Our Weekend

I had a great long weekend and am back to work today. I hope you all had a nice weekend as well.

♥ Friday night we had my nieces and nephew spend the night with us. The girls and I watched Never Say Never. Of course they're big Justin Bieber fans being that they are 11 years old. I had heard really great things about the movie so I asked the girls to bring it with them so we could watch it. It was very well put together and fun to watch how J.B. became the star he is today.

♥ Saturday, the girls and I went to the first, of hopefully many, sewing class at church. A friend from church, Wendy,  is a great sewer and offered to give us a little sewing class. We all made a bag out of a pillow case. It was so fun! Here's a picture of all of us with the bag we made.

Then Saturday evening I cleaned the house to get ready for our Super Bowl party the next day. While cleaning I finally got around to one of the pinterest projects I'd been wanting to do. A picture frame collage for our living room wall. It took me a little while to figure out how I wanted to do this, and it wasn't easy getting all the picture frames hung evenly. But I managed to get it up and I absolutely love it! Here are some pictures.

♥ Then Sunday we had our Super Bowl party, which was a lot of fun. We've had a Superbowl party every year since we've been married and they're always a fun time. I never really watch the game, but its fun to visit with everyone and eat all the yummy food. This year I decided to try making football shaped brownies. They were surprising easy to make and so cute!

Cheese ball my mom made for the party! So cute.

Everybody watching the game in our basement.

My cousin took this picture of Jackson. He had on a cute little football outfit. I wish I would have gotten a better picture of it. :-(

♥ Then yesterday I had the day off, so I spent the day just hanging out with this handsome boy! We did a little photo shoot as I was trying out some different settings on my camera and some different editing tools on Picasa.

I'm so in love with his blue eyes! ♥♥♥

Now its back to work. Boo :-(  But at least I have another 3 day weekend coming up!! ☺

Jackson is 15 Weeks Old!

Jackson turned 15 weeks old this past Thursday! He had to go to the Dr. on Wed. because he sounded very congested. The Dr. said his throat and ears were a little red so she put him on amoxicillin for the first time. He's done just fine on it, thank goodness. While at the Dr. they weighed him and he weighed 16 lbs. 1 oz.!! I couldn't believe it. He's getting so big. The Dr. also said we could try putting a teaspoon or 2 of rice cereal in his bottles to try and help with the spitting up. I've been putting a teaspoon and a half in each bottle and have definitely noticed a decrease in the spit up. We went back to just Similac Advanced and that seems to have helped the spit up as well. ☺

Fill in the Blank Friday

1. If money wasn't an issue, the first thing I'd cross off my life list is: adopt a little girl from China.

2. Puppy Breath is something I like that other people think is weird.

3. If my life were a movie right now, the title would be: "The Wonderful Life of a Working Mom and Wife".

4. Three things I am looking forward to this month are: Sewing class tomorrow, The Fray's new album coming out and Valentines Day.

5. My favorite song to sing in the shower is: I don't really sing in the shower. These days its in and out as quickly as possible before the baby wakes up or starts crying.

6. If I found out that the production of coffee was ending this month, I'd go out and buy as much as I could tomorrow.

7. One thing I'll never grow tired of is hearing Jackson laugh.

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!

Thoughts for Thursday

What I'm Loving Wednesday

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 I'm loving this medicine dispenser made by Safety First.

Yesterday morning I woke up to Jackson sounding very congested. Unfortunately it hadn't gotten any better today and he didn't sleep very well last night because of it, so I stayed home from work today and took him to see the doctor. She said his throat and ears looked a little red, so she wrote us a prescription for Amoxicillin to try and nip this in the bud before it gets bad. He seems to be his happy self, he's just really congested sounding and a little more tired than normal. When I gave him the Amoxicillin at noon, using the syringe that came with it, he just spit it all back out. :-( So I tried the safety first bottle medicine dispenser I had gotten at one of my showers and it worked like a charm. He drank it right down with no problems. :-)

I'm really loving this new song by the Fray! Can't wait for their new album to come out next Tuesday!

I'm loving this commercial I saw a few months back and found on youtube this week. It melts my heart. ♥

I'm loving that some good friends of ours just found out they're having a BOY at the end of June. They have a 1 year old little girl, so they're really excited to be adding a boy to their family. It will be fun for our boys to grow up together. ☺

And as always, I'm loving my family!

Spit-Up Woes

From the time Jackson was born, he has been a "spit up" baby. He even spit up in the hospital. For the first 3 weeks of his life, I solely breastfed him, only to have to start supplementing when I found out he had only gained 2 ounces in 2 weeks at his 3 week check-up. I just never could give him enough milk, and after a few more weeks of supplementing, I dried up completely and just had to give him formula only. However, even on breast milk he would spit up.

I started out giving him Similac advanced because thats what we got in the hospital. He did alright on that, but would spit up a few times a day. It was never a large amount and he didn't seem bothered by it, so I didn't really think much of it. After we went through all the Similac advanced formula we had gotten from the hospital, doctor's office and from Similac themselves, I asked the pediatrician if we could use some Similac formula I had gotten that was for sensitive stomachs. (Similac sent us a couple cans to try.) The doctor said sure, that it wouldn't hurt anything to give him that since we had a couple cans, and it might even help with the spit up. So I gave it to him and never really noticed a change with the spit up. I even tried buying the Similac for spit up and that never really worked either. He was still spitting up on a pretty regular basis, but it still didn't seem to be bothering him, it was just bothering me. Haha.

As time has gone on, it seems to be getting worse. He spits up with almost every bottle, multiple times, and sometimes even several hours after he's eaten. Its still not a huge amount at any one time and he's gaining weight just fine. In the last 2 weeks I've tried giving him Enfamil's Gentlease formula, because several people who have babies that spit up said it helped their babies. It doesn't seem to be helping Jackson. :-( In fact, I think it has even gotten a little worse. Last night he spit up a couple times, once way after he had eaten and the other time during a feeding, and they were both quite a bit of spit up. I had to change him and the boppy pillow cover.

 
So now I don't know what to do. I've mentioned it to the doctor and he said they have medicine they can give him for reflux, but if he doesn't seem bothered by it, then he'd rather not prescribe it. I agree with the doctor, and would rather not give him medicine that he doesn't really need. I just wish there was something I could do to at least calm down the frequency of spit up. I know there are just some babies that spit up more than others and if he's just one of those babies then I guess I'll have to live with the dirty laundry and spit up stained clothes, but I just wonder if there's something more I could be doing or trying to maybe make the spit up a little less frequent. I don't want to keep changing his formula all the time to see what works best for him, but I'm just not sure which one I should continue giving him. There are so many options and I'm not sure which one is really best for him.

So I was wondering if any of you moms out there, might have some suggestions for me. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has dealt with this problem before and I'm hoping someone has a suggestion for me to try. Is there some secret out there to helping your baby with spit-up that this first time mom doesn't know about?? If so, I'd love to know about it. Or am I just being paranoid?? Any and all suggestions/remedies are welcome. ☺

Our Weekend

We had a great weekend! I hope you did as well.

Friday night we had my parents over for pizza and a movie. We needed a new garbage disposal put in, so my dad came over to do that for us. Its nice to have a garbage disposal again after a month of our old one being broken. After he got that done, we ordered pizza and watched The Ides Of March. It was a good movie and very intense. Gotta love any movie with George Clooney and Ryan Gosling. ☺

Saturday, we just hung out at home. I had intended to clean the house, but never really got around to it. My sister, her husband and their 2 boys came over later that afternoon and I helped my sister make a blog. Check it out here. Its still not really finished as she has some more things to add, but its looking pretty cute so far.

At 7, we all went to some friend's of ours house for dinner and a movie. We watched the Help again, since our friends had never seen it before. (Our Blockbuster is closing and they are selling all their movies, so I got a good deal on The Help along with a few other movies.)  It was a really fun night and great time together. We don't see these friends as often as we'd like or should, so it was fun to get together with them.

Sunday we went to church and then we went to a bowling tournament with my co-workers. Our team came in 6th place out of more than 20 teams! Not too shabby. After the tournament, we went home and spent the rest of the evening relaxing and playing with Jackson. He's such a cutie and is really smiling and talking a lot these days! Heres a picture I took of him before we left for church yesterday. He's getting so big!