Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He said it, He said it, he said it!!!!! My sweet baby Kal-el now says MAMA. I'm so proud! My heart just leaped for joy when I heard it. I feel like I've literally waited my entire life to hear those words come out of a little persons mouth. I cant put into words how happy that single word made me. He is the most precious gift from God and I feel so blessed to have him. There is NOTHING else on earth like the love of a child. I love you soooo much Thomas Kal-el Borquez. Your Mommy's superbaby :-)
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Borquez's love our weekends!














I almost hated to see this dreary Monday morning I had such a wonderful weekend with the family. Chris was off the entire weekend which rarely happens so we got to enjoy each others company for two days! Friday night we went to our friends Laura birthday party at Casa. Most of the fight crew attended....oh wait ...I dont think I've ever mentioned that my husband now does MMA training. I wont go into it too much b/c I intend to dedicate a separate post for this topic but I will say that I'm sooo proud of him. More to come on this....Ok back to the weekend...We had a wonderful night Friday and I of course comsumed entirely too much Mexican food! Saturday we were able to sleep in a little. Mimsy got up super early at 4:00 to attend the Alabama football game. Chris and I were up pretty early with little one but we were actually both happy to get our day started. Chris always carries Kal-el over first thing in the morning to see his GreatGrandparents Nannie and Poppa since they live next door to us. My work schedule is M-F 8-5 so I enjoy getting to be a part of this routine when the weekend rolls around. We decided that we would all go eat at a wonderful restaurant in Tennessee called the Cathfish Hotel. It literally takes my Grandmother FOREVER to get ready lol its ok Nannie :-) So while she was getting ready Chris and I took little man to Wal-Mart to get his baby food that he is constantly out of! I love the fact that he now fits in the bugee and we dont have to wag that dang car seat around anymore! By the time we got back Nannie and Poppa were ready for the road trip. Chris usually drives b/c he THINKS he is the best driver lol. By the time we arrived in Savannah we were ready to eat some serious catfish. We all ordered the AUCE catfish and we did just that ate all that we possibly could! The place is all kinds of wonderful they only thing that I didnt like is the teeny weeny size of their restrooms. Good grief it's barely enough room for one person to go must less a place to change a baby and when I reminisce about going down there 9 months preggo its mind blowing how I ever got out of that restroom once I went in! Needless to say going back to the car is the only option and as luck would have it we had two dirty diaper scares there in the restaurant. Or should I say one was a scare the second one was just scarey being how it was the real deal and all. After our late lunch we decided that a little shopping was in order. Nannie and I couldn't contain our excitement. The boys looked less than thrilled. Sweet supa didnt mind he just slept. Lucilky there is only one little shopping area in the small town. Well that didnt keep Nannie and I from leaving the sleeping boyS in the car for an hour. Finally we gave up the fight and headed home. My precious husband decided that I would drive b/c I was the better driver lol he says it was b/c he was so tired but whatever we know the real reason my superb skillz haha. We were all pretty tired as we pulled in the driveway. Chris retired to the computer to watch the much anticipated Oregon game on the computer b/c for some reason this particular game wasn't on any of our stations. Kal-el and I spent time changing channels b/w some random lifetime movie and Troy. Very nice relaxing night.
Sunday morning came bright and early and it was time to get ready for church! Everything actually went smoothly and we even arrived early! Woo Hoo :-) Service was wonderful. The sermon was geared towards what we were Thankful for with the approaching holiday of Thanksgiving and as I looked around at my family I realised just how thankful and grateful I am to have them and their love! After church we grabbed a quick bite to eat being extra careful not to over do it b/c our Thanksgiving dinner at the church started at 04:30. We had just a couple of hours to relax before church started. So relax we did. The supper at church was wonderful. I enjoyed letting Kal-el sample several of the home made desserts saying he enjoyed that would be an understatement. He also was able to have his usual favorite sweet potatoes! They always manage to find him! Our church family is made up of some of the most sweet open hearted people I've ever had the pleasure of loving. Sweet, good people. Several church members sang specials after the supper. We wheeled Kal-el in his stroller to listen he passed out loving on Mickey Mouse! Needless to say its the small things that make me so happy which in fact are the not so small things after all. I feel so blessed to be able to spend time with my family and I look forward to Thanksgiving this year as it is Kal-el's first and he has a surprise in store his uncles from Oregon will be coming to visit!
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Separation Anxiety




Just when the parents of super were basking in the delight of less wakeful nights and no bags under our eyes Kal-el decides that his sleep patterns will revert back to that of a NEWBORN. Nope not kidding. The love of our lives has decided that waking up oh say every three hours is a good idea he didnt bother to get our views on this nor does he care LOL. It started out a little over a week ago and at first we both assumed it was teething. The following is an example of our nightly routine.
09:00 pm Kal-el goes down "for the night" ...sometimes with a fight sometimes just snuggles to sleep in my arms
11:00pm Screams from crib down the hallway...Either Chris or myself drag ourselves out of bed and try to gently pat his back and soothe him back to sleep. ..put his paci back in his little mouth etc...sometimes he is inconsolable...if thats the case on any given night we carry him back to our bed for a bottle and some teething tablets...he usually falls asleep while we hold him then we sneak him back in his nursery to his crib...
03:00 am Repeat above
04:15 am Repeat half of above
06:20 Curse repeat all of above again
08:00 Sweet baby boy is officially up for the day!
As you can see this can get pretty exhausting for parents!
I soon realised that the teething tablets and all the other teething tricks were doing absolutely NOTHING to rid any of us of our wakeful nights. I checked his gums and all three teeth were all the way through the gums and I couldnt feel any new ones then after some research it hit me. Hello!? was I not paying attention in my child developmental psychology classes? Our little guy has figured out object permanence but still has no concept of time and is therefore having SEPARATION ANXIETY. For babies this means they remember a parents face when they are gone and understand that they still exist but have no understanding if the parent will return or not. Bless his little heart all the clues were right there. Sometimes he would even fall asleep as soon as we picked him up, other times he would just lie there in the bed with us and talk "bababab dadada bababa" and motorboat. He just missed us :( He's teeth werent in pain his little heart was! Separation anxiety passes in a month or two so we will not be using the Ferber/ "cry it out" method. I have done extensive research on this and I consider myself a very educated parent and I just find the method so UNNECESSARY. Plus several studies indicate that other more gentle tactics are equally effective. We moved Kal-el's pack n play in our bedroom last night and he only woke up once. He stood up and peeked over his pen and saw that Mommy and Daddy were right there in the bed beside him and he layed back down and was off to sleep. Dont worry Kal-el we know that you will soon be right back in your big boy crib but in the mean time we wont make you grow up too fast. Looks like Chris and I will need to do our spending time together between the hours of 09:00 and 11:30 lol
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Pulling up and dadadada.


Ok so I'm going a little post crazy here lately but it seems like there is just so much happening all at once. I walked into Kal-el's nursery early this morning and there he was ...STANDING! My little man had pulled up and was holding on to the railing of his crib! How exciting :) This of course means that he will soon be walking. He's doing several things pretty early which I find very exciting and very encouraging for my poor back and arms esp if baby boy decides he wants to walk early! I cant wait to see what he weighs at his next doctors appointment. He is also" talking" alot more and trying different combs on us. Yep he's getting pretty fancy with it lol. The other night he was hyper and in rare form I had him on my lap jumping up and down nonstop. The whole time he was babbling at 100 miles per hour. I thought hmm this will be a great time to work on him saying Mama. He got quiet and stared at me like I was a crazy lady as I proceeded to say "mamamamamamamama". He then laughed out loud, got really quiet and then opened his little mouth to speak. Only the words that came out were not exactly music to my ears "DADADADA"...followed by laughs. Umm not funny are you serious?! Say Mommy! Mamama. My husband has obviously been working this with superbaby during the day...I've got some catching up to do. Thats my goal this week! Wish me luck :)

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Parking Places!


Sweet baby boy now has two bottom toothies! They came in at almost the same time. Ever since Kal-el was a newborn when he would cry I would look at his little gums and say to him. It's ok because your Mommy's little gummy bear. Like all Mothers I come up with silly phrases and songs for my little one. My favorite references are about him teething. I refer to his little mouth as the parking deck and his little bitty gums are parking places in that deck and one day soon shiny white cars(his teeth) will occupy those parking places and then one day when they are ready to leave they will have to pay him a fee to leave the deck( tooth fairy)! Very far out analogy I know. But I have so much fun with it! Chris thinks its silly to but even he cant help but laugh. I have a feeling that he is now working on getting one of the top teeth in as well being how Chris and I didnt get very much sleep at all the later part of last week. His sleep schedule was like a newborn again it was a little rough but I'm sure equally hard on our little guy. Must be a big white escalade trying to double park..LOL Ok I'll stop...Thankfully things are back to normal this week and Kal-el seems to be feeling great again and luckily these new teeth have been great at assisting superbaby in chewing his rice treats and finger foods. He wasted no time putting them to work. More cars to come..............!
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The Moose!

















So this year was little mans very first Halloween. I tried to think of a unique and clever costume since early September. Chris and I originally thought about letting him go as Superman since he IS superbaby but we decided to wait til he's a little older and can enjoy the idea of being a super hero. I also debated a Michael Jackson costume for him but decided that you really couldnt tell what it was supposed to be on a baby his age. Then of course there is my absolute fascination with crustaceans and crabs so naturally I wanted him to be a little crabby...haha a little crappy get it? ok anyway...But in the end I choose a simple yet adorable random yet precious moose costume for him while Mom and I were shopping at the baby room. It wasnt to much of a fuss to get on my rambunctious baby boy which was a definite plus.
We mostly took it easy on Halloween. We took baby K by to see his daddy at work dressed as the moose. One of Chris's coworkers sweet baby boy was there also. He was dressed as a little monkey with banana and all. Too cute! I got a couple of pictures of them together. They looked a little miserable stuffed in there suits and being subjected to picture taking and random cheek pinches but who could resist? Kal-el will get to enjoying doing this with his own kids one day. After the visit with Daddy we did a little shopping with Mimsy. We take Kal-el's stroller around everywhere now since he has completely outgrown his carrier. He loves it! Matter of fact he loves anything that makes him feel a little more grown.
Since Kal-el is still a little young for treat or treat and it was awfully chilly outside we all stayed home and watched the Oregon game and snacked on Halloween cookies! Chirs and I cuddled up on the sofa bed downstairs to sleep. Awww how romantic and cozy you say? Umm no Chris was standing guard for the perpetrators that have randomly knocked down our mailbox on past Halloweens but thankfully they never showed up. Maybe my wonderful husband can find another use for the 2x4 with nails super clued to it LOL. Happy Halloween!
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