Wedding Weekend and Well Baby

Grandma Cindy

Papa Jerry - At this point Conrad was exhausted

Someone needs to go to bed

Zone Out

Last weekend Kris, Conrad and I headed up to Washington to go to a family friends wedding.  I baby sat this kid, I don't understand how he can possibly be old enough to marry, but he did.  It was a great wedding, really nice and the weather was good.  We had a lovely time and it was a special chance to see my parents who have not seen Conrad in a couple of months.  It was a quick trip up and back but I was glad we went and so happy for the family too.
Conrad did really well with the traveling, he is such a easy going guy.  But he did basically miss his afternoon nap and was pretty tired and trying to hold it together as the night went on.  Then he had to sleep in the car as we made our way home that night.  He is such a good sport.

This morning I took him for his 9 month well baby check.  He is 22.15 pounds and measured 27 inches but the doctor thought this was off since it was only the 6th percentile.  He has been hard to measure every time.  I sware the nurse is getting him straight and we try not to let him move, but it never seems to be the right length.  I'll have to try myself at home.
He is the right amount of chubbiness, and is looking and sounding very healthy.  Finally we have gotten past the colds we just couldn't seem to shake for awhile.  Now he is teething.  Yes all four fronts have come in, but this week has been rough with the sleeping again.  He wakes up multiple times even if only briefly he needs a soothe or a bottle.  What has been worst is this week at about 2 he wakes and just can't settle back down.  I have been rocking him and even tried sleeping with him to see if he could just relax, but he was so restless and kept wiggling even he seemed frustrated he could not sleep.  Last night I just didn't know what was wrong and he didn't seem to want anything, bottle, paci, we changed him, then he vomited.  I guess the bottle he had had didn't sit right.  We are going to try feeding him cereal right before bed.  The doctor recommended changing how we feed - rather than dinner at 6 then bottle at 7:30 when he is getting ready for bed do maybe a bit less dinner early maybe a little bottle in between and rice cereal late as the last meal.  This might help hold him over and help with the fact that he pees so much at night (since he has a bottle before bed and in the middle of the night) that a night time diaper doesn't even cut it and we have to change him in the night.  The teething part other than Tylenol, Oragel and working through it, nothing we can do but wait.  Also he did say it is not uncommon for his age to still need a feeding at night, but more than that he should be able to make it a bit longer.

Life has just been so busy for us that the lack of sleep just compounds the issue.  Again at work we are going through a transition.  An employee just left and now a new one will be starting in a couple of weeks.  Finally my department should be staffed and I hope/think will stick around and be settled for at least a year.  This year has just been change after change and trying to just get by day to day, this coming year should be more of a chance to get some flow and process down, just in time for the new online time record system the school is bringing on.  Well they do say the only constant is change, so I guess what should I expect.

Kris has been busy with a big project at work that just finished and he is ramping up with the Bass fishing club he is in, golf (tournament in a couple of weeks) he might be doing summer softball, and his work with his fraternity.  I guess they want to name an award after him, one that relates to mentoring and helpfulness and giving or something.  To be honest I was a bit distracted (I am always distracted lately, Kris keeps saying I am talking to myself, I think I have so much going on in my head I am trying to keep straight that I don't even realize I am talking it out to myself) and didn't fully hear what exactly the award was going to be for, but it would be within his fraternity group.

This long weekend will be a nice mini break and I am hoping to take a couple days in July to break away as well as our big vacation in August - Hawaii, it is just around the corner.  Of course we also want to try to do a summer get together (I haven't seen anyone if forever) and will have to do something for Conrad's birthday - I can't believe he will be one in just a couple more months!  Wow time fly's and I am guessing next year will fly just as quickly.