Smiles!

Mummy finally caught some smiles! Here are the pics to prove it!!

Momma loooves you!

Take two!

Tonight you went to bed a little bit earlier, you were tired out from a long fun day at the beach! You had your bottle and went into your crib around 9:30, because you were sound asleep..but as soon as I put you down you woke up and protested..but after a few minutes of bum patting, you were asleep again :) You woke up a couple times, but you went straight back to sleep on your own. At 3:45am you woke up hungry and needing a diaper change, so mummy brought you into the living room where she, nana and tyler were up late watching movies. You had a snack and some snuggles and lots of smiles, and then it was time to go back to bed...only you didn't do to bed, mummy decided you were going to spend the rest of the morning in bed with us...you spoiled little man! lol So I won't know until tonight if you will go back into your bed after waking up for a feed in the wee hours, because routine was not happening last night..hehe but it was nice to see you so happy and mummy needed some special time with you :)

Let's see how tonight goes!

Momma loves you!

not a bad first time..

You didn't quite make it through the night, but you slept in your crib till 4:15am and that is a huge record!! Well done baby boy :) I would have put you back in your crib after your bottle and had you finish out the night there, but mummy has to be up soon and I didn't want you to fuss, so you are now back in your swing, it's 5am, and I'm milking the cow ;) lol

momma loves you!

Tonight's the night....

I may be pressing my luck, but since you are sleeping so well at night, I'm being brave and starting you off in your crib for the night. It's now 11pm and you went down at about 10 and you were awake and drowsy and happy when i put you down, you looked at your mobile and talked to yourself for a few minutes, then went to sleep. Just peeked at you and you are out for the count. So here is the question, will will sleep solid through the night in there or wake up and fuss cuz you are not in your swing? I'm hoping for a 6am wake up call, but I won't count on it lol. I'll update in the morning and report on our first full night attempt in your own bed.

Momma loooooves you! xxxx

My baby is getting soo biiiig! :) I'm so proud of how well he is doing at night.. but part of me still misses the newborn night visits..not the part that deprived me of sleep and sanity, but the snuggles and the feedings warmed my heart. Now tho, I get those snuggles in the morning, and i am much more human at that point! Wish me luck!! Oh and if you're reading this, follow mee! I want more readers lol

Again :)

You slept from 10:30pm until just past 6am thismorning. I am loving this :) I love mornings with you, it's your happiest time of the day. You love to sit and look around at the world and smile and talk to everyone. I can't wait until you start belly laughing, it looks like you want to sometimes :) hehe

momma loves you!

8 Hours!!

Yay! I woke up to you crying, as I do every morning at around 4am, and I looked at my watch to make sure it was time to feed you and not just time for a cuddle..and WOW! It was 6am! You went to bed at 10pm and slept all the way through the night until 6!! I was very happy to get you up and have a quick cuddle and feed the starving baby! Keep it up Jayden :)

Momma loves you!

New routine?

Soooo...Mister Jayden...You were doing so well for a few weeks with sleeping through the night. We got used to your little routine of bathtime, bottle, cuddles, and asleep by about 11. You woke up to eat around 4 or 5 and went back to sleep for a couple hours. Now that we fell into this pattern, you have decided to throw a wrench in it. The last several nights you have been up past midnight, up again at 3am, and if I'm lucky you would go back to sleep for an hour or two...what's up with that? Please, my darling little man, I beg of you to go back to sleeping 5 hours in a row..momma is TIRRRED! lol
Oh, and a nap in the daytime would be greatly appreciated too ;)

Momma loves you! <3

Bedtime?

You refuse to sleep in your crib. Mummy thinks one day you will just decide that you like it in there, but I'm not so sure. Right now you have all your naps and sleep at night in your swing. We have to wrap you up tight to make you feel safe and you do pretty well with sleeping in there. But momma wants you in your bed! Every day I put you in there for a nap, I feed you, snuggle you and lay you down and pat your bum till you close your eyes. And every time, I think "yay"!!! But after about 5 minutes, you are awake again...so I spend the next hour patting your bum, and going back and forth as you fall asleep and wake up..after an hour or so you get your way and end up in the swing..cuz both of us are toooooo tired to keep it up! One day you will surprise me tho, right? You will sleep in there and I will sit here waiting for the call to come and pat your bum till an hour, maybe even two hours have passed..right? I can dream right?


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UPDATE - July 23, 2011

You had an hour and a half nap in your crib today!! Nanny Jacqui put you down, and you stayed there! I guess it must be the nanny magic touch! Good job little man!

Momma loves yooooou!

2 months, week one

Ok so I didn't do very well catching up, so I think starting from now is a better idea. Things have been very busy lately! You had your first set of needles this week, and you were such a good boy! Only cried for a minute and were a trooper. Momma was more traumatized than you were. You weigh 10lbs 4oz !! You are getting sooooo big!! Yesterday your nan from england came to visit and your uncle Tyler who you are named after :) They were excited to meet you.. You seem to really like Nanny Jacqui, you gave her your first real laugh, and lots and lots of smiles. When we went to pick them up, you spent the day with Gramma, it was our first time leaving you with anyone like that and I missed you LOADS! But you did great and had a wonderful time with gramma and grampa :) You are sleeping well at night time, 5 or 6 hours! But you still don't like to nap..I hope you start liking it soon, and I hope one day soon you will sleep in your crib and not just in the swing, hehe.

Momma loves you!!!

First road trip!

You were 3 weeks old, and we packed up and hauled you to Ottawa to meet your uncle Carl and Aunt Marta..then onto Vankleek Hill to see our friend Roxy and get your first real photo shoot done! You were such a good boy! You slept through the whole shoot, and Natalie the photographer had lots of fun and got to take pictures that a lot of babies wouldn't let her, but she called you spaghetti arms, cuz you were a little lazy and wouldn't help her at all with some of the poses. Here are the beautiful pictures you had taken of you that day. We were so proud!

The first weeks...

Momma and Mummy were so excited to bring you home when you were two days old. Your first visitor was Devin, she lives next door and you LOVE her! We call her your girlfriend, because sometimes only she can calm you down if you are upset. Then your uncle Shaun came to visit, and gradually, everyone came to see the new edition to our family. You are so loved by everyone. We can't wait until your Nan and uncle Tyler can come to visit from England. Hopefully soon!!

You had Jaundice the first week, so you were a tired little boy. You weren't very pleased with us when we had to wake you up and make you eat every few hours, you just wanted to sleep. The nurse at Partners In Pregnancy was great, she checked you every two days and helped us make sure you were getting better and that you didn't have to go back to the hospital. After a week or so you were much better and things got much more calm around our house. Your favourite place to sleep was on mummy's chest, the bassinet was not somewhere you wanted to be.

The next few weeks we spent getting to know each other, and boy oh boy did you have personality already! We can't wait to see what you are going to be like as you grow. It goes so fast, you are still so little, but so much has already changed! More about that in other posts :)

Here are some pictures from the first few weeks you were here!

Momma loves you!!

Welcome to the world!

Momma is a little late in starting this blog, but I figure it's better late than never! So let's get a little bit of history here, and then I promise to try harder to write in here as much as I can!

Jayden Tyler Porten, you came into the world on May 14th, 2011. You were three weeks before momma's due date, and boy oh boy were we happy to have you! I said all through my time carrying you, that you were going to come 3 weeks early, and it seemed like you must have been listening because at 1830 on May 13th, exactly 3 weeks early, you kicked a hole in my water. Just under 18 hours later, at 1212, there you were..my beautiful, perfect little man!

Many people say that all babies look the same, and that they are all a bit funny looking, but you, my love, were cute from the first second. Maybe I am a little bit biased, but everyone said you were cute, and it wasn't just the polite kind of 'he's cute' they really meant it.

Gramma and Mummy were there when you were born, tho mummy almost didn't make it in time. We thought we had lots of time but you were impatient and wanted out right away! The doctor was great and let me hold off on pushing until mummy got there just in time.

I'll never forget how warm you were and how my heart melted when they put you on my chest. I knew right then, that I would love you forever and always. Welcome to the world Jayden, momma loves you!