Category: Life

What can I say, we were young parents, we were easily amused.

Or severely sleep deprived.

Probably both.

I could just nom on those chunky baby legs.

Kevin was playing around with the different functions on the video camera in this video.

We had just gotten back from an Easter celebration with Kevin’s family and Dude was completely wiped out.

And yes, I used to (past tense) dress us up for Easter even though we didn’t go to a church service or anything.

Wow. My hair is big.

Here’s a shot of that monitor belt I was telling ya’ll about.

(Dude was eight weeks early and had to wear a monitor when he came home because his nervous system wasn’t mature enough to keep reminding him to breathe, so the monitor would warn me when he stopped breathing and I would have to stimulate him to start him breathing again).

Most of the time, the alarms were false, but there was one time it went off in the middle of the night and I rushed into his room, turned on the light (which was usually enough for him to start breathing again), and had to actually shake him a bit to make him start breathing again.

I shaved off several years of my life that night.

At any rate, it was a bitter/sweet moment when he no longer had to wear the belt. On the one hand. MAJOR inconvenience, but on the other, assurance that he was breathing. I had many sleepless nights checking up on him shortly after he stopped wearing the belt.

Also – MAJOR cuteness in this video. I love the way he’s responding to me.

And I apologize for his full diaper. HA!

This video is precious to me because Dude is “interacting” with his great grandparents (my mom is holding him).

My grandmother passed away some months ago so I thought my parents would like to see this.

We were celebrating my grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary.

Dude was a little over three months here. We had reached a point where milk only just wasn’t cutting it anymore (he was always hungry) and his pediatrician gave me the green light to try cereal.

(The cereal was VERY soupy, otherwise I wouldn’t have given to him lying down like that).

He was a much happier baby after I introduced cereal because he was fuller for longer period of times.

I laugh at how chunky he was – just a little butterball.

I also like to watch his facial expressions as he’s sampling the cereal. “This is weird. But tasty. I think I like it.”

Yes. I’m using a bottle. It’s because breast wasn’t best – for me. (Stay tuned, I talk about that experience soon).

I know, I let this play out way too long (ZzZz) but it’s like I can’t take my off eyes off the kid.

I call this phase of Dude’s life the “little old man” stage because come on, look at this baby – he looks like a chunky old man with his thinning hair and his double chins. HA!

Also, note the date: Valentine’s Day 1993. Dude is exactly ONE MONTH older than this video. He’s so tiny in that last video, but he’s HUGE in this video! This was the month that Dude had a major growth spurt and pretty much catapulted himself into a normal percentage.

I have no idea why I was torturing the boy – I was probably trying to keep him from getting too upset while we waited for his bottle to warm up.

Yes. I bottle fed both of my children.

Yes. There’s a post about that coming soon.

Yes. It will likely make some people angry. I can’t help that.