Today, on Solomon's 7 week birthday, he was a brave boy and let me make a recliner for him out of Meridian. My firstborn great dane and my firstborn son.
He also skyped with his cousins and his Aunt Marla this evening and just locked on with the computer screen!
He is smiling all the time now, I just never have my camera in hand when he does. I think tomorrow I will take pictures of him all day long and see what I can get. He is still just sleeping for 3 1/2-4 hours at a time at night and the long night sleep might just have to happen soon. I'm starting to feel a little more worn down lately, I told Josh that I feel like I have 4 part time jobs: photographer, mom, wife and housekeeper... not to mention all of the friendships that I need to keep up with!
Sol's Acid Reflux seems to be under control now and we still just have him on half of a pill of Prevacid once a day, not too bad at all. I tell you what, I read everything on the whole wide world web about AR when we found out that he had it. I'm glad that google and I are such great friends.
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I've been videoing small clips of Solomon over the last 6 weeks and wanted to put them all together for a short home video for him when he is older. I'm not sure how I would put it together without songs in the background since they are such short clips, and so I'll be working on that for when he gets a little older. If you watched his birth announcement video then the first few minutes will look very similar and then I add a lot more! The songs are all by Elizabeth Mitchell and the video looks amazing when I play it on our LED TV with Blu-Ray! WOW! I feel like a movie maker when I watch it in our living room!
It's 11 minutes long for all of you multitaskers.
sarah shalley:
What'd you use to piece them all together?
(08.14.11 @ 07:39 PM)
Diana:
This is just precious Lauren. You have done an amazing job being a mother. Blessings to you and your beautiful family.
(08.15.11 @ 11:54 AM)
Erica Sledge:
OMG. I got so teary-eyed! This is so awesome. I want to have another baby JUST so I can do this! HAHA. You are a lady of many many talents...
(08.15.11 @ 01:07 PM)
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I have seen some really beautiful photos of mommas and their babies on Pinterest and I knew that if I didn't take any with Solomon at a young age that I would really regret it later on. Luckily I am a "Mom with a fancy camera", with a husband highly trained in exposure and photography:). He was kind enough to spend the evening toting our son and an old barrel around a field full of grasshoppers, chiggers and ticks to get some really beautiful shots of us! Everything was perfect: the light, the field, the weather and Solomon was acting great too! I would say that 95% of all photos of me that I post on my blog have been retouched to shave off a good 15 pounds from me and I am very happy to admit that I didn't "doctor" these at all! I've lost 35 pounds now and am only 15 away from pre-pregnancy weight! Thank you LORD! I thought I would be the person on the Biggest Loser a few years from now thinking that I wouldn't lose the 50-60 pounds that I gained during pregnancy, but these post pregnancy hormones are KILLER and I'm taking full advantage of them. Here are the photos that Josh took for me... Solomon is 6 1/2 weeks old now.
Aimee Braun:
You look beautiful friend...proud of you!
(08.14.11 @ 09:44 AM)
Jenice:
Lauren! These are beautiful! And I love how big Solomon looks in the barrel!
Carol Howard:
Lauren, you are beautiful. I can't wait to get my hands on that little guy!
Natalie:
WOW! Your hubby did an amazing job! Such gorgeous shots!
(08.15.11 @ 09:15 PM)
Shanda:
I am so jealous. Be so grateful that you have these pictures. I do photography also and my baby is now 3 months old. I wish more than anything that I would have had pictures done of us together. You are super lucky to have these AND that your hubbie is so willing to take them for you. Wish I could convince my man to do them! LOL
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Last day! Did I mention that I got my lovely summer tan back while I was in Lubbock? The last day was another full day of swimming and relaxing with my family before Solomon and I made the absolutely PERFECT trip home alone the next day. We drove for 7 1/2 hours and Sol didn't start crying until we were IN the Stillwater city limits! It was awesome.
Jackson is very good at Tae Kwon Do!
Mom, Tim and all of the Grands!
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Another day full of swimming and living it up with all of the relatives! First off, Solomon met his future wife # 1 (He has three choices so far: Camille, Scarlette and Selah) and they went on a swimming date in which Solomon tired out halfway through... introducing Scarlette..
Aunt Robbie came over to hold Solomon for a while, we had lots of family and friends come to meet him. It was nice to be so social this trip to Lubbock!
Great Gigi with all of the great grands on my mom's side... it didn't turn out too well...
The Lee's with Great Gigi
Four generations and my son is doing what he does best...
We went to Joyland that evening and had a blast! Josh calls it "Deathland" and Jackson now knows why, he wasn't a fan of Joyland.
Erica Sledge:
You probably think I'm a freak stalker but I just had to comment again on this one...JOYLAND?! HAHAHA. That place was so fun when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was like Six Flags. Sheesh!
(08.12.11 @ 10:22 AM)
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he is absolutely precious lauren!
(08.17.11 @ 08:42 AM)Aww poor sweety! You might like to try a good chiropractor too! I hear they do wonders for babies with acid reflux. :)
(08.22.11 @ 11:58 AM)