2 goods, 1 bad

The good news:

1. Ben slept through the night last night from 9:15 pm-6:00 am! Of course I did not get 8+ hrs of uninterrupted sleep. Colin came into our room to sleep with me sometime after 1:00 am. I thought he'd sleep with us until Ben woke up, then I'd put him back in his bed. Since Ben slept all night, that didn't happen. So I "slept" (not really) until 4:00 when I just couldn't take the boob pressure anymore and got up to pump. When I looked back at the bed, Colin was spread out on my side, so I lay down in his bed and "slept" (again, not really) until 5:55 when he came looking for me. Time to get up. But YAY for Ben! Let's hope this is a consistent thing :)

2. Ben drank from a bottle! I had a meeting at work this afternoon. I didn't HAVE to go to it, but took the opportunity to take Ben to Sandy's house just for a few hours to get his (and my) feet wet with the whole Ben's-in-daycare thing. We've been struggling with Ben taking a bottle. He's taken one a few times from various people from various bottles, but hasn't been consistent with it. While Ben was with Sandy this afternoon, he drank a bottle without a problem! He was all smiles and coos while he was there. Oh, and also I didn't cry when I left him with her. It's so much different when you've developed a relationship with the daycare provider instead of dropping your child off with people you don't know. Hopefully I won't cry on Monday when I go back to work either.


The bad news:

1. Colin has strep. Again. He had it a month ago too. I pat myself on the back for tuning into his horrid smelling breath both times and taking him in. Last time he had Amoxicillin and he wouldn't take it straight up, so I had to make smoothies or mix it into pudding 2x a day for 10 days. This time we have Zithromax. Tonight, after mixing it with strawberry applesauce he didn't eat, I had to pin him down and kneel on his arms and force it in him. Good times. At least this one is only once a day for 5 days.


At least the good outweigh the bad, right?

Words and big boyness

For the record, I'd like to write down the newest words in Colin's vocab:

nahnah=nukkie...oh drats! He has a word for it now. I was hoping to get rid of the darned thing before he could ask for it!

nana=banana

Na!=snack...with a capital N because he really stresses it and pushes the /a/ sound out. It really sounds like the /na/ sound you hear when you say "snack."

broo=broom...only it's more of a lip vibration than an actual /br/ sound.

itty=kitty...this one is always directed at the neighbors' cats.

day du=thank you...I swear he has said it one or two times.

peas=please


And he also drank some of my Caribou smoothie from a straw today.

And I broke down and bought him "big boy" pajamas; the ones without the full-body zipper and feet.

And his other top tooth has broke through. He now officially has his 2 bottom and 2 top teeth.

And he's starting to take a few running steps. Hold me. Or at least recommend a good pair of tenny runners.

Oh, and I decided that Colin's going to finish up the frozen milk. I found in my research of milk donation that it takes 2-3 weeks to even go through the whole process, and it seems they want you to have testing done even before you freeze it. I could do a milk share thing where local people who want milk can hook up with people who have milk, but that seems sketchy. So we're just finishing up what little we have left. We'll probably finish it by the end of the month.

Got milk?

Because I'm running low. On purpose. I'm down to nursing Colin just once in the morning now. I'm going to let him decide when he's ready to drop that session. Unless:
a) I dry up which I will be okay with.
b) It gets weird.
c) He's still doing it at 18 months. That's my absolute stopping point.

I'm so happy to say that I haven't pumped in 2 weeks. While I loved being able to provide Colin's nutrition for a year, I'm so glad I'm done pumping. Now I can actually spend those 20 minutes with my sweet boy instead of being milked by a machine.

I still have about 200 oz. of milk in the freezer, and we're using it up slowly. I thought about donating it, but I'm lazy and don't want to look up how to do that. So we're mixing the milk painstakingly slowly:
Week 1: 4 oz of organic whole cows milk with 16 oz of frozen breastmilk.
Week 2: 8 oz. owcm with 12 oz fb.
Week 3 and 4: 10 oz owcm with 10 oz fb.
Future weeks may look like this:
Week 5 and 6: 12 oz owcm with 8 oz fb
Week 7 to whenever it's gone: a bag of fb (4ish oz) with however much owcm is needed to make 20 oz.

I may end up donating some of it if I get sick of this mixing stuff. We'll see.

We've had no problems with the milk transition. He drinks it cold, he drinks it warm. He drinks it from a sippy cup, and he drinks it from a bottle before his bath at night. He drinks it in a box, he drinks it with a fox.

If you didn't see my post from Thursday, go check it out. There are pictures and a video :)

Milk

Does a mommy and baby good!