Nursing/Eating: Cash
tends to nurse quite a bit in the morning if we are home. When he wakes up we
have our snuggle/nursing time before we hit the ground running. Mornings are my
favorite part of the day because those first few waking moments are just ours –
our time to bond, our time to snuggle, and our time to smile and laugh. I know
that one day those moments will change so I’m focusing on soaking them up while
I can.
Cash nurses throughout the day still, but not as frequently
as he used to. Some days all he wants to do is nurse while other days he is
content to eat more food and just nurse every few hours. I just let him tell me
when he wants milk.
I finally discovered a food that Cash doesn’t care for –
jalapeños! We were eating BBQ’d jalapeño chicken poppers one night and I
offered him some of the bacon and chicken but he decided he wanted to eat my
popper with the jalapeño, even though I told him he wouldn’t like it. He took a bite and spit it out quickly!
Sometimes we have to learn lessons the hard way I guess.
Cash ate his first “cupcake” on Father’s Day. Together we
made the Paleo Parent’s Chunky Monkey muffins for daddy and the grandpas. They
are super good and I can actually eat them despite all of my dietary
restrictions so that’s a huge bonus! I wasn’t sure what Cash would think of
them but he ended up eating almost an entire muffin (minus the toppings of nuts
and chocolate chips).
Sleep: I have
been pretty good about getting Cash down for a nap between 12:30 and 1:30 on
the days that we’re home. We lay on the bed together and I tell him that it’s
nap time. Then he repeats, “nap im” (nap time) and we nurse and fall asleep.
Some days I take a nap with him and he will sleep for almost 3 hours and other
days I’m able to slip out of the bed and get a few things done around the
house. He sleep anywhere from 1-½ hours to 3 hours.
At night we go to bed around 8 or 8:30 most nights and Cash
usually nurses and falls asleep within 10-15 minutes. Some nights when he’s
overtired it can take almost an hour to get him to sleep. Every once in a while
he tries to climb out of bed to go into the living room so Nick will come lay
in bed with us and tell him that it’s time for bed. This usually results in a
tantrum, lots of tears. When he’s finished we put him back on the bed and try
again, usually he is so tired from his tantrum he falls right a sleep and Nick
and I watch Justified while Cash sleeps in between us. He is so peaceful in
those first few hours of sleep! We love to watch him sleep and reminisce about
the days when he was so tiny and brand new.
While I would say sleep is slightly “better” I still
wouldn’t classify it as being all that great. When Cash cries out in the night
I try to rub his back first and sometimes he will go back to sleep but usually
it takes a little quick comfort nurse for him to fall asleep again.
Likes/Dislikes: Cash
absolutely loves to help his mama and his nana cook! My mom started it all by
scooting a chair up to the counter and letting Cash help us cook. Now he always
wants to help! He will even run to the table and scoot a chair over to the
counter all by himself. When my mom watched Cash on Saturday nights (so Nick
and I can enjoy a date night) they make dog biscuits together. She has taught him how to roll the dough, mix
the ingredients and cut out the shapes. When he cooks with me I let him measure
and dump the ingredients together, mix, pulse the food processor and of course
sample straight from the bowl!
Recently my dad brought Cash a big metal Tonka truck from
one of our foreclosure houses and it was an instant hit! He pushes his dump
truck everywhere inside and outside. Then a couple of weeks ago my mom found 3
more metal Tonka trucks and bought them for Cash. Now he has a fleet of dump
trucks to play with.
Cash still loves to read books. His new favorite is a John
Deer Tractor book with little flaps that open and close. My mom found it at the
same yard sale for 25 cents! We now read that book over and over again.
Since the weather has been really nice we spend most of our
day outside. Cash loves the outdoors and could seriously spend all day everyday
outdoors. He loves to dig in his sand box and play in his garden beds at nana's house. His favorite outdoor activity is still riding on the lawnmower with daddy.
Cash has such a great disposition and as long as he gets
plenty of stimulation he is super happy. He does get pretty mad when it’s time
to come inside and he absolutely DOES NOT like brushing his teeth. Other than
the temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, he’s a pretty content little
boy.
Health: Other
than teething pains Cash is super healthy. We are so fortunate that he hasn’t
been sick. He does have some flesh colored bumps on his check, neck and back
that we are monitoring. At first I was worried that they were a food allergy,
but our naturopath thinks that he is lacking in essential fatty acids. We
started him on some Nordic Naturals Cod Liver Oil and they are already going
away and Cash LOVES the fish oil! After I give him the 3 droppers full he looks
at me and says “more, more, more”.
I think we found a new naturopath too; we have our first
appointment with Dr. Jeremiah Stevens at Stevens Naturopathic Center this week.
It will be so hard to replace Dr.
Morical, but hopefully everything goes well.
