{"id":963,"date":"2005-07-24T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=963"},"modified":"2005-07-24T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T17:29:00","slug":"this-busy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"This busy life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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