One Month Stats

Bean had his one month check up on Tuesday!

He is 9 lbs 9 ounces and 21 3/4 inches long. Everything looks normal and healthy. He got his second hepatitis B vaccine at this visit. I have never seen him turn so read or cry so much. I even got teary eyed. The nurse said it's always worse for the parents then it is for the child. I'm not sure if I agree with that, but it was definitely rough on me seeing my little guy in pain.

Other things?

He is wearing size one diapers now and most of his 3 month clothes fit well. The past few nights he's had at least one 5-6 hour span of sleeping which has been awesome for me. He's also focusing a lot more now. He loves to look at his rattling giraffe from his play mat. Last night he even tracked Jared's face with his eyes! Yay for our smart little Bean.

Guilty?

Today little Bean was a little fussy. I think he was constipated or gassy or maybe both. Oh how my life is so concerned with his bodily fluids.

Anyway. . .

I felt a little guilty today. For once it wasn't "mommy guilt" but "house guilt." Our house is a mess. When I finally got Bean to sleep, it was on my chest. When he was sound asleep my mind went to putting him in his napper and getting some house work done, but then I just kept looking at his sweet face nuzzled up to my chest and I just couldn't move. The only thought on my mind was I'm only going to get so many sweet moments like this, and each one is really the last one because he gets a little bigger every day.

So we snuggled, and I said to heck with the mess, it will still be there on the weekend when either Hubs or I are free to pick up. . . or maybe it will go till next weekend. We seriously need a cleaning service because I just don't want to sacrifice our family time to clean. I wonder how much something like that costs? Hmmmm.

ThunderSnow 2011

Guess what we got last night?

No, that's just Bean looking cute in his bear suit.

What's that you say? That's right! Snow. . .a lot of it.

We spent the day shoveling out the drive way and the deck. . .all ~20 inches of it. Snuggling in bed together (Hubs, Bean and me), napping, and eating comfort food were the highlights of the day.

It's hard to think we got 85% of that over night.

It's back to reality tomorrow, but it was a fun day off despite all the digging.

This or That

I'm still learning how to do this "stay at home mom" job. It's tough.

Today was the first day in four weeks that I showered before noon. Hallelujah!

I have no clue what I'm doing, but I just know it's hard. It seems like there are days where as soon as I change my little Pumpkin's diaper, it's dirty again. As soon as I put him in clothes, he's barfing all over them (I had to change him twice this morning in the span of 10 minutes).

I don't know what's my priority. What needs to get done first when I get those few precious moments of free time during the day when he naps? Do I clean? Do I eat? Do I shower? Do I try and catch a few Z's myself? Do I have a little fun and read/write blogs? Do I pump some extra breast milk to freeze for when I go back to work? Because it just seems to me that I can only get one or two of those items in.

You never know how the little guy is going to be. Maybe he will be happy, or maybe he'll be fussy. Even when he was relatively good like today. . . I still couldn't get breakfast in this morning. Between the changing his clothes, diapers and nursing him the whole morning was time consuming.

Today I chose to shower in that one free moment in the AM, but I didn't get a chance to make myself breakfast. . . .it's one or the other. Instead of napping, I'm writing this blog. Fortunately the nap is semi-ok to miss today. Nate was a good baby last night and had TWO four hour spans between nursing last night, plus it's almost the weekend which means my night off where Jared feeds him is coming.

I knew being a mommy was going to be a hard job, and I hope that some day I will get the hang of

Now Nate is beginning to wake up, the timer on the oven is going off, and my stomach is growing for dinner to be eaten. . . this or that?. . . Oven first, grab baby to nurse him, and keep my casserole in the oven so it stays warm for when I have time to eat it. Sometimes I can work out the order, but it's a learning process.

One Month

The first photo is blurry because he was wobbly, but he's so cute and look at him holding his head up!

What a difference a week makes. Just in the past two days it simply amazes me the things Nate has been doing.

He smiles!!!! Like serious smiles! Yesterday when he was having tummy time on the floor I was playing with him and kissing his cheeks (like I did in the video I posted). He was so smiley when I would do that. Then later on that night at my parents house I did the same thing and got the same smiley response. I didn't really count the time on the video for his first smiles because he didn't really repeat the response since I caught it on video. Now this morning I was playing with him again and got the same cute smiles. I think since he's repeated the behavior three times now we can officially say he's smiling. Oh my goodness how it makes me melt. I could just kiss his cheeks all day. He doesn't really smile just by looking at you yet, but I'm hoping that it's coming soon.

He's focusing more! He's still pretty spacey but the past few days he's looking at faces more, especially when it's me talking to him. It makes me feel so good that he's starting to develop.

Apparently he hates chili. I had a big bowl of chili for dinner last night and he was up all night fussing. I maybe got 4 hours of sleep. It makes me sad, chili is one of my favorite meals. You'd think he'd be used to it with how much I ate it while I was pregnant.

He's starting to like bath time more! Last bath we kept his tub in the actual bath tub and there were parts of the bath where he didn't cry. He really likes it when we spray him with the shower head.

He hates tummy time, but he's starting to hold his head up a little! He's still pretty wobbly though.

And finally last night he peed on Jared! I'm not quite sure how it happened, I guess his diaper just leaked. I thought it was hilarious, Jared. . . .not so much. :-)

I can't wait to see what he does in the next four weeks! I screwed up in my scheduling and he doesn't have his one month check up until next week, I will post his new stats when I find them out.

Argh

I had a frustrating moment last night.

It all started when Bean woke up for his 3am feeding. I picked him up and put him into bed and started getting ready to nurse him. That's when I realized that I had to pee. Doh! He wasn't really crying at that point, just making noises so I thought I could run into the bathroom really quick before he got too upset to relieve myself.

I left him on the bed and sprinted into the bathroom. All was going quickly until I went to wash my hands. We have liquid pump soap in our bathroom. I don't know how I managed to do this, but I pushed down quickly on the soap pump and it shot up all over my shoulder and my hair. That's when the swearing started (me not Nate), but Nate started screaming at that point too.

Since Nate was screaming it woke Jared up. He picked him up and groggily asked me what I was doing in the bathroom. To which my reply was (as I was trying to rinse my hair in the sink):

"The @#$%^*ing soap shot me in the *&^%ing shoulder and it got in my %$#@ing hair"

Oh yes friends. . . I was pretty miffed. It wouldn't have been bad if it just shot me on the shirt, but my hair got all soapy and trying to rinse it in the sink was annoying, and then I had wet hair (I can't sleep when my hair is wet). Did I mention it was 3am when this all happened? Oye.

I guess the upside that since Nate got super upset waiting, he was wide awake and nursed really well. Yes. . .there is the silver lining. :-) He was also an awesome baby and went right to sleep after we were finished nursing. He must have known that mommy was at her wits end. Such a great kid.

Solo

Jared went back to work today, so it was officially my first day flying solo with little Bean.

The morning started out easy. He woke up for his 6am feeding and then went back to sleep. Woke up again for his 9am feeding and stayed awake. I laid out one of his quilts and we had some tummy time together. When I put him on his back again I started kissing his cheeks and he smiled at me. I even got some of it on video so I could MMS it to Jared.

Then the fun ended. Maybe he was smiling because he was plotting his evil plan. He started spitting up non stop. He puked on his clothes and the blanket that I tried to swaddle him in. Then after I cleaned that up he puked on his tummy time quilt. Then after I cleaned that up he pooped all up his back and on his clothes again (all of this was in a span of about an hour). Then the crying started. He did not want to nap, he just wanted to be held. I was so exhausted, but he finally went down for a nap around 2 so I got in a nap as well. Amidst all this I was trying to pick up around the house (we had company this weekend) and attempted to do 4 loads of laundry. It was all do-able but definitely a lot harder. I really think 70% of the hardness was because of sleep deprivation.

Now Jared is home and of course Nate is sleeping peacefully in his napper. Guess he just missed his daddy!