Roadtrip

Hayden is definitely a morning person, which is the complete opposite of Chris and I! He is all smiles when he wakes up and instantly puts you in a good mood, even when it is 4 in the morning. I was really excited and thought we had reached a milestone on Friday night when Hayden slept 6 hours. That is until the next night when he decided to remind me that he is in control and woke up every 2 hours.

Chris has been working down in Ft. Greely these past few weeks. It is a bummer, and we miss him desperately (okay to be honest I miss being able to hand Hayden off to him and have a few minutes to myself). It has been a little frustrating at night because Hayden gets really cranky and then cries, which triggers Tucker to get all excited and drop all of his toys in my face. But we only have a few more weeks of it. I give single moms (especially Sally Brown, who's husband is currently Iraq and didn't really have a choice of being alone) all the credit in the world, I could not do it.

Well we decided we needed to get out of the house and go for a little roadtrip to visit Chris. I was a little nervous because Hayden hates his carseat and screams for the majority of the time he is in it. So my mom watched him for a little bit while I got everything ready to go and she kept him up all afternoon. He instantly fell asleep in his seat and slept the entire way down. Chris and I played with Hayden all night, he stayed awake for a good 3 hours, and then we hopped back in the car and made the hour and a half journey back home...tear free!

Chris gets to come home on the weekends, and this is what our bed looks like on Sunday mornings. Hayden likes to lay in his arms, which then means that Tucker has to lay in Chris's arms. As you can tell the dog and the kid are daddy's boys, and I am the picture taker and buffet!!

Time Flies

Wow, I can't believe that Hayden is already a month old. Time has flown by and my days of pregnancy and even labor are a big blur. Hayden and I stay busy working from home, taking care of the house, walking the dog, and most importantly playing together. Then, when dad comes home, I actually get a few moments to do time consuming chores like make dinner and fold laundry. Who wants to do that boring stuff when you have big beautiful blue eyes staring up at you all day long!!! Hayden is such a daddy's boy and Chris has a magic touch...it is priceless. If he starts crying you just give him to dad and he instantly calms down!

He is starting to form quite the personality, and cracks me up every day. It is amazing how much they change from day to day. I love the picture above, it is Hayden kicking it on the coach...legs crossed and his head propped up on his arm!!

He finally got to take his first bath...a long awaited event because his belly button didn't want to fall off. 18 days after birth when we were at his weigh-in appointment the doctor finally decided to use silver nitrate to get rid of his stub! It seems as though I am seeing a pattern of Hayden continuing to do things on "Bunch Time"!!!

His bath started out great, and then it turned ugly very quickly. He wasn't to happy with Chris pouring the water over him and scrubbing him down. He gave me the most pathetic little faces, it just breaks your heart doesn't it!

Then he got over giving the sad faces and just started screaming bloody murder. Even after his bath he gave you little whimpers to remind you how miserable it was! Little attitude at such a little age :)

He's getting big, and weighed in at 10lbs 11oz at his 1 month appointment this week. So apparently his medicine is working and he is digesting my milk just fine. Although we couldn't get away without something going wrong...they found that he has a yeast infection, so on top of his squirts of medicine 2 times a day, I now have to give him more medicine 4 times a day. Oh well, it is fruit flavored so he eats it up and licks his lips afterwards! I don't know if you can tell, but I was trying to capture the smoke in the background. It has been horrible and there is an advisory to keep old people and children in doors. You can barely see a mile in front of you. It stinks because we can't enjoy our final days of summer. Hopefully it will clear up soon. We were supposed to make a road trip down to Delta tonight to see Chris, he has been working at Ft. Greely, but we will have to post-pone it until the weather gets better. Until then, he is coming home to visit us!