xavier is 2 months old!

stats at 1 month:

weight: 10 lbs 13 ozs

height: 23 in.

stats at 2 months:

weight: 13 lbs 14 ozs

height: 24 in.

i cant believe xavier is already 2 months old! haha i guess i will be saying this every month! it is going by so fast. i didnt get a chance to take any pictures of him on his 2 month birthday(i know, im a bad mom!). he had his doctor appt. that day and got 3 shots! needless to say that when we got home he wasnt in the best of moods and  i just needed to comfort him. the photos here are just of him close to his 2 month birthday!

ok, so lets see what xavier is like now!

* he is very vocal. he will coo and coo when he is happy. it is the most awesome sound. he still laughs in his sleep and very recently we have noticed that he is having slight laughs when he is happy. or when im talking to him he will make noises back and sometimes it sounds like a laugh.

* xavier still loves to be swaddled! jeremy takes him into the bedroom and swaddles him on our bed and xavier LOVES it! he smiles and coos when jeremy is doing it. its really cute!

* he is a strong little guy. we hold him up so he can stand and does so very well. sometimes when he is standing i sit him down and he gets pissy and so i stand him back up and he is happy again. haha its funny!

* he really loves his baby einstein playmat gym thingy. he kicks the toys and hits them and they make noises and it makes him happy!

* xavier loves bath time! he likes to kick and move his arms in the water. its pretty cute.

* his cry has changed. sometimes it sounds so sad.

* xavier really doesnt like tummy time. he will be good for a couple of minutes and then it turns into this:

im sure there are more things, he changes everyday. sometimes i just look at him and see that he has gotten bigger and it breaks my heart that he wont be this way forever. but i take advantage of this time and love on him as much as i can. i mean, how can you not? look at his face:

just a little photoshoot

xavier is so incredibly happy today i decided to take a bajillion pictures of him! here are just a few of what i took:

he is just too much sometimes and i cant help but smile for long periods of time =)

hahaa he kind of made a sad face for a second!

i LOVE his feet! too cute!

our first mother's and father's day

mother's day - 5.9.2010

my first mother's day was great! to be honest, before i had xavier i was a little sad because i didnt think i was going to be able to celebrate mother's day this year. i would have just missed it. my due date was 6 days passed mother's day and who knows how long after my due date i would have went. so when i had xavier in april i was happy that i didnt miss it!

i just got out of the hospital 5 days before and was still really sore from the c-section so we stayed home. jeremy made me breakfast and did all of the diaper changes for the day. it was really nice. we also watched movies and just relaxed. xavier was still sleeping a lot so it was a very easy day.

one thing that really sticks out in my mind about mother's day is that i woke up feeling kind of weird. it was like this overwhelming feeling of always wanting to be there for xavier and never letting something happen to me where i wouldnt be there for him. i dont know how to explain it. i was still having problems with my high blood pressure so maybe that was it? im not sure. but it made me feel funny all day.

overall my day was really great! i love being a mom, especially to xavier!

father's day - 6.20.2010

when i asked jeremy how his first father's day was, this is what he said: "it was all a father could ask for." cheesy, right?! haha i woke up and took xavier out of our room so jeremy could sleep. i woke jeremy up after i was done feeding xavier so i could make him breakfast. bacon, eggs, and toast is what i made. simple and sweet. he liked it. we lounged around for most of the day. at around 6ish we left for dinner. we were meeting up with jose and the fam to follow them to this mexican restaurant in stuttgart. 

we got to the place and it was really nice. the menu was more of authentic mexican which is a lot different than "tex mex" that is usually in the states. we both got taquitos! they were pretty good, but i think i prefer what we get in the states. the hernandez's know the owner(he's mexican and is married to a german woman!), so he came out and chatted a bit with us. xavier woke up and needed to be changed but they didnt have a changing station so we left. when we got home we watched some tv and then went to bed. jeremy had the next day off so we didnt have to go to bed super early or anything. =)

overall i would say that our first mother's and father's days were great! its going to be so amazing to get a little handmade card from xavier or a little planted flower in a plastic cup! we look forward to the many years of being parents.

6.19.2010

this morning xavier woke up at 3:40am to eat. he was doing fine until about 5 minutes in and he released and started crying. so i burped him and then changed his diaper. when i tried to offer it back to him he didnt want anything to do with it and cried again. i calmed him down and he was happy. i offered it back to him again, same thing. i offered the other side to him thinking maybe he just wanted a change, he ate for about 3 minutes, released and cried and after that wouldnt eat again. this is our routine for eating a lot of the times. it takes a good hour or so for him to eat a good 15 minutes worth. its very frustrating. i try different positions, burp him, clean out his nose, pump and offer him a bottle, but nothing seems to work. he roots around so i know he is hungry but when i offer it to him he doesnt go for it. its really weird.

about 5am we finally went back into the bedroom because it was very clear he wasnt going to eat again and was very content and sleepy. i laid him in his pack n play and he stared at me while i got into bed. within seconds i grabbed him up and put him in bed with me.we were cuddling and he was just staring away at me and i was doing the same back. i decided to try and feed him again, and he took it and ate for a while. finally! after he was done eating he was looking at me and smiled. i started rubbing his cheek and he continued to smile and his eyes rolled back into his head. he was enjoying it and it showed. i rubbed his head and cheeks until he fell asleep.

while he was sleeping i continued to just stare at him. he is so little yet already so amazing. i thought about how no matter how frustrating or how long it takes to breastfeed him, that is the absolute best thing for him and i wont give up. i wont give up.

baby sign language!!

jeremy and i have decided that we are going to teach xavier sign language. we are really excited about it and cant wait! i ordered a book from amazon to help us learn it and teach it to him. it doesnt seem very hard at all which is good because hopefully we will stick with it.

the plan is to learn it now (when we get the book) so by the time he is 6 months we would be pretty fluent in the signs and use them all the time so that he will pick up on it. that way he can tell us things before he can even talk. there has been a lot of success in people teaching their babies sign language and i hope that stands true for us! if everything goes well it will definitely relieve a lot of stress and frustration - and im looking forward to that. =)

so wish us luck in learning this and hopefully we stick with it!!

xavier smiles

today i was holding xavier and rubbing one of his burp clothes on his nose and making funny noises and he totally LOVED it and smiled a lot! it made my heart smile.

i totally cried. =)