Baby's First Christmas

Well, we ventured out of the house again as a family. We couldn't miss the opportunity to have Chase's first Christmas picture with Santa Claus! And I'm totally game for any opportunity I have to get out of the house!! It was nice because this Santa looked super authentic and was super jolly (I think he was the real Santa! Lol) AND he was so sweet to our little elf. Unfortunately, being an infant and probably still sleeping during the day, sleeping beauty slept the entire time. He made his usual groans and grunts when I took him from the stroller and didn't open his eyes one bit as I placed him in a large white bearded strangers arms. I'm sure he would have been in shock if he had cared to wake up snd see who was holding him but that was not the case. As the girl was snapping away, she turned to Cory and I to see if we wanted to be in the picture. Now, as you will see, the picture speaks for itself. In a moment of hesitation we decided we would, even though being new parents, we left the house looking exactly like that, "new" parents. I like to define us as "delirious but still sane" because it never fails, I always forget to do something, this time it was making sure we looked presentable. I barely did my hair, Cory didn't do his and neither one of us were dressed appropriately. You could totally tell the difference between the parents of toddlers 3+ years and those of infants. The experienced parents were all dressed up in slacks and dresses and their children were nicely polished and dressed as fancy as they could get them. New parents were dressed as if they had 20 minutes to throw on clothes with circles under their eyes (you gotta get dresses as fast as you can, dress the baby, feed the baby, change a diaper, feed him some more, change another diaper, feed him some more, get him in his carseat, pack his bag with ready formula etc - in short, it's no minimal task). All in all, i am glad we did it though because it will be a great memory for all of us!

Sleep Deprived!

Well, it's 2 am and my little guy (I should say big guy bc he's growing so fast and is a big baby) is up for another feeding. He eats literally every 2-3 hours like clockwork! I keep hearing from people that by now their babies were sleeping 4-6 hours at night, not my guy, he's still up to eat! Now normally people who tell me their kids are sleeping longer by now are parents of girls-I still am weary as to why my baby refuses to sleep that long- does he know I am desperate for sleep and already knows how to manipulate mommy and has me wrapped around his little finger? If so, I'm screwed already!!

So, as in every night within every couple of hours, the monitor wakes me up (I should say wakes Cory up and he wakes me up-- I've gone so many nights without sleep that it's hard to wake up once I do get any) and I go get the baby a bottle ready (I'm breastfeeding twice a day but formula feeding at night so he fills up bc who knows how long he'd sleep if I only breastfed- maybe an hour and half lol - it's not hard to get ready bc I have everything set up so I can take as little time as possible preparing his bottle while he cries). So I wake up, ready his bottle and normally change his diaper. Now being a boy, there is always a chance of getting sprayed with pee, and believe me, there isn't a person or wall or anything within a ten inch distance that he hasn't gotten!! But tonight, he topped everything! I was changing him as fast as I could trying to not risk me getting wet and for the second I was grabbing a diaper- he was already at it. I've gotten pretty used to this but I looked down and saw a perturbed look on my baby's face and noticed he had somehow, with his little hose, sprayed himself in the eye, nose, and mouth and even he couldn't believe he'd done that!! I quickly cleaned him off but couldn not help but giggle a little bc everyday it's something new and something I never thought would happen. Between sleep deprivation, my back still aching still after pregnancy since my uterus is still shrinking (no one tells you this has to happen) and every 2-3 hour feedings--anything to make me laugh is worth every minute, but I'm not going to lie--- I can't wait for him to sleep a little longer so I can too- hopefully that night is right around the corner! My only advice to people without kids is, GET ALL THE SLEEP YOU CAN because those days are long behind you once you have your little bundle of joy :)