A Month already....

I cannot believe that I have done nothing for the last month! (Sorry Minnesota Family) Well since the Dart Frog Dash...My mom, Traci, both kids and I went to Minnesota for my cousin Maren's graduation. I loved visiting and wish we could have stayed longer. Landon has been growing like a weed and is becoming more and more interactive. He loves playing on his mat:

I have also decided to quit one of my jobs, two jobs and a newborn is a little too much to handle. I am now working only at a Private Practice and see about 5-15 clients a week, I LOVE that it is flexible and I can make my own schedule AND I have family to watch Landon which is a BIG plus!

We have also learned that our little guy has colic, thank goodness he turns 3 months in a couple of weeks which is when it usually stops. The screaming is starting to decrease but it has surprising been OK, Andy might say something different.

So other than soothing Landon and trying to build up a caseload at work nothing else is going on. I will TRY to do better in the future. Join Facebook...I update there a couple times a day (hint, hint).

5K and Zoo

Yesterday I participated in the Toledo Zoo's Dart Frog Dash 5K Walk with my mom and sisters, and the kids of course! This was also Landon's first trip to the zoo.

These are the white lions that used to work for Sigfried and Roy.
Aunt Kelly is showing Landon the lions.

Aunt Kelly is showing Landon the Hippos.

She also helped me out by feeding Landon.

Here is the whole crew that ran or walked or rode the race (except me, I took the picture).

I got the privilege of pushing the big kids, I was so upset that there were hills!

Mom enjoyed pushing Landon, its like pushing nothing!

Traci pushed Abigail who was missing a sock! (because she put it into poo!)

Traci and I think that Alex and Elena need to walk the next time!

Here are the four cousins!

Better late than never.

OK, I know these are a few weeks old, but I am just getting around to getting pictures off of my camera.

Here we are introducing Diesel to Landon.

Here I am attempting to breastfeed.

Here we our...my family.

Diesel loves to get a hold of pacifiers and bottles. Andy was chasing him around the house and stopped and decided he was too cute to not get a picture!
Here are my boys!

Andy took these shots last week...Andy loves our new camera!

Landon's Room

Here are some photos of Landon's bedroom. I finally figured out how to take pictures off of our new camera!

Mother's Day...Back to Work

My first mother's day was very nice. Grandma Sanderson watched Landon so that I could get a good nights rest, which was better than anything she could have bought me! Earlier in the week Andy and I had been out shopping in Toledo and he said that this was his only opportunity to shop so he wanted to get me something. I gave him a list of things that I wanted and he got me an iPod Nano, which is yellow (my favorite color). I kept teasing him that Mother's Day is before Father's Day and what he gets me determines what he gets...I guess I have to get him something nice now!

Last week I started back to work. Now, don't worry I am only working 5 or so hours a week and family are watching Landon. In fact tonight is the first time Andy will have Landon for more than 3 hours. He has called reinforcements (his parents) to help and he really hopes that they can make it! The only difficult thing is getting out the door for work, it takes forever! I am sure I will not feel the same when I go back to work in Findlay where Landon will be going to a childcare provider's home...that maybe more difficult. At least I have a month and a half until I have to worry about that!

I'm updating already!!!

OK, since I kept being told that it has been forever since I updated here goes:

Today was Landon's 1 month check-up, I cannot believe it has been a month already! He is 8 lbs 2 oz and 20.25 inches, the doctor says he is gaining over an once a day which is very good.

This last month has been very stressful as far as feeding Landon. I started in the hospital nursing him and ran into some difficulties as far as Landon being weak and tongue tied. Well the tongue tied saga continued since the last time I talked about it. It turns out that the other ENT doctor in the practice heard about Landon's case and had his office call and schedule the procedure. So a week ago Landon got his tongue clipped, and all went well. Since it hsa been a month I was hesitant to start attempting to nurse again especially since I am not producing enough milk for a feeding...so I continue to pump.

Lately though pumping has begun to get tiring and difficult to do when Landon gets upset and I am the only one home. Sometimes it is 12-15 hours between pumping and I am only producing about 1 once every 2 hours. I talked to the doctor today (who by the way is a speaker for Similac) who says that if I am hating it to stop. Andy talked to other nurses today and we have decided that I will continue to pump when I think about it and want to and when I dry up, I dry up. As it is Landon is only getting about 3-4 bottles of breast milk a day now.

The good news is I finally can fit into pre-maternity fat pants! I have one pair of jeans that fit, I have lost about 30 lbs (obviously I gained a little more than suggested) but have a few more to go. Andy says we are going to work on our "dun lap" problem together. (Our belly's 'dun lap' over our pants)

My goal is to get the photos off of our camera soon...so more pictures coming I promise!