We are trying to get back to the old sleeping habits he had before he went through the growth spurt and the sickness that had us in the hospital for a few days. The last two nights he has slept pretty soundly and I attribute that to being able to sleep on his tummy. If he can just roll himself over to his stomach, he can sleep a good solid 6-7 hours before he wakes for a feeding. I feel like I am kind of starting to get a little more sleep these days! Im sure I just jinxed myself...
Because he just got out of the hospital on Sunday, we decided to keep Karsen out of daycare for the beginning part of the week. Monday he stayed home with me and Bruce and Tuesday/Wednesday, he got to spend the day with Grandma! Lucky for Karsen, Grandpa was around for a little while to help out AND Uncle Jim came to visit both days.
Excited for Game 1 of the World Series!!
Picture with Grandpa before he left town.
Spending some time in Grandma's exersaucer!
Before Karsen was born, I spent some time on Pinterest finding some fun crafting ways to display some of the early days of Karsen's life. The following pictures are two things I came up with. Thank you, Pinterest!
I have made one of these before for a friend, so I was super excited to make one for my own child! The 4 smaller openings on the left side still need to be completed, but it is space reserved for the time he was born, and his length and weight at birth. The pictures are some great shots while we were still in the hospital. The whole idea behind the tray was just to commemorate his first few days of life, while in the hospital.
This shadowbox also shows some memories from the hospital. In this shadowbox I saved the hospital shirt, his stocking hat he wore the whole time, his information card, his footprints and his ID bracelet is also in there. I think it turned out pretty good! And what better way to display some of the memories...otherwise, what else are you supposed to do with all that stuff?!
After Karsen was born, my really good friend Tracy kept talking about a Meet-and-Greet baby shower (which I wrote about here) but one of the parting gifts they gave me included the following items. One thing was a set of blocks. These things are SO COOL because they are just standard 2x2 blocks, which they glued scrapbook paper on and then added his birthdate as well as his name to. They also left a number of the sides blank so I could print off some pictures and attach those. Here is the final product! I have these blocks on the shelf over the changing table and I always like to look at the pictures when changing Karsen!
The next item is pretty cool too. The other hostess, Tracey, bought this chicken wire frame at Joann's and painted the frame portion and then attached the word "Smile" to the top of the frame. Then, she used washi tape to decorate the mini clothes pins so I could then order some pictures and pin them to the chicken wire. LOVED IT!!! I loved it so much that I made one for my parents as a way of saying 'thank you' for all of the times they have come over to babysit so Bruce and I could spend some nights out. Definitely one of the cutest ideas I have seen and will be using it again as gifts in the future. It is such a great way to display pictures and it is so easy to change out the pictures as the child grows.
It did take me a while to complete all of these projects (I took a day off of school just to stay home and craft) but once I got them done, I felt such accomplishment and I love the different ways to show off some of Karsen's things.
On a side note, we are really hopeful to FINALLY start solids with Karsen sometime next week. With him being sick, the pediatrician recommended waiting until he turns 5 months. At this point, since we have waited so long, I think we will just go straight to oatmeal, and then have him eat that until closer to 6 months where he will then go straight to finger foods. I'm thinking we will just skip purees. Wowza! Cheers to another big milestone coming up!
MB
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