Jeremiah Update

Jeremiah has turned into such a boy!

• He loves playing outside, sticks, slugs, building  guns out of blocks
• Has figured out how to petal his bike
• Know his left and right (in the context of his hands and feet)!
• Blueberries are his favorite food
• Is my helper whenever I'm cooking
• Counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10!" Every time. We'll get 5, 6, 7, and 8 eventually.
• Is potty trained, except for number 2. He always waits till he's in bed in a diaper.
• His imagination has taken off! Yesterday he built us goggles so we could look for fish in his room, I said something about an octopus. He started jumping trying to reach it. Apparently it was too high because he built a plane, then flew up and caught it. :-)
• Is so sweet to Ephram. When he hears Ephram crying Jeremiah gets Ephram's silky and then talks or sings to him.
• Singing is something he's just started doing
• Recognizes all the basic shapes
• Has just started saying crazy, disaster, and awesome

 

I asked him to show me the gun he built. Yep, he's shooting me. :-)

Workin' his hat from Aunt Shannie in Austrailla

My sweet boy. Pictures like this are hard to come by!

9 month pictures

Wreaths

Hello. My name is Megan and I have a wreath obsession. I didn't realize it till recently. I find myself looking up different kinds of wreath on Pinterest, thinking up new ones to make and how to repurpose ones I already have.

I made this one for Christmas. I loved how it turned out! It whimsical and has the Christmas colors but is fun. The best part was I didn't have to buy a lot to make it. Just the foam wreath, the W and a few pieces of felt. So easy too! The flowers are just circles in a variety of sizes stacked on each other.

One bad thing about loving wreath is I fell the need to have a different one for each holiday. I don't know why but I'm all about Valentine's Day this year. I wanted a Valentine's wreath without having to start from scratch.

I decided that my Christmas one was close, if only it had pink instead of green...

The flowers from the Christmas wreath were hot glued on so they weren't coming off (I tried). I thought about gluing on top of what was already there. But I didn't want to ruin the Christmas wreath. What to do...

Straight pins! I ended up making felt roses and using straight pins to hold them in place. If you look closely you can see a little bit of green poking out around the edges.

25 cents and an hour one evening and I was able to come up with this! It makes me happy.



Even more so

When I was a teenager the main family I would  babysa\it for had three kids. The oldest was Megan, then D.J. and Zack was the youngest. Before I would start sitting for a family I would always go over to visit to get a feel for the family.

While I was visiting with Ms. Kathy, the mom, she told me "Little boys are different. But D.J.... He's even more so." She told me lots of moms had told her that, even moms of other little boy. I didn't fully understand what she meant. Then I started sitting for them. D.J. wasn't a bad kid be any means! He was just full of energy, extremely curious, loud, so sweet and maybe a little mischievous.

Sound like another little boy I know. My very own, Jeremiah!

I have had other moms tell me the same thing Ms. Kathy was told about D.J. "Little boys are different. But Jeremiah... He's even more so."

It's taken me a little while to come to grips with what this mean.

Honestly, at first, it made me judged. Jeremiah loves to run, yell and be wild. I would see looks from other parents like I couldn't control my child. So I would try to get Jeremiah to behave the way other people thought he should. It just made things so much more stressful. He didn't understand why he couldn't play or explore and would become frustrated. Which just made him louder. The result would be more looks and cycle would continue.

Then I became defensive. Who are these other moms? What do they know about my son? i was ready for a smack down. Not a good thing to be prepared for.

I was left struggling, Trying to figure out what to do.

Over Christmas Matt's uncle and aunt were so encouraging! They just really praised Jeremiah for his energy, his curiosity, sweetness, and even the loudness and mischievousness! They shared that one of their kids was the same way, and he outgrew it!.

After the encouragement, lots of prayer and talking to Matt, I now have a plan! I'm not going to try to force Jeremiah into a box that other people think he should be in. I'm going to let him run, yell and play. I'll be there right there with him running, yelling and playing. Showing him that he's loved and isn't expected to change. Teaching him that it's good to want to explore and even be wild in the right setting. How to control himself. Even harness his curiosity and apply it.

9 months

How is it that Ephram is 9 months old? I'm already starting to think about his first birthday party! Yesterday morning I looked at the clock at 10:44. It was strange to think that nine months ago he had been born yet. Then I started to laughing thinking about the exciting car ride we had going to the hospital and how grateful I am that he wasn't born at 10:44!

• Sign "all done" and every now then he signs "more"
• Can clap. He loves to sing If Your Happy and You Know it. He claps through the whole song.
• Is a book worm already.
• Not crawling yet, but has started rolling to get places.
• Waves occasionally.
• Sleeping much better! Still not through the night but so much better!
• Splashing in the bathtub is one of his favorite things to do. Slashes almost as big as Jeremiah's
• Loves being outside.  
• Has 4 teeth!
• Shakes his head no. Awesome.
• Dances. It's a lot like shaking his head no, but to music
• Wears size 12 month.
• Weighs around 23lbs according to our scale. I take him for his 9 month appointment in a few weeks. So we won't have the official weight till then.

There's no picture yet because he has horrible diaper rash and is super cranky. Hopefully I'll get one in the next few day.

Meals

I really enjoyed cooking so much this week! It was wonderful just needing to get the meal together without first figuring out what I was going to make.One thing I learned is when you cook a lot, there are leftovers! So this week I'm going to be cooking meals that I didn't have a chance to make last week.

My favorite meal last week was the Alfredo! Nummy! I've treied a few different Alfredo recipes in the past, but they never turned out right. This recipe took longer then I thought it would. But so worth it! If you make it, make sure to give yourself pleanty of time!

Sunday: Honey Garlic Chicken and rice with mixed veggies. Already in the crock pot.
Monday: Chicken Marsala over pasta with roasted veggies (I was so bumbed I didn't get fix this last week! Can't wait till dinner tomorrow!)
Tuesday:  Sheperds Pie with rolls. I'm determined to figure out how to bake bread!
Wednesday: Left Overs or a quick meal, like brinner
Thursday: Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup and salad
Friday:Roasted Chicken with roasted green beans
Saturday: Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos

8 Months & Frist Christmas

Meals

Something I'm hoping to get better at is meal planning. In an effort to accomplish this, I thought I would post me meal plan here. Got the idea from my friends Brit. I'm also hoping to try some new recipes. It seems like we end up eating the same meals.  There are a few new ones this week that I'm pretty excited about! I'll let you know how they turn out.

Sunday: Honey Garlic Chicken and rice with mixed veggies
Monday: Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup and salad
Tuesday:  Chicken Alfredo with broccoli
Wednesday: Stuffed pork chops with roasted green beans
Thursday: Fajitas with onion and peppers and black beans
Friday:Spaghetti and meat balls
Saturday: Chicken Marsala over pasta with roasted veggies(I can't wait to try this, I love chicken marsala!)

7 Months

Ephram turned seven months while we were visiting my family for Thanksgiving. It's been exciting to see more and more of his little personality come out.

• He now has 2 teeth! The bottom two. I don;t think the third is too far behind. 
• Loves eating! But not baby food. I think it's the spoon he doesn't like. He'll eat anything that he can put in his mouth or I feed him off my finger. He's eaten many more foods then I would have ever thought about giving Jeremiah at this age!
• Still not sleeping through the night. While teething he was waking up every three hours! Thankfully he's back to just once a night.
• He's a lover boy! He'll grab my face and give me kisses, violently! When I pull away from him my hair has been pulled out of it's poney tail and droll is covering my face. He kisses other people, but not with the same intensity.
• He has discovered Tonks and is fascinated by her!
• Can roll both ways, but just has no desire to do it. He's very content.
• We're starting to sign with him. There have been a couple times I've thought he's tried to sign milk. It seems like he's starting to get the meaning of the signs. Pretty exciting.
• In his big boy convertible car seat.
• Last week Matt weighed him on our scale, 21 lbs! He's my chunky monkey.

Weighing in

At Ephram's 6 month appointment he weighed 19lbs and 6oz! I was a little surprised he was so close to 20lbs already. What really surprised me was that at Jeremiah's 6 month appointment he was 17lbs 9oz. Ephram weighs 2lbs more then Jeremiah did at the same age! Up till this point the boys have been an ounce a part. At birth,  2 months and 4 months. Just one ounce. Now Ephram is up 2lbs! He's a chunky monkey and I love it!

6 months

It's been a busy month for Ephram! Turning half a year old is a big deal!

• Started solid foods. At first he was not a fan, now he loves it! And we've only tried rice cereal. Veggies are coming this week.
• Sits up on his own now.
• Loves to sit and pull toys out of a basket.
• Has started making a "fart" (for lack of a better word) noise.
• Extremely ticklish! On his sides, under arms and especially is collar bones.
• Still not rolling from his tummy to his back. He so close! I can't wait because he has woken up a few times stuck on his tummy.
• Not sleeping through the night yet. I'm hoping that by the next update that will have changed.
• Tomorrow he will have his six month appointment, so I'll have an update on his weight then!

Trying rice cereal for the first time

"This is not milk!"

"That wasn't so bad."

Six months



Look a like

Both of my boys at six months. Can you tell them apart?

 

Look a likes

Can you tell which boy is which?

Jeremiah Update

Here's a conversation we had at the dinner table.

Jeremiah swallows, "Where'd it go?"

Me: "It's in your tummy."

Jeremiah lifts up his shirt and looks at his tummy.

Me: "When you swallow the food goes from your mouth to your tummy."

Jeremiah holding up one hand and putting the other in his mouth: "I get it!"

He tried so hard to get it that he made himself gag! Matt and I were laughing One of the funniest things I've seen him do.

One of his favorite things to do is play outside and look for bugs. He walks around the yard, "You-who! Bugs! Where'd da go? Go to church, bug go to church." I love that that's his first thought. Encourages me that we're on the right track with him.

When we pray at meals and before bed Jeremiah always makes sure we hold Ephram's hands too. Jeremiah asks often that we thank God for Ephram. He's such a sweet big brother.When his love isn't too tough.

He loves to play with Tonks. Tonks isn't super well trained so she doesn't drop her toy on command. He's discovered that if he and Tonks both have her toy, he just needs to scream as loud as he can and she'll drop it. Works every time!

He knows his colors.

Can count to three and we're working on our other numbers.

9 days out of 10 he doesn't get out of bed before falling asleep! Huge milestone for us!

Ready. Set. ROLL!

5 Months

• Ephram rolls a lot now! He rolls from back to tummy, no problem. Still hasn't gotten the hang of tummy to back
• He's cutting his first tooth. Been a painful process for all of us.
• Drank from a cup for the first time. Was quit traumatic since it was cold breast milk. His eyes popped open, arms started waving and screaming. Maybe we'll try warm milk next time.
• Doesn't like a paci anymore.
• No longer wants to be swaddled. Uses a sleepsack sometimes.
• Is fascinated by his big brother!
• Loves looking at books.
• As you can tell from some of the pictures, loves being outside.

To My Sweet Boys

This post is in response to a comment "my boys" left me.




Dear Boys,

You're right, there has been a lack of photos and blogging on here. A lot of that is due to a lack of comments on said photos. Talk to Aunt Kierstyn and Grandma about getting better about that and I'll work on getting better at posting current pictures.

Love, Momma


The boys comment...

dear mommy, we wanted to let you know that the ephram is now over 5 months old and jeremiah is almost 21/2 yrs old....there seems to be a shocking lack of current photos of us on this blog and since we are half of the dang wilsons we would like to be better represented. if not we might have to share this issue with aunt kierstyn!! but we love you best, so you get first shot!


love your sweet boys!!

4 Month Pictures... Finally!

4 Months

As usual, I'm late on the monthly update on Ephram. I had been waiting till I took his pictures. I'm even more behind on that! I'll be adding them soon.

• Ephram had a doctors appointment this week. He weighs 15lb and 12oz 24 and 1/2 inches. Growing like a weed!


• Rolled over for the first time! Hasn't done it since, and that's ok with me


• Doesn't like being sung to, unless it's skinamarinky dinky dink


• Wearing size 9 month sleepers! Can still wear 6 month in everything else


• Wearing size 3 disposable diapers when not in cloth


• Loves watching his brother


• Takes a paci to fall asleep


• Still likes to be swaddled to asleep


• Typically only wakes up to nurse once a night


• Has stayed in the church nursery twice!

3 Months

Ephram is a quarter of a year old! Insane! He's changed so much. I was looking at some pictures from the week after he was born and was shocked by how much bigger he is.

• He's been rolling onto his side. Not all the way over yet, and that's a-ok with me!


• Loves having someone right in his face talking and making eye contact with him


• Sleeping in the nursery


• Wakes up only once during the night


• Watching Jeremiah play is a favorite pat time


• Likes looking at books


• Splashes during bathtime