Somehow I think I gave birth to a teenager. He stays up all night and then sleeps until 11am (or 1pm). He also has a fair amount of baby acne, cries for no reason sometimes and wants things (like his pacifier) only to throw them away as soon as he gets them. Thank God he can't talk back yet.

However, last night I got almost 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep, so when he wouldn't go back to sleep after his feeding at 6:45 I didn't hold it against him. I fed him last night at 12:45, he was asleep by 1:30 and didn't wake up until 6:30 this morning! Hallelujah! I know not to expect that every night, but I'm so excited you can barely see the patches on my head where I was pulling out my hair.

It has been a grueling process transitioning him to his crib from our bed, but I'm so excited for the possibilities of being able to cuddle with my husband again. Which is funny because I'm not a cuddler. I get hot and itchy and annoyed very easily. But I could if I wanted to! :)

In non-baby related news (how is it that all I had to do was spend 7 hours in labor and 4 days in the hospital and my blog turns into a mommy-blog?) ... I think I'm going to start reading again! I've shelved Almost Moon by Alice Sebold since I got it for Christmas. First I was reading other things, then I thought I'd read it while I was in the hospital (I know, lofty ideas and all that) and I haven't even looked at it since getting home, what, five weeks ago? So today (or tomorrow, who am I kidding) I'm going to start on it ... I'm so excited! I loved her other books and if this one turns out half as heart-wrenching as the other two, I'm going to be in love.

At a friend's recommendation, I also want to read Diablo Cody's book about being a stripper. I may have to pick that up in the next few days. Any Border's coupons out there?

**edit** he fell asleep while I was posting this ... why have I not gone back to sleep yet? Maybe I'll pull out that book sooner rather than later ...

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hope you have fun no matter what your pleasure! Me, I'm hanging out with my babydoll and playing video games. Ahh, the good life. Can they tint black tea green? I don't like green tea :)

I love my friends

The other day was tough. Spencer had been crying for awhile; I had errands to run. We were going to a concert and I still needed to go pick up my brother and come back home before going ... so I was getting baby in the car and making sure I had everything when the UPS man stopped by.

"Aprilbapryll?" he said (naturally, right?)

"That's me!"

And he handed me a box. From my dear NPR Junky. And this is what was inside:

Becks, you're awesome :) Now I know those hours of Game Show Network have not gone unnoticed!

okay, third favorite president song

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.

~**~

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.

~**~

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: