Time To Recommit

I gained two pounds this week at weigh-in. :( I just let myself go after Laura's shower last weekend. I bought petit fours at Casa Linda bakery which is where Courtney ordered the cake of which I consumed THREE pieces!! It was just sooo good! Was it worth it? I haven't decided. :) This was my first week to have to pay since he was born. I had a coupon so I'm paying $9.50 instead of $12 which I hate since I already gave WW over $1,000 I'm guessing the first time around.

I've been giving Sawyer the Xantac all week and he hates it! I try to smile at him and talk to him while I'm giving it to him to try and keep him happy but it doesn't always work. I think he's on to me! He closes his mouth tighter than the hatch on Lost. Not to mention I give it to him on his changing table upstairs and now he's crying while he's lying there. Coincidence? I don't know, but I hate that he may have gone Pavlovian on me about this whole deal. We go back on Thursday so I guess that I will give it to him until then. I just don't know how much he's getting. I think he spits most of it out. He's also blowing raspberries now so it ends up being a virtual grape shower all over the nursery. I've decided that our son just isn't a big eater like some other babies. Maybe that will all change once we start solids. I'm hoping that we will be able to do that next weekend.

Maybe he will take some formula from Lorne this weekend. I haven't tried for the past couple of days. A lady at Curves said that I may have waited too long but I think that we just have to give it time. Speaking of Curves, I went this morning and there was a lady there that I hadn't seen since Sawyer was born since I don't go in the mornings anymore. Anyway, her granddaughter was born August 6th and weighs SIXTEEN pounds and is 25 inches long!! That's enormous!! She was in the 100th percentile at two months. She's also breastfed which just blows my mind. Before Sawyer was born all I heard was that breastfed babies are smaller because they are able to regulate exactly how much they eat, blah, blah, blah. Why do I feel like I am surrounded by enormous breastfed babies? OK, I will stop complaining. I have a wonderful son who is the joy of my life. I know he will be big soon enough. I'm just tired of comparing him to every baby ever born but I just can't help myself. It doesn't mean that I love little Awy any less, but I don't know how to stop.

I tried to get him to nap in his crib yesterday. That was fun! I spent forty-five minutes rocking him, he slept for forty-five minutes, and then started crying, so I brought him downstairs where he slept on me for another forty-five minutes. Part of me really wants him to learn to nap in his crib and the other part of me doesn't want to let go of our naptime together. I think the crib would be best, though, because he's starting to be more and more aware of his surroundings so he's waking up to sounds he used to sleep through like me talking on the phone. I think that I'll try and get him to have his morning nap in his crib and then let him have his afternoon nap on me and gradually move to having both upstairs. I'm so happy that he's on a little schedule. I don't know if I have anything to do with that, but I'd like to think that I do. I keep thinking back to how he would only sleep a few hours in his crib at night. Now I put him down between 7-8 and he usually sleeps until 4-5. Then I feed him and put him back down and he sleeps until 7:30-8:00. That's another big difference too. I used to have to come downstairs with him around 5:30-6:00 and he would sleep on me until it was time to eat again. All of that shows me that he will eventually nap in his crib. I just need to give him time.

I hope that everyone has a good weekend. We're off to Fishmonger's for lunch once the little man gets up from his nap...on his daddy. :)