valin's cuteness and playing with Daddy

This is Valin doing his two favorite things: playing with his daddy, and trying to taste everything he can get his hands on.

Valin does this new thing where he sucks on his bottom lip. It is the cutiest thing!These are pictures of him sitting up somewhat by himself and sucking on that lip.



In this one I think he looks a little like Dee Ray (our friends Carly and Steven Cragun's first boy)


This is my favorite. He is sucking on his lip and starting to smile. Oh he is sooo adorable!

An Update

As you might notice, yes, it really is almost 2:00 in the morning. I usually have to pump once or twice at night, especailly now that Valin is eating more, so I can keep up my supply. Pumping is just umcomfortable enough that I can't sleep during it but also something that requires I do something instead of sitting there begging for the time to pass quickly by. I've tried reading which sadly gets my mind too awake so that it takes me an hour to get back to sleep. So I decided to update my blog -something I really need to do anyway- and hopefully it won't wake me up too much.

Anyway, to start off, everything is going great. Patxi has one final (on Tuesday)and, though he would never show it or express it -true to Patxi's style- he is worried about it. It's his anatomy one which is his difficult one and he spent over five hours studying for it today, but I'm just praying that he can remember all that he needs to. After this, Patxi is done with school until the fall. He had thought to take a summer class, but since his National Guard drill is three weeks long and in the middle of the summer this year, he decided that he missing three weeks would be a bad thing. He hopes to find a part-time or volunteer job with some fire station so he could get some experience as a paramedic. It would keep him busy and bring in some extra income, so I'm up for it.

Pumping-
It going. It just got some more Lanolin so feels a little less than a titty-twister everytime I pump now. But now since Valin is eating more I have to pump for longer times so I'm sore anyway. My goal is to keep my sanity for 2 more months. I have tons of frozen milk and by 6 months, Valin will be eating soilds, which will be offering more nutriation besides breastmilk. That's the plan at least. Sometimes I feel like a slave tied to that medcine, but I love giving my son the best thing for him. Luckily, formula is so good now a days that I feel okay with stopping to pump when he is six months old.

Valin-
Oh, he is such a cutie! Here is a video of Patxi making him laugh. It's the funniest thing!

He is four month this last Saturday. It's crazy to think that a little more than four months ago I still had him growing in my tummy! But he is so much fun! My heart just leaps everytime he smiles at me. He's now into squeelling and last Sunday he of course tested out his lungs during Sacrament Meeting and Relief Society. Before the meeting started, while I was waiting on the stand to lead the music, the organist leans over to me and asked, "Is that one yours?" But what do you do? cover his mouth? or spend all of Scarament meeting in the foyer for sproatic screaming? Luckily everyone enjoyed his noises in Relief Society, but I sure he was very distracting. This is someting I'm challenged with, knowing when to take him out. It's not an exact science.
But other than that everything is going great.

Sorry for not posting sooner!

Our internet now only work at night and life is getting even more tricky because Valin is at a stage were he doesn't like to be on his back for long, or on his stomach, so that leaves us holding him. We really need a jump-y-jump or something. But I happend to have an ingenious idea so I could get the dishes done tonight. I put him, sitting up in the stroller with pillows so there was on real chance of him falling out. I placed his toys on the tray and he was happy the whole time. It was great!
Anyways, here are a few of the little things he can do and a few pictures:




He is now rolling over whenever he gets the chance which is okay for a few minutes. But now he can push himself up with his hands and get on his knees, but not at the same time. Whenever he get to his knees his head falls down and the oppsites happens when he pushes up on his hands. So I think that it will be a few weeks before he's up and crawling. Crazy huh, and he's just 4 months!

He changes so much on a daily basis. He can now pull out his own binky and put it back in (though not very accuratly). Then in the bathtub today, he just had to sit up, grab everything, and try to taste it too. There are somehtings that just make me laugh out loud. Just the other day I was burping him just after his nap and his head was resting on my chest. All of a sudden, Valin pushes himself up with his hands and stares at me dead in the face. Then, with a huge grin on his face, he lets rip a big burp. I just couldn't contain myself. I laugh right out loud, with Valin smiling along with me. Man, I love being a mother! He is so fun!