Adventures

It's been a busy couple of days. As a new mom I always feel good about my little "accomplishments" throughout the week. It feels good to look back and realize I didn't just sit on the couch all week and watch the Food Network. Yesterday we went a'visiting to a friend's house for lunch. Seth was pretty well behaved, although he refused to nap for longer than 5 minutes and managed to dirty 3 diapers one right after another. After that we went to Wal*Mart, yuck. But I was dangerously low on diapers and I wasn't sure if my latest shipment would arrive in time. Running out of diapers is not an option. THEN, we went to Spokane vital records to pick up a couple certified copies of Seth's birth certificate. He was getting hungry so I fed him in the backseat of the car before we went in. Thank goodness for tinted windows. That went pretty well. Finally we went to Costco to get our mug shots for the passport application. The whole process was hilarious. At first the girl asked me to hold Seth over my head. What?? He was a little sleepy at that point and still doesn't quite hold his head up, at least not very steady. So that wasn't working at all. Finally we laid him down on the counter and the girl stood up on a chair to take the picture and they turned out great. She said it was her best baby picture ever! I think mine isn't too bad either.


We made it back home safe and sound and Seth STILL had not had a good nap ALL DAY. Bad news. I started trying to get him down for bed around 6:30pm or so. He Finally Fell Asleep around 11:15. Ugh. That was not fun. A real test of patience. Lesson of the day: SLEEP BEGETS SLEEP.

This morning I took Seth in with me for my 6 week postpartum visit. That was fairly uneventful, as there is no shortage of women in the office who are willing to hold a baby while mom is getting her exam. I'm all healed up and opted for the progestin only mini pill for birth control. I may or may not decide to take it but I figured it would be good to have around just in case. I told Dr. H initially that we were just going with abstinence and he laughed. I suppose eventually I'll feel like doing that again :)

After the doctor I went back home to get Eric so we could go to the passport office and get our applications submitted. Thanks to me doing our homework we were in and out of there pretty quickly. I had to laugh at the woman in front of us who had clearly not done her homework because she was there wanting to get a passport for her daughter, sans birth certificate and father of the child. Duh.

We spent the next hour or so driving around because that seemed a surefire way to make sure Seth had at least one decent nap today. He woke up a couple of times protesting because I think the sun was in his eyes, but for the most part it was a success. Since we've been back he's had another good nap and he looks to me like he is ready for bed now. So I'm going to take advantage of that drowsy look and see if I can get him down for the night.