Alan recorded the best video yesterday of
Lex laughing. He’s standing up, holding Alan’s hands and Alan
is laughing real big and Lex just starts laughing as well. It’s
hysterical. The movie is pretty big, but I’m going to try to
put a clip of it online this weekend. We couldn’t get Lex to
laugh last night, but we did watch the video several time. On a
related note, Lex is very intriuged by watching himself on tv –
sometimes its literally larger than life :)

Lex also started pushing up with his arms from his belly
last night. Does that make sense? Probably not. Usually when we
do tummy time he just fusses, but last night he started pushing
with his arms and getting his upper body up. He didn’t hold it
for long, but he got his head up a few times. It was a big day
for the boy :)

Alan and I watched a
bunch of the movies we’ve made of Lex so far. Even though he’s
only 2 months (almost 3!) he looks sooo different in his
newborn movies. There is one where he looks so scrawny and
lizardy :) It’s pretty amazing to see how far he’s come in such
a short period of time. We also realized that he doesn’t do his
cute little “o” face anymore. Ah well.

I got lots of ribbing about how long it
takes me to post photos these days (new baby, hello??) so I
tried real hard to get them up quick this time. Hopefully I’ve
apeased the masses :) Just playing, I know everyone likes to
see the pictures – especially the ones of my little one ;)
photos.datdec.com

On a happier note, today is my
sister’s 25th birthday. Yay! We are all getting older so
quickly. We had a little celebration this past weekend, but
today everyone should send her happy birthday wishes. I’m sure
she would appreciate birthday goodies as well ;)

So being at work is hard. Today is the
first day I haven’t gone home at lunch time and it looks like
this may have to be the norm going forward. One of the
activites required of me at my new job is to run a series of
webcasts, all of which have been scheduled from 12:00pm –
1:30pm EST… which definitely cuts into my long lunch breaks.
So now I’m torn. I want to do the job well, obviously, and
don’t want to be difficult on my first week here, but I also
want to make sure my baby gets the best care possible. So I’m
basically giving myself a self-induced guilt trip. :/ On top of
that, I really don’t like pumping at work. Well, I don’t like
pumping in general, but I like it even less at work. And I
really miss my boys! Just pile on the guilt. I keep reminding
myself that tons of people go back to work and leave their
babies with caregivers, and I’m leaving mine with daddy, so
there is no need for guilt. Unfortunately I’m not very good at
reassuring myself. I’m going to have to talk to Alan soon so he
can reassure me. He’s good at that :) For now I’ll just try to
concentate on work and try not to miss him too much. The end of
the day is nearing…

So the price of gas, for the first time in
all my years here (2), is higher than the national average!! NA
is $2.53/gal, but up here it’s closer to $2.56. What’s with
that?? Must be all that extra gas spent getting up here.
:/

Anyway, had a fabulous weekend. I
love family get togethers. I think the boy is looking forward
to a relaxing week though :) Probably eager to nap in his crib
and not get woken up by a momma who’s eager to socialize. Hope
he relaxes well though, ’cause the next few weekends will be
busy too!

Fairly bored at work. Can’t
wait until next week when I get my own computer (no longer have
to share with the guy I’m taking over for) and can sort of
start to settle in. Last week and this week are sort of
“shadow” weeks as I try to learn all the stuff he does. Next
week I’m on my own.

So the whole (yes, whole) family is in
town. Grandpa’s 80th birthday is next month, so (logically) we
threw him surprise party today. My uncle’s from CA and FL are
both here and my cousins whom we haven’t seen in ages. It was
great. My aunt had it catered (A Moveable
Feast Catering, very tasty) and Grandma got everyone
matching shirts (photos to come soon) and we had a blast. My
mom even wrote up a family history trivial pursuit game… with
the answers being decided on by general concensus. Great
questions such as “Why did Greg loose his trucking job?” (he
rolled a truck!) and which town in NH has the worst campgrounds
(Keene apparently, but rumor has it they have the best drinks
;) ). We all had a blast and my team won! Yay!

Tomorrow is another day of fun, so I’m off to
bed now. These long days wear Lex right out and he sleeps well
at night. Yay! :)

So I’m working a real job these days. It’s
interesting. I’m taking over the job of a kid going back to
college, plus doing a lot more. He pretty much taught me
everything he does in the first day, so now I’m trying to
figure the rest out. It’s a good job.

I
miss being home though. I miss the boy and the hubby. So far
I’ve been going home for lunch each day (Alan makes me lunch, I
make Lex lunch). Tomorrow evening all of my family will be in
town (shhh!!! it’s a surpise) so I’m taking Thursday and Friday
off. I think it’s good to start a new job with a short work
week :)

Now, back to work for
me.

Lex has definitely found his voice. He
loves to lay on the couch and coo at people. Last night we had
a whole conversation of cooing back and forth. I thought it was
cute and he seemed to enjoy it too :) He’s such a good
baby!

Today we are off to a final 4th
Trimester group before I have to go back to work. Alan’s
excited to be a stay at home dad (SAHD). I think he’s going to
turn Lex into a baby genius :)

… watching the sunrise. I wish our house
had a better easternly view. We seem to have nice sunrises, but
I can only see slivers of them through the windows and around
the buildings. Oh well.

I’ve just
accepted a job as Marketing Director for a local company so the
late night/early morning routine is going to have to change.
Perhaps I’ll teach Alan how to use the blog so he can give the
AM report :) The job seems really cool though, with good pay
and lots of opportunities. Too good to pass up.

Well, it seems the boy has finally fallen back
to sleep. I should try and do the same. He’ll be up and
grunting again in about an hour. He seems to be very grunty
first thing in the morning. He must be working out all the
overnight gas :)

They say that you should make eye contact
with baby when you’re trying to get him to sleep. Apparently
when you gaze into each other’s eyes it releases adrenaline in
baby (probably in parent as well) that is like an expresso hit.
What they don’t say is that when you’re tired in the middle of
the night and baby is gazing at you so adoringly, it’s damn
near impossible not to gaze back. He looks so loving and I
almost feel rude not returning the look.