Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!!!

Now that I have your attention... :)

Sawyer weighs 9 lbs 14.5 ozs! I'm really excited! We went and did another pre and post yesterday. He got 80 cc total. There are 30 cc in one ounce, so he's still shy of the three ounces that he should be getting right now according to his weight. He only got 30 cc total on Wednesday July 27 right after my supply dropped and 70 cc a week ago Friday so things are definitely looking up. Candy had a family emergency so she wasn't there and the consultant that I worked with didn't want to tell me to change anything. She told me to keep doing what I'm doing and wait for Candy to get back and review my chart with me. Long story short we're still nursing, bottle feeding, and pumping after each feeding. This weekend has been nice because Lorne's been here to do the bottle while I pump.

We've kind of changed up the nighttime feeding schedule a bit. Now I'm nursing him around 10:30-midnight and putting him to bed. I was napping from 10:00-12:00 and Lorne was staying up with him until then and feeding him his bottle downstairs. He's waking up around 3:00-4:00 and Lorne's giving him a bottle of formula. Lorne is "on duty" from 9:00-3:00 roughly so the joke around here is that Lorne's been coaching Sawyer on sleeping solidly during his shift because that's what he's been doing. Once my shift starts he's up pretty much every hour from 5:00 until 8:00 when I bring him downstairs. :( At least he's sleeping more in the night; I just wish it was during my shift! :)

We went car shopping yesterday. We went to Blue Goose for lunch and then stopped at a Pontiac dealership in Plano. Lorne wanted to look at and price the G6. He test drove it and I think that he liked it but he wanted to comparison shop with the Camry and the Accord. I nursed for the first time in public while we were there, well, sort of anyway. There were two chairs in the restroom so I took one into the handicap stall and nursed him there while Lorne test drove. It actually worked out really well.

We came home and Lorne went by himself to a Honda dealership in McKinney. I told him not to come home until he had a new car and he just laughed, but he took me seriously because he came home in an Accord! They kept the Camry because they're thinking that they can get more for the trade if someone inspects it on Monday. He looked over the lease of the Camry though and realized that it is a sixty month and not thirty-six like we thought. We're also still okay on the mileage so I'm not sure what he'll do. I told him it's up to him since it's the car he will be driving. I think he's going to return tomorrow and see if they can get the payments where he wants them and if they do he'll keep the Accord. I told him I was sad because I didn't get to tell Miss Camry goodbye. I get really attached to our cars. I get that from my mom! :)

I found this really neat quote in one of my parenting magazines the other day. It was on a needlepoint that a woman's great-grandmother made: "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, for babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep. I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep." It really spoke to me because that's what I have been trying to do. Case in point: last night Lorne noticed that he'd had a pair of socks by the patio door for the last week. He commented that would have never happened before Sawyer was born. I'm taking stuff like that as a good sign. Now that I've said all that I DID finally clean our bathroom today. I hadn't cleaned it since before Sawyer was born and it was DRIVING ME CRAZY!!! It's taking more than one attempt at the shower to get it all clean. Oh well, I do have different priorities now and that is what I am continuing to keep in mind.

Now on to the pictures I promised. I'm going to do separate posts of the Pass the Baby Party, Matthew and Jackie's Housewarming, the Baptism, and the BBQ so that you can peruse them more easily according to event. Have fun!