No Time to Post but here's a Jesse Pic....

Missing Jesse

Well it is 1am and I can't sleep. Not sure why I was exhausted at 8pm but now I am wide awake. Jesse is spending the night at Grandma Missy's and I miss him like crazy! I always go in and look at him and give him a kiss before I go to bed and it is really sad when his little crib is so empty. I know I should be "glad for the break" and I get to sleep in tomorrow (not that it matters cause I am up way to late now) but really I like having him around. I miss his little noises and being able to look at him whenever. It's really hard to get to sleep without him here. I feel the same way when Dan is out of town or gets home late. I just can't seem to get to sleep. Anyway I will post pictures later I don't have the new Easter pics on my computer yet. We are going to Gaylord tomorrow! Woo hoo Block family! Well just for fun here is something random that I bet you didn't know about me I like sweet tea...with lots of lemon.

9 Months Old

Jesse is nine months old today! I can't believe how the time has flown by! And to all those books and people who say things like "Just remember it took nine months to put on all that weight it's going to take at least that long to take it off..." Well they're full of crapola. It has been exactly nine months since my beautiful baby boy was born and I am just as lumpy and chunky as ever...but enough about me and bathing suit woes here are some facts about Jesse the nine month old wonder!

• He is rolling all over the house which is fun to watch but also translates into him eating the insurance bill the other day because I left the room to use the potty.
• He can get up into the "crawl" position but has yet to achieve locomotion.
• He can usually grasp a small puff (cereal type product) with his thumb and pointer and get it successfully in his mouth. Other times it gets caught in his fist and he just shoves his whole fist in and out of his mouth hoping the puff with magically find it's way into his mouth.
• Jesse likes to repeat actions and sounds. My favorite is this toy we have that sings Ba ba black sheep and when he hears it Jesse sings, "Ba ba ba ba...." so cute
• He has just started to "miss" me when I leave a room or the house to go somewhere. This is hard but on the up side he also gets very excited when I come back. Big smiles and arms out to let me know he wants me to hold him. Maybe someday when I have like 40 kids and they are all like "mom mom mom mom" I will not enjoy this but now it is pretty much my favorite thing.

I am sure there is a bunch more but I hear him waking up now so I have to go. Happy 9 months Jesse!

Cutie Pants

Things to Post About When I have More Time

• My short lived love affair with Starbucks Chai Latte
• Why I like to watch Dan play Zelda and other such ways my husband has changed me
• How Jesse is growing and changing
• Does the teething/cold cycle ever end
• Why does everyone think texting is so awesome and when will they stop
  

That's all I can think of right now...but since i know a lot of you go to my blog specifically to see a new picture of Jesse (it's ok I understand he is more interesting than me) here ya go!

Eating a cracker

Bathing Beauty

isn't he cute!

After bath mohawk

My Favorite Show

Was reading Lisa's blog today and read that she was watching Gilmore Girls...my favorite show! I put a poll on the right for all you GG lovers out there. I am currently watching season 5 and Rory has just met/starting dating Logan. I was thinking about all her bf (that's boyfriends not bestfriends) and thought it would be fun to add a poll. Ok so if you love Gilmore girls shout out your favorite episode, moment or just thing about the show! Things I like include but are not limited to:

1. Sookie, she is the best so crazy and funny and she loves food!
2. Luke and Lauralie's neverending romance they belong together!
3. The name Lauralie...Dan would never let me use it but it would be my first pick for a girl.
4. The episode where Lane's secrete band plays for Mrs. Kim and they want to re-write "A Mighty Fortress is our God".
5. I know you are dying to know who my favorite Rory beau is...well I flip flop between Dean and Logan...but never Jess he smells and Marty I think coulda been cool but he was just a friend.

Sleepy

Just wanted to share this cute picture of my babe. I love to watch him sleep.

Monkey Baby

We have had this monkey snow suit for a while but I haven't put Jesse in it yet. So the other day we decided to try it out. Again I have to say a full night of entertainment just from a simple snow suit! Babies can be so fun sometimes. The only problem...we can't get him in the car seat with the snow suit on! I am not sure how or where he can wear it. Well never the less (is that one word?) it was a very entertaining. We also had to go to Childrens Hospital for a follow up visit about his kidney and everything was great! I am so relieved. They said to come back in 3 years to have another look but everything looks good. I wasn't really worried about it since he is such a healthy happy baby but when the doctors appointment got closer I was getting quite anxious. I am just happy nothing is wrong. Basically for those of you who don't know, Jesse has one kidney that is perfectly healthly and the other one didn't develop properly in the womb. But you only need one kidney so he is good:) That's all for now!

Purple is the best color ever...now I have proof.

This is the awesomest site ever! If you ever want to buy me something go here and pick anything....it's all purple and I will love it all! Just wanted to share the good news with you all.

http://www.purplestore.com/

Jesse Growing

Had to get rid of this element on my blog because it kept smooshing my pictures. They look aweful! Can anyone help? I really need to move to wordpress or something. Here is the picture I wanted to put there it is of Jesse at his 6 month photo shoot. Cute ain't he!

Christmas not so much Break

I don't think we were home at all over Christmas break except for Christmas Day! It was a crazy week. We had 10 people here for Christmas day dinner then the 26th we left for Gaylord to see Sydney the cutest little girl this side of the Mackinac Bridge. Then we came home did laundry and went to The Piggotts for New years eve and the next day went to Dan's grandparents house for Christmas with the extended family. I did not get any pictures of the last two events which super sucks. Kate and Andy were in town and I have no photographic evidence! Oh but i did take an awesome video with our new video camera (from Dan's parents) so I will have to look at that later. My favorite Christmas gift...well Dan did fabulous this year so I loved everything he gave me:

-a pink razor phone

-a dirt devil Cone

-Stardust (the movie)

-A LABEL MAKER!

I got a lot of other things but I think the stuff Dan got me was my favorite. What was your favorite gift? Here are some photos for you to enjoy!

Jesse on Christmas Morning

Me with my new giant stocking Dan's mom made for me. She did the gauge wrong or something!

Jesse wearing one of Sydney's hats.

Home at last relaxing in mom & dad's bed!

Elf Dan

Check this out if you need a smile.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1634327108

Project

This is my project/Christmas present for Jesse. He didn't have a stocking so Beth gave me this great idea to use his old clothes and make him one. It was actually really hard to cut up his onsies that didn't fit anymore. If any of you new mom's out there decided to do this project be warned you may break down and cry after seeing how small your 6month old child once was. Anyway it turned out pretty good I think it was my first time cutting squares and piecing them together. I know it is not real quilting but it is a start! The top says Jesse I sewed the letters on by hand so it is kinda messy but it's homemade and it looks like a stocking so that is all that matters! I used 3 onsies and 1 baby blanket. Oh and some ribbon for the hook thingy. I just kinda winged it really. I found a stocking pattern online so I would have a rough idea of shape but other than that I didn't have any help. I am sorry if I sound too excited but I was really thinking it would turn out with all the squares misaligned and what not. I think I will do this for any future children we might have. It was a fast project. Well fastish considering Jesse is so clingy these days!


Hanging up

Close up

Trying to Get a Photo of Jesse's First Teeth: A Photographic story

First I thought one finger holding the lip down and the other taking the picture would suffice.

Then Dan got involoved and he held the lip while I took the picture.

That wasn't quite working so Dan pulled out the big guns. Actually a pretty good shot of the teeth...but did we stop there?? OF COURSE NOT!

The final product which made Dan laugh so hard he scared the baby. By the way as we were trying to pull his lips back he is trying to talk and coo. Ah I never thought I would have so much fun at home on a Saturday night!

Teeth

Jesse has two new teeth....well not so much new as first ever teeth. They are his front bottom teeth and you can hardly see them but you can feel them and he likes to bite everything. It is in this time I am thankful he is not breastfeeding since he gnaws at his bottle regularly! I will post pictures of his first pearly whites as soon as I can get a picture of them. He is also laughing a lot more and saying voul sounds like mamamamama or babababa. It is really cute! I do however have this aweful back pain from holding him, picking him up sitting on the floor with him etc. It hurts so much but I don't know what to do I can't stop holding my baby. Um I don't know what else to write. Mostly I am writing this now because Katie made me feel guilty for not writing in a while...good job Kate...move a million miles away then make me feel bad! Not much going on right now except that I am in love with my crock pot. It is the worlds best invention! Just stick a bunch of ingredients in the pot turn it on and them at dinner time you have a meal...how cool is that! Answer...super cool. Ok well right now I am thinking about how much I would like to be in Gaylord holding baby Sydney. If you haven't seen her go to Lisa's blog and check that girl out. She has more hair than Jesse and he is 6 months old!

The Borg

So I changed my blog name. I am still thinking of leaving blogger but don't have time to figure out something else right now. If you don't know I am obsessed with Star Trek. Some of my favorite TNG and Voyager episodes are the ones with the Borg in them so I t00k Katies advice and dorked up my blog name. I love science fiction. I don't know why. It could be because my parents loved it so much or becasue I like to get lost in the imaginary worlds since mine seems so boring sometimes. I think it is cool that they have food replicators and transporters on Star Trek. The made up technology is so facinating to me. Confession of a true nerd: On the way to Illinois to visit my grandparents we played that game "I am going to Grandma's house and I'm bringing...." then you go through the entire alphabet and have to remember what everyone says. Well we played the Star Trek version. Instead of going to Grandmas we went to Vulcan and we thought of something for every letter including the hard ones. Q is for Q , W is for Warp drive , X is for Xindi, Y is for Yar, Natasha , and Z well Z is for Zephrim Cockrin the inventor the warp engine of course! The really sad thing is that we played this game like five days ago and I could most likely remember each item for each letter. If you love Star Trek like me, or if you want to learn more about it click on any one of the above links. That is a awesome site yo! Trekies unite!

Inspiration

Katie has inspired me to rename my blog. Not sure what to name it yet but any suggestions are welcome. Look for a new name soon. Also I was thinking about leaving blogger, but I am not sure what is another good place to set up my blog. Also I don't want to loose the posts I have here. Is there a way to move what I have? Wow two posts in one day its a post baby record! I must have more time. Remind me of this when I start complaining again!

Weaning

So about 3 or 4 weeks ago Jesse decided he no longer wanted the wonderfulness of my breast. That is to say he no longer would nurse. He would in the morning and maybe once during the day but that's about it. Now many of you know I have not had an easy time with breastfeeding but I think I have persevered and done what I could to make it work. So I just pumped and pumped and pumped. Well as of last week he won't nurse at all. I put him in the position to nurse and he screams. After a week of this I decided my little boy may need to be weaned. Now I know nursing for a year is great and some do longer than that but I just couldn't handle the stress of it all. Plus when I did pump I was getting next to no milk. And let me tell it you it wasn't for lack of trying. So yesterday I decided not to pump at all. (for the past week I have only been pumping twice a day) An low and behold what do I wake up with this morning...soggy pajamas! That hasn't happened in months! Then I tried to nurse Jesse thinking well I am full it will be easy for him to get the milk out. He wanted no part of it, of course, so I proceeded to the bottle. When he was done with his bottle I sat him up to burp him and what do I find that I am soaking wet, again! I had leaked through another shirt! So first I make no milk and now I am overflowing with it. This is driving me crazy! But again he won't nurse, so it doesn't really matter how much I leak everywhere if he doesn't want it. Is this normal when you go off breastfeeding? I am just frustrated beyond belief. Please don't give advice that is, "oh just keep breastfeeding...stick it out." I have stuck it out Jesse is done with it, I just want to make sure soreness and leakage is part of weaning. I really wanted to make it to 6 months but my dreams of having the perfect breastfeeding baby were never meant to be. I realized this the day I bought my expensive pump that I have had to use ever day since we brought Jesse home just to keep my milk production up. So I am done with nursing which is very sad. I didn't think I would be so sad considering it has almost been a battle to get him to do it in the first place. But it means he is growing and that special time only we could have is gone. (tear) Oh the plus side he is getting so fun! As evident by this picture, grabbing his feet and sometimes trying to put them in his mouth. Unbelievably cute! He laughs and smiles when he hears my voice. I was reading some of my posts I wrote the first few weeks and I know I was miserable but you were all right...it gets soooooooooooo much better. Better than I could ever imagine. I never thought I could love anyone this much. He smiles and my day is instantly better. How do they do that? Anyway also wanted to thank all you moms who have encouraged me these past months. I am not saying stop, but the first months are harder than anyone can explain. The second baby is easier...right???

Halloween

We did not go trick-or-treating but Jesse as a pumpkin is too cute. Don't have time to write now just wanted to post some pictures. The only bad thing is I can't get rid of his stupid red eye...it is driving me crazy. Picasa doesn't get rid of all of it and my camera setting is no working either...any suggestions?



Jesse the Jack-o-lantern


Baby's first Halloween


His shirt says "Bone to be Wild" HA...look at that smile!