Alastor's fun time

Well life has become fun for Alastor. At least we think so. He eats a lot, poops a lot and gets to hang out with Mom a lot. Dad on the other hand has to go to school and work a lot. Not so exciting. School is almost over, just one more ten page paper and I'll be done at least until spring. The neighbors below complained about us being up and walking through all hours of the night, which was stressful because we thought we were going to have to move. But we figured that if you move into a downstairs apartment you need to understand that there will be noise, reguardless of anything. So we don't worry about that anymore, we'll move when we can.

We gave Alastor his first bath a few days ago, it was wild. He really liked being wrapped up in the towel and having warm water poured over his head, but as soon as he was exposed and in the water he was terrified! AAAAAAAAA! What are you doing!? But we hope that he will get used to them soon. he needs to be clean!

Meghan has been doing pretty good with Alastor and keeping up on sleep. We got into the WIC program so that should help while work is slow and I'm in school. My family is coming up next week for Thanksgiving and blessing the baby, that should be rather fun! Yay!

Another Grandma Visit!!

This week my Mom (Grandma Workman) came by to help and make life easier. She arrived on Sunday and went home today, it was a good week. We ended up going needing Mom around a lot more than we initially thought.

We took Alastor to his two week appointment to have him check out. We were excited to see how much weight he had gained and all the other things. It turned out that Alastor had actually lost weight. He was down to 6lbs 6oz as compared to his birth weight of 7lbs 3oz. The Doctor seemed very concerned and wanted us to make sure that Meghan was producing milk and nursing right. It wasn't very fun to find out that most likely we were doing something wrong! Meghan took it pretty hard, but Mom was able to help her out while I was stuck at work. We have doubled-up on feedings and started giving him some formula also. He gets weighed in tomorrow, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Mom bought us a rocking chair (pictured above) for Meghan to nurse in, rather than running off to the bedroom whenever Alastor gets hungry. It has been wonderful , and i turns out the chair we got was one that Meghan had been eyeing for a long time.

Work has become very short, with not many hours worked in the week. I worry that my paychecks won't be able to cover a lot of what is needed for the baby and for us. We have an appointment with the WIC program so hopefully they take pity on us and help us out.

On the other side of the fence, things are still going very well. Alastor seems to be happier and more content with his need feeding schedule, and we feel more secure as parents. He keeps getting cuter everyday and we sure do love him. He was even quiet through all of sacrament meeting! We can only hope things continue to get better.

Well the second week has come and gone rather quickly. As I sit in front of my computer just minutes away from the time my son was born two Sundays ago I can't help but feel a little sad at how quickly the time goes by and how fast we have gone back to the way things were, plus a baby. My son does something new and cute everyday. He peed on me two days ago, I had to laugh.

It was amazing having Grandma Bunn over for the week to help out and keep us sane when Alastor was being a problem child. She really helped out Meghan when things seemed to be closing in on her. I was so happy to have her around. Now this next week will be my Mom's week. Sure we're confident enough to do this on our own, but we want to see her and she wants to see Alastor!

Halloween was a hit at work and at home. I was able to enjoy the holiday with family and watch some scary movies. Monster House is a big favorite in our home. Dan and Candace dressed up as the main characters in Grease and Alastor had his skeleton onesie on (pictures coming soon).

Alastor has his second checkup this week, which we are looking forward to. I wonder if he will have gained any weight? We hope that his jaundice is just minor and that nothing too serious will be needed to be done. I can't tell if he is yellow, it's too subtle for my colorblindness to pick up, how sad is that?

Anywho, this is kind of a short post, but I have been busy this week with Grandparents and other visitors so I'll try to keep up.