Grant is 10 weeks, or 2 and 1/2 months

Grant is getting chunky! He feels like one thick baby with some mass. He is blowing bubbles, eats his hand and tries to sit up. He coos and smiles a lot too. We had some trouble getting him to take a bottle but the NUK brand seems to be working well, thank goodness. I don't want our babysitter to dread babysitting a fussy, hungry baby who refuses to take his bottle. Plus I'm more willing to have a babysitter now that I for sure pump enough milk each day interning. I have plenty to spare it seems. Yay!

This is an outfit Aunt Meg bought Grant from REI.

I particularly like the tassles!

Scrabble

So Perry and I played Scrabble on the day we were sick. We are feeling much better by the way. We both just have a minor cough that gets us in the middle of the night. Anyway, we took some pictures because of our obscure words. We used a cheat online to help us think of letters since our brains were hurting from being sick.

Streptococcus.. funny name but not so funny illness

So I went to the doctor yesterday and I have strep throat. I had a fever. I think it broke while I was sleeping... thank goodness. It was making me feel even worse and my back was aching a ton, but luckily or I hope that's gone for good. I am now on antibiotics so I can go back to my internship on Monday if I don't feel too bad. On the internet it said that antibiotics don't make symptoms go away quicker, it just makes you not contagious after 24 hours on the meds and if I hadn't taken the meds I would be contagious for up to 3 weeks. I can't have that and be absent from my internship, so I'm glad I got some. I will probably go on Monday and just let my supervisor know that I have strep and I won't be the same as normal. I may also ask her if she will teach the lesson that I'm supposed to teach. Maybe I can. It is only about 10 minutes long, I just won't have much energy and much of a voice to make sure everyone listens to me.

Sick and Praxis

So this weekend Perry and I have come down with something. Stuffy nose... really really sore throat, fatigue, weakness, sometimes nausea. Sound fun eh? It's really tough being weak and taking care of a baby, especially if that baby is only taking 1 hour naps throughout the day. If anyone has spoken to me since Grant was born I can't fall asleep easily during the day time no matter how tired I am. So today I have been resting, attempting sleep. I have maybe gotten 10 min in. I hope this isn't mono because it takes a weeks worth of caring for yourself to get better and I doubt I can get that kind of rest. And if I don't it could take six weeks to clear, which is exactly how many weeks I have left of my internship.

On top of all of this, poor Perry is taking the praxis test for french. If he passes, which he will, he will be certified to teach french from k-12 grade. He will take the spanish one in July.

Sunday Picnic!

So spring is amazing! I love the warmth and the warm thunder storms and being able to be in the sun! It is awesome. We had a short little picnic to enjoy the weather with Grant sporting his new church outfit. I wanted to show him off in his outfit. Also on Sunday we finally stayed the full 3 hour block! It has been crazy since I hadn't really gone to church until his baby blessing and then we went home to have a lunch with Perry's family, then there was general conference, then Sophie's blessing, and finally this Sunday. It was nice. I mean for one whole hour though I was in the nursing lounge feeding Grant. Luckily it was after sacrament meeting and I was able to take the sacrament. That really is the most important part to me. It was fun chatting with the other girls in there too. My mom told us that Grant had an adult cry. I didn't know what she meant until Sunday when all of the new baby's and some Grant's age cried the same raspy small cry. It was weird because Sophie cries the same and Perry and I always comment on how much we love her cry since it seemed different and unique to us. But low and behold basically every other baby sounds like that too. Weird. I was able to stand and entertain Grant through basically all of Relief Society so that was great too!

Daddy loves his baby!

Grants favorite position.

Dead mouse!

So the mouse died. Just thought I would mention it. I just hope there aren't anymore. So we are keeping the traps up. Here is his defeat. Its a relief since they are full of disease and I do have a baby. Oh and funny story, when I was pregnant I went a little psycho when I found out we had a mouse. I was so germaphobic about it that I couldn't wait for it to die, when before when we had a mouse and I wasn't pregnant I didn't want to kill the mouse because I felt bad for it so we had sticky pads. I got so crazy and just never felt such a desire for the mouse to die!

2 months

Did I already mention by baby is 2 months. He had his well baby check up today and he weighs 11 lbs 5 oz which is 11 oz more than when we was weighed last week. He is also 23 inches long which is 1 inch longer than last week. Crazy! He is growing so fast. So Grant is doing well with everything. We got some advice for his cradle cap, to scrub it for three nights in a row and then it should be more manageable by the end of that. Grant also sadly got his immunizations for the first time. I didn't get him any for his 2 day visit because I was so overwhelmed about the beginning of motherhood that I didn't want to deal with the even more fussiness and possible fever that immunizations sometimes bring. I'm was also not sure if I was even going to get him any at all, however, after researching it I came to the conclusion that the risk of getting autism from a vaccine is way lower than the risk of getting one of the diseases that a vaccine could protect against. So we did them. And I never felt bad about getting the vaccines when I prayed about it. So anyway my baby cried one big wail from the nurses double dosing. They came in and said "ready, go!" and they poked him on each thigh at the same time and possibly twice and they did it as quick as they could. Grant was able to wail his second cry out in my arms and calm down really fast. I was proud of him but I got teary eyed. I don't like seeing my baby in pain intentionally, let alone in pain at all. It must be done though. Oh well. He now has sore legs, has been a little more fussier than normal, but no fever. Thank goodness. He took a really good nap today too. So thats the news about my baby.

Here is Grant in the outfit Aunt Meg bought him at DI. Soo cute. Much cuter in person. Oh and by the way, the outfit is 3-6 months and it fits him perfectly! Crazy! He is getting so big so fast.

Grant has taken to sucking on his fists a lot more now and not just when he is hungry. When he is bored or entertaining himself. We have also noticed that he likes to stare at the TV. If we put him on his boppy for a second, he is always looking at the screen.

Isn't he cute!

So cute.