2 Months old & lots of tears

C turned 2 months old today and had his check-up. He also had his shots today and he's not been a happy camper this afternoon. Did he ever scream when he got those shots! He was M-A-D!



He's been sleeping alot and has a bit of fever, but hopefully he'll be better in the morning. I hope he continues sleeping tonight since he has slept all afternoon except during feeding time.



He weighed in at 9 lbs 12 oz!! That puts him in the 7th percentile for weight on the regular growth chart, not the preemie chart. So that means he's gained 4 pounds 11 oz since coming home.



He was 21 1/2 inches long. I think that was the 11 th percentile for height. He's grown 4 1/2 inches since he was born!



The doctor was happy with his progress.



We won't do another Monday appointment, though. She is normally good to spend lots of time with us, but today I felt rushed. Her main nurse took today off too, so it was really busy and hectic today.



Here's a picture of our little man, laying with Daddy on the couch. You can tell he doesn't feel too well.

P.S. C has been a little sick over the weekend and spent much of it just drinking Pedia-Lyte. So I'm sure he lost some weight. He may have been over 10 pounds if he had not gotten sick!

Wearin' Shoes!

C finally grew into his first pair of shoes!

ALL NIGHT LONG!!

Can you hear Lionel Richie singing? "All Night Long - all night, all night"

C slept ALL NIGHT LONG last night!! Woooo Hoooo!

Of course it may just be a fluke and it may not happen again for months, but it was wonderful and so shocking!

I've been working on getting him on a schedule and doing the eat, play, sleep thing. Which isn't working too well because he falls asleep eating so often. But he's pretty much got his schedule set. It was a tough day yesterday. I let him sleep one nap in his big crib for the first time ever and then he slept the night in his crib and I slept in the floor on a mattress. I figured he would cry alot in the night and I didn't want to wake the whole house, but lo and behold he slept all night and I pretty much did too. I'd hear him grunt and move every now and then but nary a cry!

Update: Jessy asked if I woke up scared when I realized he hadn't woken up in the night. No, because since I slept in his floor, I heard all his grunts, snorts and breathing so I knew he was ok.

I finally finished a roll of film and will take it to be developed today and get a CD so hopefully some of them are good! Oh how I wish my good camera was digital! Film - such an antiquated notion!!

P.S. Oh yeah! C turns 8 weeks old today!!

Wednesday morning Update: Well, I guess it was fluke-ish. He did sleep well last night, but only made it to 4:40. Then right back to sleep till 7. So, not too bad!

Happy Fall Y'all

Even though it's hot as blazes outside still, I'm sooooo excited that it is officially Fall. This is the beginning of my most favorite time of the year!

I am also very excited that I figured out how to make my blog cute. I have been trying for ages to figure it out and finally I did! Yay me!

Some new pictures

Not always all smiles!
I love the new version of Pack-n-Play with the changing station! D's didn't have this!

I haven't been taking as many pictures with the digital camera, it's kind of acting up. I've taken lots with the "real" camera so when I get that film developed I'll get a CD so I can post some. I just hope they've turned out. I sure wish I had the digital version of my big camera!

ELECTRICITY!!!!!!

Our power was just restored after about 75 hours with no electricity! It has been very trying. The first night was a fun advanture, until trying to feed and diaper a baby in the dark with only flashlights for light!

At least the weather grew cooler yesterday and today! It was stifling hot the first night and Sunday.

D and I did a huge happy electricity dance and ran outside to wave our thanks at the electricity man!!! Crews came from North Carolina to help our town.

We promise never to take electricity for granted - ever again!!

While I Sill Have Electricity

We're getting ready for Ike to hit us. It SHOULD just be a tropical storm by the time it gets up to us, but right now they're still calling our county for Inland Hurricane Warning.

I'm sure we'll lose power soon after it hits, we lose power easily, even in just a regular thunder storm. It is still eerily dark outside right now.

We are a good 4-5 hours up from Galveston, but we'll probably still see some storminess.

There was never ANY talk (from officials) of our area evacuating, matter of fact, Hubby just left a bit ago to go out to the camp to help get breakfast ready for the evacuees.

After Gustav's trickery, so many people didn't evacuate this time and it's a doozie.

Ok, gotta run. I'm going to bake up some stuff in case we're out of power a while.

THE VIEW FROM MY FRONT PORCH:

Update 6:50 a.m.: It is finally lightening up outside, but the clouds are a weird dusty pink color. Even the sidewalks appear pink - creepy!

6:56 a.m.! In just 5 minutes it changed to THIS! No, I didn't photo shop it, this is natural! Very strange and fast moving.

8:37 a.m. So far just windy, the local news says winds are now at about 30 mph gusts. The tops of the trees are rotating in a counter-clockwise manner, very odd. It looks like they're doing a dance. The clouds are just zooming by. We've had a few sprinkles but that's it so far. We've been changed from Inland Hurricane Warning to Tropical Storm Winds Warning and Flash Flood and Tornado Watch.

10:17 a.m. Hubby just called and the power is out at the camp now. So far we are still doing fine. Still just windy. A bit more forceful now, some pine boughs are down. Still dry.