5:20 am - Rachel just left for work. I'm officially on my own. Jonah is still sleeping, though he is snoring a little bit. I think that's because he has his little face smashed up against the side of his bed. He's got plenty of real estate in there, but he likes the edges. Maybe because he wants to be as close as possible to mom. I tried moving him more to the middle, but he made a noise that was a cross between a tired lion and a pig eating his slop. Better leave him alone. Had a little bit of trouble getting him to sleep last night. Tried feeding him a bottle of formula around 9:45, but he wouldn't take it. I rocked him for a while but he wouldn't fall asleep. Finally reheated the formula around 10:30 and he took to it then. He fought sleep til he finally succumbed around 11:30. Hopefully all our feedings aren't that difficult today. I'm going to try and sleep a little more while he's still out.
6:30 am - Well he woke up. It wasn't an angry awakening, he woke up like most people do....a little stretching and a little grunting. Things got a little worse with the diaper change. I didn't have his outfit for the day ready to go before changing the diaper, and I took too long deciding what he should wear. I'm still in my PJ's, not sure why he had to get dressed, but it seemed like the thing to do. I finally settled on some overalls and a striped t-shirt. He cried a little bit while I put it on him, and he made it clear he was hungry when he started trying to eat the shoulder straps of his Osh Kosh's. First feeding went great. He wasn't very understanding that I had to heat up the milk whereas mom just whips out her boob and away he goes, but once the milk hit his lips he was fine. Probably spit up about a quarter of what went in, but that's about par for the course. He's now resting comfortably in his car seat, his favorite place to take a nap (aside from on someone's chest.) I think I'm going to try and exercise myself right now before he decides he wants to hang out with dad again.
7:11 am - Nevermind. No sooner did I post that last update than he made a funny face and pooped. Sounded like a big one. Smells even bigger. Guess we're on to diaper 2 for the day.
7:45 am - Asleep again after a half hour of crankiness following the diaper change. At least it stayed in the diaper. Scott Van Pelt just yelled "On FIYAAAA!" during a SportsCenter highlight and woke him up. I'm boycotting SportsCenter until further notice. We're switching to the Today Show, where they're talking to a guy with blue skin. Fascinating. Maybe I'll work out this afternoon.
8:44 am - After a half an hour nap that allowed me to eat breakfast, Jonah awoke with a scream. We're now having tummy time until he gets tired of that, and then it's time for another feeding. Right now he's having an intense staredown with a rainbow colored spider that says has the numbers 1,2,3,4 on his left legs and A,B,C,D on his right legs. Sounds creepy, but it's actually kinda cute. And Jonah loves it, though he's getting tired. His neck isn't holding his head up much anymore. He has his head on the blanket in a look of "help me spider, I can't go on!" Maybe I should heat the bottle.
9:30 am. Jonah's sleeping soundly after that last feeding. Had time to unload the dishwasher, make the bed, and clean up breakfast. I'm thinking we might take a trip to Costco at some point today. I'm also thinking about taking him over to my Grandparents. Going to see family is always risky though, because there's no guarantee that you'll ever get to leave.
10:20 am - Jonah's looking at our light fixtures and making sucking faces. Our light fixtures look a lot like boobs. He's not due to eat til at least 11. Gonna pop in the Jungle Book and see if the bright colors entertain him. Could be a long 40 minutes.
12:35 pm - Jungle Book worked! Well, sort of. There was also some bouncing and singing by dad. I think I know all the words to "Bear Neccesities" now. We fed around 11, and we went with formula because the breast milk in the fridge is still kinda frozen. After the feeding, I put him in his carseat and away we went to Costco. After a few minutes of fussing, he was fine the whole car ride and trip through Costco. Got a few compliments from people and smiles from old ladies. I felt bad for my checkout lady, who had 2 year old twins and was pregnant with another set! Jonah just woke up a few minutes ago, but he is sitting comfortably on the couch having another staredown with Mr. Spider. He's pretty animated right now, which means lots of entertaining for me until the next feeding. We're going to try and hold him off until at least 1:30.
2:10 pm - Success! The tummy time/bouncing combo works well. Was able to hold him off until 1:40 for the feeding, although by that time he was so hungry he forgot to breathe a few times will eating and had the milk go down the wrong pipe. It's sad, but choking babies are actually pretty cute. Turns out he wasn't only hungry, he was also exhausted, because twice he fell asleep with the bottle in his mouth. He'd wake up when I tried to ease it out of his mouth. When the bottle was empty, I just let him keep sucking until he fell asleep again. He's been out for about 20 minutes now. Gives me a chance to catch up on the ER episode I missed last Thursday because Jonah was crying.
4:18 pm - He's still sleeping! I didn't think he'd be down this long, or I'd have taken the Christmas lights down. I keep thinking I should go do it, but I know as soon as I head outside, he'll wake up. Of course I've thought that since 2:45. P.S. He's really funny when he sleeps. He occasionally will put his hands straight up in the air and grunt for no apparent reason. Oh, and I've found he hates the sound of a pop can being opened when he sleeps.
5:33 pm - We ate at 5. I think I pushed the maximum time frame between feedings. Every time I took the bottle out of his mouth to burp him, he screamed about as loud as I've ever heard him yelp. It was pretty funny. He took that bottle down in record time. Hopefully I won't have to feed him again until Rachel gets home around 7:15 or so. Now I have to try and get him interested in the national championship football game. Might be hard, because I'm not even sure I'm excited about it.
9:45 pm - Well, Rachel made it home about 7:15. Jonah was a bit cranky before she got home, so I was glad she made it home when she did. Fortunately I started preparing dinner while Jonah was asleep, because he freaked out for about half an hour straight before Rachel got home. I had to sing along with the Ohio State marching band during halftime to keep him quiet. When that ended I had to start singing commercial jingles. He really likes the one with the dude singing in his Jeep with the animals. Now we're watching Prison Break and Jonah's sleeping soundly on his mommy's lap. All is well, and we all survived. I kind of enjoyed this diary thing......I need more "events" like this to blog about!
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