My sick little man

Well Luke has come down with his first cold. I knew it was coming. I wasn't feeling very well a couple of days ago and at daycare there was a cough and running nose going through the gang. He is pretty miserable today although he is still happy. He just kind of moans and whines a little and wants to be held. He woke up quite a bit last night but I would just get up and give him his jones (pacifier) and he would go back to sleep. At 4:30 this morning he woke up and I brought him to lay with me where we both slept until 7. We were supposed to go see his buddy Jaylen today so I could get ready for my first Get Green Together Party but since he didn't feel well we don't want to get Jaylee sick too.

My Aunt Cathy gave me a recipe for applesauce that is raw and natural that I made today. I used 1 and a half apples and 1 banana and a little bit of water and it was so good. Luke loved it. I did too! I think I like it better than the applesauce we buy in the little containers.

As I mentioned above tomorrow is my first Get Green event that I am doing by myself. I am a little nervous! I have another scheduled for October 18 too so hopefully tomorrow goes well.

Pictures!!!!!

My babies getting ready for bed. I love them both so much.

First time getting sweet potatoes

Let me taste that...
Hey that wasn't so bad. I want some more.

Hurry I can't wait for you to give me more so I'm going to eat my hand.

Chilling with daddy

Have you ever seen a cuter baby with the most beautiful blue eyes? Floor time with Raffi

Yep I love my tummy now!

This video of Luke is what he had been doing for a week every day all day long. He doesn't do it so much anymore and I miss it!

5 months!

Luke has been here for 5 months now. I can't believe how time flies. I know I say this practically every week but still it does. We had a wonderful day as a family yesterday on Luke's 5 month birthday. We went to a really awesome place called Santee Lakes and fed the ducks some old bread we had and walked around exploring the place since Jason and I both had never been there before. We are seriously discussing having Luke's first birthday party there. They have play areas for kids including a little mini water playground and rock wall for them to climb. They have lots of picnic tables and a clubhouse. I know we have 7 more months until his birthday but we did have to decide on a day for his party yesterday too. Jason will start umpiring college games this year and they needed his schedule that he is available from January through June. So we had to figure out the birthday party and what Saturdays I would need to work and him take off to watch Luke. Hopefully it all works out or we will have to ask my mom to watch him.

Luke got his first real baby food yesterday (other than rice cereal). We started with Sweet Potatoes. I am making all of Lukes food so we went shopping yesterday to buy some organic veggies. So far I have made zucchini and squash from Becca's garden and the sweet potatoes. I made so many sweet potatoes that I'm going to give some to Loralyn for my precious Rory. By the way making baby food is SO easy. So worth it! Luke did not like the first bite but then he warmed up to the idea and ate the whole bowl (it wasn't really that much). Today he was really hungry and just wanted his milk so he only had a couple bites. I have lots of pictures to update but I left my camera in his room and he just went to sleep so I will do a photo post soon.

21 weeks!

So there has been so much going on. We haven't had a free moment. Luke is growing and doing so much now. He is 21 weeks old. He even cracks himself up. He is working on all kinds of new sounds he can make and sometimes he thinks they are very funny and he knows they make us laugh so he does them and then laughs. He has changed SO much the last week. He is tearing it up in his excersaucer banging around on things. He seems to get a little hyper after his bath right now. We have a little routine of bath and then I lay him in his crib and turn on the mobile and lotion him up head to toe while he is talking and kicking and laughing. After that it used to be bed time but now its play time for a little while and then bed.



Luke is also going through the dreaded teething. I feel bad because there are just days where he is miserable and just moans and whines. He constantly has a fist in his mouth chewing away and you have to be very careful when your finger is anywhere near his face because he will find it and chomp down hard. He loves his teething rag and really is getting into his Raffi (Sophie the giraffe teething toy). Today he was a little more uncomfortable than usual so we had to give him some tylenol while at daycare. Poor baby!

My best friend Loralyn brought to my attention today that she calculated that at her current rate of pumping (breastmilk) of 5 times a day if she kept it up for a year that would equal 20 full days worth of pumping. I did my own little calculations of my own. For Luke's first 3 and a half months when he was still getting up in the middle of the night I had pumped over 800 times and about 8 and half full days. Wow! If I were to continue until my sweet boy is 1 year old (like I originally planned while still pregnant and had the glorious dream that nursing would be easy) I would have spent about 25 days pumping. Wow if that were my job I would have made over $12,500.00 from the 600 hours of pumping in a year! Wow could I get a job pumping?!?

In other news our lives have just changed a little bit. I have been told by work that I will be forced to cut my hours down. I will now only be working 3 days a week. There are two sides of this and the first side is that I'm happy to spend more time with Luke but the other side is I know it will be a struggle financially and I don't want Jason to stress out about it. I actually feel bad for my daycare lady because I told her we would be there 4 days a week and now we will only be there 2 so she is going to be out $55 per week. She has a baby on the way and I'm sure it has stressed her out as well. Seems unreal to me that this is actually happening. I have been there for 9 years and can't believe after all this time we are haivng to do this.

I also had my launch party for H2O at home. Thanks to all those that came and especially to April who booked my first party. I will be giving my very own demo on October 3rd! At this point I really need to start booking some parties because we really need the money. I have been using the products in my kit and really love them! There is this dishwasher pouch and it has these beads in there and all you have to do is pump a little of their regular dishsoap on it and put it on the top rack and your dishes come out sparkling clean. No more dishwashing detergent for me! I'm loving everything I've tried so far.

Lots going on in the Kaminsky house

So when we were at the doctors he said to start rice cereal at 5 months unless Luke stopped sleeping through the night. Well he had stopped plus he was eating 5oz every 2 hours so we decided to give him a little cereal. The first couple of days we gave it to him in his bottle but on Monday his high chair arrived and so we went for it. Here are some pics and a video of him eating. He sure seems to like it, although when it first goes in his mouth he makes a horrible face then he will smile after that.

First Bite

Over the weekend my work had a little pool party at the Chandler's house. We had lots of fun (Mommy may have had a tad too much as usual when I'm hanging with the ECLAP crew). Luke and Jason really enjoyed their time in the pool.

Me and my little man

Luke holding my beer for me

Luke relaxing in the pool with daddy

Jason pushed him around in his turtle floaty for a long time.

Luke showing off his Guess outfit before he grows out of it

So this weekend Luke decided he was tired of trying to roll over without success so on Saturday Jason and I put him down for a nap. We were in the kitchen and all of a sudden we hear a noise through the monitor. When Jason looks at the video he says to me, well he is on his stomach. We grab the camera and run in there to find little man very proud of himself for finally doing it. Now the problem is he hates being on his stomach so everynight we have to get up several times to roll him back over and put the pacifier in his mouth so that he doesn't wake up all the way. Sometimes it works and sometimes he screams and won't go back to sleep. I'm hoping this stops soon because I'm tired.

This is what we saw when we walked in his room

My boys showing off their hats

Video of Luke rolling over

Video of Luke eating cereal

So in other news I have started a new business and I'm very excited about it. I'm having a launch party on September 11th. I will be selling products for a company called H2O at home. The company has been in France for 12 years and they sell cleaning products that are either all natural or tools that you just need to use water with. Since I got pregnant it made me start to think more and more about things like cleaners with chemicals in them around my baby. Not to mention when I scrub my floors on my hands and knees Sophie follows me the whole time often walking on the wet part and I don't want her to go lick her feet after that. I am part of a team with Valerie and her sister Kristen. I went to Kristen's launch party and then I instantly decided I wanted to do this because I believe in the products. It took more convincing for Jason but he went to Val's launch party to check it out and when we got home he said go for it. It is basically like a Pampered Chef or Cookie Lee type of thing where I get people to host parties so I can share the products with them. I at first just wanted to join so I could get the starter kit but now I'm excited and hope that I can build my business up and possibly stay home with Luke one day. I am getting in with the U.S. company in the beginning and am considered a "founder". Right now there are only about 168 people in the U.S. selling these products. If you are interested in learning more about the products here is my website: http://www.myh2oathome.com/Nicole

You can also leave me a comment if you want to come to my launch party!

I'm losing my mind

So Luke hasn't been sleeping well so between getting up early for work and staying up late to pump on top of waking up with him in the middle of the night Jason and I both are pretty tired. I feel like I am losing my mind. One night I while Jason and Luke were playing I started pumping and I realized after a couple of minutes that milk was leaking on my leg. I had fogotten to put the bottle on one of the pumps! Then later that night I went out to pump while Luke was asleep. It was 10:30 pm and I started pumping only to wake up at 11:26 pm. I had pumped for an hour. I was very sore!

Today Luke doesn't think he needs a nap. He isn't necessarily fussy he is just making tons of noises and won't sleep. We gave him some rice cereal in his bottle today. He seemed to like it. His high chair should arrive on monday and we are going to try and actually feed him the rice cereal. I can't wait to see if he likes it or not. I also made my first batch of baby food today. It was some squash from Chris and Becca's garden. I froze it in little individual portions so when he is ready we only have to thaw what we need. It was super easy and kind of fun. Can't wait to make more!

We went to the races yesterday with Primo Pat and Chris and Becca. We had so much fun. I won $23 on a race. I love horse racing. Especially since we love the show Jockeys on Animal Planet.

Little man is growing up

Well our little guy has certainly changed here in the last week. Last Wednesday night I starting weaning him from the swaddle. The first night was a challenge. He woke up at 1 am and I had to rock him for a little bit and give him a couple ounces of milk to finally get him to go back to sleep around 3am. The next few nights were great I only had to wake up and give him his pacifier once each night. Then on Saturday we had some friends over for card games and when I put Luke down I just put him in his crib and when everyone left Jason said lets not move him so I let him have his way and Luke did great. He slept through the night. I knew he was ready to be out of the cradle because once we stopped swaddling he would sleep with his arms out and they would stick out of the cradle. Luke loves his crib! He thinks its playtime in when he gets there. He is trying so hard to roll over. One day he was sleeping when I set him in there and once he hit the mattress he was wide awake. He moves around in complete circles and rolls on his side trying to roll over for an hour or so. His hand still gets in the way but he is trying really hard. He gets so frustrated. We watch him on the monitor because its so funny. He has also started puting his two feet against the crib and kicking. Where he is coming up with this stuff I have no idea but its really really funny.

4 month visit: Ok so we took little man in for his 4 month visit and he was 13lbs 13oz and 26 inches! He is growing so fast. Since birth he has grown 8 inches! I can hardly believe it (do I say that a lot?). He was great for his second set of shots. We discussed with the doctor when he should start on solids. The doctor wants us to start at 5 months unless he starts waking up in the middle of the night then he should start on rice cereal.

So as soon as we went to the doctor and talked about waiting until 5 months to start cereal, Luke has been waking up every single night. The first night he woke up at 3:20 and stayed awake. He has not been sleeping but we aren't exactly sure if its because he needs cereal OR if he is teething. He has been a little fussier than usual and chewing on EVERYTHING and drooling buckets. Today Melissa, our daycare provider called me at 5:00pm (as I was closing up the office to go get Luke) and said that he had a low grade fever. When I got there she said it really could just be teething because he has been chewing more and more today. We are at a loss of what to do because I don't want to start him on cereal if we don't have to but I also don't want to keep waking up in the night if that is the problem. We made a deal to see how it goes the rest of this week. I already bought some cereal just in case. Oh yeah and we ordered his high chair and it should be here Monday. I'm super excited!

Last night Luke was talking up a storm. He is starting to respond when you talk to him. It is really cute. He makes the cutest sounds I've ever heard. Today my mom came to see him after work and she walked in to his room because he was playing in his crib and she couldn't believe how big he was and its only been a week since she saw him! He started talking to her and then when she was giving him his bottle he started laughing at her.

I'm shedding like crazy. Actually I think Luke and I are losing our hair at the same rate. Luckily I started with more than he did so hopefully I won't look like him with all his bald spots soon.

Happy 4 month Bday baby boy!

Sporting his Pj's the Oman's got him

Luke and Aunt Becca at game night