Today's Adventures

Well today we went to have lunch with Auntie Stephy. We went and had pizza at Guasano's where Dunning decided it was time to do his business. When we went back to Steph's office, fortunately a small office of 4 people, he had gotten it all over his leg and his clothes. Thankfully, I had just tossed the dirty diaper garbage bags in his diaper bag. We carefully rolled his clothes off him and used all the wipes getting it all up! Good thing I packed an extra outfit, although it was warm enough he could have gone home in just his diaper. We then stopped by Sam's Club to pick up a salad for Mikel's food day tomorrow at work.

He has gone three days now with 3 hours between feedings without much fussing. He didn't take much of a nap this morning, so I finally got him down for one this afternoon. Gotta do better at the naps, dad thinks he is always fussy because he comes home for work to find a mad little boy who hasn't napped much all day and is so tired all he wants to do is sleep and can't even finish a bottle of breastmilk sometimes because he falls asleep!

I don't feel like doing much today! We did laundry and we were out for 3 hours. I get to play Bunko tonight with my friend Kristen, so I'm saving up my energy! I don't know how to play! Unfortunately it is starting to thunder, and my fraidy dog is hiding under the table. I hope it doesn't rain!

Week 11

Dunning is 11 weeks old this week! I can't believe how the time has flown! I look at his newborn pictures as I put them together for his scrapbook and marvel at how small he was. He's not that small anymore! When we went to his 2 month check up, he was 9 weeks old and weighed in at 13 pounds 2 ounces!

Right now we are struggling with getting him to eat on a regular schedule. I am an advocate of feeding on cue, but also believe that he should not be demanding to eat every 2 hours because he has become accustomed to it. I want him to get used to eating at least every 3 hours so that he eats more complete meals and not just snacking. He is also eating more at each feeding and needs more time to digest his meals or he just ends up throwing up from being too full! I have found that when he is fussy and wants to take a nap, he wants a pacifier - the REAL pacifier - me. Now I regret not pushing the other pacifier more when he was little because he doesn't like it much now. But I guess it may make it easier to take it away from him later.

He is doing well with sleeping. The past two nights he has slept about 11 hours with one feeding at night. Let's hope it is a trend! He doesn't always go back to sleep very well after the feeding, maybe because he is too tired to burp. He'll grunt and move around and around in his crib. But very rarely cries.

Mikel recently went to Mexico and I was super sick, so my mommy came down and helped me with Dunning. They feel asleep on the couch together!

Staying at home has been fun, but hard to be able to do creative stuff like scrapbook and keep my blog updated! I hope that when he is holding his head up more, I'll be able to let him sit on the floor and play more by himself a little each day. Then maybe I can do some yoga next to him. I have 5-10 more pounds to lose, depending on who's scale you look at! The doctor's office scale says 10, mine says 5! I am going with mine because it is the scale I used to tell my pre-pregnancy weight and it is the best comparison for me. :)

Dunning is cooing and smiling. I tried to capture a smile and got this pouty lip expression instead!

Week #5

Dunning is 5 weeks old this week and I can't believe how quickly time has flown! He is such a little man now! We were by ourselves this week as Dad traveled on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We survived although we were a bit sleep deprived -more than usual! When Dad got back, he said it looked like Dunning had grown while he was gone!

This week I told my work that I would not be coming back from maternity leave. I am taking my two weeks paid maternity after my medical leave is up, two weeks of paid vacation and then a year of personal leave, so I will still remain a Wal-Mart employee for a year. If I decide to change my mind, I can return to my old job until the end of March, after that I would have to find another job. After a year, if I decide not to come back to work, I will no longer be an employee. It was such a hard decision, because I work with such a great group of people, but my job was very stressful and very demanding of my time. I feel that this is the best decision for my family, although I am very nervous about it! I hope I don't get bored at home and spend all my days eating and watching TV while Dunning sleeps! I can't wait until it gets warmer so I can take him to the park and go running.

Next week I go for my six weeks check up to make sure I have healed from delivery. I have lost 35 out of 45 pounds and that leaves 10 more to go!