5 months and counting!

There is no way you are five months old already little man! This makes your mommy very sad and happy all at once. I am so glad you are growing big and strong; changing every day....BUT...I want my tiny baby boy back at the same time. You are just getting so smart and independent! I just know if I close my eyes for too long you will be getting married! I wish I could slow time down just a tad. Of course I can't; so instead, I will just try to savor every second of your life. I will try to remember and cherish these times. This blog will really help I think.

What you are up to at 5 months!!

Well...you are just a rolly polly these days. Well, you roll on to your tummy and play for a bit. You will even roll on your tummy and sleep for a while some days. Other days/nights you will scream until someone comes and turns you over. Then, about an hour later; you will be back on your tummy screaming. When will you 1) realize you like your tummy and 2) realize you can always just roll right on back to where you came from. Ha! Silly boy.

You are an EATING MACHINE!!! You LOVE, LOVE your food. We can't even put you in your highchair unless the food is ready to go! If that food doesn't touch your lips within seconds you are screeching! ha! PIGGY! You are eating avacado, rice, oatmeal, pears, bananas, squash, peaches, sweet potatoes, and we will start a little mango this week. We will try pumpkin next week. Mommy is still making most of your food instead of buying jars. You have had a couple peaches/squash from these organic pouches. You seem to like them. I don't think you care as long as it is food!

You sure can poop now that you are eating food! You have always been a big pooper, but these days HOLY MOLY!!!! Things have changed around here with the cloth diapers. Daddy and mommy are embracing it though. Hopefully you will thank us one day for spraying/shaking poop into the toilet twelve times a day. Probably not though, right?

You tend to get rashes VERY easily. I hate that. I feel like you may be allergic to something at Mrs. Ines's house because you just seem extra red/irritated when I pick you up from her. She loves you, and I know she uses all gentle cleaing supplies so who knows. We have been able to keep it under control with calendula and aquaphor, CJs. Mommy ordered some Grandma Es because I heard it was good for cloth diapering so we will see how that works.

You could see exactly where the three parts of the toy whacked you!

Passed out after your eventful day at Mrs Ines's

Poor boy!

You had your first daycare injury this past week. Mrs Ines said you were in the jumpy thing playing with one of the older kiddos. Somehow this toy with three little flapper pieces that on it got thrown at your head. The left side of your forhead/face looked pretty rough for a couple of days. Mommy and Daddy (and Mrs Ines) felt terrible. Such is life though. You will have your turn at hitting (and who knows what else) one day. We hope you don't, but are certain your younger sis/brother will get beat up on when they come. It was just hard to see your little face knowing we weren't there to help you when you cried.
You are FINALLY eating every four hours instead of three. We still have to give you a tad extra every now and then though. You eat 2-3 real food meals a day too depending on how much breastmilk you drink that day. I worry sometimes you aren't getting enough, but your growth/poopies show us you are. On the weekends and when you go to Mrs Ines you will drink about 7 ounces with each bottle and then you start spitting up a lot so I think you get too much then. Who knows!

Speaking of being a fatty..daddy weighed you about two weeks ago and you were 18 pounds!! HA! I need to weigh you again and see if that has changed. We measured you the other day, but I can't for the life of me remember how long you were. See, I do need this blog to remember. You are wearing most all 9 and some 12 months clothes! Crazy!

We have decided that you look like both of us. Well, you look a lot like your daddy and mommy's brother (Uncle Brent). It's like the perfect little mix. You have the Wilson smile and eyes we think and your daddy's nose, forhead. Who knows though! You change every day. It doesn't matter who you look like because you are perfect. I think we both want all the credit because you are just so darn handsome!

You are still sleeping through the night pretty good. You will wake up some nights at 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30....not fun! You just want your paci or to be flipped back over, but this is getting pretty old. Then one night you will just sleep all night. So funny! You are just keeping us on our toes.

You nap pretty well also. You wake around 7-7:30 usually and breastfeed. Then we go downstairs and you play while mommy makes your breakfast and some coffee. I feed you and you go down for a nap at 9. You usually last until 10:30 sometimes 11. You breastfeed and play until lunch at noon. We eat then it is nap time at 1. You give us trouble sometimes with this one, and don't go down until closer to 2. You usually last until 3 or 3:30 then breastfeed. We give you dinner sometimes if you seem hungry around 5 and then bath/bed at 6:30. We stay pretty busy with this schedule. We sometimes try to work in a run/walk the dogs, but it doesn't always happen. The days where we have errands to run are the funnest! ha! Busy, busy!

Speaking of busy, mommy has been having a pretty hard time with working nights/full time. We decided that it will be best if mommy cuts down to part time (2 nights a week). We are hoping/praying that this helps. It is just so hard working those 12 hour nights. I want to be the best mommy and wife I can, and I just feel like I am not myself when I do the three shifts. We will have to make some financial adjustments, but both feel it will be well worth it in the end. I know I can't get this time back, so I want to make the most of it. I think working part time will surely help.


We are gearing up to go on our first road trip next week. We are driving (with the dogs) to BOSTON!!! We are so excited to see all your daddy's family and friends! Everyone can't wait to meet you. The drive should be interesting. Luckily, we can split it up by stopping to see your Godfather in D.C. Please be a sweet boy for us!

Well...happy 5 months baby boy!!! It has been the best five months ever!

You learned how to blow rasberries! You will just giggle when mommy does it too!

All your friends!!

You are becoming so nosy and are starting to see those feet! I bet they will be in your mouth in a couple days!

LOVE this pic!!! Never could have dreamed how perfect you would look in this chair when I was painting it

How did this happen!!!?????

Well hello there sweet sir!

Boston boy!

This is mommy's brothers. You look like Brent (the smaller one). You have those same sparkly eyes and sweet smile!

You have A LOT of daddy in you too!

You aren't very nice to Ty! You will just fuss sometimes when he is trying to be your friend. We will have to work on that.

You are nice to Miller though..I think it is because he is smaller than you! You are a bully!

Holy Stomach Bug BATMAN!

So, here at the Conroy house, things were not so great yesterday (and the night before). Daddy Conroy came home with a nasty bug that ended up putting both of us on our behinds yesterday! His included the night before. As soon as he came home I just knew either I would get sick, or worse, Cash would. Luckily, so far, it was just me. Still keeping our fingers crossed that Cash stays well. So my hubs is the silliest man alive when he starts to not feel well. He just starts rattling off all the things it could be. I don't know if he does it because I am a nurse and DUH! I am supposed to be able to help him. He wants me to diagnose him just by looking at him. He is so funny that way. I am not the sweetest wifey when it comes to a sick hubby either (esp when I know for a FACT it is not the Dr. Pepper he just drank). I knew by looking at him Monday night that he had something bad, and that I could count on waking up with it as well. I was a tad grumpy too because I had just gotten done working three in a row (DID YOU HEAR ME??? THREE IN A ROW NIGHT SHIFT!!!) Shoot me now! I usually just start feeling human again the day after my shifts. That is....I get off Monday AM, go to bed at 9:00am, wake up at noon to a screaming child (that had just been blissfully sleeping two minutes before when daddy left for work), feed said child early, both take a snuggle nap, then wake up and usually straighten things up around the homestead, do laundry, prepare a nighttime bottle, feed "real food" to the boy, feed boob food again to the boy, take care of pups, etc, until Frank gets home for bath and bedtime. I usually don't make it past 9 or 10 before it is sleepy, dreamy time. Dreamland gets interrupted around 1am so I can fulfill my milk maid duties (since my child sucks down about 30 ounces of my "gold" while I am working/sleeping those three shifts). I always thought moms at work were freaks when it came to breastmilk. I was all, "why don't you just give them some darn formula already?" and now, I too, am a milk obsessed weirdo! For starters, it is FREE! The prices of formula are comparable to that of gas. You have to buy it, so why not make it cost you an arm and a leg. Since riding a bike/walking isn't an option for transportation we won't be saving any money in the gasoline department, so the least I can do is pump away so we aren't in the poor house by the time Cash starts drinking regular ole cows milk.

So...back to the stomach bug of 2012! Being sick with a child is NO FUN!!! I repeat, NO FUN!!! Frank and I have never once been sick at the same time until now. Of course we would get sick together for the first time when we have a baby to take care of. Isn't that how it always works out? We also had to get our firstborn (Amelia) to the vet because she has had some serious UTI issues as of late. They needed to bring her in and do a cysto to get sterile urine. We could have rescheduled, but it needed to be taken care of. Poor girl has been scooting around for months trying to relieve the burning I am sure she is having in her womanly parts! Gross! So, while Frank went to the store to stock up on gatorade and other essentials (he said he needed the CRAB diet....what he thought was carrots, rice, apples, and bananas...carrots?? I don't think so). He, of course, bought all of those things including rice like he was going to eat an entire box of rice or something. He didn't eat any rice! Mostly, he just downed 25 gatorades. Cash and I hung out in my room for most of the day.....napping and "playing", napping and "playing". It wasn't too bad, but still no fun at all. I am pretty sure he was thinking..."why are we still in this dark room? I want to go for a walk or see the daylight!" We did get up around 2:00 and I went on a cleaning/disinfecting rampage while Frank took Weeza and Cash on a walk. We also gave little Cash his first taste of bananas! He seemed to like them. Cash got to go to bed about thirty minutes earlier than usual because neither of us had the patience to deal with evening fussy time for too long. It really was a no fun day, but we survived! Now we are just praying and watching Cash like a hawk to see if he is going to be the next victim. I really hope not. I would much rather be sick for a week than him get it. The stomach bug is no fun for anyone; especially a four month old.

The good news is we survived! Things could have been so much worse. It was only for a day and we are super thankful for that. Being sick sure did make us wish we were closer to family. We would have loved for Nana Sue to come over and rescue us. She would have had the chicken soup over in five seconds flat; and taken Cash so we wouldn't risk getting him sick and could get some rest. That would be the dream. We know she was thinking about us and that is all that matters.

Today we are much better. Frank is off at work while Cash and I hang out. We need to go to the store later and run some errands. For now, we just got done eating banana and rice cereal. We started feeding Cash over the weekend and he is doing great so far. He just makes the funniest faces. He isn't the best at keeping it in his mouth, but he is learning. We are having fun too, and that is all that matters. He still seems to want to breastfeed every three hours, but that is ok. Real food is just extra anyway. His poops have for sure changed since we started food. YIKES! They are chunkier and pretty smelly! So nasty! We will keep doing bananas and start avacado this week. We will try oatmeal cereal next also. So that is what is going on in the Conroy household this Easter week. We are going to try to go to a little breakfast with the Easter bunny thing at the YMCA Saturday before I have to go to work. Really bummed that we won't be able to go to church Sunday morning. We haven't been able to go since I went back to work. I hate that. We loved our Sundays before. It was so good to go and hear the message as a family every week. Frank will probably start going soon with Cash; even when I can't go because of work. He is just waiting until he is ready to go to the nursery.

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend; and that we all remember why we celebrate. The easter bunny and candy are all fun, but the real reason is so much more important. God made the ultimate sacrifice by giving his only Son to die on the cross for all our sins. He did just that, and three days later, Jesus rose again!!! Because of this, if we believe, we can have everlasting life in Heaven one day. Oh, happy day!!!! That will be such a happy day!

Happy Easter!!!!