tongue

Jayden LOVES his tongue. Anytime he is happy, his mouth is wide open and tongue is OUT! :)

Even the nurses at the doctor's office the other day were talking about how he is going to end up with chapped lips because his mouth is always open and tongue is always out!! haha

This is my newest favorite picture of him. I just love the hat that's too big for him and that adorable happy smile!


See what I mean... Here's the tongue in action!




These are in no particular order.... but they are some of Jayden's tongue pictures from the past 5 months! :)








And I had to post this video from last night. I thought it was cute watching Jared with him making him laugh. :)



I'm so glad Jared is off this weekend and we get to spend time together as a family! (well, minus the time I have to do report cards! yuck!)

Jayden is FIVE MONTHS old!!!

Jayden just hit the five month mark! We are enjoying every minute of him!

Since he was sick and wheezing at 4 months, he was unable to get his 4 month shots at that time. Now that he is better, he had his 4 month shots at 5 months! :) Everything went really well at the doctor's appointment. He is now 16 pounds 2 ounces (50%) and about 25 1/2 inches long. Dr. said he still did have some fluid in his ear, but it can take several weeks to go away. Dr. said he looks great! :)

Jared took him to this appointment because I was at work. Jared is such a good daddy! Oh, and here is a picture of Jayden's bandaids from the shots.


A lot has been happening this month. Jayden has such a sweet, LAID BACK, happy personality. He really doesn't cry much at all. (much different from his first couple months with the colic!)

Jayden.....
-is such a good sleeper... He is sleeping IN HIS CRIB! He started in the crib on Christmas Night 2009 (4 months) and has slept in it EVERY night since. We lay him down when he's sleepy, but awake, and he falls asleep on his own. He uses a paci and listens to the lullaby music projector that hangs on his crib. It plays sweet music and shines a light with moving stars, etc. on the ceiling. He watches that as he falls asleep(thanks Nana and Pop Pop for that cool thing!) He goes to bed around 9:30 pm and sleeps until around 7:00 am. :)
-eyes are turning darker
-started rice cereal at almost 5 months (21 weeks)
-still LOVES bathtime!!!!!
-plays in jumparoo!
-ticklish and laughs a lot
-puts everything he can in his mouth
-sticks his tongue out all the time!
-had allergy testing done (20 weeks)
-wearing size 2 diapers... getting ready to start size 2/3! we prefer Pampers! :)
-This month, we also learned that Jayden is allergic to penicillin. He was on amoxicillin for his ear infection a few weeks ago and he broke out in hives. Jared and I are both allergic to penicillin, too.


Here are the pictures from his 5 month photo shoot!






such a happy, sweet, boy!!! :)

Friday night Jayden had his first rice cereal! It was so much fun feeding him with a spoon!!! He did very well with it. He made a big mess and it was great!

Jared likes to teach Jayden how to hold his own bottle. Sometimes he does it and sometimes he doesn't. Last night, I walked into the nursery and was watching their bottle holding lesson....



After the bottle, Jayden burped. He does not spit up that often, but every once in a while he does. He did last night! But not on his burp cloth or his bib! He spit up right on Jared's face!!! I just happened to have the camera in my hand from the previous clip. So I had to get a picture of this!!! It was so funny!!!!!!!!!!!

SNOW DAY!

This morning I was so excited to wake up to my school being a 2-hour delay! I got up, saw it on the news, and hit the snooze button. Instead of waking up at 5 am, I got to wake up at 7 am. Jayden wakes up at 7 am every morning. It is like clockwork! He actaully is a very good sleeper. He goes to bed around 9 pm ISH and sleeps until 7 am ISH. :)

Anyway, I got up, fed/changed Jayden, then got myself all ready. Next thing you know my friend Kristen texted me and let me know that it was a snow day!!! I turned on the news and sure enough, the 2 hour delay was now changed to CLOSED! YAY! I was so excited. A Friday... Snow and spend whole day with baby!!! Sounds perfect to me! This is what it looked like through our porch windows.... I wish I would have taken a little bit longer clip because it looks so pretty!!!



I wanted to take Jayden out really fast to get his picture in the snowfall. Jared was at work so it was pretty difficult to hold the baby in one arm and the camera in the other... my video didn't turn out so well... You can see the 2 second clip. I had to stop because a snowflake fell right in Jayden's eyelash!!!



Here we are... I didn't get my make up on yet because between the shower and makeup getting ready process I learned school was closed!




I had to set Jayden in his car seat in order to get a picture of him with the snow. So far, this is his 3rd snow accumulation! It was nothing like the 20+ inches we had a couple weeks ago when he was in the hospital. It was just enough to cover everything, including the roads so I couldn't go to work!







Gosh, I love snow! And I love my baby! Yesterday was perfect!!!

Allergy Testing

Jayden's doctor wanted him to get allergy testing done to rule in or out allergies as a possible reason for his continued wheezing. (Side note-- he is FINALLY better!)
On Wednesday, Jan. 6, we took him to an Allergy and Asthma Center and saw a great doctor. Jayden had some allergy testing done. He is such a brave baby. He has really been through so much lately. Between all of his regular shots, blood drawn/ x-rays at the hospital recently, and now had to get about 40 "pokes" in his back for allergy testing, gee whiz!

The allergy tests were done in sets of 5. On each set, he was tested for about 6 or 8 differnt things. The first set was dog, cat, dust mites, and things like that. The second set was cows milk, egg, peanut, soybean, rice, and wheat. Third set was corn, peach, orange, grape, apple, pear, lime, and banana. Fourth set was beef, chicken, lamb, tomato, turkey, pork, carrot, and squash. The fifth set was for oat, white potato, green bean, navy bean, barley, sweet potato, lima bean, and peas. The main thing we were looking for was the dog. We kept wondering what would happen if Jayden was allergic to Fred!

There is a TON more that they usually test for when they do allergy testing, but the doctor did not test for the last 8 sets. First they cleaned Jayden's back, then they laid him on his belly. I was holding his hands and talking to him. The first set went down on his back and he looked up at me with the biggest eyes and a huge smile. Then the second set went down and he looked up and let out a big scream! :( The girl did the "pokes" so fast, which was good. We had to hold him for 20 minutes and wait to see what happened. The doctors left and Jared and I waited in the room for 20 minutes holding Jayden. (who was SO GOOD!) Jared and I were freaking out as we watched the big red bumps all over Jayden's back get redder and redder and bigger and bigger. We thought he was going to be allergic to everything! (The really big ones that look like mosquito bites were the controls. That's how they know you aren't on any anti-histamines or anything.....





As it turns out, they all measured fine and Jayden is not allergic to anything. They rate every bump as a 0 through 5. 0 being the test did not show any allergy, 1 being borderline and you can eat the food unless you have a problem, blah blah 3 being the worst. Jayden got all 0's on everything except for a 1 on beef (weird!) and navy beans (we don't know what they are!) People can develop allergies anytime, but, for now, allergies are not a factor at all.

It is too early to test for asthma. With no family history, it is like a 5% chance or something for Jayden to have it, but after having bronchiolitis, his chances are more like 30%. We do not have to keep doing the nebulizer every 4 hours. We do have to keep the medicine on hand though in case he starts wheezing. He will probably get the wheezing every time he gets a cold and need to use the nebulizer every time he gets the cold. For now, he does have to continue a steroid through the nebulizer every night through RSV season.

Jayden is doing so much better. We did keep him out of daycare on Monday. (Thank you to Grammie- Jared's mom for babysitting). Tuesday and Wednesday Jared was home with him, Thursday he went to daycare, and Friday was a snow day! :) So he has only been to daycare 2 days in the last month! He really was happy to see his friends and teachers on Thursday. His face lit up with a huge smile when he saw them! We are just glad he's doing better. And for the record, all the horrible looking bumps on his back went away by that evening.

When we got home from the allergy testing, Jared ran over to Fred and yelled, "Fred!!!! You can stay!!!!"

:) thank goodness!

two. thousand. ten.

Two thousand ten... Wow! Hard to believe 2009 is over. So much has happened in the past year. Jared and I are so blessed to live such a wonderful life. We are lucky to have such amazing family, jobs, friends, and, of course, our sweet baby boy. I am looking forward to see what else the future has in store for us...

Here's to a new year. A new decade. Happy New Year, Everyone!