finally!

roger is home, hooray!!! what does this mean for you? new pictures on the website, of course!

we've just been trucking along here...the front wheel for his fancy chariot stroller should get here today so I'm looking forward to our inaugural walk in it. He's been getting better about napping - once he's asleep I can put him down in his vibrate-y chair or on the bed and he will generally sleep on his own for about a half hour. Doesn't sound like a lot of time, I know, but you'd be amazed what you can get done in a half hour!

The bouncy ball is still the best way to calm him down. I don't get it.

Thanks to everyone for your advice on colicky and fussy babies - I think he is just fussy and will grow out of it. It does seem to be improving slowly - he hasn't made me cry in at least a week or two!

We took our first trip to the mall a few weeks ago with my friend Emily - she is about 14 weeks pregnant and needed to find some maternity jeans, stat. He did really well - we got a stroller frame for the carseat so I can just take him out of the car and snap the seat into the frame without having to muck about taking him out of his carseat or waking him up. He browsed Pier 1 and Target and Old Navy quite successfully and enjoyed picking out some new sleepers at Macy's.

Check out the new pictures; I just have January up for now but will try to make some progress on ones we've shot so far in February.

Hooray for Roger!!!

hooray!

an album of images from january (and a few strays from december) will be up soon on milo's website.

later:

i take it back. for some reason i can't browse to the images to upload them. curious!

dawning of the age of fussiness

yup, it's official...we have a ridiculously fussy baby.

the only thing that will make him stop crying is sitting on the exercise ball and bouncing. this has the added bonus of putting him to sleep. the downside is even once he's asleep, you can't stop bouncing. and god forbid you try to put him in his playpen or crib for his nap...about 3 minutes after setting him down he will achieve max volume and ear-splittingness. i hope daycare has someone who likes to bounce!

on the upside i DO think it's getting slowly better. after eating he'll amuse himself in his playpen for up to 45 mins before deciding it's bouncy time, which gives me a chance to eat and shower and things of that nature.

i will not go into nights because it's just too depressing. let's just say he wakes up a lot and won't go back to a sound sleep without bouncing or eating. nate and i are both very tired. i *heart* coffee.

on the computer front, roger is in jackson as we speak, getting his third replacement power supply in 4 years. as soon as i get the rest of my deposits for my summer weddings i am going to order a tower, weeha!! not sure what i'm going to name it yet.

at our ped appt on the 29th milo was 10 lbs, 5 oz and had grown another inch! he's still on the small side for his age but is growing at a great rate. he had his first round of shots, which made everyone cry except the nurse. she was great though - lightning quick!

i hope to post january pics to the website today, we'll just have to see if the little bird cooperates. so far it's not looking great, but we'll see!

oh and pls forgive any typos etc. - it's hard to bounce and type!