Reflections

I was looking back over my past posts and I am amazed at how much things have changed. Wow. Not only has it been almost a year that I started this blog but my world, my life is completely different. There was posts when I didn't think I would be able to make through a day, and others when I was so grateful for my friends and family. There were days when K was the best guy ever and others when he was a complete jerk and I almost didn't give our son his last name. Wow. That terms about sums it all up...wow.

Kendall is now 15 weeks and will be 16 weeks next week. Apparently I was counting wrong my son's weeks start over on the 4th of each month. who knew! Thank goodness for friends that know this stuff. Either way my baby is growing like a weed and I am totally in love with him. Kendall truly is my world and I find myself ready to have another baby so that he can have a playmate. Am I crazy? Maybe. Will it be anytime soon? Nope. I would love to be married when I have another child and can't wait to share this experience all over again with my husband. But of course I wouldn't change anything that happened with Kendall for the nothing.

15 weeks old

I can’t believe my baby turned 15 weeks old on Monday, November 17. Geez time is flying by and I don’t want him to grow up so fast. He is now sleeping longer through the night. Not quite the whole night but he does wake up at least once and goes right back to sleep after a bottle. We’re still dealing with his congestion although it isn’t too bad. I can’t quite say it’s a cold but I think its just from the temp changing. I’ve been letting him sleep with me the past couple of nights since it’s been cold plus I haven’t wanted to sleep alone. J I’ve missed cosleeping and may start back. Especially on nights his daddy doesn’t spend the night.

Kendall is also rolling over sometimes and holding his head up really good. I’ve made sure I give him lots of tummy time so he can play practice with that. Sometimes I’ll put him on his back so he can play on his activity mat but he doesn’t care much for that sometimes either. LOL. I’ve been meaning to get him a new one but we’ll probably save that for someone to get him that for Christmas. Thanksgiving is next week and we’ll be spending it in Mississippi with K’s family. This will be Kendall’s first long car ride and an interesting trip. 4 hours plus a time change when we get there? My poor baby’s internal clock is going to be all off. He’ll probably go to bed earlier since he won’t be used to that time change. Plus I don’t want K’s mother spoiling him and messing up a good routine I have with him. Folks need to remember that Kendall spends 90% of his time with me. I don’t want to mess up something that works in my home.

Good news! The pastor of my grandmother’s church will be dedicating Kendall in January! Yay! I’m so excited and happy. I’ve really wanted to get this done and finally have someone to do it. The question now is how supportive his father will be of that. If he doesn’t want to, fine, but I’m still going do it. I’ve already spoken with Kendall’s godparents (Kelly and Estelle) about this and they fully support it. So I need to order his invitations and all that.

Well, that’s about it for us. We’re going to spend Friday night decorating the Christmas tree I plan to pick up

3 months old - First Halloween

I am really behind on posting but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Kendall is now 3 months old. I can't believe how much time has flown by. My baby is growing up. He celebrated his first Halloween this past Friday. My little pumpkin was a pumpkin. LOL

I had to take him to the doctor the other day. Turns out there was recall on Carter's clothing and75% of his clothes are Carter's. Luckily he wasn't being affected by the rash due to the clothes but he does have ecezma. The doctor gave me some steriod cream to put on him so it should clear up soon.

Still not sleeping through the night although he will sleep about 5 hours straight. This is pretty good considering he's not on cereal yet. No sir. He is trying to pull his upper body up and lifts his legs up pretty high. My baby is growing up so fast! I've been using Aveeno on his skin and its making quite a difference. I love how clear it's getting. I'm using it on me as well and I've noticed a difference.

We're doing ok on our rountine. He's usually in bed by 9 something, up at 2 or 3 for a bottle and back up at 615 or so. We got a pretty good rountine going, now if we can just get him to sleep through the night...

THere are some days when it's hard to do this by myself but other days I manage. No one said being a single parent would be easy but I do love being a mother despite anything. He's the best thing I've ever done. I had other pictures to post but I have tons to do around the house while he's taking his evening nap.