Baby is sleeping, house is clean, I have a moment to blog

I have been really bad about checking my work email, I feel like if I ignore it then it means I don't have to think about how I am going to have to deal with it?  Anyway I had been emailing my manager as I mentioned before and she said she was getting approval for per diem. Well a coworker and friend texted me and said I was off the schedule and I just got a call from another coworker asking me to pick up 3 twelve hour shifts in May because her vacation was denied and she heard through our manager I was going per diem.  I guess that means everything went through correctly! I am not going to agree to pick up the shifts until closer to the date since they are twelve hour shifts and as of right now that means I would miss 4/5 feedings...that doesn't sound very fun to me, but may is a long way away, so we shall see. 

The weather has been awful the last week or so and Eli and I have missed going on walks so we have been kinda housebound.  I don't like going out on errands and stuff either because I want to figure out his nap schedule and every single errand, whether it be an hour or 4 hours messes up the nap schedule so I can't figure out what his normal should be.  That being said our errand days now take forever because I let everything build up, definitely not worth messing up naps to go to one store! Now, he is a really good baby when we go on errands and sleeps in the car and is happy the whole time, the problem is he cat naps and then he is super tired, fussy, grumpy in the evening but doesn't want to go to bed.  I can't wait to know his schedule and how to keep him happy, because let me tell you, when I have a well rested baby he is all smiles and giggles all day long, and those are the days I don't go anywhere. 

Eli slept 7 hours once and the next night slept 7.5 but then he was back to sleeping his 5.5 hour stretch, which is still good for 9 weeks but man that 7.5 was amazing!  He goes to bed at 8pm every night and has been waking up at 1:30 and then 5 or 5:30 for the day. Yes, that early for the day! He doesn't wake up because he is hungry, just because he is well rested, this makes for one tired mama and I have gotten better at napping a few hours when he goes down for his morning nap which is usually 7am-11am.  

One night Eli was super fussy so even though I had gone on a walk with Kathy in the morning Paul and I went on a walk in the evening to hold little man over till it was time to eat again and go to bed. 

We have started sitting in the bumbo a couple days a week and little man thinks it is super rad. He turns his head back and forth back and forth to see all the lights and pictures. Everything looks so much different when sitting up! 

Eli continues to look more and more like his daddy and it makes me so happy!  We go to Paul's work and visit him once a week.  I get swarmed by all the employees when I show up. I love how they all love Eli. :) 

We went on a hike off of Hwy 18 so Paul could break in his new hunting/hiking boots that he is going to wear while turkey hunting in April. This was probably the first walk Paul wanted to turn around before I gave out because he was wearing two layers of shirts, Eli, and had new boots on. He was so hot and tired and it was crazy elevation gain.  It was good exercise and quite fun though! 

My Aunt Betsy made Eli the most amazing quilt, his name is quilted into the quilt along with all the swirls, it is most definitely a piece to be treasured!

My parents were in town this last weekend, they hadn't seen Eli since the superbowl when he was 4 weeks old, and he is 9 weeks old now! (8 when they visited)  It's crazy how much he has changed, every day, every week brings so many new things with a baby! I love every second of it.

I was holding Eli like I did when he was a new born, out on my arms so I could stare into his sweet eyes (except he decided to fall asleep) and then it hit me how much bigger he has gotten!  His face is so full, his legs more thick, I mean I see him every day and don't notice the growth change until I just sit down and reminisce of "old" pictures when he was born. :) The day all these pictures were taken Eli was boycotting all his naps, well he would go down for a nap but instead of a few hours he would sleep 30-45 minutes, we were both so tired by the end of the day but we went to coldstone as a distraction before bedtime, and to finish off our giftcards that we have had for a few years! Eli loved all the lights and kept whipping his head back and forth back and forth all over the place, it was adorable. 

Paul was off on Tuesday, Wednesday this week and we just hung out together, it was wonderful.  No agenda just time with baby.  We did have Eli's 2 month appt on Wednesday, which I had made not  knowing if Paul would be able to go, so glad he was off!  Eli did so good during the whole appt and only screamed for about a minute as they gave the shots and calmed down 20 seconds after coming into my arms again, what a trooper. Paul said I could still go swimming even though little man was very possibly going to get fussy when we got home, but I went and Eli went down for a nap after having a bit of tylenol for Paul. When he woke up he was kinda fussy, more inconsolable than normal but truly not that bad. He got to nurse as much as he wanted (even when he had just nursed, usually I make him spread out feedings a bit so that he is efficient instead of just snacking every hour and a half). Paul and I took turns walking him around the house and trying to cuddle our non cuddly boy. 

I finally attached one of Eli's pacifiers to this monkey and it is so nice to help keep it in his mouth, and he runs his fingers over the monkeys head as he falls asleep, it's pretty adorable.

Also, that moses basket, it was one of the items I was so excited to use, the item I bought because I love how it looked not because of functionality. Well Eli slept in it one night and has napped in it twice since he needed to be at more of an angle for the first bit of his life so he wouldn't gag on spit up due to his reflux.  Now he sleeps/naps in his crib or the swing and so I have decided to sell it. I was wondering how I was going to store it for the next baby because I was just sure Eli would sleep in it, wrong. Haha, at least my storage problems are solved.  Babies definitely call the shots.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!