The Babies Nursery

Well, it took me long enough. But I finally did it. We bought the crib (he's been sleeping in that for a while now) and decorated Emmett's room. The poor guy was sleeping in a room full of junk. He still is but at least there's some cute stuff in there too.

I hung up the Monster Quilt that his Aunt Sherry and SAKE cousins made for him.
It looks great on the wall!

I also bought some breathable bumpers for him. I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to get those cute bumpers but the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) advises against any sort of bumper because of SIDS and reduces the chances of suffocation. Bummer. At a moment of weakness I actually bought him a crib bumper then Ben reminded me that it was a bad idea so I returned it :( So I decided to get some cute sheets instead.

These bumpers are mesh so if Emmett decided to smash his head against it face first he would still be able to breathe.

Here he is hanging out in his new crib. Pun intended. Here some great baby boudoir pics!

Why hello! Fancy meeting you here. (It's better with a British accent)

Mom - stop taking pictures of me. Seriously.Sexy feet


I also ordered some great Wall Art for the wall across the room. But I'm still putting it up. I'll post pictures once it's done!

Mr. Social

Emmett is now a social butterfly. He prefers to talk, coo, play, and smile over sleep. And I do love it when he does all of those things but the boy needs his sleep (along with mommy!). He's throwing smiles are over the place now. He is also losing his hair. We need Rogain for babies!

During bath time he has this look on his face like, "Whoa, what the heck is going on here?"
But the good thing is that he enjoys bath time and doesn't cry.

Because he so aware of his surroundings it's harder to get him to sleep. He gets over stimulated and if he hears anything he looks around to see what it is. So I have resorted to putting him in "time out". I put him in the carseat and a blanket over him so he can rest.

He puts up a fuss for about a minute...but then he passes out. A momma has got to do what she's got to do.

Bad Mommy

I was a bad mommy today. All because I wanted to take the perfect picture for this blog. So I really blame the blog for this event. Well, I blame the blog and I blame it on this.

What the heck is that? It's a pillow. I blame the pillow. It all started with my new toy that I LOVE. It's called "My Breast Friend" pictured above. And it truly is my new friend. It's a breast feeding pillow that I bought yesterday. I have been using a pillow called the boppy for a while and it just never felt right. Emmett would never be positioned correctly to feed and this would cause my boobs to hurt. It got to the point where I wanted to give up breast feeding! But then I found this.


So I have been using it since last night and I love it! Emmett loves it too. So much that after a feeding he passes out on it. And it's pretty hard to feed a baby when he looks like this.


I thought it was kind of cute how he totally passed out before he finished eating. So I reached for the camera and took some pictures. Of course I wanted the perfect picture so I took a few with different angles.
At one point I leaned over to try and get his arm in the picture when he ROLLED off the pillow. It happened so fast and yet it felt like it was slow motion. I tried to catch him but he just slid right off. Thankfully I was sitting on the floor and didn't have far to fall. The crazy part is that he landed with a soft thud and stayed asleep! He didn't even make a sound.


He looked so happy and content on the floor that I didn't want to move him. But babies are suppose to sleep on their backs. Darn it!! Should I risk waking him up and move him? Or should I sit there and stare at him to make sure he's okay?

I decided to move him cause I didn't know how long he was going to sleep and I didn't want to just sit there and stare at him. So I moved him to the carseat (his new napping spot).

I learned my lesson for sure. Pictures must be taken with one hand on the baby.

Desparate For Sleep

You know when you get pregnant and you tell people - you usually get two reactions.

Reaction A:
"Yeah!! That's great news" and excitement and chatter ensues. They ask about your due date and how you are feeling and if we know the babies gender and so on....

Reaction B:
(Smirk) "You better get all the sleep you can now."

Reaction A is usually from the folks who don't have children yet. Reaction B come from the people who KNOW that your life will be turned UPSIDE DOWN for weeks and weeks and that you can kiss your nights of sleep away. I had a lot of people tell me this - "Get your sleep while you can" and while I listened...I did not truly BELIEVE. Well. I believe it now.

For the first 3-4 weeks, Emmett would feed every 1.5 hours to 2 hours which means he would sleep only for 2 hours at a time. Now that he's a little older and bigger he's able to stretch it to 2.5 hours to 3 hours. The sad thing is that I CELEBRATE when I get 3 hours. It's amazing how priorities change. I used to get 8 hours a sleep every night with a nap!

And when you are sleep deprived you become desperate. And when you become desperate you are willing to try anything and everything to get that extra hour of sleep. I am all about throwing money at the problem and see if it helps. And just so you know - it's not helping.

I started to track his sleeping to see if he had any sort of pattern. Sleep training usually begins around 8 weeks according to my book about sleep called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.


So I tracked his sleep over 14 days. All of the white squares are when he's awake. As you can see, there is really no pattern. His sleep is all over the place really. But there are some general ideas going on. He usually sleeps around 10pm and goes until 1am or so and has a feeding. Then he sleeps again until 4am and wakes up at 6am. When 6am comes around he has what I call the "Happy Farting Hour". The name is a bit misleading cause he isn't happy at all. He's super fussy cause he is so so gassy. Either Ben or I put him on his tummy and he let's it rip like nobody's business. It's quite the feast for the ears. When this is over he goes back to sleep.

He usually takes 2-3 naps during the day lasting anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. But then 6pm hits and he is FUSSY FUSSY FUSSY. He looks like this.


After what feels like FOREVER - he falls asleep and we start the pattern once again.

Sleep Grins Part II

So I mentioned before that Emmett is being stingy with his smiles - he only smiles when he's falling asleep. Since he is holding out on me I decided that I would need to be his baby stalker and watch his every move so I can get as many sleep grins as possible. So I watch him sleep. And it totally worked! I caught it on tape!

This is Ben.

I am really excited about the new platform bed we put a deposit in on today. It's on a slow boat right now, but when it arrives things will be different. You can count on that!

So if you have never shared a bed with a preg, you don't know the kind of flips that preg must do to accommodate the life growing inside. Crazy flips! Right now our bed is like a bowl full of jello when the flips go down. 

So the platform bed will help mitigate the jello factor.

Why do I get so excited about beds? Well that's where the sleep happens, at least for the next three months. 

Dude! We've got to bank our sleep now!

Sphere was the place I got the furniture.