Life With Canaan: 10 Weeks In

TEN weeks?! That couldn’t be right…

Yup, did the math, Monday will be 10 weeks. Sigh. Cry.

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Ok so here’s an update on our little family. 

My little man cub just astounds me. He blows my mind. His little smile just makes my heart burst. How can he be so dang cute?! How can I possibly sleep at night without seeing his little face and giving him kisses?? Well…

Canaan sleeps until 6am most nights, unless he’s dead tired at 8pm the night before, then he wakes up around 4 or 5am and wants to eat. But then we go right back to sleep for a few more hours! ME on the other hand, I wake up every time he makes a strange noise at night, or anytime he’s just too dang quiet, just so I can check on him and maybe kiss his cheeks a few more times. My husband sleeps like the dead. How is that possible? Not fair.

We went to our first birthday party (holla’ Coles!) last weekend and socialized with some other parents and babies. I had no clue how starved for socialization we were…because I was in bed by 8 that night! I was so dang tired! We hadn’t had that many people around us since Christmas. But, that was kind of the kick off to the end of our seclusion, because now Canaan has been vaccinated and we can get out more.

Valentine’s Day held a big milestone for us: Canaan’s two month mark and his first bath with mommy in the big tub. Normally we bathe him in the sink, but I decided I really wanted him to feel like he was “swimming” and we got in the big tub together. Well let me tell you, I didn’t think my heart could explode anymore, but it did right there. He kept his big blue eyes glued on mine, staring at me with nothing but trust and deep love. He was silent and happy the whole time, just loving the warm water and loving “floating” around (I held him lightly and floated him around the tub). It was one of those precious moments I hope I never forget.

Shots. He had his two-month shots. And I just died. I’ve never been so shattered. He took them like a champ but I bawled in the parking lot just hearing his cry echo in my mind. He took a long nap once we got home, and then he woke up, and for the first time ever he cried from being sore…it was the most heart breaking cry I’ve ever heard. Lord help me the next time I have to hear that cry. I just cried and cried right there with him. BUT, he woke up the next morning with a huge smile on his face, right back to his happy self.

And really, that’s about all! He’s deliciously chunky and has the most infectious little smile. He loves to talk too, so just look right at him and say “ohhhh” and he’ll get going! He also thinks my hair is hysterical, so I have his attention pretty much at all times.

We are absolutely loving:

We still use/love all of the products I mentioned in our last update.

His favorite thing is his JellyCat stuffed lion! My grandmother, his great grandma, sent it to him, and he LOVES it. He grabs its face, hugs it to him, talks to it…I’m pretty sure this is the thing that he’ll be dragging around in 5 years and I’ll be so grossed out by how raggedy it is. But right now, we just love it. Plus, lion. Duh.

An update on our 4 Moms Mamaroo: we now love it! He wasn’t too sure about it until a few weeks ago, and now he’ll sit in it! I’ve sat him in it facing a window, and he had so much fun. He also still sits in it in while I shower (I plug it in in the bathroom, facing the shower door so he can see me) and is happy as a clam. Phew. I’m relieved.

We still are using our Solly wrap. I have a Moby too, but it’s been so hot here that I feel like the fabric on it will be too thick and hot, so we’ve been using the Solly. I wrap it on myself before we get in the car so I can just hop out, put him right in it, then we can get our errands done. I also wore him in it for our first lunch out when my friend Heather visited. He slept, I gorged on Indian food.

Starbucks. Ok, this isn’t a mommy baby product. But it is. Seriously. Some days we just don’t get to get out like I wish we could. Starbucks saves me. I get to take a drive, hit the drive through, come home and feel like I went somewhere (and he just sleeps in the car). I will be spending all of our money on lattes, sorry hubby.

Photo books! This is my solution to ALL THE PICTURES. I take a million photos. I capture every facial expression because I just can’t help it (he raises his eyebrows at me then grins because he knows I love it). Knowing I’d be this way, I knew I’d never be able to keep up with scrapbooking or even putting photos in photo pages in a binder, so I decided to do a photo book every month. And it has been awesome! I upload all of my photos to a site, pop them into pages as quickly as possible, in the order they were taken, no captions, order and done. I’ve done months 1 and 2 and love my system so far. Does anybody have an affordable photo book site they love? I’ve been using Shutterfly but I don’t love their site and it gets expensive if I add too many pages, so I want to try someone new.

Moccasins! “Never buy shoes for a baby, their feet never hit the ground.” Right? Well, I was pretty embarrassed with myself for going against this piece of logic, but now I’m so glad I did. This child has the longest feet I’ve ever seen on a baby. He has a million pairs of baby socks, and can keep them on for 0.05 seconds. He kicks his feet around and they just roll on off and it drives me crazy. Moccasins, though, are the perfect solution! Sometimes I put his moccs on over his socks, sometimes he just wears the moccs, but either way they stay put and his feet stay warm! I don’t have to be wondering if we’ll make it out of Target with both of our socks on when he has his moccs on. I bought him Freshly Picked moccasins and I love them. Plus, they’re super soft leather so they’ll last him a little while, stretching with his feet.

The Happiest Baby on the Block. I know that this is a book too, but watching the 30 minute DVD is all I had time for and was all I needed. One of Steve’s coworkers gifted this to us and it is really something all new parents should watch! Seriously, this doctor has the right method for calming a fussy baby in literally minutes. Whenever C won’t nap because he just wants to fuss instead, I whip out the method, and he passes out almost instantly. Life saver.

 

Last thing: working out. I’ve been doing BBG again, which is awesome for me. The workouts are around 30 minutes and I can do them in the living room. Canaan loves to watch mommy jump around, so I don’t feel pressure to do them while he’s napping. I’m hoping I stick with it through the whole 12 weeks!

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