Visiting Sage

How sweet the weekend is! After pushing through my first big weekend of call last weekend and surviving the week of clinic and surgery, I have arrived at a free weekend. Here is how it went down...

Saturday: 3am feed Joey. 6am -pump. Off to round at 6:30am. Call starts at 7am. Consult. Delivery. Consult. Home
Sunday: 2am feed Joey. 6am - feed Joey. Round again. 2 surgeries. Home around 4pm. Spilt 8oz of pumped breast milk IN the breast pump (this was an all time breastfeeding low). On the brink of tears. Delivery. Call ends at 10pm...Sleep.
Monday: 3am - feed Joey. 7am - feed Joey. Off to round by 7:30. Clinic from 9am - 5pm. Home. Delivery at 1am.
Tuesday: 3am - feed Joey. 7am - feed Joey. Off to round by 7:30. Clinic from 9am - 12pm. Surgery. Home by 3pm. Doc meeting at 5:30pm - 8:30. Consult. Home at 10:30pm...Sleep.
Wednesday: 3am - feed Joey. 7am - feed Joey. Off to round by 7:30. Clinic from 9am - 5pm. Home. On call again. Just phone calls throughout the night.
Thursday: 3am - feed Joey. 7am - feed Joey. Clinic from 9am - 12pm. Surgery. Home around 5pm.

My eyes are super tired right now...burning actually. I can't wait to "sleep in" tomorrow. That really just means to lay around in bed with my smiling boys. I'm embracing a whole new level of sleep deprivation. I don't really mind it. It is sweetened by 3am moments with Joey. He is sleeping like a pro. Only one wake up between 7:00pm and 7:30/8am.

Today we visited my spankin' new niece, Sage. She's just down right beautiful. She seems so tiny, but is actually bigger than Joey was at that age. She has uber long fingers and strong lungs (although she rarely cries). Joey is growing soooooooo big. The past couple of days = drooling rivers. Perhaps his teeth are on the way. Grandpa D. can't wait.

After asking Dan if he has any baby photos around (to compare to Joey), he has opened a pandora's box of mementos. As I type this he is reading old letters to Jim. They sound like 5th grade girls. :)

She's heeeeeeerrrrrrreeeee!

Joey has a new cousin! Sage Josephine Piehl 6 pounds 11 ounces was born on March 21, 2010 at 8:44am. Everyone is happy and healthy. She's beautiful. Joey looks huge next to her.

14 Weeks and Kickin'

Well, the last two weeks since returning to work have been great. Dan and Joey have been doing awesome at home and I now have TWO great guys to rush home to. Joey has been getting the sleeping thing down. He goes down without a fuss around 7:30pm and usually wakes up around 3am for a feeding. He then goes back down until 7:30 or 8am. He's now sleeping in the crib in his own room. At bedtime he eats, gets changed, gets wrapped up in his "baby straight jacket." We read Goodnight Moon and then he's out. This upcoming weekend is my first full weekend on call. We'll have to see how that goes... I can't really say I'm looking forward to it.

Back to Work :(

Last weekend Kelley, Robert and Grandma Flynn came for a visit. It was a great time filled with heated games of Pinochle, the Olympic Games, and tasty brews. Kelley has the magic touch and could probably get Joey to sleep in the middle of a 3 ring circus. He's now sleeping ALMOST all night. He goes down without a fuss around 7:30pm and usually sleeps until 4 or 5am. He'll get up at that time for a feeding and then is able to go right back to sleep until 7 or 8am. Monday meant it was time for me to go back to work. Killer. I now have TWO great guys to come home to. Jennifer and James are coming to visit this weekend. James has a photography class and of course we'll ask him to practice on Joey. Dan is already searching the cookbooks for the best creation to try.