Craziest Question I've Ever Been Asked

I was at work yesterday pumping – they have a large restroom outside the fitness facility with a shower stall with a curtain, bench and power outlet set up for us. In walks a lady – obviously who I cannot see nor who can see me. She goes into a stall and I hear her ask “How much milk do you get out of those things?” Huh? Is she seriously talking to me? I have no clue who she is and I guess I didn’t feel like explaining my milk supply to 1. Most likely someone I don’t know and 2. Someone I cannot see and 3. Someone sitting on a toilet while I’m in the physical act of pumping.

Is that not insane! I can’t stop laughing about it. I did not answer her other than to hold back my astonished gasp.

Carolyn's New Do

I suppose it was bound to happen. Our sweet little long haired beauty gave herself a haircut. Wednesday evening she snuck out of her room and found the scissors. She came to our room with a handful of blonde hair. Oh, how sad. Her hair was down to the middle of her back. So straight and shiny. I couldn't believe it. As we pulled the hair off her pajamas and cleaned it from the floors she cried herself. Later if you ask her about it she'll tell you, "It was just an accident."

The next day after her bath I did my best to clean up the damage. As I was cutting, she told me "Mom, I don't cut my hair again." We left it as long as possible and even though I do miss her long hair, the new short cut is really cute.

A fraction of the hair we collected

The damages

Holding her ponytail

The new do

The cute smile and view of the back

SNOW DAY!!!

They've been calling it a blizzaster and snowmagedon, but we call it SNOW DAY!!! No school, no work. Just hanging out at home in the middle of the work/school week.

I made a valiant/stupid effort to get to work today. Backing out of the driveway at 6am, I figured if I could get to the road I would be good to go. Well, I made it to the road, the unplowed road. What! Staying in the ruts of previous vehicles I tested my snow tires on my FWD Flex (they work great). I passed a stuck minivan as I made my way to a plowed street. Shew! Should I turn around? What if I try and get stuck? Okay, I made it this far. I need to get to work. I only saw a dozen vehicles on the road, half of them stuck trying to get into/out of driveways and/or unplowed sidestreets. When I saw my backroads weren't going to be passable and was on my way to the bypass, I heard about an accident and decided I'd had enough fun. I turned around and headed home. Thank you Flex for getting us safely back into the garage!

So let the fun begin! Hank tried bananas and didn't like them (what? who doesn't like bananas?) and we found his jumper (loved it!) The girls decorated picture frames and helped my make butterscotch fudge bars. I ironed some clothes that have been sitting in my laudry room mocking me for months. And I even read a few pages of my book while cuddled in my Snuggie. Matt's outside now trying to clear off the driveway. Poor guy. This is some seriously heavy snow and he's clearing it all by hand.

Yeah, Hank's first snow day!

Yuck! Bananas!

Arts & Crafts Time!

Carolyn loves to make crazy faces

Hanky Jumper!

Go Cubs!

Poor Daddy :(

Rice Cereal

During Hank's well baby visit to Doctor Hudson, I asked about feeding him cereal. The doctor said whenever we were ready. There's really no reason to wait. And it surprised me when he said, cereal, fruits, vegetables, meats, whatever. He can have anything and everything. The only thing he recommends is to wait 3 days before introducing something new and no raw honey in the first year.

So this morning he tried some rice cereal and was fairly interested, eating about a tablespoon of cereal mixed with breastmilk. Speaking of breastmilk, I have been feeling really good about breastfeeding thinking doing this for a year could be a definite possibility. That was up until I was bit three times today. Hmmm, any thoughts from my mommy friends? Did you/do you have babies who got teeth early and bit? It doesn't hurt terribly but makes me a little uneasy nonetheless.

4 Month Old Baby Boy!

Hank McGuffey Young

4 Months Old
14 lbs. 7 oz
25.5 inches long

Favorite activities:

• laughing
• drooling
• smiling

Major milestones:

• 2 bottom teeth just after the first of the year
• Rolling over from front to back (if he's delayed in this at all it's all my fault for 1. not putting him down more and 2. being afraid his sisters will trample him
• clasping hands together
• grabbing objects like his blanket and binkie

Daily Routine:

• He wakes up between 4:30 and 5:30 which is when I'm up or getting up for work
• I feed him and will put him back down to sleep if he's up earlier rather than later. Otherwise we get him and his sisters dressed and out the door by 6:15 (this is his weekday routine - weekends we definitely get him back to sleep which he does until about 7)
  
• He's been in daycare with Sandy for a full month and doing great!
• He takes 2 naps and 2 bottles for Sandy. The naps range from 45 minutes to 2 hours.
• He plays and laughs all day
• I pick him up at 4:15
• Feed him and he'll either sleep or hangout while we make dinner and eat
• I feed him once more around 8 and then he's off to dreamland!
  

Major Snow 1/8/2011

Last Saturday we awoke to a winter wonderland - well that's a matter of opinion I suppose. It was for us because we had plenty of food in the house and no where to be and luckily a neighbor with a new snowblower. Leaving work Friday, I had about 6-8 inches on my car. Waking up Saturday we had over 2 feet!

Like I mentioned, it's a good thing we had no where to go

Eleanor and her friend Thomas

Eleanor stuck in the snow

Carolyn looks like she's eating the snow
Hank stayed inside where it was warm
He's a stacking genius!

Hank's 1st Tooth (Teeth)

Teeth, yes that's right. Hank didn't mess around and get just one tooth, he got two. The bottom two teeth were spotted by Matt on Sunday. He's over a week away from being 4 months - I can't believe his teeth are already coming in!

I tried to get a picture and may have been successful. I think I see some white in the picture of him yawning.