17 posts tagged “jonathan”
Show us the best picture you took in 2006.
Submitted by Captured Moments.
I love it and don't know why. It was just one of those point and *click* shots as I was walking down the porch steps.
This is just a sample of what I have to sift through to find decent shots of J.
Nice out today, so I took the kid out for a few.
We found Santa. Don't know why the picture of P is so blurry.
P turned 2 months last Wednesday. I cannot believe how time has flown. It seems like just yesterday I was heading through the hospital door with enough crap in my arms they thought I was permanently moving in. And now he's all smiling and growing and ... *sigh*
Today he had his 2 month shots, and he handled them like a pro. As with J before, I could not hold him during the actual process, Tyler had to. J and I sat across the room, both of us fighting tears when P started screaming after the first shot. J turned to me and said, "Hurts Peyton!" with tears in his eyes. What a big bro!
His next appointment is the 29th at 3 months. I'm curious about his weight gain. The first month he was gaining about half a pound a week, but from week 4 to week 6 he only gained about 4 ounces, so I'm curious to see if he's continued with the slow weight gain or not.
The colic seems to be slowly getting better. For the most part he sleeps decent at night, and has long content periods during the day. Today I even had him cackling before his shots. It's so nice to see him smiling and laughing after nearly two months of pure screaming. He's even starting to let me cuddle him now. I can't even begin to tell you how hard it is to cuddle a screaming, rigid-bodied baby.
I'm kind of sad that we haven't had any professional pictures of P done yet. As much as I love taking pictures, I'd like to have at least one set of professionals to compare with J's. But money is just so tight this time of year (whose idea was it to make property taxes due 5 days before Christmas?!) and so they'll have to wait a bit longer. I feel bad because with J money was tight but I still managed to get pro pictures taken every few months the first year and every six months after that. We haven't had any professional pictures done since April with my Smile Savers plan ran out at Sears.
In other news, J and I made a Christmas countdown chain yesterday. I'm not sure how much he understands about Christmas, so I'm doing what I can to get him all excited about it. We're going to make a tree topper and door hanging, too, as soon as I get some new markers and glue. I thought I had all of this stuff hanging around, but apparently not.
I have so very little Christmas shopping done that it's not even funny. I've got a V-Smile, Hot Wheels set, and Christmas jammies for J, a Bod body spray set for my cousin, and that's it. Tyler's older two nephews are getting wood letters to paint, and other than that I don't even know what to get anyone. Money is super tight, as mentioned, so no one is getting anything too spectacular. I wanted to do homemade gifts, but I didn't get started as early as I wanted to.
Tyler missed work last night with the flu, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no one else gets it. J and I have both been sniffly for days, but that's as far as it has gone.
Tyler has to make up the work he missed on Friday night, which sucks, but necessary. His Christmas party at work is this weekend, and I'm actually excited. Weird, I know, but the place they have cater is amazing. I could care less about the rest of the party as long as they keep having the same place cater. Tyler wants to go out to his buddy's afterwards to play cards, but I will probably end up back home with the boys. I'm still not comfortable leaving P with anyone for too long, and since my sister will probably babysit and she's not too comfortable trying to take care of P during his fussy periods ... it is better that I skip the poker playing.
A P picture and then I'm out. It is a lovely angle, I know, but I had to be fast to catch the smile. He's a quick little bug.
It was nice out today, so I took J outside to play around with camera settings/natural lighting to get prepared for this weekend. Here's a few.
J had a blast trick-or-treating last night. We left early, about six, and he was so efficient that we had hit the entire town, minus a few houses I refused to take him to, by seven. And that was with half of the town inviting us into their houses to show J to their spouses, etc.
I know I've posted his cowboy costume before, but we stepped it up slightly for last night since he had to have his winter coat on and we couldn't get too creative.
