So I’ve been meaning to post again since
Thursday. Every day I’ve got thought formulating in my brain
and I have every intention of writing them down, however, time
seems to slip away and the writing doesn’t happen. Now I’ve got
a few minutes of quite time as Lex sleeps in the swing beside
me. I should be paying bills, but I’ll do this real quick
first.

Overall things are going pretty
good these days. We are still having some trouble nursing, but
he’s still gaining weight, so I guess that’s ok. About one
third of the time he will nurse well, but the other two thirds
he cries, pulls away, etc. But as soon as he’s off he starts
rooting around again. I tried pumping once after a bad nursing
session and there was very little milk, so I guess he’s
managing to get it in him. Just not a pleasurable experience
for either of us. Parenting can be really hard sometimes.
Thursday night he cried for two hours solid. We tried nursing,
a bottle, swaddling, etc. Nothing worked. When we tried nursing
again (about two hours after he started screaming), he settled
right down and nursed long and hard. He then slept long and
hard!! It pretty much was the beginning of him sleeping for 4
hours straight each night. He’s since done it every night. Last
night he slept for 5 hours straight!

On Friday we went down to
Nashua (always with the last minute business errands) and met
Ron and Laura for dinner. It was fun seeing their baby, now 1
year old, and how active he is. He was eating real food, moving
all around, and grabbign at everything – very fun kid :) Lex
won at the “who can cry more” game, but Andy won at the
“clearing off the table” game :) Lex is still working on that
one.

Yesterday Jim and Julie came
to visit. We put up the new jumper we got for Lex and he looks
absolutely adorable even though he is way too small for it. His
arms fell through the leg hole. It was too funny. We ended up
propping him up with the towel rolls from the car seat. They at
least kept him upright. I think he’ll enjoy the jumper soon.

Lex also, for
the first time, reached for and successfully grabbed a
toy. Julie was holding him and a
little yellow toy in her hand. Lex reached out for the toy,
closed his hand around it, and brought it back to him. It was
great! We couldn’t get him to do it again, but oh well.

I just noticed that I’m pretty far behind on
posting photos to the web site. I really have to pay bills now,
but I’ll see if I can get to that soon. Sometimes I wonder
where the heck all my time goes. It’s crazy how time consuming
a baby can be. Then, sometimes when he’s calm, I put him down
and I end up feeling guilty for not paying attention to him and
stimulating his little mind. Alan is good at reminding me that
just about anything stimulates his little mind, even watching
us walk around the kitchen making dinner. I try not to let
myself feel guilty about too much. Whew… parenting can be
hard! :)