10 Months

Cole,

Today you are 10 months old. Wow. This past month has gone by faster than any other month. You have shown me how resilient, determined, and strong willed you are. You started army crawling right before you turned 9 months and within 2 weeks you were “real” crawling all over the house. But that wasn’t good enough for you, being the determined little boy you are you also perfected pulling up and cruising at the same time. Now it is all you want to do . I have seen you stand on your own for short periods of time but it seems once you realize it you sit down. You love taking daddy and mommy’s hands and walking all over the place. I have a feeling you will be close to walking right around the time we head to the beach.:).Since you have become so mobile pulling up on the window sills and looking outside seems to be a favorite. As well as closing doors. It’s become a game to you, you love to close the door then open it to either the kitty cats or mommy on the other side …makes you laugh every time you do it. Which is like 20 times in a row.
As for food, you LOVE fruit. If it’s on your plate nothing else gets eaten but the fruit. You are now feeding yourself all three meals and seem to like everything but meat. No pressure but we will get you to like it! Ha. Daddy and Mommy are huge meat eaters so you have no choice. You love drinking out of your Sippy cup, very odd thing but you love drinking water.
Music is a huge thing in your life. Listening to music, playing music or hearing mommy sing makes you so happy. You now shake your head and body and have started to babble like your singing along. You also love anything animal related, you light up when we see them.
My heart swoons every time I ask for a kiss and you lean in open mouthed and all to lay one on me. You show lots of love to all of your favorite people. You have experienced a little stranger anxiety but nothing to brutal. Your just very cautious when meeting new people. It’s OK cause I love that you’re a mama’s boy! You are talking up a storm. Lots of the time it sounds like a foreign language, but you call me mama and your daddy is dada. We swear over Easter we heard you say duck. But it was only once.
I’m not sure of your exact weight and height but it’s around 23lbs and 29.5 inches long. Your teeth decided to come in all at once, you now have 8 teeth! I love seeing you smile cause I get to see all of your pearly whites. Your wearing 18 month clothing and soon to move up to size 5 diapers. But enough about your silly stats. I just want you to know that I live each day to make you happy! Your smile drives me to be a be a better mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend. You have changed me in every way. Happy 10 Months Little Man!

Love Always,
Mommy

Started taking Pictures on the Chair...


Started to make me very nervous after one shot...


To the floor you went which meant not sitting still....



You paused for one second to let me take this... :)

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EASTER EDITION

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It's Friday! Today we will be enjoying the day at home as a family sans work!
I took this video yesterday afternoon...Cole had just made a stinky and when I told him he was stinky he thought it was just way to funny! Obviously he is recovering just fine. :)Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday weekend!

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Recovery is easy breezy. Enjoying our community beach today.

Surgery Day

So Today was the day I had been dreading since little man was born and they told us he had Hypospadias. Today was surgery day. Hypospadias is when the opening of the urethra is located near the tip of the penis on the underside rather than at the end of the penis. Little man's is a very mild case and only requires one surgery. And thankfully it went better then I could have ever imagined it would. When the doctor's say stuff to you like babies are resilient he'll bounce back I guess they know what they are talking about!

Cole's surgery started at 8:30 this morning which meant no bottle or food for him this morning, this was a bit of a challenge but he did very well. We just let him do whatever he wanted...crawl on icky pre-op hospital floor? yep. climb all over his bed and pull down the curtains? sure thing. Even allowed him full range of our cell phones. Anything to keep him happy before surgery.
Then came time for the dreadful walk back to the surgical room. I could feel my eyes getting misty and tried my best not to show it to Cole. He was completely unaware of what was about to happen, he was enjoying looking all around. That was until I layed him down on the surgical table and they put the mask over his face. The anesthesiologist kept saying to me he will fall asleep fast don't worry, but I watched him struggle to get loose and start to cry. I felt my own tears starting to come on...I just kept saying it's OK baby over and over trying to calm him and myself. Finally he fell into a deep slumber and it was time for me to leave. They said give him a big kiss goodbye. I did. Then another. Then another. And as I walked out of the room the tears begin to flow. Thankfully my wonderful husband was there in the waiting room ready help me dry those tears.:)

The surgery took around 2hrs long. Which seemed like forever. And as soon as he came out they let me go back to see him. The first hour out of surgery was the hardest. He was very groggy, confused, in pain and just plain upset. We spent an hour in recovery trying to find the perfect balance of medicine, comfort and bottle to make little man comfortable. On our way out of recovery I could see a huge difference in just an hour. I'm not sure if Cole was just so happy to be leaving the hospital and getting away from all the doctors and nurses or the kid is just super resilient.

He fell asleep in the car and continued to sleep for 2 more hours. And here's the big surprise...when he woke up this afternoon he acted like nothing had happened. Yes the diaper changes are a huge PAIN. It's a two man job. But that seems to be the only issue. He is crawling all around, pulling up, smiling, talking, laughing. I mean really... he had surgery TODAY! We go back Friday morning to remove the catheter and hopefully it's smooth sailing from there.






God Bless him, isn't he just the cutest thing ever?!?!

 

Friday Films!

Ok so I wasn't able to really take any videos this week...I'll I have are these pictures from my phone of Cole playing at the mall. He really loved getting to play in the big kid play area. He was trying to talk very LOUDLY to all the other kids.

Single Mama this week

I really don’t know how single mothers do it. Being the sole caregiver is exhausting. Hubs is away for work for 7 full days and nights. I’m on day 5 and I have learned it really is an art of juggling everything to just make it through the day. While I consider myself pretty organized and prepared this is a whole new level. Trying to entertain and keep Cole out of trouble while drying my hair and putting make up on in the mornings is pretty challenging. Getting us both dressed, ready and out the door on a timely manner is also pretty difficult. Not difficult impossible, lets just say I have not been punctual once this week. Oops. Then work all day.Ugg.Then pick Cole up and rush to get him fed, bathed, dressed and loved before his bed time at 7:00pm.

When I closed Cole’s bedroom door last night I seriously debated going straight to bed myself. But I still needed to get out of my work clothes, make dinner, pick up all the random toys that looked like a tornado had flung them throughout me house, take out the trash and recycling, pack Cole’s diaper bag for tomorrow and prepare any food he may need for the next day. So finally at 8:30 I got to relax. 15hr days are hard. At least with Hubs home there is a shared responsibility to get everything done. We work together. I’m really looking forward to my teammate returning home.
This mama needs all the help she can get! :)



 

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Cole is Cam's Mini Me

Little Man Stands

Cole stood up all by himself. I still can’t believe it. We were playing up in the sitting room in our bedroom with Cole’ blocks. I put a few of the blocks on top of the ottoman, Cole proceeded to crawl over pull himself right up and started to play with them. He then started to cruise along the couch in a desperate attempt to get a hold of the remote control. I diverted his attention back onto the blocks and the ottoman and he waddled his way back over. And then it happened. He picked up a block and held it with both hands. It took me a second to register that he was in fact standing holding onto nothing. He stood there putting the block in his mouth his legs strong and steady like he had done it a million times. Of course in true mommy fashion I yelled out in excitement, which then startled Cole and he feel down. But he did it. And I saw it. I saw the first time my little man stood all by himself.

Here’s Little Man not looking very little. He got to play with the big kids yesterday at the park.




 

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New Trick

Now that little man can army crawl like the best marine out there, he doesn't stay still. While moving he has discovered that he can now get himself up to the sitting position from his stomach or back. This means crawling then sitting then crawling then sitting ...and sometimes pulling up....


Here is how I found him yesterday....I guess he was all done napping.

In fact, the last few mornings I have watched him on the video monitor sitting up talking to his elephant mobile. He has always loved it but now it's within arms reach. He talks to the elephants and then gives them a nice slap. Then he lays down and goes back to sleep. Pretty freaking cute. I hope he doesn't pick up any new tricks the next few days I'm in Florida for work.Boo.Well at least it's going to be 85 and sunny.

8 weeks to go!

Time is ticking down till my Vacation at the OBX. However the scale seems to be at a stand still. I blame most of this on my birthday, travel for personal and for work. Its near impossible to keep up with working out when you are traveling, thankfully I have managed to still work out at least twice a week. It requires me to wake up at the crack of dawn, something I'm not a fan of. Between the ages 10-21, roughly 11 years I had to wake up very very early to swim. It's something you get use to but never LOVE. Any who once my college swimming career was over I vowed to myself never to put myself through those early morning workouts. I suppose the idea of putting on a bathing suit has made sing a different tune.

Here is where I stand today, I'm 1 pound away from my pre-pregnancy weight. Yes 1 pound! I'm hoping after I'm done with next weeks travel for work.dislike. I will be able to kick it up a notch at the gym.

Happy Friday!