1) I was disappointed with American Idol tonight, but highly entertained by Paula's cry-talking that she seemed to do with everyone. Also, not a fan of the 'family room.'
2) Why is it that I never get real emails anymore? I do however live for messages from my blog or facebook saying that someone has left a comment for me. Hmm...remember when we used to send letters in the mail. Then we got emails and now we get one line on a computer screen. Not that I don't love it, but just got me thinking.
3) Why do I have two dogs? I almost have John convinced to off load one of them. Anyone looking for a beautiful dog?
4) Would it be worth it to cancel cable if I could afford a maid? :) Certainly people are going to be looking for work. I might even be willing to switch my cell phone in for a land line. What would you give up to have a maid?
5) I spend too much time on the computer in the middle of the night. It is amazing that I can sleep through feeding Nathan, but changing his diaper wakes me up and somehow I struggle to fall back asleep. I was up at 5am this morning, email about YW stuff. Sick and wrong!
6)Super excited that to add Nathan to our gym membership, it is $3 extra a month and there is a nursery. Every time I go to the gym, I can put him in the nursery for 2 hours. $3 for a month's worth of babysitting. I might get in great shape! Wahoo.
7)Where is my camera cord, so I can transfer pictures saved on my internal memory to my computer, allowing me to post pictures of the Mystery Mobile that I saw driving on the freeway?
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Things that make me laugh
When Nathan is eating and I take the bottle away to burp him, he at first is fine and then he starts heavy breathing and then quickly turns into a squeeling pig. It is the funniest thing. I shouldn't laugh because he's so sad about it, but it is precious.
He has so much hair that he gets bed head! I'll have to get a picture of this. Too cute.
When he is napping and has a sudden arm spasm/flailing moment and wakes himself up. He gets so startled as and then fusses because somehow he things someone else is too blame. Another thing that shouldn't make me laugh. Oh well. I'm easily amused at other's expense.
He has so much hair that he gets bed head! I'll have to get a picture of this. Too cute.
When he is napping and has a sudden arm spasm/flailing moment and wakes himself up. He gets so startled as and then fusses because somehow he things someone else is too blame. Another thing that shouldn't make me laugh. Oh well. I'm easily amused at other's expense.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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Friday, February 13, 2009
He's still sleeping
Huzzah!
Last night, Nathan decided to stay awake until 4am this morning. Has anyone actually seen me at 4am? It is a bit like Early Morning Gina. Quick sidenote and story time: When we went down to Texas to visit Laura, we had to go to the airport kind of early to return our rental car and catch our flight. Gina was driving and as we are approaching the parking area, there is a lady in a booth. There was a sign that you had to pay $3. We were kind of in a coma and then Gina says in a really annoyed voice 'If she wants me to pay her $3, I'm going to punch her in the face.' Way to stand up for yourself Gina.
Okay, back to my life. So, no sleep for me. He finally went to sleep after I rocked him for the 800th time and sang to him.
The alarm for John went of at 7:00ish and then I couldn't really go back to sleep. I stayed in bed until my visiting teachers came at 10am, but there was no sleep to be had.
So, at 1:30, Nathan and I layed down for a nap and he's still sleeping! I slept for two hours and then John came home and I made him go out and buy my some food. Now I have the luxury of reading blogs. Wahoo! It's such a treat.
Anyone wanting something to pray for can pray that Nathan begins to show his mom more love by sleeping more at night.
Last night, Nathan decided to stay awake until 4am this morning. Has anyone actually seen me at 4am? It is a bit like Early Morning Gina. Quick sidenote and story time: When we went down to Texas to visit Laura, we had to go to the airport kind of early to return our rental car and catch our flight. Gina was driving and as we are approaching the parking area, there is a lady in a booth. There was a sign that you had to pay $3. We were kind of in a coma and then Gina says in a really annoyed voice 'If she wants me to pay her $3, I'm going to punch her in the face.' Way to stand up for yourself Gina.
Okay, back to my life. So, no sleep for me. He finally went to sleep after I rocked him for the 800th time and sang to him.
The alarm for John went of at 7:00ish and then I couldn't really go back to sleep. I stayed in bed until my visiting teachers came at 10am, but there was no sleep to be had.
So, at 1:30, Nathan and I layed down for a nap and he's still sleeping! I slept for two hours and then John came home and I made him go out and buy my some food. Now I have the luxury of reading blogs. Wahoo! It's such a treat.
Anyone wanting something to pray for can pray that Nathan begins to show his mom more love by sleeping more at night.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Pretending
I am currently pretending that Nathan is in his crib sleeping. I don't know that this is reality and would be safe to bet that he is not, but since I need a sanity break, I am imagining a quiet and happy baby. It isn't that he is unhappy a lot, but he is a noisy little baby. We call it growling and he is pretty constant at it. Sometimes it's just noise and sometimes it sounds unhappy. I get sucked in to thinking there is a solution, so I spend the two-three hours between feedings, trying to settle him and help him sleep, only to realize that time's up and he needs to be fed again.
Today I am feeling a little on the overwhelmed side. It is 4pm and I have not started my day. I don't know exactly what starting a day looks like anymore because the only real event that stops time is feeding Nathan. Night and day, that's pretty much what I do. Some days I find a way to squeeze something else in, but not usually. I wait until John comes home and then I hand him the baby and the bottle and speed around the house trying to put in a load of laundry, wash the bottles and maybe get dinner cooked. Then we start the bottle, diaper, burping cycle all over again. I'm not trying to complain, but this is my reality and I want fun/clever updates to post, but I've got nothing. I'm exhausted and it's really hard to be clever on no sleep.
There are a few cute updates:
Nathan rolled over for the first time the other day. I know, I know, it's not possible. 5 week old babies don't roll over. But he did. I need to get some invitations out for our YW New Beginning night next week, so I put him down on a blanket on the floor. He was on his belly. When I turned back around after get a zip code off the computer, he was on his back and off the blanket. I just stared at him for a minute in disbelief. So, there's that.
AND, he is smiling for real now. If he is happy and fed, and you start talking to him and smiling, he'll smile back. Yep, it melts my heart. One of these days I'll get a little video of it. He is so alert and curious.
Um, let's see. Oh and I've taken another 1,000 pictures. Most of them end up blurry and less than fabulous, but here's my new favorite.
Today I am feeling a little on the overwhelmed side. It is 4pm and I have not started my day. I don't know exactly what starting a day looks like anymore because the only real event that stops time is feeding Nathan. Night and day, that's pretty much what I do. Some days I find a way to squeeze something else in, but not usually. I wait until John comes home and then I hand him the baby and the bottle and speed around the house trying to put in a load of laundry, wash the bottles and maybe get dinner cooked. Then we start the bottle, diaper, burping cycle all over again. I'm not trying to complain, but this is my reality and I want fun/clever updates to post, but I've got nothing. I'm exhausted and it's really hard to be clever on no sleep.
There are a few cute updates:
Nathan rolled over for the first time the other day. I know, I know, it's not possible. 5 week old babies don't roll over. But he did. I need to get some invitations out for our YW New Beginning night next week, so I put him down on a blanket on the floor. He was on his belly. When I turned back around after get a zip code off the computer, he was on his back and off the blanket. I just stared at him for a minute in disbelief. So, there's that.
AND, he is smiling for real now. If he is happy and fed, and you start talking to him and smiling, he'll smile back. Yep, it melts my heart. One of these days I'll get a little video of it. He is so alert and curious.
Um, let's see. Oh and I've taken another 1,000 pictures. Most of them end up blurry and less than fabulous, but here's my new favorite.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Happy, Happy Birthday or something like that
So, yesterday was a very special day here at the family farm. Nathan is 1 month old. We had cake and ice cream and wore party hats all day. Well, scratch all of that except the ice cream. I eat ice cream everyday. I just celebrate everyday of being alive. It's really a good way to go. Parties everyday.
Happy news: we were out of our favorite ice cream and John reminded me to pick some up while I was out. So, I did. Well, apparently he thought that I might not remember. Who's gonna forget the ice cream? Not me. So, he got some too. So now, we have two 1/2 gallons of ice cream. Joy to the World.
Well, back to Nathan. He is now one month old and getting cuter and chubbier by the minute. Adorable and oh, so kissable. Rest assured that every time you tell me to give him a kiss for you, I actually stop what I'm doing and kiss him and tell him "That was from Aunt Rachel" or whoever the kiss came from. He is definitely feeling the love. If you haven't sent him a kiss yet, get on the ball cause it's good fun.
So, I thought you would want a complete update on little Nate's progress in the last month of his life.
Accomplishments:
Sneezes
Hiccups
Sleeps
Pukes
Growls
Makes every little cute baby noise
Smiles
Pulls his head over when I'm burping him, so he can look at me (melt my heart)
Stops making noise when I sing to him or read to him
Skills on the docket for upcoming months
smiling for real
Changing his own diaper
Learning to interact with the camera
So, you can see that his current talents far outweigh his needed skills, so I'm just announcing now that my child needs to be placed in GATE classes. He is obviously so advanced.
Here are some new pictures for your viewing pleasure. I know that most of the pictures all look the same except that he's wearing different outfits, but I trust that if you are reading my blog, you will humor this mother and ooh and aah appropriately.
Don't you love his fuzzy hair? I call him my little munchichi after he's had his bath and his hair does this.
Happy news: we were out of our favorite ice cream and John reminded me to pick some up while I was out. So, I did. Well, apparently he thought that I might not remember. Who's gonna forget the ice cream? Not me. So, he got some too. So now, we have two 1/2 gallons of ice cream. Joy to the World.
Well, back to Nathan. He is now one month old and getting cuter and chubbier by the minute. Adorable and oh, so kissable. Rest assured that every time you tell me to give him a kiss for you, I actually stop what I'm doing and kiss him and tell him "That was from Aunt Rachel" or whoever the kiss came from. He is definitely feeling the love. If you haven't sent him a kiss yet, get on the ball cause it's good fun.
So, I thought you would want a complete update on little Nate's progress in the last month of his life.
Accomplishments:
Sneezes
Hiccups
Sleeps
Pukes
Growls
Makes every little cute baby noise
Smiles
Pulls his head over when I'm burping him, so he can look at me (melt my heart)
Stops making noise when I sing to him or read to him
Skills on the docket for upcoming months
smiling for real
Changing his own diaper
Learning to interact with the camera
So, you can see that his current talents far outweigh his needed skills, so I'm just announcing now that my child needs to be placed in GATE classes. He is obviously so advanced.
Here are some new pictures for your viewing pleasure. I know that most of the pictures all look the same except that he's wearing different outfits, but I trust that if you are reading my blog, you will humor this mother and ooh and aah appropriately.
Don't you love his fuzzy hair? I call him my little munchichi after he's had his bath and his hair does this.
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