Squirmy Wormy

Well Austin was a squirmy wormy last night! We always put him down in the middle of his crib. We went in to get him this morning because he wanted out and he had wiggled his way over into the corner! He had an arm hanging out of the crib and his head was in the corner of the crib. I was SO shocked! I told John we need to set up a web cam to see how he did that. I wish I would have taken a picture. I will next time!

Halloween 2010

Austin was a monkey for Halloween this year. We felt he was too small to go trick or treating, so he dressed up for church! I do not understand why the bottom of his feet say "Cheeky Monkey" instead of chunky monkey...but I couldn't resist buying this costume anyway. I think it should say Chunky Monkey :). What does Cheeky even mean????

2 months

Its hard to believe that Austin will be 2 months old tomorrow. We have been concentrating on making sure he doesn't stay up for more than 2 hours at a time for about 2 weeks now. It is going great! We had some bumps along the way, but he only got up twice last night. At 11:15 then at 4:20. Then he slept until 8:45! He is getting so much better. Also when he wakes up at night hes usually up less than 30 minutes, just enough time to change his diaper and get some food in him. I would be getting much more sleep though if I didn't have to pump. Basically by the time he goes back to sleep then I have to stay up for another 40 minutes or so to pump. On the weekends John will feed him while I pump, but during the week John and I have an agreement. When John comes home at 6:45 or so I get "Kim time" and he takes Austin. I wish "Kim time" were spent doing fun things, but usually "Kim time" consists of doing the dishes, taking a shower, eating, and sleeping. Then I pump again around 11:30 or so and after midnight John doesn't get up again so he can try to get his 5 hours of sleep in before his alarm goes off at 5. Once I'm not so sleep deprived I will be able to do fun things during "Kim time" and while he sleeps, but right now I try to sleep when he sleeps and keep this house running.
I feel like its taken me 8 weeks to really get the hang of things. I'm still exhausted but I get more naps in now. I think this is a combination of me learning and Austin being older. He doesn't have to be held all the time and is ok by himself. Also hes sleeping in his crib and he doesn't need t be fed every 2 hours. I'm so glad that we are fortunate enough for me to stay home with him, but I feel like I never leave the house. Plus its starting to get cold here so we don't get to go on as many walks anymore. I can't wait for spring :).

Chunky Monkey

Austin has started to be a chunky monkey. Here are some pictures of his Buddha Belly.


He is starting to try to focus so he gets cross eyed a lot!
Look at that belly!

Ingrown toenail

Well I had minor surgery yesterday on my toe...I had an ingrown toenail. The frustrating thing is that this is something that can be easily prevented. I started having problems at the end of my pregnancy when I couldn't reach my toes. I let it go too far so by the time I had Austin and could reach my toes it was already infected. I performed "surgery" on it myself one night and thought I had it taken care of. Well about 2 weeks later it starts hurting worse than before. I woke up yesterday and I hurt so bad it was hard to walk. I called a podiatrist and they could get me in so I went. I WILL NEVER let it get that bad again. That was so miserable! They literally cut out a huge chunk of my toenail and then killed the root so my big toe will never have as much toenail again... I have a special shoe that I have to wear now and I have to soak it in an iodine bath twice a day until I go back in a week and a half.


My foot soaking in the iodine bath. Yes this is a cooler. It was the only thing big enough to soak my foot in :)

Stomach Sleeping

Well we have had lots of rough nights lately, and its all John and I's fault. We've heard so many times "DON'T EVER LET YOUR CHILD SLEEP ON HIS STOMACH" so we have tried everything to get Austin to sleep on his back. When he was first born he would sleep anywhere, but now hes getting older and starting to notice things. Along with this comes more curiosity. Well about a week ago he started to refuse sleeping on his back, so I would let him sleep on his stomach during the day when I was hovering. Well as you can tell John is exhausted b/c he doesn't get to nap during the day. So he is here when Austin will scream and cry b/c he's tired but every time we put him on his back he stays asleep for less than 15 minutes. Then we try again... over and over for HOURS. Finally I told John I'm tired of fighting Austin and I'm going to let him sleep on his stomach at night. John was appalled. I told him I would rather Austin get sleep even if its on his stomach than get no sleep at all. John still wasn't on board so I told him I'm going to sleep and you deal with Austin and try to get him to sleep on his back. See John isn't here all day to see me try over and over and I just can't do it anymore.
Last night Austin was awake from 6:40 pm until past midnight. Babies at Austin's age shouldn't be awake more than 2 hours at a time, so as you can see he was REALLY cranky. I got up to pump at midnight and I told John he should really put him on his stomach. John said, look at him his eyes are wide open he isn't sleepy. I reassured him that Austin was sleepy but now he is at the point where he is over tired and gets wired. As soon as John put him on his stomach he was out and slept for 5.5 hours! That is a record!
Anyway I feel like we are terrible parents for letting him sleep on his stomach, but it came down to sanity. So now he will be sleeping on his stomach during the day and at night. I'm reading a book by Marc Weissbluth about sleep habits for babies. Its really shed some light on what we have been seeing, although Dr. Weissbluth says for him to sleep on his back as well... Oh well there isn't anything we can do. Cranky baby=NO SLEEP for Tarver family.

Austin's Blow Out

A couple nights ago John was feeding Austin and Austin blew his britches out. I was in the other room pumping and John starts yelling. "Kim get in here NOW". I come running in and he is holding Austin up and John has poop all over his shorts! It was SO funny. Haha! Anyway I took Austin from him and John walked over to the trash can and thew his shorts away. I told him we could wash them, but he said it was too gross so he just threw them away!! HAHA! A couple days later it happened again, but not as bad, his shorts were salvaged. Only John...