Beachie Beach Beach

So we had fun at the beach! I read, Matt and Sean slept.

Then we woke up and went to eat at Joe's Crab Shack, supposedly famous for their seafood.

So, I got pasta with no meat in it, and Sean got a burger. Sigh....
Matt decided he was hungry too, and since Sean forgot the formula in the car he had to carry Matt ALL THE WAY to the beach and back (where we had parked, a far ways away), to feed him. Well...when the baby's hungry, he's hungry!

Well, in other news, not much is going on. Just working and being a mom. To me that's a lot, but I realize it doesn't sound thrilling. Maybe soon I'll have some more exciting news. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see.
Ooh! Did I mention I am going to the zoo on my birthday? Hmm..maybe I did. Well I am super excited. Yay!!! Okay, I am going to go now and watch the season finale of House, so I'll post later!!!

I know!!!

I've been busy!!! Another long work week. 6 days. Yuck. Sean, Matt and I are going to the beach today; in fact, very very soon. I will take lots of pictures and post a better, longer blog later tonight. So, I wised up, and began feeding Matt like this:



Hey, it makes clean-up much easier! Then I just toss him in the bath, and, voila! Clean baby!

So, for my impending birthday, we are going to the zoo! Yes, I KNOW I live in a zoo already, but sometimes it's nice to see zoos that I don't have to clean up after.
Okay, looks like Sean is ready to go, so I'll post later!!!

Oh! They shot me again!!!!

Matt had his 4 month check up today. Found out some interesting stuff!! For one, he is almost 16 pounds, nearly double his birth weight. He is also a little over 2 feet tall. Apparently, he is average weight, above average height, and a below average head circumference. His head also is permanently tilted to the left!!!! I now have to do neck exercises with him to make his head normal. Sigh...I never noticed it until the pediatrician pointed it out. His head is ALWAYS tilted to the left!!! I am guessing it has something to do with the thing he stares at in his kennel...I mean crib...too many animals sorry. The little "fish tank" that has bubbles and music and lights that soothes him to sleep is on his left side. So we will move it to the other side and do those exercises and that should fix the problem! I have been so good about switching his position and making sure he isn't on his back/one side too much but no one ever warned me one side of his neck muscles would be more developed because he likes to look at something in his crib!!!
So, anyway, he is tall and skinny and VERY strong! This doctor also made the prediction that he'd be an early walker. He can already bear his entire weight on his legs (with me just touching him for balance) for half a minute straight and like 5 minutes with few-second breaks in between.
Anyway, I want to watch Monday's episode of Heroes before Matt gets too fussy!!!
Oh...the shots were awful. He cried with the most anger and pain I had ever seen. The doctor gave him infant tylenol and he was feeling good. Still dreading taking the band-aids off. :-(
Blog at ya later!!!

No fighting???

Wow, I can't believe it! Matt was winding down so I decided it was naptime (this is the time when he usually goes to sleep for his morning nap), so I put him in his crib...and he just laid there!!!!! Then, I...TUCKED HIM IN!!!! Okay, laugh if you want, but usually as soon as those covers hit his body, up goes his feet then he kicks and slams them down, launching the covers to the other end of the crib. It doesn't matter if they're as tight as a straight-jacket, he'll get them off. I usually have to go in there when he is sleeping and tuck him in. There was no fighting, yanking out his pacifier, nothing! He just let me tuck him in, then his eyelids drooped, then closed, and he was a sleeping angel.
Sorry--had to write about it because sleepy time is never peaceful like that! Not like he hates going to sleep, but the downside of having an active baby is that he will be active up until the second his eyes close. He likes to run in place while trying to go to sleep or getting his diaper changed. I'm not talking slow paced kicking of the legs. This is manic. But he has a very amicable look on his face the whole time. He's not upset, he just has to "run out" his excess energy before he can sleep. This time I think was due to him being very tired out from the doorway jumper.
Anyway, time to go to work. Yay...I close by myself tonight...on a saturday...yuck!

Counting the hours...

20 hours until I start my 8 day work spree. Yuck. It wouldn't be bad at all if my job was a normal job! But this one is sooooo stressful and busy! But, hey, I'll be making good money :-). I'm still proud of myself for making so much Monday and Tuesday. If I work my butt off, I should have a good sum of extra money we can use to put in savings (along with the tax refund), so we won't be struggling to move in August. Also, I may be going to NH in July, and I need some money for renting a car and stuff while I'm there.
No new pictures! Sorry! Actually, I'll go take one right now. :-) See what Sean and Matt are up to.

Wow. They look THRILLED!
Speaking of thrilled...I'm listening to Thriller on my super cool MP3 player...
I still maintain circa 1980s/early 90's Micheal Jackson was abducted and killed and replaced by a colorblind pedophile alien.

So, that's all for now. Just trying to post lots because I definately won't be posting much in the weeks to come! However, I will try.
Have fun having this weekend off, whoever reads this. Because everyone who reads this gets them off *sigh*

Matt's New Trick

Today was my day off, and I traded in my old, slow cable boxes for new, fast ones for free. Yay! Sean and I also took Matt on a nice walk around the nice neighborhoods behind our apartment complex. We fantasized about someday owning a house. Not like it's ever going to happen, but hey, we can dream!
So, Matt learned a new trick today, and he is very proud of himself.

He learned how to blow "raz"berries!

With his banannas.
Mmmm...rasberry bananna....
Ahem. anyway.

Here's me feeding Matt. Yay!

And Matt being cute...

And here's Matt, super cute, being fed by Sean, also cute.


And below are some of me playing with Matt in the morning.




And Matt is just playing in his blue chair.

Okay, not anymore! He's getting fussy. Post at you later!!!