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May 26, 2006
Large Update
I have so much to write about, but have just been jotting notes to keep track:
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Monday, May 8, 2006
Dance Class
Next Saturday is the dress rehearsal for Signa's June recital. I am to put her in her costume and put RED lipstick on her, blush and then make her have curly Shirley Temple hair.
First of all, I don't like the idea of makeup for her, but I can get over that. What I have no idea about is the hair. How do I curl her hair?!? I am thinking sponge curlers to sleep in, but I wonder how much that will cost me in bribery?
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Friday, May 12, 2006
Owie Boobies
I came down with mastitis (a breast infection) last Sunday so it's been another hard week, but I ventured out to Target with the whole family last night. Initially it was to be a mother/daughter outing, but Signa threw a tantrum and told me that she doesn't go to Target with Momma; she goes with Daddy. So I made everyone go with me. We were gone about an hour and a half and that was about all I could take. But it's going okay. If only the miscellaneous owies (like hurt boobies) would stop, I think my actual wound is doing great! I'm getting stir-crazy, though.
I normally wouldn't mind being left home alone while Marc and Signa go out and do their things, but after the three weeks with pneumonia and now these weeks with Will, I'm a little sad and missing my girl. That's why it was so hard when she wouldn't go with me alone. And it was fine all of us going together, but she did the stuff with Marc and I did the shopping with Will in the sling, so... still no Signa time. I hope to convince her soon to have a momma date because I'm getting lonely and sad and missing my family. I know I have Will and he's definitely family, but it's nice to be with ALL of them.
Will is fine. He's sleeping (ahhhhh), but up most of the night. I'm trying to get him to sleep in the cosleeper which is 6 whole inches from me, rather than on top of me. But when he sleeps, he sleeps for a good long time, so I'm not complaining (even if my boobies are- it's hard for them to figure out what to do- he's nursing every 15 minutes most of the time and then all of a sudden, it's 4 hours). I try to stretch out the 15 minutes, but letting hungry crying babies be isn't one of my strong points. Today he fell asleep before finishing nursing on Hurt Booby. I pumped and got 2 1/2 ounces, which was about 2 ounces more than I got the first time I ever pumped for Signa. I'm really happy about the pumping, since next week we'll introduce the bottle.
Will is a great boy. He is so different from Signa and really still learning to "ask" for what he wants. It's so cute to watch him already learning. He had his first bath today and did great. Didn't even cry. We had Signa help out, too, so she can partake in his caregiving (or at least think she is).
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Sleeping
So this is weird, but I'm a bit worried about Will. He sleeps A LOT. Is this normal? His awake times are bright-eyed, but so few and so short. He was up only twice last night for feeding and I pretty much woke him for them. Then today, he slept until time for Signa's class and then fed in her class and is now sleeping again.
I just remember Signa. No more than 2 hours at a time and that was a good night. So I'm sure I'm just being paranoid, but is this normal???
I just can't believe that someone can sleep this much.
UPDATE: tons of research on the internet and yes, it's normal.
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Monday, May 15, 2006
Weekend Update
In my pumping, I managed to get plenty to feed to Will, so on Saturday I treated myself to a manicure. Marc fed him 2oz in a bottle and he did fine. Now the worry about him not taking a bottle and that being a struggle is over. I did worry, since, unlike Signa, he will not take a pacifier. But evidently if the pacifier spewed forth breast milk, he'd be okay with it.
The mastitis seems to be gone. I still have the meds to finish up, but the lumps are gone and the flu feelings are gone. Now I have to figure out why he nurses weird on that one nipple so that it hurts. Off to the lactation consultant Wednesday.
Will got circumcised today. He's fine, but still sleeping from it. He now weighs 8lbs, 4oz, so right on track. Oh, and the doctor who does the circumcisions in the pediatrician's office? His name is Dr. Wang. We could not look at one another when making the appointment for fear of laughing.
One thing about Will is that I have just got to stop comparing him to Signa. You'd think I would have learned during the oh-so-different pregnancy, but it's just so hard! Anyway, he doesn't have a schedule yet, so he just sleeps whenever. That day that I worried, he slept a ton, but the next, he was awake a lot, so it all evens out. He was up most of today (on and off), but now has been sound asleep for a couple of hours. I just love watching his personality develop. Not really develop, but come out. He's just learning how to tell me when he's upset and how to tell me what is wrong. He's just so darned cute. And he doesn't smile yet, but you can see when he would if he could. He will just be surprised by something happy and then gaze with love. It's almost as good as a smile.
As to Signa, I did her hair for the rehearsal with sponge rollers and it wasn't the right kind of curls. Her hair was curly, but not in Shirley Temple spirally curls. Unfortunately, I have to do it again next week for pictures, so I have to do it again. I'm going to try a curling iron (that I need to borrow from our wonderful neighbors who know how to do this kind of thing) and see if that works better. Oh and she was SO BADLY BEHAVED at the rehearsal, that she got ALL her toys taken away for 24 hours and we made her watch the video we took of how bad she was. Not just watch it, but we'd pause and rewind and make her tell us what she did wrong. We totally harped on every bad Signa second.
For Mother's Day, Marc and Signa brought me breakfast in bed and I got a figuring with a momma and two babies (to go with the one I got from Signa on my first Mother's Day with her). I also got a Toaststation (toaster/toaster oven combination). I've been coveting this since I saw an info-mercial for it. We had a really wonderful day.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
Outings
So now we've been to Target many times, to Walmart many times and to the grocery store many times. I've learned how to nurse Will in the sling, making these trips much easier and he is learning to sleep much better when we are out. Except in the car, which he really hates. His trip next month to Oregon is going to be horrific. Hopefully he works out this car seat aversion thing before then.
We went to Austin's baseball game (they won!) and Signa and Will had a great time. Well, Signa did. Will just slept. We've been to Signa's soccer class twice and Will was a trouper out there on the soccer field. Slept through one class and nursed through another. Now you'd think that Signa was actually playing SOCCER in her SOCCER class through all this, but really she was doing one or more of the following:
* tipping the goal over onto the other children, trapping them like little lobsters
* finding and wielding sticks
* admiring snails
Sadly, the class is in the way of Signa's nap, so it was doomed from the start.
We went to my work for a quick visit and to show off the baby and we went to the art group at the park and the farmer's market in town. We are pretty much up and around (as long as we don't need to be there before noonish) and running as a family again.
As to sleeping, Will seems to have been good every other night, but the past three nights have been good (knock wood). He is developing a schedule where he goes to sleep at 7:30pm and sleeps for 2-3 hours. Then through the night, he nurses every 2-3 hours (but with one stint at 4 hours) until about 8am. Then he's up for an hour and then takes a two-hour nap. Then he cat naps through the day until about 3pm when he sleeps for another hour or so. Then 7:30 rolls around again. I like this schedule. Of course, yesterday he slept almost all day, but I'm attributing it to a growth spurt. Sadly, so far, I'm really the only one who can soothe him, though. That will change, but for now, when he's awake, he's mostly with me.
Posted by Debbie at May 26, 2006 10:28 AM
Comments
Dr. Wang! Bwa Ha Ha Ha!!!
Posted by: bob at May 26, 2006 09:20 PM