Starting to Smile

Case is starting to smile. Now we spend part of the morning and afternoon looking at things, getting tickled, cooing and smiling. I love it. Nuff said.....

Time Moves Fast

As some of the “what the heck am I doing with this baby” nerves have begun to ease up a bit I am faced with a new form of nerves. In the beginning when people said, “isn’t being a mother the greatest thing in the world?” I would look at them and say, “You obviously have a child who sleeps through the night.” Well now that I am getting at least 4 consecutive hours of sleep a night a new feeling is taking over my previous sleep deprived state. Suddenly time is moving just too fast. Don’t get me wrong, when the Case has been up for 13 hours straight, times seems to move really slow, but in the grand scheme of things time moving too fast. I’ve had a pretty amazing life up until now, but nothing compares to holding your baby in your arms as he sleep. He is just so beautiful and words can’t describe the feeling. There aren’t enough hours in the day to hold him or enough pictures in the world that would do his serenity justice. I know our time will just get more and more amazing, but it’s hard to imagine him getting bigger and not being able to hold him like I can now. I dread moving him into his own room. And I don’t even want to think about the day he eats on his own and doesn’t need dear old mom anymore for breakfast. I want him to stay just like he is forever! Geez, if letting go after 2 months is this hard, I’m afraid my boy is never going off to college.

New Pictures

Here a a couple new pictures of my little cutie.

This is my best lion impersonation


I'm already a deep thinker. What should I ponder today....


What? Haven't you ever had a bad hair day?


Working the binkie.


I don't know what face this is, but he makes it all the time. We call it his hoo face because it looks like he is making an owl noise.

Kids Care Center Nightmare

My jeans have motivated me to hit the gym because for some strange reason all my clothes fit differently since the baby was born. So my first day back with my trainer, I went to drop Case off at the Kids Care center at the gym. Seeing as how I have never had kids before, I never paid a lot of attention to the Kids Center. However, this is a small, small gym. I could probably hear Case cry if I listened close enough so I thought I would feel okay leaving him 100 feet away with someone else for 45 minutes. That is until I walked in the center. My jaw dropped as I saw one woman surrounded by at least 15 toddlers and 2 other babies. Picture this…children darting all over the place. A group of slobbery tots surrounding 2 other babies sitting in car seats lined up against the wall. Some of the toddlers were rocking the car seats back and forth wildly, others patting the babies hands and heads and one generous tike dropped a nasty no telling where its been beany baby in the lap of a wide eyed baby. In my head I’m thinking , you’ve got to be shi*#ing me! For those of you with toddlers I mean no offence. I am sure your pint sized people are perfect precious angles, but these were stranger children and I have no idea where they have been. Needless to say I know why people don’t want to leave their children in child care and I will only be using the Kids Center as a last resort for now.

The same day as our gym outing we went to the pediatrician. Case is now 21 inches long and weighs 8lbs! I almost cried. He’s practically out of his newborn clothes and getting so big. I know, I know, 8 lbs is not necessarily big for a baby, in fact most newborns are bigger than he is at 6 weeks, but I like him in itty bitty baby form. The doctor also gave him his first shot. It was heartbreaking. His little face turned beet red, he screamed a high pitched glass breaking squeal, and giant tear drops fell from his little eyes. Poor baby! However, we survived both adventures and are looking forward to daddy’s return from his first week of travel to spend a non-eventful weekend together.