10 Weeks!

I'm beside myself, I can't believe Pierce is already 10 weeks old!  Wow.

Dr's appointment Friday (Oct 19), he is doing really well.  Got two of 4 required vaccines spend the weekend cranky and extra sleepy.  Luckily, his doctor only gives 2 vax at a time and I think that kept him from getting a fever.  So, we go back again next Friday and have another sleepy cranky weekend...the same weekend he has family coming in to see him get baptized!

Born: 7lb 3oz 25-50th percentile

19" 25th percentile

Left hospital (20 days): 6lb 14oz 10-25th percentile

First Dr appt (3 weeks): 7lb 1oz 25-50th percentile

Second Dr appt (5wks 2 days): 8lb 4oz 5th percentile

Home scale (family's house: 7wks 4days): 10lb 25-50th percentile (not so tiny!)

Third Dr appt (9wks 3 days): 11lb 12 oz 37th percentile

23.5" 77th percentile

Pierce is still grinning up a storm, he's started laughing some too.

• He's found his thumb...much to my dismay, I didn't want a thumb sucker I figured you can take a paci away but that thumb stays lol.  Oh well, he's figured out how to comfort himself with it, so I'm happy!  
• Still in size 1s, but when we buy diapers today, I'm going to get a case of size 2s.  He's on the bottom end of 2s, so why not just be economical and get 2s?  
• Still wearing newborn pants lol.  He's just so skinny through his waist!  They're too short, but 0-3 is too long, and too big all over lol!  But, he's starting to chunk up...just yesterday I was noticing that he's getting chunky arms and over night he's gaining weight!
• He's grabbing more, and using his hands more.  He held a ring today for quite a while.  Tried to figure it out, but just couldn't...getting there
• He is eating, a ton.  We'll make 5oz bottles and he'll be screaming in an hour for more, or he'll be happy with it...so we've started making 6oz bottles, often he eats it all.  Piggie lol.  Which, brings me back to a supply issue.  I was keeping up with him on 4 and 5oz feedings.  Pass the Fenugreek!
• We think he might be starting the teething process.  He gets really fussy...and has started to drool when he's asleep.  I mean puddles of it.  He'll fall asleep after nursing, using me as a pillow, and I'll usually let him if I don't have any time constraints, and we'll move him with the biggest puddle of drool.  It's pretty funny now, ask me again in 3 years if I think it's so funny then. LOL
• He's been sitting in his bumbo a few minutes a day.  His head control isn't good enough yet to sit longer, but we're working on that.  He lasts for about 5 minutes before his neck just can't hold his big 80thpercentile head lol.

I go back to work all too soon, in less than 2 weeks.  I could cry.  I have cried.  We could make it on just J's check, but any small hiccup would sink us.  We're just not willing to do that.  

look at the chunk he's getting!!

Thank you Alabama weather, he went from wearing this one day...

To this the very next day

He tries so hard to get to that thumb

then finds it!!

This may be the last weekly post, I think we can go to monthly now lol.  

WBW...J's turn!!

It's the men's turn this week...and I've been dealing with some hormone issues and been kind of down lately, so it was amazing to read this!
Side note, no one tells you how to deal with your post-pregnancy body, they just tell you
"Oh, it'll be ok, you'll lose it!"
"Took you 10 months to gain it!"
Yeah, folks, that doesn't help!  So shut it! lol

Anyway....
J answered the questions, and while his answers are short, I have a feeling he did them while sitting in sociology class lol

What was the first thing you noticed about your wife? 

The first thing I noticed was how beautiful she is.

When you first started dating your wife, what kept you calling/asking her out?

Her personality

What is your wife's best quality?

Her determination, and she is an excellent mommy

What is your favorite thing to do with your wife (ahem, keep it clean!)?

Watch the Big Bang Theory

What are you most excited for for the future with your wife?

I'm not really sure, there's so much going on

How do you make your wife feel loved?

I try to help as much as I can

I'd like to say "we" have busy lives, but it's really him and I just try to keep up and hold down everything.  

J goes to school full time, and works full time...and maintains a 4.0 GPA! 

I married a smart cookie

But, with that schedule, he has 2 days a week that are 20hour days between school and work

so when he says that he tries to help as much as he can...he does more than I could ever ask or expect.

Whatever You Do, Don't Flush...

You can always count on me for a few pearls of wisdom...pearls I get from the nastiest oysters of life, aka blond moments

Tonight I decided to take a shower, the first shower I've taken home alone with Pierce.  Yes, yes, I realize he's almost 10 weeks old, sue me.  I've managed to shower when J's here...and I'm not ashamed to admit, skip if he were too busy that day.  I mean, what do I do to get dirty?  Nothing.  lol.
Anyway, I got the cajones tonight to shower when Pierce fell asleep in his bouncey chair, meaning he was very easily moved into the bathroom with me.

Got him in, didn't stir.  Now, we have a tiny bathroom, and by tiny, I mean it would be crowded if 3 mice were in it.  So, imagine me and a bouncey chair.  I have to shut the door, don't ask why, but you just can't shower with the bathroom door open.  It's a rule written down somewhere, I'm sure.
Door shut, somehow I shut it without having to move the chair again.
Gotta pee before the shower, again, I don't make these rules.
And, another rule I didn't make, you must flush when you're done.  Again, it's got to be written somewhere!

Well, that's where I went wrong.
I should have broken that rule.

Why?  Because apparently toilet flushing is loud and startles sleeping babies...especially when they're less than a foot from the toilet itself.

Pierce stayed quiet, so I got in the shower, knowing I wasn't going to take any luxurious relaxing half hour shower or anything.  Hair got wet, and the fusses started.  Hair got shampoo lathered in it, and the crying started.  So, I opened the curtain half way and stood there singing silly songs to him while washing my hair.  Helped some, but my son still looked at me like I was an alien...not that I too much blame him.

Shampoo done, washing done, rinsing conditioner and he is in an all out fit.  I'm just thinking that I'm glad that I pumped right before my shower and he had a bottle ready and waiting on him.

I finished showering, still sounding like an idiot trying to keep him calm, pulled the curtain all the way open and I must have looked like a wet rat...rather one of those mice that would have crowded the bathroom...a wet mouse.  
It had to have been a frightening sight for a 9 week old:

and because I know J is reading this and shaking his head:
yes, honey, I took a photo of our son before drying off or consoling him...mother-of-the-year here

**see, tiny bathroom lol

Moral of this story?  Where do I begin?  There could be several here.

Whatever you do, don't flush!!

I'm just glad he's too young to remember these things...I think the human brain remembers things starting around age 3 because otherwise we would remember all of our parents screw ups, the times they dropped us on our heads...I swear I'm kidding, I don't think I was dropped (though that would explain a lot) and I certainly haven't dropped Pierce!

Vacation photos!

Just wanted to share vacation photos from Orange Beach 10/14-10/17/2012.  J was chosen to go to a conference through work, and Pierce and I were able to go with him!  So, off we went

We went to Alligator Alley while in South Alabama, but that's a post of its own!

Instead of boring you with a bunch of babble, I'll let the photos do the talking