Here's Ty's 5 month pics. He no longer wants to sit back in the rocking chair, he wants to sit up!
Last month I dared to make a come back in the direct selling world. Albeit, a small one, I was quite proud of myself for doing so. I have just been taking small orders here and there, a catalog show as I pick them up, but I hadn't attempted to get back out in front of the crowd since Ty was born. A couple things kept me separated from the Pampered pack... I most definitely wasn't ready to leave my baby boy. Who has more separation anxiety, me or Ty?!? Either way, it was my prerogative to decide when I was ready to leave him. My take is it took us two years to finally hold a baby in our arms and I was in no hurry to hand him off! Nursing moms have a relatively short window of time to be away from their babies or pumps. I do not have access to either during a cooking show, so I had to wait until his feedings spaced out enough to be gone and my supply could handle skipping a feeding. Yes, I know full-time working women manage to breastfeed and leave their babies all day long, but their bodies grow accustomed to that. My body believes it needs to feed my son every 3 hours. I can't exactly leave the show to go pump in the car either, so I had to wait until I felt like I could pass up a feeding without leaking in front of everyone! So, turns out my first show back was in a bar of all places! A past host from LaGrange wanted to stock on free products again so her bar-owner friend allowed me to set up on the pool table during a Texans game. It worked out wonderfully. Cooter and I drove to LaGrange and Ty hung out with his daddy and Bobbie (Cooter's mom). I ended up just doing a product demo as people came and left from the bar. Not having to cook helped ease the transition back into the show routine. I ended up with a $700 show in just a few hours time! By the way, sales are great when people are drinking! I have another show this Friday in LaGrange again and I'm the same nervous wreck I was a month ago...let you all know how it goes!
October 15th we had a baby shower for Nicole. It was my first time planning a shower, and despite the fact that I left the stuff for the games at home, I think it went very well. I had tons of help from friends and family. Well, there we were thinking we'd see everyone in about a month or so since Nicole, 36 weeks pregnant would be due by then. As most things with babies, the unexpected happened and Addison Grace was born on October 20 at 11:00pm! She weighed 6lbs 1oz and was 19 1/4 inches long. I was packing the house waiting for text messages and phone calls the night she was born. I was so sad to have missed it, but with a sleepy baby at home it just wasn't feasible for us to be at the hospital at that time. We were there the next morning though! My mom has a pic that I took of her holding Addi in one arm and Ty in another...I need to get it and share, its priceless! So, two babies in 4 months for the Edge family!
Ty and Addi hanging out. She is TINY...he is not near as huge as he looks!
Napping together at Pop and Cici's house.
Ty spent his first Halloween in a fussy mood! All day he didn't sleep well and just wasn't a very happy baby in general. I never made it back to the pumpkin patch to get better pics of him in his costume, which really bums me out. I tried to take some that night, but he was so tired. In fact, we had planned on trick-or-treating at the neighbors and coming home to pass out candy, but we never made it out of the garage before he was passed out. So Ty spent his first Halloween asleep!
Carving pumpkins with the neighbors...
...but this is the face he made most of that night!
my little lion
how Ty spent his time trick-or-treating
No new stats this month since we haven't been to the doctor recently. Two new milestones in the last couple of weeks though! Ty has officially learned to sit up unassisted...and he caught his first cold. For the last several weeks, Ty has been able to sit for a few seconds, leaning far forward trying to eat his toes. When we were at my parent's house the first weekend of November, my dad had him sitting on the island in the kitchen and decided to let go. Ty sat for a significant amount of time before teetering sideways! Every day he improves! He can sit for quite a while now, even longer if he is distracted with a toy. The downside...he's not quite stable enough to be left sitting without someone there to catch him, but now that he can sit up, he'd rather not lay on the ground longer than a few seconds. So I just lost some of my independent time that I used to clean dishes, etc. Ty is also in the process of fighting his first cold. It started with a dry cough, which was hard to tell if it was real or not. Ever since the wildfires, he has had allergies and periodically coughs. By the second day he had a congested cough and runny nose, but never any fever. You could tell he felt bad though. The third day I called the pediatrician just to see if we needed to bring him in. I'm terrified of RSV. They said with no fever, I didn't need to bring him in. So he's been sleeping a lot, using the humidifier, and constantly smells of Vick's vapo rub. He's already getting better though. No more boogers, still no fever, and his coughing is still present, but not as frequent. It was inevitable and I know it won't be the last cold he'll catch!
First time sitting up!
Here's some of our favorite pics of Tyler this month!
Cooter went dove hunting and wanted a pic with Ty...and I LOVE it!
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