2 months old on Ben and Jerry's National Holiday

I thought it only appropriate to blog in celebration of Mitchell's two month birthday. He was 4 weeks old last Friday and 2 months today. He had his 2 month appointment and seems to be developing just fine. I was thinking he seemed a bit congested for the past few weeks but every time I called the clinic they made me second guess my concerns. Come to find out that indeed his nasal passages are swollen, so the doctor gave us some nose spray to help with the swelling. Mitchell is over 23 inches long about 70 percentile and about 14lbs., also about 70 percentile. He did great at the appointment despite getting 3 shots. He almost rolled over from his tummy to his back. The doctor was convinced that if we let him try long enough he would have completed the roll. He is sleeping the afternoon away. Nate on the other hand has had a difficult time falling asleep for his afternoon nap. We are waiting for his friend Leah to call so that we can all go to Ben and Jerry's and enjoy their free ice cream day today. That is right. Ben and Jerry's has there annual free ice cream day today!! I think it is worldwide, but am not sure.

Spring is finally here!!! (I hope)

Today was such a beautiful day. We spent most of the day running around. Sure there is much yard work to do and spring cleaning, but who wants to do that? Ok, yard work can be fun if it is gardening, but not today. We started by having a nice breakfast out at Monty's Blue Plate, followed by Nate's weekly swim class, then to the 1st farmer's market of the season and off to Governor Nelson State Park that is on Lake Mendota. They have a nice pet swim area that Bailey really enjoys. We had ourselves a nice picnic there while Bailey swam. I had to share some photos of our adventures. I sure hope that this weather stays this time.

my BFF

Scott and I decided it would be fun to go to the zoo over a week ago. We invited Leah along and we had a blast. Nate and Leah get along so well. I thought I would share a photo of the two of them having a lovely time.

6 weeks plus...

So I have been attempting for the past 5 days to type up a blog celebrating Mitchell's 6 weeks of existence out of the womb. This has been challenging because other things like cooking, dishes, vacuuming seem to take precedence when I have had a free moment. Mitchell is taking one of his first long naps by himself. He is going on 45 minutes. If this becomes a habit, I will have alot more time to blog. Cross your fingers.

Mitchell continues to have his evening fussiness, but he is so awesome during the day and at night. Last night he only woke up at 1 something and 6 something. I know this probably won't be regular but it gives me some reprieve none the less. Mitchell is now smiling on command. He isn't always in the mood, but when he is, I can get quite the smile out of him from tickling him or just simply talking silly talk and smiling at him. Nate is starting to be able to interact with him as well and I think this makes Nate feels good.

Last week Mitchell and I took a road trip to Iowa to attend my grandfather's funeral. I was a bit nervous about how it would go, but the 3 hours there and back were not too bad. Mitchell slept most of the time and I only needed to pull over once. Scott and Nate stayed home to enjoy Scott's last week of paternity leave. Yes, Scott is back to work and so far things are going fairly smoothly. I can't tell you what all Mitchell and I and Nate accomplish in a day, but it seems busy and filled up with stuff.

Last week, I had my first outing with the girls and went to an Anonymous 4 concert. It was great! They sang "Never Grow Old" which is a song that Sistersong (my quartet) enjoys singing.
Yesterday in quite a rushed state, I made a coconut cake. I should have looked at the recipe a bit closer before starting it. I looked at it long enough to see that I had all the ingredients. The frosting was a difficult one. It has egg whites and needs to be peaked in a double boiler. Let's just say that because of this rushed state, it was a bit runny and didn't look so good. I think it tasted good in the end, but I will probably look for another coconut cake recipe next time. The next layer cake I want to try is a carrot cake. That will be my 3rd layer cake attempt. It is sort of fun.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

So its been longer than it should have to post an update. It helps to have others who make a regular practice of it. Anyhow. Things are going along well with Mitchell. Or so we thought. We had a few days where the bewitching hour (evening for 1-1.5 hrs) for Mitchell was semi-non-existent. The last couple days have been different however. That boy can get POed.

Yesterday was my first day back at work after being fortunate enough to have the last 6 weeks off. It was okay. But in my heart it sucked. ;-) After coming home we took advantage of the sunshine and went out for a walk. Dinner was somewhat of a mishmash. Nate wanted to play outside with Angie, which she totally deserved. Mitchell decided to get upset earlier than usual and I (tried) to eat dinner while he was being fussy. Nate ate some time after that, and Angie some time after that....I think. I feel bad when we can't all sit down at the same time. But with Knucklehead#2 that's not always possible (for the moment).

I decided to 'take it on the chin' and deal with Mitchell most of the evening. He was not happy for longer than usual. I dealt with it all evening. He finally cried himself out slept for a while, then woke up mad again. I finally handed him off to Angie. . . . At which point he started cooing and smiling. I came over to tell him how unfair that was. He cried AGAIN. I left, he was happy. :-p Stinker! I'm convinced its because I don't have a portable milk machine built in.

All in all a good day though. . . . For my first day 'back'.

First Words!!!!!!

I forgot to post this from yesterday...All of us can scarcely believe it. We were all sitting around at dinner enjoying a quiet meal, Nathan was demonstrating how a dinosaur eats potatoes chewing with its mouth open and spinning around in its chair at the same time. It was truly quite striking. I was talking to Mitchell when he suddenly started speaking. We were all so dumbfounded that I had to get it recorded. Even more amazing is his sentence structure and overall gratitude to be a part of our family.




You can see the sheer shock and pride on Angie's face. My finger was there to try and scratch off some dried milk that I couldn't get off his chin.

For some reason, I'm the only one in the house that finds this amazingly funny. I can't quite figure out why.

April Fools

Some people may get this, others may not, but as I sit here in front of the computer at 4:52 am this morning. (I went to bed early, and never passed off into dream land after the last poop change for Mitchell).

I've been using Gmail for some time for email. I noticed this morning that there was a "New! Gmail Custom Time" feature. I started reading through it and wondered why in the world anyone would want such a stupid feature....OHHHHHHH.......

In retrospect I'm actually rather impressed that I was able to figure it out as quickly as I did all things considered. ;-)