Our New Addition

After 2 1/2 months of not being able to do many things because I couldn't put Brody down, I decided I needed to remedy that. After a lot of research I finally found the perfect thing. A baby swing! Now hopefully I can put him down without throwing a big fit every time. We just got it today and these pictures are of his first ride in it. He was swinging back and forth in all of them so it was quite an adventure trying to get them in focus since I was using my SLR instead of my point and shoot. My favorite picture here is the middle one.

He was asleep for when we put him in it. When he woke up he got a startled look on his face as he looked around. It was like he was wondering, "Where am I? What is this and why am I sitting in it?" He kind of cried and then settled down. I'm still trying to figure out if he's going to like it. Sometimes he does okay but other times he acts like he's scared to be in it. I think he'll settle down once he gets used to it.

A Trip To SUU Campus

Today I rode down to the college so that I could clear up a few things while Shane was in class. My parents were too busy to watch Brody so he got to go with me. What an adventure. I put him in the stroller so I could move him around with ease. I needed to go check my e-mail so I went into the library and as soon as we got there and to a computer station he started crying. I got him out thinking I could get him to stop crying. In the meantime people are looking at me like i'm crazy because I have a screaming baby in the library. I tried to log onto the computer and as soon as I typed my name in (didn't even get to the password) my computer decides to shut down. At that point I just grab the stroller and take off outside to escape the embarrassment. I got the stroller stuck in the door because it's hard to open a door and push a stroller through it and someone ran to my aid. After thanking them with an embarrassed look I found a place to sit down and I fed him. After that we went to the Sharwan Smith Center to sit down and wait for Shane so that I could actually get the things I needed to done. The thing I learned today is don't take your 2 1/2 month old to the college campus and expect him to behave. Or if you do make sure there are 2 of you so one can mind the baby. One of the things I needed to do today was talk to my advisor about getting graduation papers so that I can graduate with my associates in May. Looks like I will have to adventure back to the campus on Tuesday when my advisor gets back. Anyways here are some pictures I took today.

Shane was playing with Brody and decided to put his beanie on his head. Right after this he decided to throw a huge fit so I didn't get a better picture. This one is a little burry.

Brody loves to have his diaper changed. Shane decided to let him lay there with his diaper off because he was so happy. We've also learned that we can put his toy keys in his hand when his fist is clinched and today he just happened to suck on his hand after we put the keys there. I have a feeling we're being set up to have a little streaker when he's old enough to run around.

Mid-night Scare Continued

Friday we took Brody to the pediatrician and had him checked out. They checked his chest and it was fine so his cold is just in his head. They told us to get some saline solution, squirt it in his nose and suck it out with a bulb syringe. It isn't very fun and it makes Brody scream like crazy but we're hoping that through doing this he will be able to breathe and make it easier to nurse. Last night he was so stuffed up that he wouldn't stay latched on for very long and I had to keep putting him back on after he'd get a breath. This morning he started throwing up so we did what the pediatrician told us to do. We went and bought some pedialyte to keep him hydrated. The first time we fed it to Brody he got a confused look on his face and spit the bottle out. All he's supposed to eat is breastmilk or formula so this was quite different from anything he'd ever tasted (besides cherry flavored tylanol). He took the bottle again and he likes it now. After feeding him a bottle of that (3 feedings) I tried nursing him again and he didn't throw up (Yay!). Hopefully this last visit will be his last doctor visit (except well visits) for quite a while. Luckily we've had my parents around to help out since they know more what they're doing than us right now.

Mid-night Scare

Last night was the scariest night so far in my role as a mother. It resulted in us dashing off to the Emergency Room because Brody was having a hard time breathing. We called the Pediatrician 24 hour number and they told us to go to ER. When we got there they couldn't hear anything in his lungs so they ran some tests. Poor little guy got tortured or so you would think with the amount of and decibel levels he was crying at. They took a rectal temperature (97.1), a snot sample for RSV (saline and tube up the nose), and x-rays of his lungs (kicked me out into the hall because of nursing). It is so hard being forced to stand outside of a room listening to your baby cry while you can't do a thing about it to comfort him. While we were waiting for the results the doctor gave him some asthma medicine using oxygen and a little breather contraption. It was like a humidifier but the moisture was medicine. We then waited almost 45 minutes for the results. The RSV came out negative and the x-rays looked fine so they let us go. They told us it was a cold or a URI (upper respiratory illness) and if it got worse to take him to his doctor. He slept pretty good but he keeps throwing up when I feed him. Now we get to figure out where to go from here. We'll keep you posted as we get more info.

Caught Slobbery Handed

First of all I just wanted to put something on here that I've been working on. I wanted to print these off and send them out but I didn't have the resources to do so until after he was blessed and most everyone had already seen him. I decided I wanted to show off some of my handy work at Photoshop anyways. I learned a lot about Photoshop in one of my photography classes but forgot a lot of it since I didn't have the program to work with on my own. I'm still working on trying to remember it all. Anyways here it is.

Now for the reason I wanted to write this post. Brody is really good at sucking on his hands. He knows that there is something on there he's supposed to suck on but he can't quite figure out what it is and how to get it. One night we left him on the floor to kick and squirm for a little bit. We were all just in the room but when my mom went to check on him she discovered this.

Brody had found his thumb. I wasn't able to get a good picture before he took it out but here is proof that he found it. Since this picture was taken (a couple of weeks ago) he has only found his thumb one other time that we all know of. It's cute but i'm worried about him becoming an avid thumb sucker and it leading to lots of orthidontic work later on. Also since our last post he has managed to laugh out loud once. Shane was playing with him and I was in the room when he did it. I almost couldn't believe my ears when it happened. I had to ask Shane if it had really happened because it caught me off guard. He does have his moments where he's Mr. Not-So-Cute (like we suspect he's teething already) but over all he is quite fun and we really enjoy him. I'm excited to see what he does next!

Bryce Canyon And More

Today we went for a drive up to Bryce Canyon. It was nice to get out of town for a while. It was either that or go to St. George. We opted to go for a quiet drive rather than get dragged through random stores looking at tiles, granite, and who knows what else. Before we left we stopped off at Quiznos for some yummy subs.

In this one Brody isn't very happy because he wants his food.

He started out laying with his head under Shane's chin but slowly moved himself down to this position while he was sleeping. I wanted a picture from this angle because of his feet.

He just looked so cute laying here so I had to take a picture of him. Sleeping pictures are always cute.

My sister Alisha took this one. It is one of my favorites because it shows him so alert. He was smiling and making noises.

Alisha also took this one. Its quite blown out because of the flash but the look on his face is priceless. It is one of the few pictures we have of him smiling so far. I will have to play with it in Photoshop and see what I can do with it.

Baby Blessing

I just want to thank everyone that made it over for Brody's blessing. Because we forgot to take pictures, the only person that has pictures of him in his tux is one of Shane's awesome photographer cousin Emily. She took some at the luncheon after the blessing. If you want to see any you can go to her blog at http://winkfotos.typepad.com and the blog entry is titled "ladies man". Out of the pictures I've seen so far the only one she didn't post is the one of the back of his jacket with me holding him.

The first image is of Emily taking pictures of Brody. The second one is of Shane and my sister-in-law Brittany. The last one is me and my mother-in-law Effie.