Today I was playing with Travis and wanted to take a picture of him wearing cute little khaki shorts. Whenever I pull out my camera he usually goes straight-faced, but not today!! He let me get two cute smiles. Check them out:
I have always heard that teething is not a fun thing for both baby and parent. I now can say for certain that it is not fun AT ALL!!
Two blog posts ago I mentioned how Travis had decided to only take thirty minute naps. I thought it was because he didn't want to be swaddled, and so I started doing what it took to break him of that habit. He wasn't taking to that very well and after a few days of a lot of tears, I went to a cooking group with some women at church and was talking to them about what was going on. They told me that it could be teething or an ear infection. I didn't think it was an ear infection because he didn't really have any symptoms for it. I let the bad sleeping go for a few days and then I was going to call the Pediatrician. Well, one week from when the bad naps started, I was at Costco and was trying to make Travis smile. It was then that I noticed a kind-of white bump in his mouth. I looked this up online and it turns out the white bump is what shows before a tooth breaks! Well that would explain the poor naps AND the night waking (he is a good night sleeper). Well, I kept questioning myself because the bump was sometimes hard to see, then on Saturday, 3/17, Eric felt his gums and sure enough a tooth! That sucker is sharp. It's nice that it broke through, but those front teeth come in two's, so now we're waiting for that second one to come and the poor sleeping and occasional crankiness persists. Middle of the night crying is so hard to deal with. Luckily Eric is helpful even though he has to go to work. It wouldn't be so horrible if I could take a nap, but by the time I'm falling asleep, Travis is waking up. It's SO HARD!!! I have to keep telling myself that this is just a phase and that his good sleep will return (fingers crossed.) Until then, I'm trying to get all of the sleep that I can.
I would show you a picture but he will barely ever keep his tongue back long enough for me to get a look. Maybe I can get a good picture when the teeth come up more. Oh how I'm going to miss that all gum smile. It's so sweet...
Travis had his 6-month check-up on Tuesday. Time is going WAY too fast. His stats are as follows:
Weight: 20 lbs, 1 oz. (88%)
Height: 28.25 in. (96%)
He's a BIG BOY!! I love that he's so big. I love the little rolls on his arms, legs and belly. They are just delicious. The doctor checked him out and said that he is a healthy little boy and that we're doing a good job. That made me feel good. I'm trying to be the best mom I can be and it's good to know that something I'm doing is working!! After I asked like 20 questions (Eric thinks I'm crazy, haha!) Travis got his 6-month shots. They didn't go as smoothly as the previous two visits, but I think he was a little tired and hungry by the end. He screamed when he got pricked and then kept crying until I picked him up and then a little after that. He calmed down soon after but I haven't heard him scream like that in a long time. Poor baby. He now has little bruises on his legs where the shots were. Sad. One funny thing is that later that night when I went to give him a bath I took off his band-aids and noticed that one of them was TAZ! This is funny because his initials are TAZ and before he was born we said we would call him TAZ. We only call him that every once in awhile, but we thought the band-aid was perfect for little man.
His next appointment is in June, and there won't be any shots at that one. Yay!!
I love my growing boy.
So remember my post last week talking about my new blogging approach? Well, I almost forgot about it this week. I have gotten so used to not blogging that I just didn't think about it until I sat down at my computer to do something else, and BAM! I remembered. Ha!
Anyways, this week has been an interesting one. Travis has decided that sleeping for more than thirty minutes at a time during the day is totally over-rated (I don't agree) and I don't know if it's because he doesn't like his swaddle anymore, or something else. Everything is like a guessing game at this age. I hope we figure it out soon though because he needs to sleep more. He's been pretty happy regardless though. He's such a sweet boy.
Last Friday, 3/2, we gave Travis his first taste of solid foods: rice cereal. He loves it! His first bite wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, but I think it's because rice cereal doesn't have much flavor. Maybe when we give him other stuff we'll got those awesome baby faces. Now he knows what's coming when you put him in his high chair and he gets excited and opens his mouth waiting for us to feed him. He whines between bites if you aren't going fast enough. It's funny. I'm glad he's doing well with solids. This video is from Eric's phone which is why it's sideways. I had one on our video camera but it won't upload for some reason. Sorry!
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| Mid-"chew" |
As you could tell, I have become even worse of a blogger than I was before. I haven't even blogged about our Christmas (which was fantastic). I decided I need to have a different approach to blogging since my current approach obviously wasn't working. After having lunch with two friends, and blog followers, they helped me to feel good about my new approach. So here it is. I am going to try to do a photo of the week blog. Obviously I will try to blog once a week, but no promises. I just want to have some memories on this blog because I want to make a book out of it one day. So, I am going to try this. Wish me luck and get excited to see more pictures of the cutest little boy in the world. Since it's been awhile, I will add a few photos to make up for the lack of posts. (I apologize if you've already seen some on Facebook)
Happy Friday!
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| Rock Star |
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| He loves this toy! |
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| He fell asleep in the car holding his favorite toy |
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| TAZ Velour Suit! (Travis Allan Zeugschmidt, get it?) |
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| Father and Son |
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| Mr. Lumberjack |
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| So Happy! |
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| On a walk with Mom |
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| On a walk with Dad |
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| Playing with Mom |
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| He loves his Aunt Heather |
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| Sitting by himself (Boppy is there for protection) |
Isn't it crazy how much things can change in just one year? One year ago from today I went to work for 8 hours, went to the gym, oh, and found out that I was pregnant! Today I woke up and got to spend the day with the sweetest little boy in the whole world. Quite a change from the day I had one year previous. I wouldn't change it for anything though. I have the greatest job ever.
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| After we found out the good news one year ago |
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| My little boy today! |
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| Having fun playing on the floor! |
I guess it's pretty obvious that I'm way behind on my blogging, but this I had to share. We didn't get around to carving pumpkins this past Halloween but we already bought the pumpkins, so we carved them for Thanksgiving. Clever, I know!
My sister-in-law and a family friend made me some burp rags for Travis. I really like them and decided that I wanted to try and make some as well. Now I'm not much of a sewer. Pretty much everything I've sewn my mom was right next to me telling me what to do. Since she isn't here I had to do it on my own. I knew that burp rags couldn't be that hard, so I called her up for some advice, and then got to sewing. They took me a lot longer than I thought they would, mostly due to the special stitches I did, but they turned out really cute and I had fun. I gave them to two of my friends who were having girls, hence the pink! I think I need to sew more often. I wish I would have taken advantage of my mom's sewing knowledge when I was living at home...
Look closely at some of the pictures and you can see the cute stitches. I'm happy with my work!!
This year for Thanksgiving my parents and sister came into town, and my little brother lives here already. It was a lot of fun. I'm glad that we live in a bigger place now so that people can actually come visit and stay with us. My sister came a few days early to hang out with me, meet little Travis and to help me get things ready. It was so fun to just spend some time with her. On Thanksgiving my mom helped me make my first turkey ever (she did most of the work) and it turned out delicious! We had all of the traditional Thanksgiving foods, and were all stuffed!! We got to use our nice dishes for the first time too. Eric's parents were storing them for us for the past few years and we finally got them out here. I felt so fancy using our nice stuff!! I don't know what else to say about it other than it was a nice relaxing day. Oh how I love the holidays...
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| The table set up and my cute sister |
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| What Travis did while we stuffed ourselves |
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| Our cute little pumpkin pie |
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| Eric and Tyler playing with Travis |
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| Cute little Abbie |
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| Tyler and Matt playing with Grandpa |
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| Abbie "holding" Travis |
Back in November I went shopping for Christmas. I was in Gap and couldn't control my urge to go look at their baby stuff. This little gem immediately caught my eye and I couldn't resist (he needed one anyways). Doesn't he look scrumptious??
