Over 3 Months?!?

Yep. It has been that long. How time flies. For those that I haven't talked to in a while, hope all is well. Things are going pretty well around here. We are still working on the new house as much as we can. The holidays were busy but very nice. Alex is doing very well, adorable as always. I am uploading pictures as I type to add to the blog. Most are from the holidays. Enjoy.

PICTURES!

I did it. Posted three new sets of pictures, and before the weekend! Are you as excited as I am? Enjoy.

Life Happens

A friend just asked for the blog address and after saying that I hadn't been here in a while, I decided to check the address to make sure I gave her the correct one. May? That was so long ago that I won't insult anyone with excuses as to why. Life happens. And man has it been happening a lot around here.

First, and most importantly for most of you, months of pictures have been downloaded from the camera and will hopefully be uploaded to the website this weekend at the latest. Honest. If I actually put it on here you can hold me to it, so I have to do it. Seeing is believing.

Now, hopefully you can follow along. My last post suggests that I was happy at my now previous job. I had made the jump to "a big firm" doing transactional work. I missed doing transactional work and while I have never seen myself at a big firm, I decided to give it a shot. Well, part of the reason for the delay in posting is the depression that I found myself in during the summer. I didn't fit. For the first time in my professional life I did not get along with my boss. While I liked doing transactional work, the focus was so narrow that I felt like a word processor and not an attorney. Just wasn't my thing. So, I contacted my old firm and they were glad to take me back. I started Monday and it has been great. Doing litigation, but with people that are taking the time to show me what I need to know and who actually seem to like me. Having a mentor in this profession is critical to success. I have good ones here. And don't worry, if I complain and/or change jobs again, my wife, mother-in-law, and you depending on who you are will probably come at me with a knife so...

We are settling in to the house. It is starting to feel like ours. Lots to do, but there always will be. I took a week in between jobs with the full intention of finishing lots of projects, but we all came down with the flu and Jenny had nose surgery, so that didn't go as planned. There is time.

The little guy is almost 16 months old. Can you believe it? He is running around now. Not talking as much as Mommy would like, but he is improving. He is stubborn. Those that know both Mommy and Daddy can argue about who he gets that from. Poor kid didn't have a chance. But he is still adorable and smiles all the time. When he decides he doesn't want to go to sleep he throws his blankets out of his bed. We then go in at times and put them back in, only to be thrown out again. The other night I went in to get him, after a half hour of crying and it being clear that he wasn't going to go down. As I went into his room, he looked at me and went to the far side of his crib. I stood there and waited for him to come over so that I could pick him up. He turned his back on me. Mommy came in to him standing on one side of the crib and me on the other. Not realizing she had walked in to a stubbornness contest, she went over and picked him up. She got a big kiss from a little guy for her efforts and we still don't know who is more stubborn. Time will tell.

Thats all for now. If we haven't seen you in a while, life is starting to slow down so that hopefully that will be a possibility soon. Until the holidays take over of course...

It has been a while

So the new job is going well but has been keeping me very busy. That is my excuse (do with it what you will) for not posting in a while. Just have time for a few quick up dates. Lots of pictures have been taken and will be uploaded soon. At least that is the plan.

The bear is sick with a runny nose. Nothing worse than that. He had his first two days of day care. Loved it. Loved every minute of it. Kids to play with, things to do. But no sleep. Who would sleep in a room full of things to do when you have only slept in your bedroom or nice quiet rooms before? So it is understandable. But when sickness comes and he is already tired, very unhappy baby. Getting better though. And we know that it takes longer than 1 day for sickness to run through- so we aren't blaming the school. (Bamma is but...)

We found a house! Home inspection is today. For those who feel behind, no we weren't really looking. The original plan was next spring. But, when you find the right house for the right price, you buy it. Sure, another right house could be there next spring too, but the three of us really like this one.

Have to run. Pictures soon!!!

Stephen

FANGS!!!!!!!!!!!

In the last 14 days, that boy has sprouted a full pearl necklace in his mouth. He was up all night. Not crying mind you, but talking, laughing, yelling... basically having a slumber party for one in his crib. We kept having to get up and check on him. Either Stephen or I would get up and try to burp him, give him tylenol, orajel... anything... a bottle, rock him. Last night, during my shift, he laid on my lap and smiled at me, and tried to play with my hair by pulling it.

He finally fell asleep at about 5:30 and woke up at about 7. After breakfast he grabbed Bama's finger and started to chew on it. There she discovered two new uppers, half way out. Except these aren't the center teeth, but either the second incisors or the canines. Basically, he has fangs.

So for those of you keeping count: Lower arch consists of center incisor about 1/3 out, second center incisor with just a jagged edge out, upper arch: 2 teeth of unknown type about 1/3 out, over night.

My baby boy has fangs.... :'(

Another Tooth!

So yesterday afternoon, my beautiful bear was smiling at me, and I noticed right next to the jagged white pearl about 1/3 on the way out was a white line just perceptable under the gum. Tooth Two is rearing its ugly head.

Oh he hates the tooth breaking through. It hurts him so much. He woke up crying at 8:30, and again at 10:30 and again at 11:30 last night. Stephen got the 8:30 and 11:30 (which he was ravenously hungry for a bottle). I got the 10:30. I cradled him in my arms. He fought his Tylenol, and Orajel, but calmed down on the Orajel immediately and leaned against my chest, sighed, and fell asleep in my arms as I rocked him. I didn't want to put him down. I could have sat there forever. He looked so sweet and comfy nuzzled in my arms.

Toothiness Update

So my sweetie's tooth is about 1/3 out now. Last night at about 9:30 he woke from a sound sleep with an inconsolable cry. No matter how much comforting he got, he wouldn't stop. When Alex cries, a for real cry, you know it is bad for him, because honestly, when he fake cries or cries for attention you can just walk away and he stops.

Poor guy, he didn't want a bottle. He is very good at violently pushing his bottle away if he doesn't want it. I swear to God, he almost threw it at me. Alex gave me the baby version of the big F-U!

He was just so inconsolable. Stephen got a half dose of Tylenol down him. He just didn't want anyone to touch his mouth. Yet 10 minutes later he was still crying and screaming. You could tell it was from pain. Alex didn't even want comfort, but he didn't want to be left alone either. It hurt so much he didn't know what he wanted.

So I put Orajel on my finger and managed to get just his bottom gums. Then he really screamed since I touched what was hurting. About 5 minutes later, he calmed down to a whimper. Stephen handed him off to me, otherwise, I would have just paced in the baby's room until Alex fell asleep. I rocked him and cuddled him.

When I went to put him down again, he cried, but I knew I had to leave him. About 10 minutes later he was asleep, and slept until 6:45.

You just feel so bad when it hurts so much they don't know what they want or what to do.