The Many Faces of Bo...(Month 2!)

I cannot believe it has been 2 months!  So much has happened in the last 2 weeks.  Bo has started sleeping 6-7 hours from when he goes down and then another 4-5 so this Momma has been getting a ton of rest!  I also realized after the gas fiasco that he would get "gassy" right before going to sleep.  I could not believe it when it finally hit me...my 7.5 week old was greatly fighting sleep and I had totally misdiagonsed the issue!  He is still gassy, but I finally put him down instead of rocking him forever and he cries but falls asleep within 10 minutes versus the hours it was taking me to rock him!  What a blessing.  I am able to be available for Abby Kate more now and Bo seems so much more contented and rested.  A win win for all of us!  At his 2 month check up, he weighed 14 lbs 9 oz and is 24.5 inches long, putting him in the 95% for both weight and height.  He is such a sweetie.  He giggles and grins so much.  We truly are so thankful for him!

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I have a few new posts so be sure to check those out too on down!

But I just wanted to share a huge PRAISE and also let you all in on something I had never heard of nor would have ever thought to look for.  Yesterday Bo was extremely fussy.  It had been a bad night so I just thought he was tired or gassy.  Praise the sweet Lord that Bobby came home to get something and came in to see him and asked me what was wrong with his finger.  I looked down and it basically looked like 2 separate fingers, extremely swollen.  We turned on the light only to see his sweet finger wrapped with HAIR!  We tried to get it unwrapped and he started SCREAMING, I mean worse than I have ever heard him cry.  I started to panic and called one of my dearest friends, Heather, who is a pediatrician and also by the grace of God, she was home.  She explained it was called a hair tourniquet and that I needed to get him to my doctor.  I called and they asked me how soon I could get there.  I drove 85 mph to get there and the nurse was waiting on me.  The doc came right in and had to use a suture removal kit to get it off.  They can be extremely dangerous and can cut off circulation, result in surgery and most severely, in the loss of an appendage.  Heather said if a baby is super fussy, and they aren't running a fever or have no other symptoms, she will look for a hair tourniquet.  Most parents do not notice them until the appendage has swollen severely.  You cannot prevent them, but I will now religiously check.  Be sure to check fingers, toes and on boys, their private areas.  The picture of Bo's finger is a full 24 hours after the removal so you can imagine how bad it was!  We are SOOO thankful God allowed everything to work so smoothly for us to catch this and for his finger to be okay!  So be sure to check on your babies...especially ones who are still curling their fists and toes.

7 weeks!

Are his cheeks not yummy?!!!
Our sweet boy is continuing to grow and just become easier and easier.  He is sleeping 4-6 hours in the first night stretch and then 4 the second so I am basically only getting up once in the middle of the night.  His gas is getting a little better but still is bothering him between his 4-5 am feed to his 7-8 am feed.  Not sure how to help this.  I am also struggling with what to do for his 5-8 pm nap because if he takes it, he wakes up at his 4am feed wanting to get up and play!  And if I keep him up, he gets waaaayyy over tired and it takes me forever to get him to sleep.  So if you have advice, please share!  I have tried letting him catnap in his swing but he won't fall asleep in it!  

We have our 2 MONTH (WOW!) checkup a week from today and I cannot WAIT to see how much he has grown!  He is such a delight and is grinning and chatting now too, which has rocked all our worlds.  B, AK and I spend most of our times acting like fools trying to get him to smile, which he usually does happily!  So that is our latest on Bo...

Funny Girl...

I just cannot tell you what a kick I have gotten out of our daughter lately.  She is just so sweet, funny, and imaginative!  It really feels like she has matured 12 years since Bo arrived.  She will spend hours playing on her own or with Belle and Callie while I nurse or put him down for a nap.  She just loves to spontaneously kiss Bo or mimic my voice and words as she speaks to him.  It is so stinking cute.  And then yesterday, she decided to diaper all her animals and Barbie during nap time and "nursed" her bunny for the first time.  I amazed it took 7 weeks!  But she quickly quit that and just wanted a bottle for bunny, to which she carried around for hours yesterday.

And here are a few funny things she has said lately that I don't want to forget!

"That funder (thunder) scared me to DEAF (death)!!"

"Chucky Jesus"  (Chucky Cheeses)

After waking up super grumpy from her nap the other day...

ME:  "Come here Baby.  Can you tell me what is bothering you?"

AK:  "That dragon!"

ME:  "What dragon?"

AK:  "The one that keeps chasing me!"

ME:  "Did you ask him nicely to quit chasing you?"

AK:  "MOM!  He is bigger than me!"

ME:  "Oh."

"That's cool."

"Is that a good plan?"

"I guess so."

"Mom, I won't have any rotten in my diaper in the morning."  (LONG story.)

"You are the best ever in the world ever Mom."

"He's okay." (over and over when Bo cries and she doesn't want me to leave her)

"Praise Jesus!"  (when Bo stops crying)

Football Season!!!

This is one of my dearest childhood friend's son.  We were sorority sisters at OSU together, struggled through infertility together and now how precious sons only a month apart!  Aren't they darling?!

And this is another one of my dearest childhood friend's daughter.  They drove all the way in from Little Rock to meet Liv and Bo and we had a ball.  Abby Kate and Adi are precious friends(as you can tell) and we were so sad they had to move so far away for Adi's Mommy's residency!

Waiting on the walk (parade)....




It is my FAVORITE time of the year!!!!  YEAH fall!  Though watching football bores me to tears, I LOVE football season....tailgating, seeing old friends, eating great food and taking a nap while football is on, that is why I love football season!  So my Cowboys kicked off the season with a big win!  Bo got to experience his first tailgate and Abby Kate was giddy excited about seeing the cheerleaders, the band and Pistol Pete up close.  We had a great tailgating spot and the football players, cheerleaders and the band walk to the stadium right past us.  It was so much fun!  The fam went to the game and Ashley, Liv, Bo, Abby Kate, Aunt Lynn and Uncle Joe all went to Nannie's to watch the game and play.  We truly had a ball!  We also have Arkansas season tickets, Daddy's team, and will have that first home game soon.  He says he is taking Abby Kate but I think that will only happen once.  We tried taking her last year and it only lasted one quarter!  But knowing him, he will make it super fun for them anyway.  He is her magicmaker!

So here is to a fun fall!