lady held miles and i went back and listened to the sermon.
• miles also visited the flying cupcake for the first time with linda, went to grandma and grandpa oliver's for dinner and met Lisa who came all of the way from new york!
• the Easter bunny came! he brought miles a new night light, a bear named benny, a few Easter books and a toy.
• ben and i went to a class at church for miles' dedication coming up. it was a great class and i actually wish it would have been longer. the youth pastor who taught the class said he sees way worse peer pressure with parents than with children. he also said happy kids come from happy parents and happy parents come from happy marriages!

That's all for now. enjoy the pics.

1st shots!

Miles went to the doctor on Monday for his first round of shots. Ben did the holding while this happened, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. The first one there was no reaction and the second one he was crying so hard but no sound and the third one we heard the screams. Everyone survived!

He is doing great. 12 lbs. 3.5 oz. (64th percentile), 23 inches long (55th percentile) and his head circumference was in the 52nd percentile. So all is well there. He still is eating liquid gold (Nutramigen) for another month. At $33 a can, I am ready for him to be off of this stuff. I don't even think he'll have a problem with normal formula but we'll see. And as you can see by the picture, he still projectile spits up on Norm, even with Nutramigen. Norm seems to love the stuff as much as Miles and loves to clean up Miles' spit up so he doesn't mind one bit. Gross, I know. Welcome to my world.

Our little guy is 10 weeks today!

Oh and guess what else? He is in his crib now! Well right now he is at Linda's but I mean at night he sleeps in his crib. Ben and I have been sleeping in the guest bedroom upstairs that is connected through the bathroom to the nursery. It is working great. Miles is getting up around 2-3, eats, then goes back to sleep for another few hours. We are getting used to the monitor, which is entertaining to watch. It's like watching a basketball game but we are saying with excitement "there goes the pacifier!" and "do you see how much he is grunting?" and "oh no! he got one arm out of the swaddle!"

Our lives are totally awesome.

good morning sunshine!

not much time this morning, but wanted to at least post my favorite pic of the week!

2 months new!

mr. miles has reached 8 weeks! i am starting to see more and more every day why people say this baby thing is so much fun. our little guy is doing great. mom and dad are doing pretty good too. at two months, miles weighs just under 12 pounds and is getting bigger by the minute! he is obsessed with the baby bjorn bouncy seat. for those of you who are pregnant, go ahead and order yourself one now. my cousin angela had given one to my mom and when miles was in huntington last weekend, he chilled in that thing for hours. needless to say, one should arrive on my porch next week. he also loves being held, loves for his dad to make him smile making stupid faces, loves warm baths and lotion massages, loves grunting from 4-5 a.m. and loves going to miss linda's house. linda is watching him tuesdays and thursdays and she is the BEST!!! couldn't ask for a better setup for childcare. eventually we'll put him in real daycare but for now this is great. he gets to go to chappies with her (the neighborhood coffee shop), the mall and maddi's school.

as far as the sleep situation goes, we put him down around 10:30-11 and he sleeps until around 2:30 or 3, i get up and feed him, put him back down and he sleeps until 5:30 or 6 when ben gets up to feed him, with some grunting in between. the schedule is working for us. i don't mind the middle of the night feeding and ben likes the early morning feeding because saved by the bell is on from 5-6 a.m.

other than that we have been having so much fun with him. it is getting easier to make him smile and it is easier to figure out what he is wanting if he is fussy. tonight we are venturing to jonathan and stacie's to watch the basketball games. there will be so many babies there we will try to snap a pic of all of the cuteness. until next time, here are a few more pics of our sweet boy.

p.s. we really are working on his announcements. they should be out hopefully this week!