PART-TIME

On September 20, 2010 I started my new job. It has been a wonderful change. St Agnes has always held a great standing in the Fresno area and after becoming one of their employees I now see why. They are truly a hospital that strives for excellence and professionalism each and everyday. It is a Catholic owned hospital so every morning one of the original Sister's that founded the hospital (over seventy years ago) delivers a morning prayer over the intercom. And then every time a baby is born a lullaby chimes over the intercom. How can you not smile knowing someone has just been blessed with a baby?

One of the reason' s I decided to take this job is because it was part-time. And although my hours as a perfusionist will never be 9-5, M-F (cardiac surgery will never be predictable) what it means is that I will only be working 26 weeks out of the year and my call time has been cut by three quarters! I have been very happy with my decision.

Sleepy Eyes and Football Sunday

Being a transplant from Texas my dear husband is and will forever be a DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL FAN. The powerful influence of making Isaiah a fan as well has already begun.

If you want to do your father proud Isaiah you will become a loyal follower too. On the up side, the owner Jerry Jones knows how to build a stadium and one day we will all go and enjoy its OPULENCE together.

Learning the word- NO!

For the most part Jaime and I have decided that instead of completely rearranging and child proofing our house we want Isaiah to learn he has boundaries and this is OUR house not HIS. So I was determined to leave the fire tools out but after he almost pulled the darn thing on top of himself it has now been moved into the downstairs closet. Score: Isaiah-ONE / Mom&Dad-TWO (the dog food bowls and fire place doors remain in their designated location).

Position-Upright @ 7mths

Isaiah has mastered crawling. In fact he loves to crawl around the house and see all the items he can pull himself up on. Then he loves to stand there and take it all in.

TWO OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS

Isaiah LOVES these two adorable creatures just as much as his Mama and Papa do!

Taking the Lead-7 mths

Most of the time Isaiah prefers us to still hold his bottle for him but I've been working on him taking over the task:)

Isaiah at Seven Months

-Grunts

-Crawls and pulls himself up on anything he can -the couch, the coffee table, his jumperoo

-Most content just standing at the coffee table

-Wearing 6-9 mth clothing

-drinking 6 ozs of formula at a feeding

-loves all his food, but stopped liking cereal

-started shaking his head no

-Two bottom teeth have broken through

-Loves playing on the couch. His imagination runs wild as he lunges back and forth on the sofa.

- Took him to Penny's to get pictures taken and he was my little angel. He waited patiently before he got his picture, he flashed the camera some OUTRAGEOUSLY ADORABLE smiles, and then he passed out on my shoulder while it took me a good half an hour to figure out which pics I wanted to buy. *Note to self-Never go get pics on Sunday. The studio was a ZOO.

-ATTITUDE. Slams his legs vigorously when changing his diaper because he does not like to lay down.

-He flips himself to be burped. He will be sound asleep, last suck of the bottle and WHAM! he is throtling is body over to be burped (guess he knows the routine).

-Talks back to us. We will be having a conversation and he will start to chime in with the "Uh, Uh, Uh cave man talk".

-We put his swing up:(. He would want to pull himself up onto it so needless to say it became a hazard.

-I had to take down his mobile before he busted it in two.

-STILL NOT SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT. Every night is different. Sometimes it will be one or two feedings, other nights it might be four or five times of fussing (we think his teeth were a big factor).

-He adores his dogs. He has started to play tug-a-war with Quincy and thinks it is hilarious. Nugget always greets him with me when he wakes in the morning or from a nap and he gets this huge grin every time Nugget waddles in to say hello.

-Jaime and I left left him for a weekend getaway/wedding in Napa for the first time. He wasn't even phased that we were gone. Grandma Betty watched him at the house and when we arrived home Sunday afternoon he was all smiles to see us both.

-Will always stop his fussing if I start singing "The Wheels on the Bus." HE LOVES THAT SONG.

-HE IS THE BEST SON A MOM OR DAD COULD EVER ASK FOR. Every day, every week, and every month Jaime and I are so enamored by how happy, healthy, adventurous, strong and loving our little man is.