Smoothie

Jonathan likes to make "milk shakes" now. Really they are just fruit smoothies. I made him one, well myself one, and he liked it. Today I was in the freezer to get something and he said mommy can we make a milk shake. I of course thought he meant an ice cream shake but he said no mommy I show you. He proceeded to get out the frozen fruit and then go and point to the vitamix. Thanks to Emily, we have a new recipe that calls for kale from our garden too. Very tasty and healthy!

Going Away Party

Jonathan had a going away party today at Mimi's. So sad!! I think we all will be missing each other. Jonathan picked out spider man cupcakes for his party and kept saying it was his birthday party. Era brought face paint and painted Alex and Evan as witches but Jonathan wanted no part of the face paint. The kid does not like to get dirty. Alex and Evan looked very cute!

Pretend House

Jonathan is very busy telling stories these days. He has this whole "own pretend house" with his pretend family, cars, etc. He likes to talk about it and tell you what is going on at his pretend house. Today while I was feeding Diana, which took about 30 minutes, Jonathan talked to me the entire time about his pretend house. I think he was quiet for maybe 10 seconds during this time. Quite a story teller.

Diana 6 Week Checkup

Diana had her "1 month" checkup appointment today but she is 6 weeks old (the appt got all messed up because of her 2 week weight checks). The doctor said she is doing well and was pleased with her weight gain, especially since I am nursing almost exclusively now. Diana gets 1-2 bottles a day, 1 to ensure she gets her vitamin and another one if she seems tired or gets hungry shortly after I nurse her. She is doing really well with eating. She weighed 8 pounds 6 oz today. We are all very proud of her! She is in the 10th percentile for weight if you don't adjust her age for being early and 50th percentile if you do adjust her age. Diana had to get her second hepatitis B shot and was none too thrilled. Jonathan came with and when Diana started screaming, he covered his ears with his hands. It was funny.

Oh to be a kid again

Jonathan had a great time at the park today. We played on the swingset for awhile and pretended we were driving a firetruck and putting out fires. I think this was inspired by our waiter at breakfast asking Jonathan what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said a fireman. Daddy and I love this picture of Jonathan swinging. Yes, he was pretending to be buzz lightyear and was saying "to infinity and beyond"

Diana Shotgun Shell

While Daddy was on his work trip, he got to go clay pigeon shooting and look what brand shells he used. This was his facebook status with this picture: "When young men show up looking for Diana they sure better be polite or I just might make an introduction. Tell your boys, especially you Bajorek." Oh boy, Daddy is protective of his little girl already.

House Still Standing

Daddy was gone for three days and the house is still standing and Mommy still has all of her hair, she thinks. Jonathan is still at Mary's so that was a HUGE help. We had a busy few days and for the most part things went pretty goody with a few exceptions. Wed on the way home from Mary's, Jonathan fell and scraped his elbow and gashed his hand, good thing GB was already here and was taking care of Diana. This set Jonathan off to be real whiny all night as he kept bumping his hand or putting hand sanitizer on it, which burned. GB and I decided to do a photo shoot of Diana after JT went to bed. I must say we got some good pictures. Thurs I had my 6 week postpartum appointment and all is good. I have been released to normal activities and Dr. Marcotte reiterated how well everything went during surgery. After my dr appt, I went up to SCOB to see my nurse friends and it was weird, very very quiet. They only had 8 patients and only 3 nurses working. The good news was that Holly got to go to lunch with Diana and me. So fun! Diana was very snug in her pumpkin seat and slept for 4 hours. Thurs night we went and had dinner at the Bajorek's as Tim was at softball. Afterwards we went next door to the Calcitrai's where they had the neighborhood crew over to play on Tessa's new swingset. It was a lot of fun, ice cream cones and all. Night time was a bit of a disaster. JT was overly tired, Diana woke up to eat, lots of crying in the house. Then at 3 am Jonathan starts screaming, I had just gotten back into bed maybe 10 minutes earlier from feeding Diana. He had a bad dream apparently. I got him back to bed, so I thought, and 10 minutes later he was crying again. He asked if he could sleep in my bed, 10 minutes earlier I said no, but I needed some sleep so I caved. Jonathan did not want to go back to bed and didn't understand that it was 3 am and that he needed to be quiet, lay down and go back to bed. Finally I had him quiet at least in my bed and Diana starts crying to eat again (I am trying to nurse Diana full time now so she eats about every 2 hours as she often gets tired and falls asleep before she is really done eating). So 4 am, we all were in Diana's room, not really my idea of fun. We finally all got back to sleep around 5 am and slept until 7:30. We will be happy when Daddy gets home in a few hours.