Is she surviving????....

YES, the answer is yes, sometimes it feels like "barely surviving!" but I am still alive. Can I even tell you how many times I have thought about posting and yet, I never made it to the computer to actually do it! Today has been unusual for me, I WAS going to attempt going back to BSF today, but after a sleepless night, and yes there have been quite a few of those, :) I chickened out and sent the kids w/ mom and Gary, the wonderful man that he is, came over and took Eli for me, so I pumped a bottle and took a shower and went back to bed for an extra 2 hours....2 WONDERFUL HOURS of needed sleep, then mom and Gary took both Emma and Ian for the WHOLE afternoon...Emma had swimming lessons and Ian was begging to go to "grammy's house" so that left me w/ just Eli for the afternoon, I was able to get the whole house in order and a load of wash done, I can now officially do a load a day and always have a FULL load! LOL, but I have done well w/ that, and don't get overwhelmed w/ 4 load to do at once!

So how has it been going?....Good, hard, fun, difficult, and everything in between!

Eli is a good baby, he seems to be struggling w/ reflux, like Ian, he is very gassy, I am hoping this doesn't mean he's going to be allergic to the world like Ian w/ his 60 something allergies! He has his one month appointment this week so I'll talk to the dr about it then! I am hoping that he isn't going to stay gassy like Ian did....w/ Ian once I switched to formula he was so much happier, and I always wondered why, well when we had him allergy tested and found out that he is allergic to most food, including green bean and cantaloupe! SO everything I ate bothered him...lovely, I am hoping that isn't the case w/ Eli, but so far, he seems to be following that same pattern! We'll see!

He is a little guy, alot like Emma, he was 7 12 when he was born, 7,4 when we left the hospital, still 7, 4 a week later, and then 7, 11 at 2 weeks old, I am interested to see what he is going to weigh at one month. Em and I both were back to their birth weight at one week, Ian was over by like 4 ozs...so this is different for me to have one stay little so long! He has little hands and feet like Em, so I think he is going to be little like she is! He is such a sweet baby, doesn't even cry when he's in pain w/ the gas, you can see it on his face, and know he's hurting, but usually there is no tears! He does like to grunt and squeak we call him squeaker a lot!


OK so this is now my third time working on this post, apparently I am not going to do well w/ getting anything posted for a while...honestly, w/ the way we are sleeping...or not sleeping around here, most days I don't even think about the computer or blogging or anything like that, all my "down time"...lol...I spend sleeping! :) BUT last night I got good sleep, well, for having an infant! SO I am on top of the world today! and wanted to finish this and get the pics posted...so w/o anymore typing, here are the pictures!










Now if I can just get them to Costco to be printed before he turns 1 I'll be doing really well! LOL! I'll be back when I can, but just know, it might be a while! Now I am off to do some cleaning, while I have energy from all my sleep!

love to all!