6 Weeks!

Yep, still the master of funny faces:Everyone needs a good breastfeeding pic:

He gives just about everyone the stink eye including his doctor during the eye exam (LOL):

Love his hands in this pic:
Still loving peeing on the pot!! We realllly need to work on pooping on the pot though. His poops are getting less in number but LARGE in size and they are silent so I don't know when they are coming. Often he will FILL his diaper with poop, I'll go to change him and there will be no pee in the diaper so I stick him on the pot and he goes pee. I'm like "dude you could've pooped too in the potty!" Oh well! The potty really is Blaine's happy place; now he sits on there and smiles. haha. We ordered a larger one to keep at grandma's:

6 Weeks! The week of the S's: smiles and sleep.

Blaine is smiling up a storm (even at me now) and sleeping like a champ. He always starts out the night with a 5 hour stretch between feedings and then has 3's and 2's after that. Pretty exciting! He's napping great too. What's really nice is during the night he has mastered putting himself to sleep. I finish the feeding, stick him in his bed, and he grunts himself to sleep in half an hour or less with no crying / freaking out. Daytime naps are a different story and I usually need a stroller or carrier to get him to sleep and then a delicate transfer that doesn't always go well. LOL. The problem is he likes being awake so much he hits a wall after an hour and a half then gets pretty darn grumpy and resists naps. We're working on that :).

In other news, school started this week and 1. It is not weird that I'm not there and 2. I'm definitely not sad! I love this temporary stay-at-home mom stuff. :)

PS He weighs 11 lbs and 7.5 oz as of week 6

Only in Ohio....

The headline in the paper today reads: "Nearly 5,800 dead Ohioans still registered to vote". It goes on to explain that "ballots may have been cast in the names of at least 16 after their deaths".

Here is the funniest part of the whole article though: "Officials say they are confident that the dead didn't actually cast a ballot and that human mistakes or computer issues are to blame".

LOL!! YA THINK?!! Capt'n Obvious strikes again!!

Pumpkin Update

I took the year off of competitive giant pumpkin growing since I was growing a little pumpkin in my belly, but Nick decided to grow 3 plants. Above is his best and it is estimating at 1263.

This is the time of year where everyone gets caught up in rumors. THERE'S THIS ONE IN EUROPE THAT CAN BEAT THE WORLD RECORD AND THIS ONE IN WISCONSIN AND AND AND AND AND.... Could drive a person nuts. It is all speculation. I just have to remind myself that records were meant to be broken, so if someone grows a pumpkin 1726 or higher, well it was good that I had a world record that lasted a whole year. :)

Now we wait and see what all shows up at the scales in October!!!!! And maybe get caught up in reading just a few rumors. ;)

6 HOURS 51 MINUTES!!!

I always keep my stopwatch running from feeding to feeding. 2 hours. 2 hours. 2.5 hours. 2 hours. 3 hours. 1 hr 20 min. Those are normal times I see on the watch. I never ever ever EVERRRR thought Blaine could jump from those small numbers to a stretch of almost 7.

But it was a cheater 7: I fed him and left him at "Daddy DayCare" to go to the high school football game with my mom. We were going to leave after halftime (with a team that was 0-10 last season, the band is the real reason to go to these things), and be home in about 2.5 hours. So I knew Blaine wouldn't need a meal, but left 2 oz of pumped milk incase of a meltdown. Yep, daddy / grandpa had a baby meltdown and had to use the bottle after an hour and 20 minutes. Blaine only drank 1 oz so it was more of a comfort feed. The next time I fed him? AFTER 1 AM!!! OMG OMG OMG. One more way it was cheating; we left him sleeping in his carseast from 10 pm - 1 am. Hey whatever works. LOL.

Sleeping through the night might actually be closer than I thought :)

Daddy 'n Me

Little boys love dirt, tractors, trucks, and fishing poles. Good thing Nick practically has a PhD in dirt, tractors, trucks and fishing poles. It will be great watching their relationship develop over the years. Blaine isn't going to be a momma boy that's for sure! He won't even smile for me. I watch him smile all day long at grandmas and grandpas and daddy but not me. His daddy gets home from work and you can only imagine the happiness! And on nights Nick is out of town for work (like last night), Blaine has some sort of 6th sense and kicks it into FREAKOUT AT 4 AM MODE. Seriously it has got to be a 6th sense because Nick doesn't even sleep in the same room as us!

Cuteness!

Sleep Update

Blaine has had a few 3 hour stretches between feedings at night! And there have been no more "horror nights"; not that those three nights were THAT horrible, but to a tired mommy who doesn't function well after 9 pm, they felt worse at the time than they actually were.

We learned that Blaine likes being put in his bed and having his back rubbed / patted. Works like a charm! Sometimes you end up rubbing and patting waaay longer than you feel you need to, but it gets him drowsy if he's wide eyed at 2 AM. :)

I sure hope I'm not jinxing myself, because Nick is headed out of town AGAIN tonight (blech). 4 trips in 4 weeks and off to California next week. Boo.

Just another day in Amish Paradise

That's right. Just chillaxin on my bed with Blaine and up drive 4 Amish on a tractor. You don't believe Amish drive tractors? Well they do. And use power tools. Quite the entertainment on a Tueday afternoon for us!

Told ya....


Well this particular guy's not Amish but you'd never know it...Blaine is flabbergasted...