14 years

there are 14 years between my first baby and my last baby. they are awesome.

The Great Outdoors

He probably learned to love being outside from me, or else he inherited it :) We love to be outside. Here he is waiting for the school bus to bring his sisters home.

My Son and Me

Here's a picture of me nursing my 1-year old to sleep. I recently met a woman at a La Leche League meeting who said both her children weaned when they turned one. I can't imagine that personally as all my children have been avid nurslings into their third years, that is, until and beyond age two. My experience is the older they are the more they love to be breastfed.

Sleep

Here we are, this is one of the nicest times of the day, evening, kids in bed, baby nursed and asleep on my chest, he nurses throughout the night whenever he wants, from the time I go to bed he wakes up to nurse twice, during the time he is asleep but I have not gone to bed yet he nurses a few times as well. I don't care, I want him to nurse as much as possible. He is my baby yet even though he's one now!

Daddy Time

My husband is not one of those guys who is super good at calming a crying baby, I'm not sure if there are guys like that. But, my husband LOVES holding a sleeping baby. So, here is a picture of him holding our sleeping little son.

Super Baby!

There he is, super baby! And he really is a super baby. This little guy lived four months and eleven days with a hole in his heart that was probably about half an inch in size, and two other holes, and he weighed 11 pounds so he was so small. For the rest of his life I will always always think he is super.

mommy has a new shirt and adam is nursing

weeeee!

adam and puppets at the library

i really need to take him to the library more often, he gets a big kick out of watching the

other kids.

sleeping man in stroller

i recently started putting adam in his stroller for walks because he finally got a little bit heavy and i didn't walk all summer when it was hot, he got used to the stroller right away and usually falls asleep on our walks so i can bring the stroller up the steps to our second story apartment.

adam's lovely curls behind our apartment with kudzu

well, the title pretty much says it all :) he loves to be outside and once in a while i will take a careful walk behind our apartment building where all the dogs poop and where all their owners don't pick it up because no one can see them. if the poop wasn't back there it would be my favorite place to walk. sadly we end up walking in the street for the most part.

adam and the school bus

it's not all breastfeeding all the time around here, we do other things too! here's adam watching for the bus after school one day.

my adam

a nice long nap

On a nice day Adam takes two naps, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon, for an hour and a half to two hours each. This doesn't normally happen because unfortunately Adam is a light sleeper and he doesn't always go back to sleep easily after he wakes up.

Today, Friday, he had a glorious three plus hours of sleeping and nursing. He nursed to sleep around 11:15 then stirred and nursed a little more several times until we had to go to the bus stop at 2:30 for his sisters. I got a little antsy to get up and do laundry and put things away and pick up toys and what not during that time but as all my other children were in school it was easy to remind myself how fast time goes and how childhood is fleeting and all, so I just held him, nursed him, napped a little, and watched part of Hoosiers, which was my dad's favorite movie and I had never seen any of it.

It was a nice long nap.

Nursing to sleep and playing with his ear

My son nurses to sleep almost every time he goes to sleep, be it nap time or bed time. He has gotten to the point of being a comfort nurser which I think is just great, it makes it very easy to keep him happy.

Aaaalmost there...

He was just about to fall asleep, still sucking but his head was falling back because he was almost out.

Adam+Outside=Big Time Happiness!

Adam loves to be outside. I just wish I could get a good picture of him outside! I must have taken about 50 pictures today and I'm not really madly in love with any of them. Oh well, here he is anyway, happy to be outside!

The Only Baby at Home!

The girls are back to school, Adam's two sisters in elementary school leave at 7:05 am, it's nice and chilly now in the mornings so going to the bus stop is a nice refreshing start to the day, sometimes Adam is awake and goes with, sometimes he is asleep in the house with his oldest sister. His oldest sister is a sophomore in high school and leaves around 7:45, after that it's just mommy and Adam all day. I think he likes having all the attention!

One Year Old

Adam is one now, one year and ten days old to be exact! He isn't standing yet as he is still behind with his large motor skills, but he has discovered different nursing positions that amuse him. :)