My blog is moved!

My blog is moving, Neil has very graciously given me a new site and MY OWN DOT COM!!! Yeah!

Please visit me at www.oceancupcake.com!

I am still working bugs out and changing the way it looks.

5 months and 1+ week

Gus grows with each week... this past week he learned a few new tricks which just adds to his adorability factor 10 fold... maybe 20 fold.

He grabs his toes and thinks they are the greatest thing
and he also goes "brrrrrfsffffsss" when he purses his lips and blows
(especially when there is a nice spoon of rice cereal there-
which makes it especially fun!~)

Motherhood continues to amaze me! He is just such a blessing, I don't know why we waited so long to have kids! For those parents of teens and young adults out there, don't forget to encourage your younger ones to procreate! I focused too long on "I want to go to college" and "I want to start a life" and "I want to be so independent" and "my career comes first"... I had put aside the marriage and have kids ideas for too long. I was so selfish! But on the other hand, don't make too many - we do have an overpopulation issue! One per adult!

Neil and I believe that couple should only have two kids.. just enough to replace them. I agree! Babies are wonderful and all, as are big families, but I just don't see the point if overpopulation will destroy the earth we live on, and that they inherit.

Gus is such a happy baby, but he had a few random crying bouts yesterday that were a bit off. We think he might start teething soon, or maybe he just was full of poo... which he did let go finally during some some encouraging tummy time.

Enjoy the pics! We took Gus swimming last week, he loved it! Just playing in the water (warm water - therapy pool at the Severna SPY). I actually even wore a bikini... umm... never again... or at least for a while.. my jiggle is still ewwww...

As for little nekked man... sooo cute... can't help but take a few cuties!

Ok more to come soon!

Rice mush.

Rice Cereal. How exciting, we got the go ahead on our 4 month doctors appt and now we are getting used to the idea. Gus is taking his mush in pretty well all in all. He actually opens his mouth and the thicker I have made it still is working out well for him. He is so funny though and the last two nights (without Neil's help) it's been very very messy!!! UGH!!

Ebay Junkie. Have you ever used Ebay like a garage sale? It's my new hobby to get rid of stuff... as in selling stuff we don't need any more and getting mooola back! It's a sweet deal! (money goes right into my paypal account).

Mommy Sanity. Went for a stroll with Christalene and the babies the other day and it was wonderful. The weather was glorious!! We picked up lunch at respective restaurants (we wanted different lunch stuffs) and went to the "city dock" to eat (just by ego ally in Annapolis proper). We enjoyed our meals, we fed the boys (tried to be discrete but well.. boobs on the dock works too). And then we had to have desert, but not one, I had three... Christalene had two. I had cookies with my sandwich (from Atwaters), I had a crepe from the little crepe joint (banana royale), and it was soo good... I dropped it twice on the dirty dirty road way and still ate it. The butterscotch (which was home made) was so gooey and so tasty, and so all over the place! It was too good! Then later we walked from Christalene's house to Ritas which just opened for the season! Soooo good! Walk up and got my junior cup of custard... with sprinkles!!! YUM!!!

Ok more later, I have so much to chat up about but ugh.

Day care said that Gus held his bottle on his own terms today! First for everything!

boobs@work.com

(we have this ad on our wall in the "mommy room")

My hair is falling out

My boobs are floppy, I could hold many markers
(before I could barely hold a pencil)

There is a crease under my cheeks
(and not the ones on my face)

I have to specially dry that crease after the shower

Every 2 hrs (at work) I wrangle plastic tubes, bottles, and go topless!

Estrogen dumping makes me moodier

Jeans still don't fit, I hate my uniform

So there we were talking about how our bodies take on such great changes in shape, chemistry and even allergies. As if it's not bad enough we can't be with our little angels all day long we have to revel in all the changes he or she brought us in a little closet of a room with our machines (brrmmm brrmmmm suck brmmm brrmmm suck as they go).

Laughing after she told me this, but one of the gals I pump with, she had a new allergy start up last week. She gets hives. And today she didn't come in to work earlier because she claimed she had "marge simpson" lips. Poor thing, she has a new allergy that she can't figure out. I told her to tell everyone she got botox. Then I imagined the scene and laughed the rest of the day, bless her heart.

As for clothing, at least all the civilian moms get to wear comfy clothes, in order to pump at work, I have to assemble parts, connect tubes, prepare some paper towels for the milk that drips everywhere, unzip my jacket (because I refuse to let people see me without it - too fatty fat), unbutton my blouse without my ribbons ripping skin off my hands and arms, pull up my undershirt, hope my belt buckle doesn't fall off (because they are not made well) and cross fingers to not get milk on anything while holding these two suction cups to my bare breasts, and I still get milk on my shirt and pants. Just when you get comfy someone else walks in (another mom) and I always feel a slight awkwardness and the need to turn a little away because the room is super small and you feel like you are in each others laps where you might as well be comparing nipple color. Sigh.. funny stuff. The things we do. I love my little Gustave.

Speaking of, he got 4 shots today. Saw a couple tears (we never see him shed a tear). He is about 4 and a half months old. He weights just at 20 lbs, he is 27.5 inches long and his head circumfrence is 16.5 inches. Doc said something like 98 percentile for his height and weight so I guess that is good good.