1st Tooth!

Cole cut his first tooth today! Since his teething was discovered a couple days ago we've been using Tylenol and Ora-jel when it seems he's in pain and that's helped out. His other bottom front tooth doesn't look like it's too far behind. Hopefully it's less painful for him!

Teething Bites!

Much to our suprise we discovered yesterday Cole has started teething. It was a bit of a rough week and I was convinced he must have acid reflux or something bothering him, poor little guy was just not himself! Didn't even occur to me to check his gums. Yesterday, Jeff had someone at work tell him he should look in his mouth to see. Sure enough you can see the very tips of the front bottom ones looking like they're about to break through! Although it is a little early at 2 1/2 mths for him to be starting (most books reference start of teething 3 mths at the earliest) I think he was actually a bit more than 5 days overdue when born... the given due date never matched up at all with a possible conception date and I remember feeling naseous earlier and thinking I must be pregnant.
My friend Alison was down this week and stayed with us till yesterday. She's great with Cole and it was such a big help to have her here, ecspecially with the week we all had! We had good news at the end of the week... Windsor's city workers strike is now over! The garbage has been piling up and the grass in the parks really needs to be cut. I know everyone is so relieved. It's been about 3 months since the strike started. Well, another week almost here. The plan is to get started on a baby scrapbook for Cole. Other than that, not too much... just hoping it'll be a less painful week for Cole (and therefore all of us!)

Surviving the Weekend!

Well, the weekend is over and for once that's a good thing! Jeff left Friday at noon for London to be in a wedding and didn't get back till today. I wish I could have gone too but we didn't think it was a good idea for Cole. I wasn't too enthusiastic about looking after him during a crying spell and if history is any indication there seemed to be a pretty good chance of one happening in new surroundings with lots of people. Thankfully, the weekend went well here... my arms just didn't get their usual break!
Cole is doing well sleeping through the night and has been for over a week straight now. I wish I could say the same for myself=/ Jeff and me are both hoping a return to more restful nights as we work on getting Cole adjusted to his crib. We've just started putting him down for his naps there and so far it seems to be going pretty well although he doesn't seem to be able to put himself back to sleep in the new surroundings as easily as he does in our room. Hopefully in a little more time this will become easier for him. Nursing is getting better as Cole is getting a little faster and we're now down to six feedings/day (7a,10a,1p,4p,7p,10p) I'm already looking forward to dropping the dream feed (10p) in a months time. Bedtime is also going better now as I've stopped trying to cluster feed and we've got a bit more of a routine... bath, massage, pj's, song, story then nighty-night.
Well, ready for another week. This week I'm really looking forward to a change of pace (and some champagne... chilling now!) with my friend Alison visiting again. Cheers!

Kisses for Elmo!

Cole loves his book "Giggle with Elmo". We read it at least once a day! Each page has different sound effects to go along with it. The last page (seen here) seems to be his favourite and he knows what to do to give a kiss now because of it--little open-mouthed but that's ok:) Still so, so cute!

S-M-I-L-E

We finally caught a smile on camera! It wasn't easy... although he gives out quite a few these days everytime you get the camera he just stares at it, wondering what it is I suppose.
So far we've had a good week... on our 5th consective sleep through the night. Now, I just need to get back to sleeping through the night myself! Our next challenge will be getting him in his crib... till now he's been sleeping in his bouncy seat next to our bed.
As you can see below he's started to grab at and pay more attention to toys now, making the days a whole lot more fun:)

Bath-time Cutie!

One of the girls from my work had gotten Cole this bathrobe and I kept looking at it and thinking how big it was and that he probably wouldn't fit into it for awhile... tonight after his bath we decided to try it on just to see. It fits! I'm glad we tried it on him because if he keeps growing at this rate he's not going to be able to wear it much longer. Last week at the doctors he weighed in at 14 lbs. As cute as he makes chubby look it's not easy on the arms to carry him around these days... hopefully he gives our muscles a chance to catch up! Our "little" boy is 2 mths old tomorrow! It seems like yesterday we brought him home, and yet life without him is hard to remember.

"WooHoo, Weeeee, Whoooaa... "

This is what Cole's penguin says as you bat him around. He's really amazed both of us over the past couple of days with how much he's started to use his hands, not really controlled yet of course, but he's able to give the penguin a few hits to get him to "talk"! Today, we got out his Bumbo seat... he's been doing really well with holding his own head for a couple weeks now and although I'm not comfortable leaving him alone to do so (was always ready with a hand behind his head) it was fun to try something new!

posing with the penguin...

"muah"