Too busy to blog!

Ah, remember the days when I had nothing to do but hang out with my computer and share my thoughts on the world ... err, my life ... well, those days are gone.  Now, I'd much rather spend my "free time" cuddling on the couch with my little cutie. (If you need further proof of this, just check out the amount of dust taking over my condo! If I don't have "time" to blog, you can just imagine how much time I have to clean!) I mean, I have time -- babies sleep a lot -- but I don't want to do anything with my time but hang out with my little angel.  And since I only get like 2 hours (if I'm lucky!) in between breastfeeding sessions -- I decide that that is my rest time.  Meaning, nothing gets done.  But hey! babies grow too fast to be spending the day vacuuming when I can spend the day oozing up baby goodness! :)

Um, mom, who is this?

 Brady is now almost 1 whole month old!! (tomorrow!) Can you believe it!? I cannot.  Well part of me feels like I've been waking up every three hours and letting this kid nibble at my sore breasts forEVER now, while the other half of me just can't believe the first month of his life is already here and gone.  He visited the doctor at 3 weeks (on the 30th) and weighed in at 10 lbs. exactly!

Brady -- 3 weeks!

He's getting *SO* big so fast that sometimes I shed tears ... yes, already.  I find myself holding his little hands all the time thinking "I wonder how long I have until he won't let me hold his hand anymore."  :( Trying to be a bit more positive, but how do thoughts like that not cross your mind constantly?

Let's see, where did we leave off in the life of Bradester?  The last couple of weeks have been busy for the little man.  He's met a ton of his new "aunties" and "uncles" and loves taking walks.  We even survived his first case of the sniffilies, poor baby!  He spent a few days nice and congested, but luckily, never developed a fever and we nursed him back to health! I have to say, yes having a baby is a ton of work and all, but it's also not that bad at all.  Honestly, if I wasn't breastfeeding, I feel like it'd be even easier.  We manage to do a lot with our little guy in tow.  It's very important to us that our life not stop for him, but rather incorporate him into our life.  And yes, there are movies out that I want to see that I'm just gonna have to wait till dvd and there are restaurants that I want to eat at that are just too small for our big stroller and too intimate to chance him shrieking in and yes, I just want to go the mall and buy tons of new clothes but I don't know what size will fit my gigantic boobs (and I don't know if that will go away when I stop breastfeeding) but it's still not as dramatic as I thought it would be.  We still go out and have dinner with our little guy.  We still get to go shopping -- we just let his carseat take up most of the cart.  I got to get my hair cut! Last weekend we even took him on his first "road trip" to Lake Geneva for the day!! He did *wonderfully* in the car -- we only had to stop once on the way there (to feed) and once on the way back (because he was shrieking so loud mommy and daddy got all cliched and pulled over on the highway to check on him -- he was fine, babies cry, we know.)

At three weeks, Brady celebrated Gramma and Grampa Minneci's 30th Anniversary with mommy, daddy, his uncles, aunt, and little cousin Taylor.

Brady with his cousin Taylor

"Uncle Scott, please don't drop me!"

Aw so cute right? (I swear, he didn't sleep through the whole day!)

He is, however, starting to sleep through the night a little bit more!! Yay Brady!! One night, he even went 6+ hours -- it doesn't happen often, but it did happen.  A more normal night is about 4-5 hours in between feeding, which I think is still pretty awesome for a little man who is less than a month old! He can probably handle that long because he's eating like a barracuda during the day! The doctor says we can start weening the 3 am feed at 6 weeks -- I'm so excited for that time! See, he may go 6 hours in between, but I still can't seem to get into bed the same time as him -- there's all that cleaning and stuff to get done! -- so I, sadly, am not getting as much sleep as him!

Sadly, it's not all fun and games over here ... the last couple of days I haven't been able to sleep because I now have mastitis!  (Mastitis is a breast infection - which is super painful and gives you a fever, etc. Awesome, right?!) Apparently, God didn't think I got enough of my fill of pregnancy problems, he decided to keep on adding on! It seems only appropriate that I would get to experience all of the issues that pregnancy/post pregnancy would get to offer! Seriously, if my son wasn't so damn cute and awesome, I would be currently considering getting my tubes tied! Buuuut, Brady is so perfect it doesn't seem right not to have more kids like him! :) And besides, if I can make it out alive from this pregnancy/nursing experience -- I can do it ALL :)  And it's supposed to rain the next couple of days so it'll be perfect to kind of sit back and recover (though my antibiotics say on the warnings not lie down for 10 minutes after taking them! I'm pretty sure I'll die if I do so!  Eek!)

Oh! Also this week, Brady had his first real bath! We're trying to get him used to water because momma and dadda can't *wait* to take his to swim classes and water parks ... but it's not quite his thing yet.

Mostly I think because he got cold pretty quick ... brrr.  And he's not the biggest fan of water being poured over his head, yet ;).  But once he was warm, he was all good again! Love this kid!

Brady -- 4 weeks old!