Merry Christmas! This has been a wonderful Christmas for us, busy as usual, but thankful for great family and friends to celebrate this special holiday with. This is our first Christmas with Nolan and it was the best we've had yet! I'm sure they'll even get better the older he gets and the larger our family grows. Jeremy and I decided to celebrate Christmas this year at our house, that way we could wake up with Nolan and open presents (even though he was too small to know what was going on). That meant we were in charge of the Christmas dinner :0! Jeremy was determined to make his Grandma Hoeppner's homemade noodles. So Christmas eve he called her to get the recipe. I tried to convince him several times to just buy the frozen ones, but those weren't good enough. We headed to Meijer to get all the fixens (of course beer is a necessity, and a rolling pin as well)!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Merry Christmas
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Pre-Christmas and the Hoeppner's
All of Nolan's great presents!
His new Radio Fyler wagon (we can't wait till spring and we can take Shelby and Nolan for walks)
Aunt Heather and Nolan
Uncle Chris and Nolan
Grandma and Nolan in his Santa suit
Nolan and Grandpa HoeppnerThursday, December 18, 2008
Aunt Heather and the Sux
In my attempt to lose some "baby weight" (who are we kidding I needed to lose weight before I had Nolan), I went to the gym after work. Since Jeremy had basketball and I wouldn't get home till later our sister-in-law, Heather, watched Nolan for a couple hours. I walked in to pick Nolan up and to my surprise I found him in this wonderful new outfit! After we got home, I left Nolan in his car seat so Daddy would take him out and find this early Christmas present. When I told him he better check out what his Heather did to Nolan he knew right away!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Back to the old way
So, last night was the second night in a row I went without much sleep. After our eventful evening Friday night we continued to leave Nolan unswaddled. Saturday and Sunday night he slept wonderfully. I thought, boy this was easy! Oh, how I was mistaken... Monday night he woke up 4 times from 1:30am-4am. At 4am I had the last straw, Jeremy got up and swaddled him and sure enough he was back to sleep and slept silently till 6am. I thought for sure he would do better Tuesday night since he didn't sleep that much Monday night. Again, I was wrong (seems to be the theme of the week). At 2am the whining started, at the advise of my mother-in-law, I would just let him cry a little in hopes he would calm himself back to sleep. By 2:15 the whining began a slight sob, by 2:30 the sobs turned into a crying that made him more and more upset. There was no way he was going back to sleep on his own. I decided for my own sanity it would be best to lose the idea of sleeping free and go back to swaddling. It worked like a charm. He slept till after 6 and I didn't hear one peep out of him from 2:30 on. With two weeks vacation coming up we might just try again, until then we're going back to the old way and wrapping him nice and tight!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Just our luck
So it was advised to us that we try weening Nolan off his swaddler at night. For those of you that don't know what a swaddler is, it looks like a blanket with a pocket at the bottom for his feet. Once his feet are in the pocket you wrap the blanket across him to hold him tight. This was a miracle blanket for us. Nolan had really bad startle reflexes and this was the only way he could sleep. We decided last night was the night. Boy we picked a great night to try this, here's a breakdown of my night...
3am - up fussing, binky solves that
3:30am - still fussing, change diaper and binky
4:00am - moving around grunting and making all other kinds of noises that keep mommy up
5am - loud shriek, in to check and sound asleep, must have been a bad dream
5:15am - Dad up to check on Nolan after the loud shriek and to our surprise a diarrhea accident from Shelby
5:17am - Mom cleaning up the accident... not fun at 5am
6am - up to feed Nolan, back to bed
8:30am - laughing and giggle and cooing, time to get Nolan
9am - downstairs to feed Shelby, time and get up, another accident on the rug in front of the sliding glass door.
9:30am - wash rugs, call vet
It's been a long time since he's woke up in the middle of the night, I'm hoping tonight goes a little better. We called the vet, he suggested Imodium for the dog and no food for 24 hours. Hopefully this will solve cleaning up messes at 5 in the morning. Needless to say we apparently picked the wrong night to lose the swaddler. I'm thinking tonight will be the same, less the accidents.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
My lungs are working
Nolan was abnormally loud last night, screaming and squealing. It was so cute - as soon as he would squeal, I would squeal louder and then he'd come right back and scream and then I would scream louder. Jeremy loved it!! After about 20 minutes of that both Nolan and Jeremy got tired of listening to it! He's definitely developing a pair of lungs on him that are for more than just crying. He's SUPER cute at this age, makes me want to have another one right away!!
Today was Shelby's grooming day, I love when she comes home from the vet, smells great and looks so cute and festive!!
Leave me alone Mom... what the heck! You're pissing me off!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I thought this day would never come!
Big Boy
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tis' the season
Excuse the paint on the fireplace, we haven't finished trimming it out.