My baby is GROWING on me..

I have been having a hard time laying my baby down in his crib and getting him to fall asleep in it.. I figured HEY maybe I should invest in a mobile for the crib, something to hold his attention while he drifts off. So I browse around Target.com looking for a cheaper mobile and found one I really liked. I have found things on Amazon.com for cheaper so I thought I'd head over there and look. I also needed to get some breastmilk/babyfood storage trays that freeze things in one ounce cubes. I found both of them on amazon, one was a bit more expensive but if I used the Super Saver Shipping (5-9 days) I would save six dollars. I am all about saving money so I put the order in and forgot about it a couple days later.

Two weeks later I happened to think "hey, where the heck is my amazon order?" I hopped online to check on it and it hadn't even shipped yet! They had pushed my shipping date back to anywhere from "January 29th to February 8th". Are you kidding me? For six dollars?? I didn't order something frivolous, I needed them when I ordered them! So I cancel my order and go back to Target.com. I ordered them and got them by UPS today. Amazon wouldn't have even shipped them for another month! >.< Stupid "super saver shipping".. that's the last time I'll click that option!

Anyways so I get the mobile today and put it together.. the instructions were really confusing but I eventually got it put together correctly (I think..) and put on the crib. I am not happy with how 'securely' it is attached to the crib so I am going to reinforce it with some string when my hubby gets home and can watch the baby.

By the way.. the baby has been SOOOOO *clingy* today! He does this about every other day and it's rough.. he cries and cries when I put him down even though there is nothing wrong with him. He just wants attention! Mitch says I need to just put him down and let him cry but he will literally cry until I pick him back up! I set him down for almost 15 minutes in his crib today (keeping an eye on him of course) and he just wouldn't stop. I figured all he wanted was attention cause when I bent over his rocking chair to see if anything was wrong, he stopped and stared at my hair! Every time I would move his eyes would follow my hair that had fallen over my shoulder. Just now my niece and nephew came into my room cause he was crying and as soon as they started playing with him he stopped. *sigh*

Sooooo... all that to explain the "growing up on me" title of my blog. I put baby boy in the crib to see how he reacted to the mobile after I got it all set up. I clicked it on and it took a second for him to look up at it but the music drew his attention. There are four little dangling things on it and one of them is darker than the rest, its a dark turquoise horse.. He spotted that and watched it go around and around, his head moved to follow it! I cried a little bit..

He's also been smiling and grinning and cooing a LOT more lately! It started about the middle of last week, one morning he woke up and as I put him on the changing table to change him he gave me this HUGE grin! I've noticed he grins a lot right after he wakes up in the morning and after his longer afternoon nap (IF he takes the afternoon nap).

I've also noticed today that it's officially time to move up to the next diaper size.. Twice today he has leaked up his backside. The first time I noticed it was when I grabbed him to feed him this morning around 6:30am. His diaper was FULL, I've not seen one that full before! I changed his diaper and his clothes, fed him and put him back in the crib to sleep a couple more hours.. when we woke up a few hours later it was full and leaking again. I have heard from several different people that when that happens it's usually time for the next diaper - especially cause his wee-wee was pointed down and it was the backside that leaked.

He's getting so big already... in THREE DAYS he will be two months old!! I can't believe it. It feels like it's been forever and only yesterday all at the same time.

I love my little family.