Gonna Make a Sentimental Journey To Renew Old Memories…
Well, yet another week has FLOWN by. We have been pretty busy with Brandon looking for a job and keeping the apartment from being a disaster area. Monday I picked up Aiden’s 5 month pictures from Walmart and they are CUTE!!! Going with a patriotic theme was the right idea and they couldn’t have turned out better.
Tuesday our 2nd niece was born after her mother had gone through 26+ hours of labor resulting in a c-section. But I am glad she arrived safely and she is in our prayers while they and the doctors try to figure out the best path to go to resolve the troubles with her heart. Welcome to the mommy club Sherrada! We miss you and wish we could kiss little Lydia! We also went and had lunch with my cousin, his wife, and their little girl Elise.
Wednesday Brandon, Aiden, & I went and helped my sister pack her stuff into a moving truck. Aiden has been taking shorter and shorter naps. This is stressing me out because I am worried that he is so excited to be learning and so worried to be missing out on something that he isn’t getting enough sleep. He should be getting approx. 14 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period. Most days he gets 11 1/2 or so. Not to mention this sudden jump from two 2 1/2 hour naps plus one hour long nap to three 30 min. naps has left me wondering how I will get anything done around the house and feeling bad that I don’t play with him constantly when he is awake. On top of that he is eating strangely by being more and more distracted. Maybe he is getting what he needs more quickly and being done but it is hard to know when you are a breast feeding mom. Anyway, these things led me to be slightly ornery on Wednesday but we got a lot packed and I helped by taking things apart and putting them in their boxes.
Thursday is wiped from my mind. So sorry!
Friday we went to lunch at Applebee’s with my grandma, dad, sis., and her hubby Matt and then said our final goodbyes to my sis and Matt. I hated to see them go but have known for years that Erica simply was not a Utah girl and would be moving on to adventures in other parts of the country and world. That evening I went to eat and swim with my friend who was planning to return to Vegas today after having visited for the summer. We had a good time, the water was pretty chilly but we got Aiden used to it and we all swam for a bit, I pulled Aiden out once his little teeth started to chatter. He was cozy in his frog towel. Below is a picture of him modeling his towel the day or so before we swam. As we left I told Katie to let me know when her little one arrived and said goodbye.
Saturday I helped make baby blankets with the Relief Society for the new and expectant moms in the ward. I only stayed about 45 mins. but was able to cut 2 or 3 and sew one and 1/4. Later one, I was taking a nap/rest with Aiden sleeping in my arms (one of the ways I have been able to get around his short napping problem, but slightly inconvenient) and I heard Brandon answer my cell phone and say 6 lbs. 3 oz. & 18 in. long. Ok I will let her know. In my slightly groggy state I made a mental list of everyone who I knew was pregnant, the closest due dates and who would have my cell #. I was baffled because the girl due the soonest doesn’t have my cell number and Katie wasn’t due for 5 weeks. Well, I laid Aiden in his crib and yes, it was Katie who had called. Her water had broken and she had delivered by c-section. The docs. at this hospital thought that she was probably only 3 weeks early instead of the 5 she thought.
Well, upon hearing this good news which brightened my day I started making plans to get up to the hospital as quickly as possible to see her little girl. I had been feeling down because I won’t see my niece until December and this somehow made me feel a little bit better about that. I am so excited for Katie and so proud of her for making the decision to becoming a mommy all those 9+ months ago. Babies are such a joy. So we drove to the hospital and Katie told us the story of her day. I also took the opportunity to hold baby Ellie who is 1/3 the amount of Aiden’s current weight and feels as light as a feather. It was nice to be able to visit my friend in the hospital.
Today we went to church. It is always nice to go to church even though it is hard to concentrate much these days with little Aiden squirming around and needing various things. We dressed him up in a little outfit that we got from Brandon’s aunt and he was looking very handsome and dashing today. I love to see him smiling at people at church and it is nice to know that he is feeling the spirit, if only just a tiny bit. Now if you are squeamish you may want to stop reading now, so this afternoon I had Brandon change a messy diaper and inside the mess was a bit of something with words on it. Well, the other day while Brandon was watching him, Aiden was crumpling and sucking on paper and I noticed that there was some in his mouth. I quickly did the hook swipe that you learn in infant CPR for getting things out of a babies mouth and retrieved some paper. Tsk tsk. At this point I took the paper away and gave the baby something else to play with. I thought nothing else about it until today when Brandon held up the open poopy diaper for me to see the bits of paper that had passed through Aiden’s digestive track. At least we know he is getting enough fiber. 🙂 Well, until next week thanks for reading…
