Week 14 - The Twilight Zone!

Week 14 - The Twilight Zone!
(11/15/09 - 11/21/09)

This week I woke up and decided very early on that I must live in "The Twilight Zone"! The first thing that happened was that on Monday Jacob and Andrew both took a 2 hour nap at the EXACT SAME TIME, I put Jacob down at 2:00 and within 5 minutes Andrew fell asleep and decided he was going to sleep two hours too! I thought "WOW! How lucky am I?". But then the weird part happened, they both two naps at the exact same time ALL WEEK LONG!!!! Holy cow, someone must love me up there (or be tired of my thousands of prayers for duel nap times!). I don't know what the odds are that a 2 year old and a 3 month old would both take two hour naps within minutes of each other, but if I were a bettin' man I would say it is pretty rare! I don't know how long it will last, but I am going to milk it for all it's worth!

The next "Twilight Zone" moment I had this week was when I was hanging out with Andrew and we were "talking" back and forth and I noticed something strange on his gums! HOLY COW! He cut his first tooth! Yes folks, you read right, I have a 3 month old that has his first tooth! Now of course it is just the pokey first part and not the whole tooth yet, but still! HOLY COW!

Now the Corcoran's are notorious for having tons of teeth early! Jacob didn't get his first tooth until 8 months, but then had 16 teeth in 4 months (yeah! I know can you say "That was hell!"). But the Corcoran's always get their teeth before they are a year old, some start super early like Andrew is doing and some get them all at once like Jacob but regardless they have tons of teeth!

I can't figure out if I like the idea of spreading the teeth out with Andrew, since he is starting earlier than Jacob maybe (hopefully) I won't have to deal with the 2 teeth a week scenario. But then again I don't know if I want to deal with a 3 month old with teeth either! Maybe this new little nub of a tooth will take awhile to come the whole way in! We will soon find out!

Week 13 - The head bones connected to the....

Week 13 - the head bones connected to the...
(11/8/09 - 11/14/09)



The head bones connected to the neck bone,
The neck bones connected to the back bone.....


First let me say that I am the proud mommy of a 3 month old today! Can you believe it?

Yep this week Andrew finally mastered the art of holding his head up. He has been working on it for a few weeks, but has finally not only mastered the art of holding it upright in one position but can now hold it upright and turn to look at things. Paul and I put Andrew in the baby bjorn carrier a lot because a) he likes to be held and b) because have you ever held a 17 pound baby for hours a day?? Yeah I know, he is one big kid and since the head control doesn't necessarily equate to back/stomach control too the option of holding him on my hip is still a few weeks away. So even though he has head control you still have to hold him on your shoulder or with both hands! Which gets very tiring. So the bjorn is really nice especially now that we can face him out since his head isn't floppy anymore!

He has also started to try and bat at toys while he lays under his play yard toy. I don't know if he is doing it on purpose yet or just flailing, but he loves it under there and will intently watch the toys as you move them or shake them!

Week 12 - Hair today, gone tomorrow !

Week 12 - Hair today, gone tomorrow!
(11/1/09 - 11/7/09)

This week I started to notice something with Andrew. I first started to notice it when outside or if I was sitting in one of our chairs by the window, but his head has started to "glow". Now at first I thought it was just a trick of the sun or the angle that I was holding Andrew in. But then Paul noticed it too....was Andrew getting blonde hair???

Soon after Paul and I noticed the "glistening" on his head I started to notice dark brown hairs on his sheets and his clothing. I got out the baby brush one day and wound up having a hairbrush full of brown hair!

Like most babies Andrews hair that he was born with has started falling out, however since he sleeps on his belly he now has bald spots starting on each side of his head instead of on the back of his head like you see on most babies. On the top of his head he has started getting in some lighter colored hair. Now with Jacob we never had this problem because other than the well loved mullet he was pretty much bald and what hair he did have was blonde/red so you didn't really notice it falling out or coming in. This guy definitely has some bald spots forming and it will be interesting to see what color hair he has as a toddler. Jacob was red and turned brown (getting darker by the minute), I was a bleach blonde and ended up having brown hair....Paul pretty much has stayed brown and has gone from a lighter brown as a child to the dark dark dark brown that it is now.

I think it will be hillarious if Andrew goes blonde since he looks soooo much like Paul, for him to have the exact opposite color hair as Paul will be funny!

This is me at my 2nd birthday...blonde...blonde....blonde!