WOW. it's 4wks and a few days and here we are. Little boy blue is up to 7# 13oz (from birth weight of 6#6oz) and has grown to 21.25inches from 19.5. His brains/skull have grown as well (hee hee) by a whole cm. (slow down virginia! :) guess all those "cluster feeds" in addition to the 2.5-3h feedings are going well...
(this pic from 3 wks old)
Granmamaj finally had to go home after a fabulous month of amazing help and sanity-saving and love and midnite rocks and and and and and... guess granpapaj was tired of bach'in it! ah well, i guess "reality" had to set in sooner or later and set in it did. day 
one without granmamas help was rough in patches, but at least was sunny (yes, don't fall off your chairs, we do get sun occasionally, tho not enough to make me not pine for denver/colorado). i'd like to set up a commune of all my friennies some sweet little nook in colo--wouldn't that be just loverlie??
one without granmamas help was rough in patches, but at least was sunny (yes, don't fall off your chairs, we do get sun occasionally, tho not enough to make me not pine for denver/colorado). i'd like to set up a commune of all my friennies some sweet little nook in colo--wouldn't that be just loverlie?? just have to say, my mom ROCKS! i could say so much more, but will just leave it at that. super HUGE thanks to dad for sharing for so long!
(this pic: twas the nite before granmamaj headed for home)
and so... it's bob stroller + hb the pooch + me hikin our brains out on all the hills i can possibly go up and down through our burb + some flatter sections thrown in there on a day or two for RnR... babyj loves it and conks out soundly unless i'm too late (based on the empty tummy tank) getting back home to the "throne"--no not that throne, the ultrapadded rockin' chair we have for behbeh feed sessions. i'm still not running but starting to slowly jog across streets occasionally... i think 80 L/R steps are as far as i've gone... and holey moly how slow it is! ultimate fris is still a week or two away... and that will likely be a continuation of my speed and prowess demo'd in weeks 37-40. i'm doing some light abs/core and some scar massage to see if i can make some headway that way as well... and starting to stretch through the midsection and hips more... will be interesting. 
i've got my brand new shine-y running kicks just waiting to be inaugurated for the first post-baby run... slick! can't wait to get some dirt on 'em! hopin' they make me SUPERFAST!
(this pic from 4 wks old and 2 days)
here's to coming out of the fog... out of the 6 wk slump (c'mon girlfriends, that's what you told me to expect, 6 weeks, and i don't want a moment more!).... and onto some larger chunks of sleep... or maybe just more chunks of sleep? who knows! but whoever said "just sleep when the baby sleeps and you'll be fine" maybe didn't have kids! or maybe they were catnappers... which i am not... i can definitely say, however, NO WONDER i can't remember a lot of things about college, especially PT school... cuz i survived on 4-5hrs of sleep most nites and THAT does not promote good cognitive function! all my cogs went right to PT stuff and to nothing else, evidently! anyway... laissez le bon temps roulez! or however that goes!
here's to coming out of the fog... out of the 6 wk slump (c'mon girlfriends, that's what you told me to expect, 6 weeks, and i don't want a moment more!).... and onto some larger chunks of sleep... or maybe just more chunks of sleep? who knows! but whoever said "just sleep when the baby sleeps and you'll be fine" maybe didn't have kids! or maybe they were catnappers... which i am not... i can definitely say, however, NO WONDER i can't remember a lot of things about college, especially PT school... cuz i survived on 4-5hrs of sleep most nites and THAT does not promote good cognitive function! all my cogs went right to PT stuff and to nothing else, evidently! anyway... laissez le bon temps roulez! or however that goes!
(starting to use his hands occasionally, by accident, perhaps--4wks pic)
cheerio for now...
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