Dinner Time

Yummy, Mason loves his green beans! Mason is eating solids now. He transitioned really quickly. I think he just really likes to suck on the spoon, but if it works it works.

Morning Fun

We love waking Mas up in the morning. He's so cute. He roles around during the night and usually manages to get out of the blanket.

This is my favorite morning pose. Good think he didn't suffocate though. I guess we should start putting him in a sleep sack so that won't happen

Spit-up Be Gone

As you can see from the picture, Mason has a spit-up problem. He pukes buckets all day long. It makes me feel so bad. We go through about 4 bibs and burp cloths a day and my carpets and clothing get drenched. It's gross. Well, no more. I was told that milk and dairy products could be the cause and if I stop consuming those types of things the spitting up would stop. Unfortunately for me it worked. I haven't had any uncooked dairy products for about 5 days now and Mason didn't spit up yesterday or today. It's awesome that he doesn't spit up so much, but I just love dairy. It's going to be hard to go a month without, but I can do it. It's only until November then Mason will be 6 months and I am going to stop nursing.

I'm only going to stop, because I want LASIK and I have to be nursing free for 90 days before I can get a consult and I have to have the procedure done before my Flex spending account goes away in March. Yes, it's selfish, but at least I made it to 6 months. That's a lot better then I thought I would do.

I am Iron Man!

Founder's Day BBQ?

Hey everyone, I was thinking it would be fun to have the annual Founder's Day BBQ at the Woolsey residence. Founder's Day is June 27th. The fireworks start at 10:00 so I was thinking we could eat around 6:30 or 7:00. It will be Bring your own meet this year and then we can have everyone bring a side dish. I would like to make homemade ice-cream so maybe we could get a few people with ice-cream machines to bring stuff to make their favorite flavor. Nate and I will make mint chocolate chip.
Let me know if you are interested so that I will know how many people are coming and who is bringing what.

Donation Option

It's really hard toblog one handed. If only my baby would sleep in his crib.
Anyway, I am participating the GREAT STRIDES walk to raise money to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. I am suppose to raise $150.00 by Saturday but I have been to busy to do any fund raising. If you or any one you know would like to donate, please go to the Great Strides Web Link on the side of my blog under fun links and look up Shelley Dopp and donate under my name. Even a dollar would help. Thanks. http://www.cff.org/great_strides/FundRaisingSummary/

Welcome to the World Baby Dopp

It has taken me a while to get around to finding some free time to add some pictures of our little baby. Isn't he so cute!

























We had a ruff start but I think things are slowing starting to turn around. If we could just get breastfeeding down I think everything would be wonderful. Any helpful hints on how to get a proper latch would be very welcome. I have no clue how mothers breastfeed by simply holding thier babies in their arms. I tried that yesterday and it was a disaters. I am confind to a chair with pillows for support. I hate it, but it is important to me to continue to try so I will, even though my nipples are killing me and I basically have the lactation specialist on speed dial and my copy of "What to expect in the first year" next to me at all times.

Other than the breastfeeding he is an exceptionally good baby. I usually have to wake him up to feed him. This was when he was a week old. I'm getting ready to change his diaper so that I can feed him.

Even better, he sleeps about 4 hours at night. He only wakes up once. It's awesome! I hope that never stops.
I think I would have gone crazy without Nate. He took work off for the first two weeks and let me rest. He did the dishes, the laundry and cleaned the house. It was fantastic. He even watched the baby in the mornings so I could shower.