Thursdays are my Favorite!

 Bullet Points!

- I love Thursdays.  I work Mon-Wed, and don't get me wrong, I do love my job. However, I love being home with Harrison more. Therefore, I love Thursdays.

- I also love breastfeeding. It is going really well for me and I get sad that I miss out on feeding him myself. Pumping also kind of sucks (punny!). It's working just fine, have a nice room to do it at work, just... taking the time away from working, eating lunch while pumping, wishing I were home with Harrison instead.

- He's been mostly sleeping through the night, waking around 4 in the morning, but going back to sleep for a few more hours after eating.

- This morning, he took a real nap in his own crib for 45 min. I was actually able to get a bit of sewing done before he woke up.  It is the best naptime he's had. Usually, when I set him in his crib and it's not nighttime, he wakes up about 5 min later and prefers to fall asleep while being snuggled. We're practicing. I'm going to start with morning naps and eventually he'll get a real afternoon nap. He still sleeps a lot of the time, but it's mostly while being snuggled by me (which I love, so we'll take our time with the transition..)

- Then he had a bath! No more tears and he seems to enjoy it now :)

- He had tummy time and can hold his head up really well. He also played on his back on the playmat and got really excited while playing with the red stuffed bird. (He so looks like Matt in this picture!)

- We have an appt with the Humane Society on Sunday for Cissy. If they decide she is "adoptable" I am leaving her with them. I feel absolutely awful and sick about it. But she has peed in Harrison's bouncer twice now, is confined to the laundry room, and has made it perfectly clear how she feels about the baby.  If she is not "adoptable" I am hoping to get her into a No-Kill shelter based on the fact that the HS turned her away- all the ones I called before were full and get most of their cats from euthanasia lines. There's not a future for her here, but I want to make sure she actually has a future.

- Big poopy diapers make me really happy. Weird.. I know... but they don't smell bad to me because he's not yet on solid foods and it means he is getting plenty of milk.

- At his 2 Month appt, Harrison weighed 11lb 12oz and has shot up in length to 23 3/4 inches! He is wearing some of his 6 MO sleepers because his legs are so long (the bodies are still big on him, so he is still just starting to fit in his 3 MO creepers), it also depends on the brand.

- Harrison is now playing video games with Daddy.

- Snowstorm starting tonight. We will be staying in tomorrow.

- Did I also mention we got a new car? It's BEAUTIFUL! And it's an SUV, so much bigger than my tiny old Nissan, which I still have to drive until it dies. Matt gets the new Subaru unless I need to take Harrison somewhere :p

- LOVE!

My 2 Month Valentine

Harrison is two months old today. He seems pretty happy about it. I've gotten more smiles today than I have in the last week! He seems to love dancing and raspberries on his belly!

I've grown to love valentines day. Not for the commercialism, but for the meaning. I'm not a fan if the big gifts/gestures on V-Day, but just people to spend it with. It's a whole day to celebrate love and not just romantic love. Celebrate love with friends and family too! I just love love right now and I have the best valentines of all!

I think I'm partially just giddy that its Thursday so I didn't have to work and so I'm home with the babycakes, who is super snugly today.

He has his two month checkup tomorrow! I'm excited to see how much he's grown!

Happy Valentines Day and 2 month birthday to Harrison, my itty bitty Valentine!

Back to Work

My first day back to work was... hard. I cried over the weekend about it and I cried before I left. I made it through the day though, all the while wishing I were home. My mom got to spend the day with Harrison instead. I may have texted her all day about how Harrison was doing...

I was told he was very good. He ate a lot, more than what I could get while at work today, so we might end up having to supplement with formula at some point, which I didn't really want to do. I'm going to talk to our doctor on Friday about which formula will be best for Harrison, though, since we know of his reaction to cows milk (most formula is dairy based).

I feel fortunate that my job is letting me return part time and that we have two wonderful grandmothers who want to help with daycare. But man, do I want to be a stay-at-home mom. I'd mostly like to work on getting commissions to work from home, because I love sewing and still want to keep it as a career.

When I'm away, I miss cute faces. I feel as though tomorrow will be just as hard... #mopey

7 Weeks

No sleeping in for me today. Sometimes he lets me sleep until 7:30-8:00 and it is wonderful. This morning he decided that he would rather go back to sleep on me than in his crib. Harrison is a fantastic sleeper, I feel completely spoiled. He is down to just waking up once a night, and Matt gets a full night sleep every night.

He's also been a lot less fussy since I cut dairy from my diet. No more cheese and milk for me, but I much prefer having a happy baby so it's not that big of a deal.

I've heard so many baby mantras before: "It goes by so fast!" Or "it completely changes your life" or "Your life will be turned upside down"

Yes, my life is different, that's obvious. But it doesn't feel completely new or upside down. Maybe it's because Matt and I were already "stay in" and mellow kind of people. Or maybe it's because I prepared myself for many of the changes. But it feels right. And time, so far, also feels right. He's already 11lbs, but the last two months have felt like the last two months. Anywho, just my brain going over the many things I have been told about having a baby.

Harrison is still practicing his smiles. We get a few true ones a week. Yesterday I got smiles and coos and had a 30 second "conversation" before his brow furrowed and he was irritated by something (probably poo). He also smiled at Matt, it was really sweet. Harrison then proceeded to stare in the mirror above his swing and smile at himself. "The other baby smiles back at me!"

Do you ever have the thought, when a plane flies overhead, that it could come crashing down on your house? Just me? #random