i can't get left...

huggy is 6 weeks tomorrow. life's moving fast and yet oh so slow. last night was another up every hour fest. joy. our own personal cuckoo clock. on the plus side, taco's teething subsided and he slept through. i'm barely keeping sane on these low sleep days, buffering my days w/ at least one outing in between feedings. i'm fortunate to have friends either working from home or sahm who don't mind my interruptions. we finally figured out huggy has reflux. meds seem to be working and we're starting on chiro. dr gita had him swinging upside down yesterday. quite the spectacle but it definitely relaxed him so we'll see how it goes. the meds are an improvement but he's still fighting me on some of the night time feedings.

taco is 18 mths! his height/weight stats checked him in at the 25th percentile. no surprise there, its a projectile we expect he'll stay on. that would be the blanquera genes, sorry little man.

a friend reminded me that i should be doing something for myself every day. thanks friend. on that note, i'm going
outside. cheers.

random...

musings of a sleep deprived mom...

...huggy bear is 3 weeks now and already showing off his little personality. where taco was all sorts of laid back and chill, huggy bear is, um, spirited? he's gained a chunk of change already (~2 lbs or 1 kilo if you're feeling the metric) and idles the day away sleeping on my chest, eating up a storm and waiting for the next diaper change. he prefers minimal daytime activities ...none of this gallavanting about town i had the luxury of on my first mat leave. all this to rest up for the witching hours. that would be from 6-8 at night and 1-4 in the morning. ack. a few nights ago j1 took him on a tour from kenmore to lynnwood to downtown, all at about 3 am. ai-ah. maybe a bus ride would be more cost effective. i think the 522 runs all night. how suspicious would that look? distressed looking mom in jammies, carrying colicky babe onto bus at 3 am with no clear destination.

don't get me wrong, aside from no sleep, all is going amazingly well - we have two beautiful, healthy, (mostly) happy boys. the sleep thing has me bummed today. meow meow meow.

...still waiting on ezells to open. i have contemplated getting a part time gig there during this maternity leave. j1 is all for it as long as we get free fried chicken. in the meantime we picked up 1/2 a berkshire pig from our csa. yumm yummm. it is all that. the premium was pretty high though and we split it amongst 4 families so at the end of the day we'd do it again but keep it all for ourself. next year, we're going to have to swap out that hot tub for a deep freezer on the back porch. classy.

...from the headlines you'd think the general public had no clue the economy was going to tank. thats exactly what happened whilst i was squirreled away birthing the new babe. emerging from our bedroom cocoon, i've squandered many an hr trying to catch up on the latest events. global economics is far from my expertise. the most helpful explanation i've had so far is from npr and they'll have a followup broadcast on 10.04. the "main street" impacts of this global economic blowup continue to filter down - calif has asked for an emergency $7B to shore up their short term coffers.

so whats a young family to do? our mortgage is fixed. our retirement and college savings funds are long term so should be able to weather ups and downs in the market w/out constant meddling. do i go back to work now so we don't have to dip so far into savings to pay for this leave? stock up on ramen and hide moolah in the mattress? or just sign up the boys for archery. seems like a powerful lobby.