Happy time change!

So it's 9am but in my head it's still 8, and I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing up.

Then I look at my child, grunting into his diaper. Now I know.

He slept through most of the night last night though -- I was pleasantly surprised, as he got a decent amount of sleep through the day yesterday and that usually spells disaster for the night shift. This means really you never can tell how the night is going to be. He fell asleep in daddy's lap while he played Super Mario Galaxy before midnight, and Christen woke him up around 5:30 because he was concerned he was going too long between feedings. So I fed him and he was a little fussy but finally went back to sleep until 8:30. Now he's gotta poop so there will be no more sleep.

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I started playing Oblivion again last night for the first time in close to a year. It kept crashing on me (although never on Christen) so I stopped playing. I also stopped playing Sims 2 for the same reason although I don't know if I'll bother going back to that). I forgot how time-consuming and fun Oblivion can be. Christen just rebuilt the computer with a new motherboard and processor so it's super fast now and can handle anything I throw at it. Christen had commandeered my Wii to play Super Mario Galaxy for the evening, so I took the computer. Woohoo! Actually, I may see if the little one wants to swing for a little while and I can play just a little more before it's time to go do things.

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I actually have plans today, things I really want to get done. This is a first in 5 weeks, as I generally force myself out of the house because I'm restless but really I don't have much of a plan on what needs to be done. Today, however, I need to pick up pictures from Ritz, stop at the baby consignment store and see about getting a portable swing, stop in at the dog grooming place and make an appointment for Lola, and maybe pick up hot dogs and charcoal to have dinner at the park with my mom and family. Busy day! Hope yours is good!

One month already!

My little one turned one month today. It happened so quickly!





We spent the day house hunting again. This time our realtor (Christen's aunt) came with and showed us some houses ... I have to say it was sort of a bust. The market seems to be picking up a bit, and the houses that we really liked either had contracts on them already or offers in, and other houses were wanting way more than they seemed worth or needed far too much work for the money. We did at least get more ideas on the areas that would work for us, so hopefully if we're patient it will work out. All things in time, I suppose.

Watching My Left Foot right now. Was watching Bourne Supremacy, but my stupid HD box is messed up and I only got to see half of it before it started scrambling the picture. We really need to get a new one, but it's such a pain -- why can't they let us just exchange it in the office? Arg.

Hilarious - my second favorite president song EVAR

And then of course I have to show my favorite president song EVAR:

Is this normal?

My son will be a month old on Saturday and he has no eyebrows. Whenever I look at someone else's kid's pictures lately, I look to see if they have eyebrows, and they all do! When does my child get some eyebrows?

Now, just to be clear -- I have very small eyebrows. If I plucked, I'd have no eyebrows at all.


My husband, though, has a bit of a cro-magnon brow.


Can we get something closer to the middle for our kid?

observations

A few observations since Christen has gone back to work post-baby (he's been gone an hour):

• A vibrating bassinet that a baby doesn't like will babysit for exactly 3 minutes. One should not use this time to check email -- rather, one should use this time to start laundry.
  
• A swing that baby formerly did not like may be rendered useful by rolling receiving blankets and encasing baby in them so he feels more secure. This will babysit for about 10 minutes while baby decides if he likes it or not. Again, this time should be used for starting laundry and getting dressed for the day now that it is officially the afternoon and not for trolling the internet.
  
• Introducing baby to the family dog for the first time should not be done by oneself unless one wishes to give oneself a heart attack. That being said, Lola seemed to really like Spencer. Once Spencer cares, I think he'll like Lola too.

Other observations include using the metal side of an old computer case on top of the bassinet that baby doesn't like makes a lovely side table to hold your drink (and if you are alone with baby for the first time this should not be alcoholic).

Date night

We had our first post-baby outing tonight -- so nice! We had to remind ourselves (at least mentally) to stop talking about him, but it was nice to get out of the house for a little while.

Mom and the kids came over to babysit at Mom's suggestion, and we went for dinner and a movie (isn't that so high school of us?). Technically we went to movie and a dinner, because we hit the movie first and saw No Country For Old Men. It was very good ... very good. Christen had been wanting to see it, and I'm never in the mood for movies so I suggested to him when Mom suggested the date night that we go see a movie that he wanted to see. Last time we went to see a movie was Juno, which I picked (and he also liked, BTW). I think that up until we actually got to the theater he was expecting me to back out and say I wasn't feeling like a movie. But we went, and it was good. We both knew that the ending was abrupt, and when it ended I looked at him and said, "Dinner?" and we left while everyone was still sitting there. I told Christen I figured they were all waiting for a better ending.

Dinner was at Bonefish Grill. It had been 7-8 years since either of us had been there, and neither of us had been impressed the last time (the one and only time I went was for my birthday with Jim and Shell and Richard, and it wasn't very good and I was underdressed, making me feel very self-conscious). Christen's parents gave us a gift card for Valentine's day, and although we could have used it at one of the sister restaurants (Carrabba's, Outback) we figured we would use this chance to give it another shot.

It was good! Very good, actually. We both got a glass of wine (the La Crema Pinot Noir, as I had it on Shea's authority that it was a fantastic bottle) ... we thought about splitting a bottle, but given that I haven't drank in almost a year my tolerance is pretty low. One glass was actually the perfect amount. We started with the Bang Bang shrimp which also came highly recommended but I didn't like -- too spicy and mayonaise-based (Christen loved it). I ordered the Lily's chicken, which is a lot like Carrabba's Chicken Bryan, and Christen got some pork chop thing. Both were fabulous, and the night was perfect (and we were home around 8).

So date night is over, and we had a great time although I missed my little Birdman. Next Tuesday is our next night out, when we go to see TMBG!

I heart IKEA

Friday we decided to drive out to Orlando before Christen had to go back to work. The original plan was to see if we could find a Superman onesie for Spencer we he could be like daddy. I didn't think about the fact that Superman is DC and not Marvel which is owned by Universal until we were on our way out there, but that's besides the point. But while on our way out there we decided to hit IKEA, since we've never been there and I've been excited about the one opening in Tampa in 2009.

We spent three hours in that store. So many ideas for the next house -- especially related to the library -- great libraries! I know it's not awesome quality stuff, but really, for the price can you beat it?

Three hours later we emerged with a 6-pack of beer glasses for $6.99 and a 99 cent toilet bowl brush. Exciting, right? But we'll be revisiting this when we decide on a house -- definitely! :)