Wordless Wednesday

Baby Sitters

Adam and I made a pact to go out once a week for some "couples" time. Because we live so far away from our families, this necessitated finding some babysitters who we could count on to watch Zach when we go out. We have two great ones so far!

Adam's hairdresser, Mollie, has watched Zach for us twice. The two are bartering services...he gives her credit towards dentistry, she in turn, watches our baby. She is great with babies and just loves Zach. She took the picture attached to this blog while we were out at a UVA basketball game.

We also found Dawn. Dawn works for the local pediatric dentist and babysits for other dentists children. She is great with Zach and will be our "go-to" sitter on a regular basis. We have arranged for her to come every Thursday evening so Adam and I can have a "date night."

My Co-Worker, Lynn, has also offered to watch Zach whenever we need to have a night alone together.

We are so lucky to have found them!

Zach gets weighed at his 2 month (10 week) appointment

He is a healthy 12lbs 3 oz and 23.5 inches

He is now in the 50% percentile for height and weight

2 month update

Wow. So much has changed since the arrival of our little boy.

Milestones: No more sleepless nights! YAY! Zach started sleeping a seven hour stretch a mere three days before I returned to work. What a blessing! He is now in a great routine. He gets a bath at 7:15, eats, then goes to bed by 8pm. He usually wakes up around 3 or 3:30am to eat, then falls back asleep until 5:30 or 6:30, eats again, then falls asleep until we get him up for daycare. This past Sunday night he surpised me with a 9

Hiking with dad on the appalachain trail

hour stretch (although, I must admit, he did wake up at 2:00am, but he merely grunted for a few minutes and then fell back asleep). I finaly feel rested.

Zach started smiling this month. It started off slow, but now he grins much more often and seems to be in a better mood overall (at least during the day). He coos more often and has started squealing with delight when he's really happy. He recently started a nightime fussy routine. He tends to get fussy right around 6:00-6:30 until bedtime (although bathtime is usually spared from crying). We've tried setting an earlier bedtime, but this doesn't seem to be the issue...he'll just cry until 8pm. Nothing much soothes him during this time, not even the proven staples! I've read that fussiness can sometimes be expected in the early evening in babies his age, so we just chalk it up to that! The only sad thing is that Adam gets home right around 6:30, so he doesn't get much happy time with Zach in the evenings.

Zach HATES tummy time. He has such strong legs and neck, but refuses to work those arm muscles to build his core! I hate watching him cry, but we just keep working on it. He will only go about 1-2 minutes at the most before the fussing starts. I've tried the boppy, I've tried the excersize ball, putting him on my tummy and nothing seems to work...Any suggestions?

Daycare Update: We decided to stay with our original daycare! We may switch him in August once he is a little older and more mobile. Zach is doing wonderfully at Creative Wonders. He always seems content/happy when I go to pick him up. Our neighbors just started their little boy there this week, so I also feel good that I have more eyes watching out for him.

Back to Work and Daycare

Zach's first day at Daycare

I went back to work today and dropped Zach off for the first time at "Creative Wonders" a local daycare. It was so difficult to leave him, and I wept like a baby walking out of the facility. He, however...was perfectly content. Ms. Betty had his crib all ready for him with his name on it, a mobile and an aquarium toy. She picked him up and took him around to meet all the other infants. Zach is the youngest baby at the Daycare right now. There are 10 infants and most of them are somewhat mobile. They keep them in the infant room until they are about 14 months old.

It is a bright, colorful place with murals on the walls and fun carpeting. I made Adam check on him at lunch and he came back with a very positive report. Zach was content in a baby swing that in Adam's words was "flying." Apparently the swing was going very very fast, but Zach was enjoying it. When I picked him up in the afternoon he was sitting in a bouncer on the floor just looking around. I asked if he cried much today and the staff replied "not at all." The only time he cried was when he woke up from his nap and wanted to be out to play. This made me feel so much better.

In other related news:

I received a phone call from a different day care center today that we were on the waiting list for. This daycare is across the street from Adam's office and convenient for both of us...I just don't know that I get the same warm fuzzy's as I do with Creative Wonders. They have 16 infants and the room stays dark most of the time for naps with only a small play area. The facility is part of the local hospital though, so I know the care is top notch...its just not as bright and cheerful. I'm not sure what we are going to do!

A Seasoned Fan

UVA Sports:

The Salzberg family has been busy this week. We took Zach to both the last home basketball game of the season and a lacrosse game. We certainly aren't waisting any time acclimating him to UVA sports!

We had a great time meeting up with Shannon, Brian and their family at the basketball game. With three children ages 5,3, and 7 months, they certainly have their hands full!

After dinner at a Pizza Parlor where drinks were spilt, children fell off chairs, and crying was abundant, Adam looked at me and then at them and said "What do you think about three?" I promptly replied facetiously..."Three just isn't enough, I want to be Octumom!"

UVA onsies and Diaper Drama:

Adam is such a proud Daddy. He loves dressing Zach up in his UVA clothing and sporting him around town. However, if it weren't for the 4 uva onsies that we currently own, he wouldn't have made it to the lacrosse game in style.

Here's the Story... We went to the basketball game on Saturday and he wore onsie #1 he spit up on it as he usually does his clothing and it promptly went into the hamper that evening. Fast forward to Sunday morning...We dressed Zach in his second UVA onsie and not 5 minutes later, he had a MAJOR explosion. I was so happy that Adam was there because this was a two person clean-up job! We put Zach in his 3rd onsie and 20 minutes later another MAJOR explosion...AHHHHHHH! We aren't quite sure why everything shot straight up his back (his Pampers normally hold in everything well), but his diapers sure weren't doing the trick this morning. We had to change him into his fourth and final onsie before we left for the game. Rest assured, I brought 2 changes of clothes with us in the diaper bag!!!!!

UVA Basketball and Trip to Va Beach

Zach is already a UVA basketball fan! We dressed him up in his UVA attire (Thanks uncle Josh) and took him to the game the day before he turned 6 weeks old.

Adam was having nightmares that he would behave horribly and start screaming while our team was at the free throw line. I am happy to report that he was SOOOO good. We honestly don't know how we got him to behave so well since we can't keep him on our lap at our home for more than 5 minutes without him crying, and he sat for an hour and a half without a peep!!! I think he enjoyed the noise and lights. He'll get to go to one more game this season, so we hope he behaves just as well!

VA BEACH:

We travelled to Va Beach for Zach's first roadtrip last weekend. He was great for the car ride and slept the entire time. I couldn't have been happier....that is until we had to head to synagouge at 9pm that evening. He SCREAMED everytime we came to a stoplight (I think there were 12 of them on the way). He was so worked up that even I started crying in the car. Adam attempted to comfort me while both the baby and I were sobbing.

My mom was fantastic as always and agreed to prepare a meal for Zach's local Great-Grandparents. It was great for Zach to meet his great grandma and great pop-pop before the big "open house" party and get a little quite time with them.

Other than for feeding, I don't think I had to hold Zach for one minute the whole weekend. His Pop-Pop and Be Be held him and cuddled while Adam and I took a nice little break.

The "Open House" party was nice, but overwhelming for Zach who was passed around and around the room. He got quite cranky, but because he didn't sleep much during the party, he slept the ENTIRE ride home to Waynesboro. Such a blessing!

A smile to melt your heart