Owen is already 7 weeks old! He's changing so much - he can hold his head up really well and is starting to smile and "talk". It's so cute to watch him talk to his toys and smile. I put together a little video of him talking to Ragnar and his toys and he has a few smiles for me too! :) This video is from last week when he was 6 weeks old.
The dogs are doing really well with him. Our lab, Ragnar, has been chewing on a lot of stuff lately, though. He was so used to getting a lot of attention, so I don't know if that's why he's chewing stuff, or if it just smells too good for him to resist - Gross! But he'll chew on dirty diapers, pacifiers, nursing pads and burp cloths with spit-up on them. I think it's pretty disgusting, but then again I'm not a dog. But as far as interacting with Owen, our lab and our chihuahua are doing great.
My mom came last Sunday and spent the night with Owen so Ryan and I could go to Ryan's work Christmas party. It was nice to get out of the house for a while by ourselves and we had a lot of fun, but I was happy when I got home to see my baby. It was really awesome that my mom came, too, because this was the first time leaving Owen for more than a couple of hours, and I'm glad it was with his grandma. It gave me peace of mind and whenever I started talking about Owen to my friends that night, they reminded me that Owen was fine. And the little stinker slept better for my mom than he does for me!! I think the trick is to feed him a bottle before bed so I know how much he's getting, and that way he's fuller for longer and gets more than 2 hours sleep at a time. I tried it last night and he went five hours. It was awesome. The night of the Christmas party I got about 8 uninterrupted hours because my mom was there, which was REALLY nice! I'm excited for him to sleep through the night (knock on wood, cross my fingers, pray to God!)!
My friends and me at the Christmas party
The time has been flying by and it's probably about time I think about starting work. I got my teacher's license about a month ago and my UNI diploma just came in the mail a couple of days ago. If I hadn't had Owen, I would have started substituting right away when school started up again after Christmas, but since I had him, I decided to wait a couple of months. It's going to be hard to go to work, but the nice thing about subbing is that I can say no if I need to. Ryan works at night anyway, so for now we wouldn't need to send him to daycare, but it's nice being home so I can spend time with my boys. When I start working, I'm not going to be seeing a whole lot of Ryan, which I don't like, but I gotta do what I gotta do, I guess. I'll definitely start subbing in March, if not before that.
Well, that's all for now. I'll try to do a better job of updating from now on, but no promises!
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