Henry's first lake trip

Happy Memorial Day everyone! We took a family trip to the lake this weekend (me, Beau, Henry, Molly, and Sperry- the 2 dogs). We had a great time together and Henry's grandparents (Bill and Jan) were able to come and spend some time with us too. Unfortunately for me (I wanted some sun) it rained or was overcast for the majority of the weekend. However, that was good for sweet Henry because he is not supposed to be in the sun until he is 6 months. Since it was so overcast, we decided to take a short boat trip to get gas, cruise around briefly, and then back home. The only life jackets sold for infants are for children 0-30 pounds. Well, that is a huge difference, so the life jacket swallowed Henry! Since I thought about a life jacket at the last minute, Beau looked all over the city and found this hilarious one. I don't even know who the characters are! Needless to say, our baby was safe on board the pontoon in case a toon fell off or we flipped. We had a nice time, but Henry was not a huge fan of the life jacket. Here are some of the many pictures we took of our afternoon.

Oh, and Henry will be 8 weeks old on Tuesday, but we don't go to the doctor until Thursday....so be on the lookout for a new post on Thursday to update everyone on his status (length, weight and poop)!!! We hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Memorial Day!

"Hello everyone! Happy Memorial Day! Welcome to the lake!"

"Ok, I am a little bored with the lake so I am going to blow spit bubbles."


"Alright, this thing I am wearing is really starting to get in my way!"

"WHY do you keep taking my picture...I am MISERABLE in this life jacket!"

What in the world??? Termites!

I was not going to post the pictures I took of this, but my friend Emily told me I should. SO, needless to say I am letting the world know I have bugs in my house.....actually not anymore! Last week Henry and I were upstairs in his room rocking for a while (because he was really fussy) and I came downstairs to find this on the floor. I had no idea what they were, I just knew I had a million bugs in my den and I started freaking out! Before I did anything I immediately called Beau and told him and he casually said....just vacuum them up. Well, I did not think he understood the quantity, so I took a picture with my camera and sent it to him. He immediately called the exterminator and the guy got in his car to come to our house. When he arrived an hour later I was still vacuuming the bugs because I would finish one area and turn around to find thousands had come back in from somewhere. When he came to spray, he informed me they were termites so I started panicking. Beau came home and continued to vacuum while I tended to Henry and he vacuumed them up in the den, kitchen and our bedroom which is right above this room. The next day the exterminators came back to assess the termites under the house and found to large tubes of termites and wanted to come back to treat our house and gave us an estimate. Who knew killing some bugs would be so expensive!! This was definitely not what we wanted to be spending money on right now, but we do live in a state where termites are very common! Needless to say, we had them exterminated but that was after many quotes, time and money. Now we will never have termites again....right?
Oh, and for all of you who live near us if you do have a swarm that comes in, it is not the end of the world. The exterminator said that they come out of their nest when it rains and then gets really hot and that is exactly what had just happened. Thank goodness Henry was asleep the whole time or he may have nightmares of bugs....just kidding!
I know I should really just blog about Henry, but this was very traumatic! Hope nobody ever sees this in their house! It is pretty disturbing!

7 Week Update

I can't believe Henry will be 2 months old next Tuesday! I am going to bed now because Henry has decided he wants to wake us up VERY early and I am exhausted right now, but I wanted to post his 7 week pictures. His new favorite thing to do besides lying on his back kicking his feet is to stand up and bob his head around. He will not sit in your lap anymore without pushing his feet down to try and stand. It is amazing how strong he already is. I know he would love sitting in an exersaucer, but I think he has to be a certain age or able to hold his head up all the time first. Anyways, here are some of the pictures I took this week. The third picture is to show off his cute outfit (thanks Em) and shoes. He does not want to wear his sandals for very long, but they are ADORABLE! I put them on him when he is standing and they keep him from sliding around. Anyways, off to bed! Happy 7 weeks Henry!

What do you think?

So, I have 3 baby pictures below. First there is Henry, then Beau and then me. Who do you think he looks like? I think I know what everyone will say.

Henry: almost 7 weeks old

Beau: 3 months old

Alle: 2 months old

6 Week Update

So...our little boy was 6 weeks old yesterday and he sure is growing! We have, again, had some changes since his 5 week update starting with his change in formula. We changed him from Neocate to Enfamil's Nutramigen AA, which is basically the same thing as Neocate. In case you were wondering, his poop is back to being yellow now! Yea!!! He has only been on the new formula for 5 days, so we hope it stays yellow.
My next bit of news is that we are seeing more and more smiles from our little man. He is always really happy in the morning and loves to smile and kick, but towards the end of the day he gets a little fussy. However, the following pictures I took around 6 yesterday and he was smiling at me a little, so who knows. We just love seeing the smiles!
Our last bit of news is that I am joining the stay at home moms club next year. Beau and I have really thought hard about what we were going to do next year and came to the decision for me to stay at home. I am very relieved to have finally made that decision. I also am very excited and feel very blessed to have had this option. I look forward to spending lots of time with our little man, however, I am going to miss all of my friends at work so much. Everyone continues to tell me that we made the best decision and that we will never regret it, so this first year must be wonderful!
The following pictures I took to show you how much Henry has grown. He is wearing this adorable outfit my friend Bonnie gave him that says Moo Moo on the front. It also has polka-dot feet. I love it...thanks Bonnie! Check out his little smiles. Aren't they adorable!

Kicking as usual (this is what he did the last 3 months of pregnancy...kick me)!

A smile is forming and......

there's a big one!

First real smiles!

On Friday the New Kids on the Block was on the Today Show for their Friday concert series. While singing.....Hanging Tough..... with the New Kids and getting ready for work, Beau was playing with Henry. It started off with Beau dancing in front of him and tickling him and what did Henry do????? Gave us a HUGE grin twice! It was awesome! Beau and I were shocked and so excited! I kept trying all day to get him to smile again, and I got a few, but every time I put the camera up to my face, he would stop. Needless to say, here are some of the half smiles I was able to catch.

5 Week Update

Bath time!

Well, another week has flown by and lots has happened in the life of 5 week old Henry. Last week was switched from breast milk to formula. We went from breast milk to Similac (Ailmentum) to Enfamil (Nutramigen) and Henry adjusted after a few days and was great. On Saturday morning, we changed a poopy diaper to find green poop again! So, needless to say, I called the doctor AGAIN and they were concerned! So, we went in and saw another pediatrician who found blood in his poop, AGAIN! She had us feed him Pedialite for 12 hours and then start him on Neocate...this is a VERY expensive formula that has no protein in it, so it is even easier to digest. He ate it wonderfully despite the awful smell, he seems to be pretty content thus far. We had a doctors appointment this morning to follow up on the Necoate and he weighed in at 9 pounds 11 ounces. The doctor was very pleased with his weight gain and now we are going to just watch to see how he does over the next few days. Chances are if he gets sick again, it will probably be over the weekend so we can spend another Saturday in the doctors office.

However, overall, Henry got a good check-up and we are very pleased to say there was no blood in his stool today!!! Go Henry!

As far as his temperament, he is not as fussy anymore and is still loving to lie on his back and kick his feet. I am going to attach a video later of him kicking. It is hilarious! He will kick for a solid 20 minutes and then pass out!

Henry, however, has decided to sleep for shorter increments at night since he started on formula. We had him sleeping for 4 to 5 hours at a time on breast milk, and now he is back to eating for 10 minutes and then sleeping for about 2 1/2 hours. We are going to work hard to get back to our old schedule!

He is still a dream baby. We are loving being parents and are just amazed at how blessed we are to have such a wonderful child. I am also going to post some pictures of one of the first real "baths" we gave him (if you can really call it a bath). He did not seemed too bothered by it. They have these over sized washcloths you can put on top of babies now to keep them warm during a bath and he loves it!