My little boy is growing so fast

He has officially grown out of the Newborn size. How sad! I actually tried to keep putting him in my favorite baseball outfit and my mom pointed out that he couldn't extend his legs. But he is just so cute in that outfit! I guess I have to put it along with these other favorite outfits away.

Snail Mail from Israel !!!!

Yesterday I recieved a letter from my aquatic friends in Israel! It was so fun to hear from them. I had sent them a birth announcement but wasn't sure if I would hear back from them. I was wondering if they would write to me in Hebrew and I would have to find a translator or if they would have someone write on their behalf. Sure enough they found someone to write in English on their behalf. It was fun to hear that they are doing well, but miss me :-) I miss our morning aerobics it was more enjoyable than the water aerobics here in Portland. I had no idea what the instructor was saying so I would mimic those around me. I definitely knew when he wanted us to go faster based on tone of voice :-) We have some great memories from our time in Israel!

Another milestone

This was a big weekend for us.... Daddy took Nathaniel out for a few hours on Saturday. They ended up at the mall and Nathaniel slept for most of that time. I think they both had a good time. I was glad to get a few hours to myself. I ended up going shopping and found some pants to bridge the gap between pregnancy clothes and my old clothes neither of which fit right now :-( We also had Nathaniel sleep in his own room last night. I was up every two hours again, but he went back to sleep relatively easily each time. Hopefully we are making progress. Finally, Nathaniel was given a bottle this weekend and he seemed to do really well. That's what I hear anyway. It was recommended that I be out of the room when we tried to give him a bottle for the first time so while I was taking a nap yesterday (we'd been up since 3am!) daddy fixed a bottle and gave it to our little guy. He ate so fast! I guess the bottle is less work. We will probably only bottle feed once or twice on the weekend just to keep Nathaniel familiar with it. This definitely opens up possibilities for me now:-)

Alone time!!!!

Ahhh. I hardly know what to do with myself. Ken just left the house for a two hour excursion with Nathaniel (and a friend with his 18month little girl). What to do with this precious time? Go shopping? Work out? Shower? Clean the bathrooms? Read? Bake? So many options... and only two hours till he gets hungry.

Need sleep (updated)

Mr. Fussy Pants has been keeping us on our toes these days. We are very very very tired. I think he might be going through a growth spurt. He wants to eat every hour or two which is very tiresome. I put him in the car today and we drove around doing errands. He slept through Winco, Costco and Fred Meyer. Now why can't he sleep during normal sleeping hours? Now I'm tired and he's wide awake. I hear weeks 6-8 are supposed to be more challenging in general... and I was just starting to feel I was getting the hang of it. I had my 6 week checkup last week. They said to take it easy for a few more weeks. Uggh.

A few more words on the subject...when I sat down to write this blog the other day I forgot what I had planned on writing :-( This only further supports the fact that I have lost my brain. My loving husband would point out that it's been missing since June last summer. Anyway, I cannot remember when I fed Nathaniel last or changed his diaper. Ken will ask me these super-stumper questions when he comes home from work and I just give him a blank look... I know I did it just not sure if it's been two hours or not. And the real question is whether or not we expect him to be hungry soon..if only I could remember... I give Ken the same blank look in the morning when asked how many times Nathaniel and I were up last night. It all runs together and apparently I just can't put anything more in my short term memory banks. So please forgive me if I flake out on you... it's definitly not intentional.

One more confession... I let Nathaniel sleep in his carseat yesterday. Is that bad? He finally fell asleep when we were out running errands. When we got home I was exhausted so I just shut the car off and slept too in the garage for about 15 minutes.. then I remembered the groceries! After bringing them all in he was still asleep so I brought his car seat inside and let him sleep for another hour and a half before he woke up and wanted out of his carseat. Hey.. whatever it takes.

Reading already!

I recently found out there was a library just up the road from us. So last week I stopped in and asked if there was any benefit to reading to a 5 week old. She said Absolutely!!!! Guess I walked into that one, what do you expect a librarian to say? So I came home with a few books to add to a small collection we already have. It seems that Nathaniel is quite captivated by them. Smart little cookie!

Daddy and Son Bonding

When Daddy comes home from work he usually take over for me so I can get a small break for the evening. I'm not sure what deep conversation they are having here, but it's such a precious picture to me. Now that Nathaniel has taken to books, we've started to put him on the living room floor with lots of toys around him too. He seems to like the little noise makers. We are finding more and more things to keep him entertained and keep the fussiness at bay :-)