Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Daycare Help!!!

Ok, so I won't go into detail, but our daycare provider basically backed out on us despite our signed contract and security deposit...and I go back to school the last week of Aug! AHHH! If you happen to know anyone who does daycare in Shakopee and may have an infant opening could you give me their info??? Obviously I want someone you would or do entrust your own kids with. Thanks!!!
~jenn

Sunday, July 29, 2007

growing-GrOwInG- GROWING

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Happy Baby!





You'd never know by these smiles, but Tegan fought his morning and afternoon nap like a CRAZY man! I thought I was going to pull my hair out. Oh, and he did it again at bedtime a few hours after these pictures were taken. Regardless of the above, he's still the sweetest person I ever knew. His smile just makes me melt! :)
~jenn

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Gotta Love Those Baby Blues

Just a few fun pics I have taken recently of Tegan. I thought they really highlighted his beautiful blue eyes... Many of you have asked in passing where Tegan got his eye color. Here's what I know. My dad has blue eyes. I had blue eyes until I was 5 or 6 years old (from what I remember). Brendan's sisters both have blue eyes. That's what I know.
In other news, Tegan is getting better and better at sitting relatively unassisted. He still topples over eventually, sooner than later still, but hey, he's getting closer to sitting independently. YAY! Sleeping is very erratic lately, Tegans and subsequently my own. Some nights he'll only wake up a 2 or 3 times and other nights (like last night) he's up more than that... I stop counting after 5 times. I don't know if it's teething, growing, being hot, cold, wet... who knows. We put him in the Pampers Baby Dry diapers, so he's not peeing through his diapers, though they are soaked when he wakes up. Any suggestions, as always, are welcome.
Love to all!
~jenn

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Dating Already?!

Tegan had his first date yesterday... her name is Abbie and she's a California girl! Jenn and I (yes, Abbie's mom has a pretty cool name) took the kids to the Como zoo and conservatory in St. Paul. Abbie was pretty tired, so she slept for most of the time but Tegan really seemed to enjoy most of it, especially the conservatory. There were points in the conservatory where he just couldn't hold his excitement and got quite vocal, it was very cute! I guess when you love nature, especially trees, a conservatory is just amazing! :) The only thing that us moms didn't like about the whole date was how darn HOT it was. And the conservatory... it was down right tropical in there, and I'm not referring to the plants. SO HUMID!
In other news, I had this strange dream this morning that involved flashing in my eyes. Turns out it wasn't a dream... Brendan was taking a picture of T and I. :) Tegan woke up at 5:45 and would start screaming in a seemingly scared tone whenever I tried to leave the room... I wonder if he had a bad dream. :( Sooooo, I brought him into bed with me on the futon in his room to avoid him waking up Brendan should he not fall back asleep and be loud. We both fell back to sleep really quickly and woke up at 7am when Brendan came in and took pictures :)
Happy Wednesday!
~jenn

Sunday, July 15, 2007

1 Couch & 4 Generations

Well, yesterday around 7 a.m. we packed up the car and headed down to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa to visit Tegans great-grandparents, a.k.a. Brendan's paternal grandparents. About 5 hours later we finally arrived, but not quickly enough for Tegan's liking. :) Thankfully, though, Brendan and I split the driving, so Tegan was able to look at a new face just about when he was ready for a change. Don't get me wrong, though, Tegan is a pretty darn good traveler, especially compared to other babies (which I won't name) who I've heard some not so fun stories about.
Not a whole lot to say other than we really enjoyed our time with the great-g'parents, short, but nice. AND, I'm pretty darn sure meeting and spending some time with Tegan made their day (if not their week or month)!
Oh, and on our way home, we found out that Tegan likes Wendy's frosties and ketchup, though he wasn't so sure on french fries (which I think is a good thing). Also, he seems to really like cantaloupe (Brendan let him suck on some for a while) and hard bread sticks are a GREAT way to hold a baby's attention for a good long time! :) We didn't have the camera with us, though for those fun 1sts... maybe another time.
Love to all!
~jenn

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

8 Random Things

OK... Laura tagged me to post 8 random things about myself and so I will do so, but by no means in the amount of depth that she did :)
1. I ran sprints in track in middle school and high school and miss it SO, SO much, though I think what I miss most is really the friends I made and the time we were able to share together doing something that we loved and were really good at.
2. On the subject of running, I dream of completing another marathon(s), but don't know when I'll have that chance again until I'm done have kids. I didn't think I could train for a marathon while breastfeeding and being a new mom (juggling all there is to do and a kid), though looking back, I wish I would have just signed up and forced myself to do it. :) I do think, though, that Brendan and I will run the Twin Cities 10 mile run/race this fall.
3. I dream of having a neat and organized house and every now and then I do a little something to help the clutter... you know, like buy a basket to put stuff in. At least it looks more neat when it's contained inside something, although Brendan thinks baskets are just an expensive way to contain clutter :) I do, though, want to make sure you understand that my house is immaculate compared to those houses on "Clean House" or "Clean Sweep" shows. MAN, those are NASTY cluttered!
4. I made this photo collage for Jen & Chris (sorry, neither one has a blog) as a joke for Christmas... Then, I really printed the picture in the middle of it (the one where they have their pinky fingers linked) and, forgetting it was still in the photo envelope, ripped up the envelope, so they never got it. OOPS!
5. Even though I really didn't enjoy being pregnant too much, I miss it terribly... I don't know why, because I was horribly sick for the first 5 or 6 months (I lost count of the weeks for a while when I was sick because it was supposed to end around 13 weeks and I was still puking around 20 weeks)
6. I'm really sick of trying to think of more random things about myself! :)
7. I was driving to my friend Kaela's house a few years ago and a bird hit my winshield and got stuck under my hood... CRAZY! Yes, the bird died... I think upon impact because it didn't move at all. And yes, that's Kaela's phone in the corner of the photo... she was taking a pic too.
8. I love, love, LOVE Prairie Fume wine, but it's only available in Wisconsin. :(
OK, so I did go a bit into depth... whoops. I tag Jen Merritt, Mindy Steighner, and... yeah, I don't really know that many people with blogs who would do this :) Sorry :)
~jenn

Cheerios

Well, it's been about a week since my last post, so I figured I'd update everyone on what's been going on in Tegan's life. :)
Yesterday I gave Tegan his first try of Cheerios. He enjoyed moving them around on the tray of his highchair for a good 10 minutes or so and even grabbed a few with his fist, but not with his thumb and forefinger yet. I'm in awe of how intensely focused Tegan was with picking up the Cheerios... he was definitely getting frustrated towards the end after he couldn't get one from the tray to his mouth by himself. I finally took one and offered it to him and he immediately opened his mouth up wide...once the cheerio was in there, though, he wasn't quite sure what to do with it and then it started to gag him, though I think it was just his natural reflex to something solid like that sitting on his tongue. So, I swiped it out and that was that. I'll give it a try again another day.

After breakfast I decided it was time for us to go visit Grandma and Grandpa Eastwood... it had been a while since we went up there and yesterday seemed like a good day. Daddy wasn't going to be home until 7 or later because of biking after work so I knew I wouldn't have to try to beat rush hour traffic on the way home. Tegan really had a fun time with Grandma E. They were singing and talking and doing all sorts of fun things. Grandma even road her bike along side T and I on 'our' run, which we (really I) really appreciated to help take my mind off of how flippin' windy it was! MAN! I thought that we were going to be blown off the sidewalk. CRAZY!
I really wanted to share this picture because it is my new favorite picture of my mom...even though it's a bit blurry, I think it is still SO neat. Grannyhood (if that's a word, we'll assume it is) really suits her well! She's just radiant!
This picture displays Tegan in his new outfit...size 6-9 months! Did I mention in my last post about Tegan's size? I don't think so. Well, he was weighed when he went to the doctor for what we thought was an ear infection and the kid just won't stop growing! 19 lbs!!! No wonder my back is getting more and more sore each night! At least he's tall/long, too. That's why I had to buy some bigger outfits. The 3-6 month outfits are too short and I can't snap most of them in the crotch any more... Brendan and I both have long torsos, though, so the T-man was basically guaranteed to have the same.
OK, long enough post. Hopefully we'll get to have a play date with our friend Abbie sometime in the next week or so... maybe we'll go to the zoo or conservatory or something fun like that. I don't know about her, but Tegan LOVES nature...trees, flowers, grass,bushes/shrubs... nature. It'd also give her mommy something to blog about since she hasn't updated her blog in a while either. :)
Love to all!
~j

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Happy 4th of July!

Well, we are back and even though we had a wonderful time with the fam, we are glad to be home! Tegan did relatively well despite all the excitement and even slept in his pack 'n play for the majority of the night 3 out of 4 nights. Last night was the only night that he ended up in bed with us before 5 or 6 a.m.Seems that Tegan may just be a pool lovin' baby! We had to ease him into the water each time since it was a bit chilly (evenf or us!) but once he was used to the temp. he loved for us to hold him under his armpits and pull him as he kicked his little feet like crazy! Pretty neat how he/babies already know what to do in the water (kicking that is).

Tegan also got to take his first ride on a boat... the Queen II specifically. We took a tour of East and West Lake Okoboji on this vessel and even though it was not the most exciting tour/boat ride, we made it back safely and Tegan seemed to ejoy the views and attention. :)
Wednesday brought the 4th of July and all it's festivities, only a few of which Mr. T actually was able to take part in (or at least be awake for) due to his age and 7:30p.m. bedtime. Thankfully T inherited his daddy's abilty to sleep through just about anything, so neither the band outside our room/building or the fireworks stirred him. I think it was actually the teething he's beginning to experience that woke him up shortly after we made it to bed (at a whopping 10:30 p.m.... i know, we're night owls! HA!).
Speaking of T's teething, we didn't know this is what he's experiencing until I took him to the pediatrician this afternoon after we got home. Last night, especially, Tegan had the roughest time sleeping, even when I brought him to bed with us around 11p.m. and held him most of the night. He fussed, whined, kicked and just plain couldn't get comfortable. Then, he screamed and cried for the last 30+ min of our drive home this afternoon. And not his normal, angry cry, but a more whiney, painful sounding cry. I felt so bad for my little baby. So, after Brendan and I both observing him pulling and batting at his left ear we decided I should call the doc and see if we could get in tonight or tomorrow to get his ear(s) checked out, thinking he had one or a double ear infection. Long story short, it's not an ear infection, but just teething. I was not aware that there is a nerve that runs from the jaw up to the ear area and when a baby is teething he/she will frequently pull or play with his/her ear(s). Thankfully we have health insurance!!!
Great-Uncle Tegan & Tegan

Armed with my new knowledge, Tegan and I stopped at Target on the way home to pick up some more infant Tylenol, teething rings and other teething accessories. I even bought these neat little net-like toys that you can put frozen or chilled fruit/veggies in for baby to chew on. It enables them to not only soothe their sore gums, but also enjoy fresh or frozen food! I now have sliced bananas in the freezer for T to enjoy tomorrow using this neat device. :)

OK, long enough post... Hope all are doing well and thanks for reading!

~jenn