Archive for March, 2010

Stay at Home Mom never sounded better

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
I'm a little excited that Aiden is spending some time being awake after some of his nursings. It lets me carry on a conversation with him for maybe about 5 minutes before he dozes off again. He's still a chronic sleeper and that's okay, because there's not much to see or do when the weather is crappy like it is right now.
So when I'm not sneaking a nap while Aiden is sleeping, I am really enjoying daytime tv as a stay at home mom. Now wait!! I know you already just judged me by assuming I just admitted I enjoy daytime soaps and Judge Joe Brown and  The Rachel Ray Show. No!!!! It's better than that! There's marathons of CSI: NY, America's Next Top Model, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and reruns of last week's episode of Kell on Earth and Real Housewives of New York. I just spent the weekend nursing and watching 30 Rock Season 3 on Netflix. Having a baby gives me a reason to sit and watch all the tv I want. Not that I needed a reason before…

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Happy 1 month Aiden!

Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Happy Little Family
Happy Little Family

I bet you didn't know Aiden's dad is a zombie. When I first saw him eating someone's brain I thought to myself, I must have him.
Aiden's really growing into a really cute little guy. When his face scrunches up when he cries I find it so cute.  Everything he does makes me laugh. I can literally sit and stare at him for a long period time and think, you're so beautiful and you're all mine.

I can't wait until the weather gets warm. I'm excited to do all the things that moms and daddies and babies do. I want to bring Aiden to the walking park with my friend and her little girl. I want to bring him to the farmer's market and buy locally grown food. I want to have a picnic on a blanket in the park. I want to bring him to summer music festivals in the city and dance and dance and dance with my favorite boys in the world.
Sometimes I wonder, do I deserve all this happiness? Everything is surreal.
I love you.

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Taking a break from my obsession with the Olsen twins

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
sexy hair
sexy hair

I'm now obsessed with Leigh Lezark.

She's a DJ (of The Misshapes), model, and all around fashionably wonderful.
And I love her hair. LOVE. I think it's my favorite hairstyle for the shoulder length. Everytime I grow out my hair and run out of ways to style my hair, I cut it off and start short all over again. I think I've reached that point after a year. I colored my hair and it's nice and different but what I really wanna do is cut my hair. I do. I made an appointment with a friend's mom to cut my hair. I'm counting on her to give me the best haircut of 2010.
So maybe I can't make the hairstyle all sexy like Leigh can, but I'm gonna try.

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If only he could talk

Monday, March 15th, 2010

When Aiden was a couple days old and cried it sounded like he was saying, "And then" over and over. And then, and then, and then, and then, and then… like he was telling me a really great story but he was too excited he was losing his breath trying to finish up the story.

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All the single ladies put your hands up!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Oh wait, I can't put my hands up. I have a boyfriend.

It's been a week since Aiden has come home and I am still trying to get used to not sleeping when I want to. I think Aiden has day and night confused because he stays awake more often at night than during the day. So picture me at 2 in the morning laying half asleep at the edge of my bed, with one arm reaching into his bassinet trying to drop hints that he should sleep instead of play the "this is me in a nutshell!" game. Except he doesn't get the picture because all the energy he accumulated during his daytime naps has exploded into one chunk of time where he wants to do anything but sleep. Do you know how annoying that is?
So I feel like I'm playing a game with his internal clock right now. I'm trying to keep him awake through at least 2 daytime naps so he can associate the daytime with awake time then move those nap times to nighttime so he (and mommy) can sleep between 3 nursings and then we'll be happy campers in the morning. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Other than that, he's doing great. He's nursing at least 8 times a day, he's gaining weight, and still producing insanely orange-colored poopy diapers. He just hit 6 pounds but i'm still afraid to take him out of the house because he still looks so small and fragile and I don't want strangers trying to touch him with their possibly bacteria-infected hands. I am not afraid to throw a travel-size bottle of Purell at you and tell you to sanitize your dirty self before you hold my baby…
His daddy comes home tomorrow! We're all excited!!

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Add booger to my baby's list of nicknames

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Aiden was born so small in size that all the nurses called him "peanut" for the majority of his stay in the hospital.

Now I think we can also start calling him "booger" because he is one, literally. At his pediatrician's appointment this morning his pediatrician sprayed saline up is nostrils and sucked out boogers with a nasal aspirator. At one point he sneezed and a big huge green booger flew out. It made me grunt and my face contort as if I just saw Joe Theismann get his leg broken in half.
So Aiden gets his good looks from his dad but he gets his tendency for nasty boogers from his mom.

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Judging books by their covers

Sunday, March 7th, 2010
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
I Was Told There’d Be Cake
Sloane Crosley

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith

I know you're not supposed to base the chances you'll read a book just by reading its title, but I do it all the time when I walk into Borders. It's the first thing I do when browsing the books at the front of the store under the "Buy 3 get the 3rd half price" deal or something like that. You can't blame me when some of the titles are catchy as hell like these. I'm pretty sure I'll be hitting up Amazon for used copies of these really soon.

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Home Sweet Home

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Me and Aiden are finally home. After four days of no breathing spells, the doctor has given us permission to go home without worry. As much as I grew impatient with every day Aiden had to stay in the NICU, I would've wanted him to stay there under the care of doctors and nurses who knew what they were doing.

Plus I figured it would be an opportunity for me to practice breastfeeding as long as they let me stay with him. I bet all his nurses thought I was crazy, offering to nurse him through the night. While the parents of the other babies left for home at night, I stayed and nursed every 3 hours everyday for the last week. Strangely enough I didn't feel as tired as the first night back home.
One more week until Aiden and his father can meet face to face. I can't wait, it's gonna be great.

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Jaundice or asian?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Aiden has been staying in the NICU since last thursday after a failed car seat test because they discovered an apnea and jaundice problem. He's slowly improving and I have no doubt he'll be healthy enough to go home soon. Meanwhile his mom is a nervous wreck and has been staying by his side making sure he's staying happy while he's in the hospital.

Every doctor and nurse who has taken care of my baby has been excellent and very hospitable to us. They even let me stay overnight in one of their overnight family rooms. There was one night when they put me in a room in the old maternity wing that looked like a scene straight out of Saw. I was so spooked walking down that long hallway and staying in a room that looked like it wasn't touched since 1954 I hardly slept that night. Let me tell you! I didn't even turn off the lights for fear that a ghost might appear and scare me enough to jump out of a 4th floor window.

I'm not obligated to stay the night, but I'm slightly paranoid in thinking that something horrible will happen to Aiden if I leave him for longer than two hours between feedings. With that said, I've had a lot of free time on my hands. I'm watching all the movies downloaded on my laptop and realized that I've watched quite a bit of Jason Schwartzman this past weekend. I saw Funny People, The Darjeeling Limited, and I Heart Huckabees. I don't say this a lot about actors who are also musicians, composers, writers, whathaveyou at the same time, but Jason is really good at all of those.

Hopefully Aiden gets to come home sometime this week. The remaining days between now and the 13th will be the hardest while me and Aiden wait for his father to come home so the two of them can finally meet. I can't wait, it'll be the greatest thing ever when the three of us can start being a happy little family.

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