Melanie ~ look at me with starry eyes...

Bo is here, cutting down two trees in our back yard. I thought about cancelling and just putting the tree money (that I had put aside in savings) against the clutch on the car, but these trees just aren't safe. One is an awesome shade tree, but someone planted it a foot from the foundation. Not smart. It's huge. The other is a pine that someone cut all the branches off of, that is tall and likely to fall on our house one day. Better to just spend the money on the trees now, than have to deal with a tree falling on our house later.

Paxton is thrilled with the tree cutting. During lunch he sat there copying the chainsaw noise, and ever since he's been outside on the back porch watching.

The tree cutting:



watching dada mow from the living room window:



(He has such patience, he stood there the entire time, watching Tim)

I woke up sick this morning, which might explain why I fell asleep at 8:30 last night. Paxton and I slept till 12:30 am, got up and hung out with Tim for a bit, had a snack, Paxton fed and went back to sleep so I did the same. He slept till about 5:30 am, but then nursed off and on for about an hour and a half, I think he was just too rested. We both fell back asleep for a morning nap

Yesterday I took him to the doctor and was very happy to see he gained 11 ounces in 2 weeks, I think it's cutting out the dairy that helped. The nurse was sweet but an idiot. I had to tell her three times that I thought she was leaning on the scale, as she's pushing it up past 11 lbs.. Then she measured his length wrong and forgot to measure his head. Another nurse came in and did it, and was very unimpressed with the first nurse (although she loves Paxton and asked to hold him), and told me "She's only been here three months and she won't be here another". He goes back in 2 months, but I think I'll take him next month for a lab to see how his weight gain is going.

After that it was off to vitainpalus's house. I got to hold her baby Riley for a few minutes, while Paxton was nursing, it was adorable to have both of them in my arms but made me appreciate how much work it would be with twins!! Isabel snuggled up to me and we sang every preschool song I could remember. I love my visits with them.

A new Harris Teeter grocery story opened, and there was a coupon in the mail for $10 off of $40 of groceries for the next 4 weeks. I had some coupons for other things, and then shopped carefully. Spent $55 and saved $36 with coupons!

An older woman at the grocery store oohed over Paxton and then said slightly disapproving "You are going to spoil that baby", since he was in a wrap, and I said "Yup, I am!". If baby wearing is spoiling, then I will have a very spoiled baby. Someone should tell those Ethiopian babies on their momma's backs that they are spoiled.

A man stopped me and told me that his daughter had a little birthmark behind her ear, just like Paxton's little one on his head. Then his wife went on about how they can cause mental retardation, thankfully I didn't freak out about it, but the husband laughed and said that his wife was just a nurse and to quit saying things that would scare me. I know Pax is fine, so it didn't really bother me.

One of their daughters told me that she has a brand new baby brother, and they had 4 kids with them so I said "You guys have a baby too?!", she said "No, he's my stepmom's baby", and the mom looked at her and smiled and said "He's 3 weeks old now, right?". The mom didn't look like she had one negative feeling showing about it, and it made me a bit sad that things aren't as good in our family, with that stuff. I wanted to tell her that I had a stepdaughter too, so she'd know there are more of us, but we all moved on too quickly.

I think I need to take some tylenol. I took one this morning and slept most the morning with Paxton, but it must be worn off, my headache is getting worse and my throat is hurting more. Paxton is asleep right now, so I'll try to lay down and rest. Think it'll be leftovers for dinner tonight.