6 Weeks!!

I really don't have much to talk about but I will do a quick post to let everyone know what my little man is up to!!  Notice I said little man cause he is getting so big he just doesn't even seem like a baby to me anymore :(  Dr. Dimmick didn't make us come back for a 1month check up so that means we haven't been weighed again and I have been curious how much he has gained cause you can definetely tell he's put on some weight.  So the other day at mom's I weighed myself (which by the way I was very happy with being I had just had a baby 5 1/2 weeks ago at the time) and then I weighed holding him and well it showed he weighed 12lbs!!!  That is one big boy!!  I really think that he just ran out of room in me cause he has been growing like crazy.  He is still eating 4-5oz of formula every 3 hours.  I make him 5 everytime and sometimes he eats and sometimes he doesn't.  For some reason the past week he has been fighting me a little finishing a bottle.  He will shake his head and stretch his body out just trying to get the bottle out of his mouth and then he seals his lips shut and I will wait a minute or two and he will act like he is starving again and take it.  He is still a little bit of a cryer but he is getting over that some.  Still not sleeping 100% through the night but he usually only wakes up twice for a bottle and I feed him and swaddle him and he is back to sleep so it's not to bad.  And know to the best part of it all....he started smiling!!!  He gave me his first gummy smile last Wednesday and I was just the happiest mommy ever.  Right after that I called Bert in and he started talking to him and there was that smile again!!  He usually will only give us a smile in the mornings and every know and then in the evenings.  This morning while Daddy was feeding him and came in and started talking to him and bottle in his mouth and all he just started smiling and couldn't stop!!  He is so sweet!!!

Know to the worst part of my week!!  I started work Monday :(  The beginning of last week I had come in to do payroll and stuff and my boss had asked when I planned on coming back cause my higher up boss was asking.  I originally was going to try and stay with my baby until 8 weeks which would have been the beginning of September but after he had said that I figured I should come back.  So August the 8th I called Dory and told her she would be starting her job sooner since she will be keeping Brody for us.  Well that didn't work out as planned.  August the 6th we had Coopers 1st B-Day party and all it was was just family.  Well Dory got a call the following Monday from Brent's sister and her youngest daughter had hand, foot, & mouth disease and for Dory to keep an eye on the kids since we were all just there Saturday.  As of Tuesday everyone was ok and mom and Dory were planning on taking the kids to Splashway and I was gonna keep Cooper and Brody (they wanted to go before I went back to work).  Wednesday morning Dory called to say hold off on coming to town Cooper's not feeling good.  By Wednesday afternoon she was taking both of her boys to the Dr. and sure enough all 3 of her kids had it.  We were at the party to so I was worried about my baby getting it.  She told the Dr. we were there he said Brody should still have some of my immunities in him and should be fine but to keep an eye on him and bring him in if I notice anything and he also said that she could not keep him that this stuff needed to run it's course since there's not treatment for it.  Thank goodness my baby didn't get it but I still needed to figure out what I was gonna do with him.  Mom and Dad had finally gotten to go to the bay and weren't coming home until Monday evening and then mom had a Dr.'s appt Tuesday morning.  So since my bosses were ok with Brody coming to work that's what we did.  I guess my son doesn't like the work environment cause he was not a very happy baby Monday and I pushed it and made it at work until about 2.  Tuesday he was coming back with me until mom got out of her appt.  well that lasted longer than we thought so I had him until about 11:15 which wasn't bad but he still wasn't too happy.  Then Wednesday came...my 1st whole day without him and I hated it.  Even though I took a longer lunch and spent it with him I barely made it to 3:45 before I left to pick him up.  I don't know how today is going to go but hopefully better than yesterday.