Gimme, Gimme

The other day Dave let Dawson have a sip of his water...I actually forgot about it until today. Dawson was playing in his exersaucer and I was about to eat lunch. I sat down on the floor next to Dawson with my food and a bottle of water and he started lunging at me. At first I didn't know why but then I realized that he did it every time I took a drink of water. He must have remembered from when Dave shared with him. It's too cute not to share, so of course I pulled out the video camera. :-) Enjoy!

Picture Time

It's my sisters birthday today! She is 23, I can't believe it! I wish I was in Utah so I could celebrate with her...she was in San Diego last year for her birthday so at least I don't have to miss them all. :-) Happy Birthday, Brandee! I love and miss you!!!

We bought Dawson a high chair today! I'm excited to try solids again, soon. I think he might do better in a high chair, he definitely looks more comfortable in it.

See...he looks like he is telling us he wants some food...


He wouldn't look at me for either of the pictures, he wanted to look at Dave. I guess I probably should have handed Dave the camera. :-P

Here is a picture of him in the cute monkey pj's I was talking about a few blogs ago. We bought some really cute spider-man pj's today...I am kind of obsessed with clothes and pj's if you haven't noticed already. *lol* The spider-man pj's will definitely be making it into our blog as well! Anyway...back to the monkey pic!


And I have one more picture to share. We gave him a sippy cup with handles with water in it the other day, just to see how he would do and he did pretty good! I don't think he was drinking the water much because his bib was really soaked, but he did well with holding it and bringing it up to his mouth.



**Just in case you didn't know...if you click on any of the pictures, you can see them much larger. :-)

Dawson's First Taste of Solid Food

We decided to give Dawson his first taste of solid food yesterday. It was rice cereal with formula mixed in...there wasn't really anything "solid" about it. *lol*

Here's how he did...





And Daddy's turn to try...





The whole thing only lasted about 5 minutes before he was done with it and wanted out of his seat. And as you can see he didn't even try to swallow any of it, he just kept pushing it out of his mouth. I think we are going to wait another week or so and then try again. I'd like to buy him a high chair before we try again, not that I think it'll help much but he needs a high chair anyway.

5 Little Monkeys

Dave has duty today so Dawson and I drove to the base to meet him for dinner. We do that often when he has duty...as long as the person in charge will let Dave leave the ship to meet us. We had Subway. We put Dawson in a high chair and he loved it. :-D We had to put a blanket around him to help support him but he was so happy to be able to sit at the table with us.


After we finished eating we walked around the exchange...we ended up in the baby section (of course!) and bought Dawson an outfit, some pj's and a few bibs. The pj's are the cutest! They have monkeys all over them. I've been singing '5 little monkeys jumping on the bed' ever since we got home. *lol* I'll definitely have to get a picture of him in the pj's tomorrow.

Hopefully Dawson sleeps better tonight than he did last night. Last was was terrible!!! It was the first night that he slept in his crib unswaddled. And he hated it! Dave and I took turns getting up and trying to put him back to sleep. He was waking up at LEAST every 30 minutes ALL NIGHT LONG! It was very frustrating. When Dave got up to leave for work, I finally caved and brought Dawson into our room and finally got a couple hours of decent sleep.

I'm going to try putting him in his crib tonight but Dave isn't here to help me. :-( So if he keeps waking up like he was last night I'm going to let him sleep with me again. Dave has the next 3 days off so hopefully during that time we can get him used to his crib again.

...Wish us luck! *lol*

Restless Arm Syndrome

Is there such thing as restless arm syndrome? I have heard of RLS (restless leg syndrome) but not RAS...but if it does exist, I think Dawson has it! He's getting better though! I haven't swaddled him since Tuesday! And that is HUGE for him! Normally he wont sleep unless he is swaddled. He tries but his arms move like crazy and keep him awake or wake him up...

It was getting pretty frustrating. Especially because it is getting hot in San Diego again and nobody believes in a/c here, so our house is without it! Dawson hated being swaddled because it was hot, I don't blame him, I wouldn't want to be wrapped up either in this weather!

Tuesday night, our house was really hot, especially upstairs. So I stripped him down and was just going to have him sleep in his diaper. I figured since he was going to be swaddled, sleeping in just a diaper would probably be more comfortable for him. So, I tried to swaddle him...I put his right arm against his side and he immediately pulled it back up before I could get the blanket wrapped around him. I tried 3 more times and he kept pulling his arm up. So I decided once again that I would *try* to let him fall asleep without being swaddled. We've tried this a number of times before and it has never worked so I didn't think this time would be any different. But to my surprise he almost immediately fell asleep!

Yay! ...Wait...Crap! He was still in just his diaper. I didn't bother putting his pj's back on because I figured he wouldn't fall asleep without the blanket anyway but he did!

I had 2 fans on so and it cools down a little at night so I put his pj's back on...he stayed asleep while I did it! And he slept until 1:00 am before his arms started getting "restless" and woke him up. I was determined to be done with swaddling at this point so I turned him on his side and just held his arms down until he fell asleep.

His arms woke him up a few more times but I was able to keep getting him back to sleep.

And then last night he made it until 5:00 am until his arms got "restless" and woke him up...so he is making progress. At night, at least. Nap time has been a lot harder. If he is napping in his crib it only lasts about 20 minutes! But if he naps in his boppy he'll nap a lot longer.

So I think we have officially broke the habit of having to be swaddled...hopefully me letting him sleep in my bed with me the last 2 nights hasn't started a new habit...

P.S. Sorry if my blogs don't always make sense...I rarely have time to go back and read through them. :-P

5 Months Old

Dawson is 5 months old today! I can't believe how much he has grown! I tried to weigh him on our scale today...I weighed myself first and then I weighed myself while I was holding him. It's not a digital scale but it looked like I was about 19 pounds heavier when I was holding him! He's almost a 20 pounder!




Dave and I decided that when he gets home this weekend, we are going to start Dawson on rice cereal. We were going to wait until he was 6 months old but he is so ready for solid food, I can't deny him any longer! I can't even eat in front of him anymore or else I feel guilty. If he sees me with food, he stops whatever he is doing and stares at me. And then he will start leaning towards me with his mouth open! I can't wait to give him his first taste of cereal!

About a week ago we moved Dawson into his crib in his own room. He was sleeping in a bassinet beside our bed but he has already outgrown it! He was doing pretty good sleeping in his crib. He still wakes up a few times a night because he loses his binky but he goes back to sleep right away after we give it to him. BUT last night I decided while Dave is gone, I'd feel safer if Dawson slept with me, so he did. I slept a lot better knowing he was right next to me. I just hope he'll go back to sleeping in his crib easily when Dave gets back. He takes his naps during the day in his crib still so hopefully that helps.

Here is he playing around before his nap...I can't believe how big he looks in his crib!

It's Official

Dawson can roll over from his back to his stomach! He did it for the first time about 3 weeks ago but only did it about 3 times since the first time...until yesterday! He has officially mastered it now. Just about every time I put him on the floor, it only takes about a minute before he rolls over. I'm so proud!

He started rolling from his stomach to his back when he was 6 weeks old but he hasn't done that for about 2 months now! I don't know why he stopped...he probably did it 50 times and then he just quit. Now when he wants to get off his belly he puts his face on the floor and cries.

I'm hoping now that he has got rolling from his back down that he will start rolling from his belly again soon.

I recorded him rolling over on our video camera but I forgot how to get that from the camera to the computer. :-/ I wanted to post a video with this blog so I recorded him on the video camera on my phone. Hopefully the quality isn't too bad.

Pass The Tylenol

Dawson is FINALLY taking a nap! Today has been rough! Well, not all day, the first half of the day went really well but the last few hours haven't been so great. It's days like this that I really wish Dave didn't have leave all the time. I feel like a single mom most of the time and it's really hard when Dawson is fussy!

So, Dave's ship pulled out this morning. He'll be home some time this weekend. Him being gone all the time is really taking a toll on me. :-( I think he'll be home for about 3 weeks when they get back from this trip...

I guess I should wrap this up...it has taken me about 2 hours just to get this much written. I got about 2 sentences typed out before Dawson woke up. He needs a nap but will not fall asleep for more than 5-10 minutes...I hope he sleeps well tonight!

He Loves to Read

We bought Dawson a couple of new books the other day and of course he loves them. After I read the new ones to him, I put them on the couch and put him in his exersaucer and he just sat there and starred at the books. He wouldn't play with his toys so I decided to go ahead and let him read the books by himself. They were in his mouth most of the time but it looked like he was trying to turn the pages.


I think he is going to really like to read when he is older. He almost always sits very still while I am reading to him. Every once in a while he will try to grab it but for the most part, he just listens and looks at the pictures. :-)

In other news, he has been drooling like crazy for the past few weeks. He seriously soaks at least 5 or 6 bibs a day! I heard that it gets worse once they start teething...I can't imagine it getting any worse than it is now. *lol*

Oh! And I just remembered something else that he just started doing that is so cute! He has been fake coughing for a while now but just recently he started "coughing" after he sneezes. It's so funny. I am definitely going to have to try to get it on camera.

He likes to fake cough because he knows it will always get my attention and I will always say "Oh baby, are you ok?" *lol* He's such a silly baby.

Dave's ship is leaving AGAIN...I'm not supposed to say when but it's very SOON. :-( Luckily this time he will only be gone for about a week. (I don't think I am supposed to say that either...oh well. :-P) I hope this week goes by very fast!

Our First Walk!

I've had this account on blogger (or is it blogspot?) for nearly 2 months now, I think it's about time I post my first blog on here!

It's just Dawson and I at home today. Dave has duty so he will be gone until Sunday morning. Hopefully today goes by fast!

I don't have much to write about but I wanted to post some pictures of Dawson...

We went on our first family walk yesterday. (He's nearly 5 months old and we are just going on our first walk...yeah, we've been lazy!) I was really surprised at how calm he was the whole time! He just sat there, looking around and taking it all in. He seriously didn't move at all!

We all enjoyed the walk so we are definitely going to make a habit out of it. It was very relaxing!

This was taken just before we left the house.

During the walk...



There is a smile under that binky!