Miles spent the better part of the weekend and early week still recovering from his shots last week. The good news is that he seems to have finally recovered! As you can see from the video below, happy Miles is back - and no one is more thrilled than me!
Today, we had lunch again with the girls. Miles was a perfect gentleman... except for when he ripped a giant turd a the lunch table. But OTHER than that, he was great! It's nice to have our sweet little man back. I love spending the time after a feeding with him when he is alert, happy, comfortable, and chatty. What fun!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
2 Months!!!
Wow. It's really been 2 months? On one hand, it feels so short, I can't believe that this little person is already 2 months old. On the other hand, I am so tired and weary that I can't believe it's only been 2 months.
All that aside, Miles is healthy and doing great! We took him to the doctor's on Friday for his 2 month healthy baby check up. Turns out he's healthy! Or at least he was when we entered the office. By the time we left, he'd been injected with 4 different viruses including Polio and Hepititus... yup, he got his 4 immunization shots. Ughs. He ended up sleeping more or less all day on Friday which makes you know how hard his little body is working to develop the immunities to fight these illnesses. So sad! The shots themselves were awful. Tim held him down while the nurse did the injections. I held his face and spoke peacefully to him, but you should have seen his look when each of the shots hit his leg - eyes wide open, startled, and in pain. I really never hope to see that look again, but I know I will. Breaks your heart.
On the plus side, he is growing and doing great! He now weighs 11 lbs 3 oz in the 50th percentile, measures 23.25 inches, in the 60th percentile, and his head is in the 75th percentile. Apparently, we have a longish, skinnyish, big headed boy.... who we adore.
This weekend, he hasn't quite been his smiley self, but we know that has to do with the shots and the heat wave. The temp should cool down over the next couple of days and he should feel better soon. The good news is that he isn't due for more shots for another 2 months -- that's double his life!!
All that aside, Miles is healthy and doing great! We took him to the doctor's on Friday for his 2 month healthy baby check up. Turns out he's healthy! Or at least he was when we entered the office. By the time we left, he'd been injected with 4 different viruses including Polio and Hepititus... yup, he got his 4 immunization shots. Ughs. He ended up sleeping more or less all day on Friday which makes you know how hard his little body is working to develop the immunities to fight these illnesses. So sad! The shots themselves were awful. Tim held him down while the nurse did the injections. I held his face and spoke peacefully to him, but you should have seen his look when each of the shots hit his leg - eyes wide open, startled, and in pain. I really never hope to see that look again, but I know I will. Breaks your heart.
On the plus side, he is growing and doing great! He now weighs 11 lbs 3 oz in the 50th percentile, measures 23.25 inches, in the 60th percentile, and his head is in the 75th percentile. Apparently, we have a longish, skinnyish, big headed boy.... who we adore.
This weekend, he hasn't quite been his smiley self, but we know that has to do with the shots and the heat wave. The temp should cool down over the next couple of days and he should feel better soon. The good news is that he isn't due for more shots for another 2 months -- that's double his life!!
Monday, May 12, 2008
Miles's "Shower"
We gave Miles a bath on Sunday that ended up being a bit of a shower for our little love. He handled it reasonably well, but there were a couple of tears during the event.
Mother Day Quotes
Stumbled upon these quotes and thought I would publish it here in appreciation for Moms. May take a while to get thru, there are ore than a few...grab a soft chair and a glass of wine.
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ~Maxim Gorky
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. ~Groucho Marx
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another twenty minutes for another woman to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck
Mothers are the necessity of invention. ~Bill Watterson
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin
That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving
My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." ~Jill Churchill
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain
The mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ~Dorothy Canfield
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ~Maxim Gorky
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. ~Groucho Marx
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another twenty minutes for another woman to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck
Mothers are the necessity of invention. ~Bill Watterson
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin
That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving
My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." ~Jill Churchill
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain
The mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ~Dorothy Canfield
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding
My First Mother's Day
Wow. Mother's Day!!Tim and Miles started off the day perfectly for me... with extra sleep! It couldn't have been any nicer. After I finally woke up, we headed down to San Jose as a family to pick up some nursing essentials (bra and 2 shirts) which are great! We then headed home for a little more R&R.
It's amazing to think that this little person has come into our lives. We just adore spending time together as a family... though wish that more of it was spent sleeping!
Some more photos of me and Miles... and of his bath cane be found on Flickr.
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