Happy Easter!

The Mommy Cut

I have been letting my hair get pretty long, maybe the longest it's ever been. I didn't really tell anyone but I knew after I had a baby I would probably want to cut it (so my hair wouldn't get pulled so much) and I wanted to see if I could donate to locks for love.

Before:

After:

How's this for a mommy cut?

And I was able to donate to locks for love!

One last pregnancy collage

Thanks again to Colleen who put this together!

3D vs 2D

I can't watch 3D movies- they have always made me sick. I also can't handle 3D video games, and both of those kind of stink. I can't play a lot of the games that are out and I'm not really crazy about this whole 3D tv thing.

I actually have physically thrown up from trying to play Wolfenstein 3D (years ago, when I first figured out I can't handle the 3D). It took me awhile to associate feeling sick with the game and I can't believe of all things that that game makes me sick.

When Avatar came out in the theater, we went to see it with some friends and about ten minutes or so in I remembered that I can't handle 3D but left the glasses on anyways. About an hour into the movie I headed to the bathroom. I was watching the movie after that with one eye closed until Dave said, "why don't you take off the glasses?"  Duh!!! So it was an interesting way to watch the movie and was so much better when I saw it on Blu Ray on a regular tv.

Think Geek is a web site that has some (in my opinion) cool stuff. One thing I ran across was 2D glasses. I haven't used them yet to see if they work but the concept is that you can wear them and see the screen in 2D without the fuzziness of the picture. It filters the 3D image back to 2D.

Don't they look amazing? Haha.

I will say, one perk to not being able to handle 3D (so far) is that we go to the 2D showing- it's less crowded and less expensive. I'll still opt for the 2D showing unless we're with friends or something and I'm assuming these would also work with a 3D tv (unless it's fine to watch 3D on the tv without glasses- I haven't tried yet).

Pregnancy Pictures - one month

I meant to do this earlier but um yeah we've been a little bit preoccupied.

This is a picture of me with a lot less of a belly and the baby in my arms.

1 month post partum

Trying to pose the same way I did in the pregnancy pictures

39 weeks 2 days, my last pregnancy picture (had Neil at 39 weeks 5 days)

1 month!

So I've actually written a post here or there but not added pictures so I haven't posted them. I probably won't at this point but I'll try to capture what I can in there.

Neil loves sitting like this on us. This is how he sleeps a lot.

Neil is now one month old! Since February is a short month we just took his one month pictures on the last day although he was born on January 29th. His first doctor visit was on March 1st and he is very long (in the 95th percentile) but still light on weight (25th percentile). He gained a whole pound in a week though- the Thursday before (8 days earlier) he weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and at his one month appointment he weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces. They are supposed to gain about an ounce a day so I guess he's been having a a growth spurt!

Our family!

Neil definitely likes to be held and cuddled. Sleep has been the worst part- not only am I up feeding him every few hours but he wants to be held and won't really go down in the crib, rock 'n play, or bassinet. Sometimes during the day we can put him down and it's ok but at night for some reason he screams. We've tried Happiest Baby on the Block (swaddling, shushing, swinging, etc.) but it just doesn't work. He's a stubborn little guy. Dave is awesome though and still helps me tag team so I can get some sleep.

Nursing is going a lot better. It turns out that Neil was tongue tied. Basically the little skin between the bottom of his tongue and the bottom of his mouth was too far out and he couldn't stick his tongue out of his mouth. We had them clip it (I was so nervous about that but it wasn't bad for him at all) and it was like night and day. He now latches on super easily although I've been really sore from the bad latches and the constant attempts to latch and not latching on. He's getting enough food though, for sure!

"Mommy, I want to be held!"

Neil sleeps a lot but his alert times are getting better, and he seems to like his activity frame even though he still doesn't control his hands/legs. His legs can hit a little keyboard that plays a song and he definitely looks at the toys hanging off of it. He seems to have pretty good head control, too, although I can only tell when he's sitting on me. If I put him on his stomach on the floor he start to cry and doesn't seem to like that. I keep trying anyways, just to get him used to it, every once in awhile.

How Neil likes to sleep when he isn't being held

I am doing well- I'm about 6 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight and my "big" pants from before pregnancy are hanging off me now. I still have a slight stomach but I think once I start exercising I'll be able to get that down, too, and even there I can't really complain. Right after Neil's birth everything there was just so loose I couldn't even suck it in- my muscles were a mess. The first day I could actually use muscles to suck in my stomach I lifted my shirt excitedly to show Dave. And since then I've been seeing my stomach slowly shrink.

My sister Megan, Neil, and Dave