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Houston, We Have A Fussy Baby!

// May 14th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Marriage

Today was the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and being that I am at home with my three month old son I wanted to watch it with him since there may not be any more shuttle launches to watch in the future.

Unfortunately the shuttle launch came after feeding time and just before nap time which means he fussed and cried through the entire launch and didn’t see any of it. If he was old enough to remember this day he would be kicking himself later down the road. But since he won’t remember anything I will just have to remind him when he is 16 when he is talking about the ancient space shuttles in Science class. Of course by then, we will all have our own personal space shuttles right? That’s what they kept telling us in the 1950’s.

In other news, with my mother visiting us this weekend my wife wanted the house cleaner than ever (as she does with all visitors) so we spent all last night cleaning. The only thing we were missing was air fresheners which she said, “Just take the baby to Wal-Mart tomorrow and get them before your mom gets here.” I like how she picked the one day of the year when we got over 3 inches of rain in just under half a day. I never realized how much effort it takes to get a baby to Wal-Mart in the rain. Trying to carry an umbrella, car seat, diaper bag and lock the car doors is near impossible in the rain.

I also had an item to return but there was no way I could fit anything else into my rain soaked ensemble. So it’s still sitting in the passenger seat for the next trip to Wal-Mart.

I decided today that it’s time the baby starts seeing his bedroom a little more often. You see, the baby sleeps in our room for now in a bassinet and we have been dressing him/changing him downstairs in the playpen for convenience (his bedroom is upstairs). So he rarely ever gets to see his bedroom. So since he sleeps through the night now and we don’t have to get up to change him there is really no need to keep everything downstairs in the living room. This will also help declutter our living room. It’s true what they say, the baby really does take over every part of the house.

I think he likes being in his bedroom. He’s basically looking at all new stuff since he spends so little time in there. Mommy isn’t going to be too happy though. She will see this as a sign he is growing up and we are losing our baby. Yesterday she was talking about how she can’t wait until his Kindergarten graduation but then she gets sad whenever he outgrows an outfit and we have to retire it.

10 Pampers Gifts to Grow Bonus Points – May 2010

// May 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Marriage

pampers-gifts-to-growIt’s a new month which means it’s time for more Gifts to Grow bonus points from Pampers.

This month, if you hadn’t already figured it out on your own, the code is FacebookMay2010.  Since it’s the same every month I went ahead and tried FacebookJune2010 but it didn’t work. I’m an instant gratification person and I don’t like to wait but Pampers is going to make me wait anyway.

So I’ll see you again on June 1 with the new code!

Interesting side note: By the time I save enough points to buy the single ticket to Sea World, Shamu will have long since retired.

75 Free 4×6 Photos from Shutterfly

// April 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Marriage

shutteryfly-free75With Mothers Day fast approaching, I received an email from Shutterfly offering 75 free 4×6 photos. Since Mother’s love pictures of their kids, I submit to you this Mother’s Day gift idea that is heavy on love and light on the wallet.

Find your favorite pictures of your children and have them printed up through Shutterfly for free ( just use promo code FREE75) and head down to Hobby Lobby and pick up some great new picture frames that are 50% off this week. Get a nice Mothers Day card (don’t forget the card) and wrap the frames up in some pretty wrapping paper (don’t use leftover Christmas paper). You’ll have a couple of great Mothers Day gifts for less than $10.

For my wife I’m trying to pass off this new washer and dryer we bought as her Mothers Day present. So far it’s not allowed.

But they are red and red is the color of love!

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Six Weeks with Daddy – Day #6

// April 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // Marriage

Day #6, started off on the wrong foot and just continued from there. It seems the baby has a bit of a cold so I got him dressed yesterday morning and headed over to the doctor to confirm it was a cold. All he has is a runny nose, one episode of diarrhea and a very slight fever once. Since then he has been fine minus the runny nose. Really all I have to do is suction out his nose (which he used to not mind but now he HATES) every so often and give him some nasal drops. He is much better this evening.

After coming back home from the doctor we just stayed in the house the rest of the day so he could rest.  I suspect we will do the same tomorrow.

Six Weeks with Daddy – Day #5

// April 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Marriage

father-and-son-beach::630am:: It was a day like any other….and then the whole thing blew up. We started off as normal. When the baby woke up we played and talked for a little bit, changed a peepee diaper and then had our bottle. Then everything started to fall apart.

::800am:: As I’m getting dressed, I hear grunting coming from the living room. As powerful as a Daddy may be, you cannot control when your child is going to poop. (Despite my best efforts to change his poop time to the evening after Mommy gets home.) Alright, let’s change the poopy diaper. Nothing much out of the ordinary until I thought I had everything cleaned up and I realized that the poop went halfway down his back, skipped a little bit and then continued on up towards his neck. Even though I got everything cleaned with a mountain of wet wipes I felt this was a good time for him to have a bath. So we took a quick bath to wash off the poop residue….or resi-doodoo if you will.

::830am:: A clean, dressed baby = a happy baby, right? Wrong. I realized I still had a poopy diaper folded up and sitting on the counter. Today is trash day so I decided to take it outside and put in an old trash bag so I stop stinking up the house. (Yesterday I put two poopy diapers in the kitchen trash can and the house STILL smells like poop.) Mind you I’m still in my underwear at this point.

::9am:: I managed to squeeze in a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios (ironic since no one was “cheery” this morning) and getting dressed somewhere in between fits and we were off to pick up my sister so we could go visit my aunt. He was alright in the car until we stopped for gas. He doesn’t like stopping.

::930am:: He drank a bottle on the road and by the time we got to my aunt’s house he was still wide awake butt at least happy now. He was excellent during our visit. He smiled and talked the whole time.

::1015am:: Time to head back home. Today seems to be the day of little cat naps. 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there. What happened to the baby that slept for 2-3 hours every 2-3 hours all week??

::11am:: We met Grandpa for lunch at Burger King. He was excellent until I got about halfway through my double cheeseburger. Then he decided it was time to go home. I thought he had pooped so we headed for the house since we live just down the street. Turns out it was just a smelly fart. Drank another bottle and then down for a nap. Just kidding. No nap!

::1230pm:: Finally drifted off to sleep in the swing so it was time to mop the floor! I actually managed to kitchen the entire kitchen and entry way swept and mopped while he slept. My socks are wet now though because I kept forgetting the proper way to mop and end up mopping myself into a corner. Then I have to step on the wet floor to get out.

::130pm:: After a couple of close calls of waking up he dozed off again and is currently sleeping. I’m going to enter in some Pampers Gifts to Grow rewards points and then take a nap myself!

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