snip-its from our week

*four weeks ago today, noah was brand new in this world. now it feels like he's been here for years, in some ways...and in others, only a few days. he is looking a little different every day! right now, he has this crazy acne thing going on, which started last weekend and is clearing up little by little. unfortunately, i also have this crazy thing going on with my face-it's not acne, but like this red rash that comes up after i wash my face-it's really strange and quite saddening. i'm not bragging because i know i have had absolutely nothing to do with it, but i have always had a great, clear complexion...something about the weird flux in hormones post-pregnancy is doing strange things to my face (and other parts of me, too :/). my hope is that as noah's clears up completely, mine will, too!! a girl can always hope, right?? :)

*last night, ryan and i had a night on the town. thanks to a little company called medela and their wonderful milk pumping machines, we were able to drop noah off with grammie around 4 and go off to have some fun. as it turned out, noah got to have a little treat of his own-dinner with grammie and uncle chris! ryan and i went out to dinner at j. alexanders, which is one of my all time favorite places in the world to eat...we even treated ourselves to a glass of wine and dessert!  and then we went to see ghosts of girlfriends past (thanks, cece!), which was a disappointment, but we still had fun! we missed noah while we were gone, but it was nice to get out! when we got home, we snatched him away and booked it to our place!

*noah has been doing really well at night, which we are sooooo thankful for. sleeping only 2 hours at a time was not working for any of us, so i'm grateful we are out of that stage (at least for the time being). he is sleeping 4-6 hours at a time now...and doesn't do the whole crying his eyes out in the middle of the night-he saves that for when we put him to bed right after his bath and late night dinner time. i mean, you'd think we were torturing him by the way he screams when we first lay him down...it's hard on the ears and the heart to listen to, but we think it's best for him, so we do it. being a parent is hard sometimes... 

*pumping is going really well. it's giving me the freedom to take noah out more, and giving others the gift of feeding him from time to time. i have had a hard time stockpiling it, but we finally have a little supply in our fridge...noah cracks me up when i am trying to pump...it's like he is somehow aware that milk is coming out of me and not going immediately into his mouth, and he gets furious! he screams and screams for the first few minutes, sure i am holding out on him. his eyes searching frantically around the room, trying to find the other baby i must be sharing my milk with. but, alas, it's all for him! he insists that i hold his paci in his mouth as he swings, nearly the whole time i'm pumping...which, let me just say, that mr. medela did not make the pumping contraptions for use during such reaching, stretching and moving around that noah requires during this time. the best part-juuuuussstt as i'm finishing up pumping, he drifts off to sleep, dropping the paci and no longer requiring my constant attention and assistance!