first steps (with a oatmeal cream pie box)

Thank you croup plus ear infection. Zachariah Yost walked today to sure (as compared to a few times last week where Yost said he *thought* he said the baby take a few steps. P.S. now im terrified.

Baby DJ

For the last several weeks, Baby has been acting like a DJ every time he breastfeeds or starts to fall asleep putting his little baby hand up on his baby ear and whatnot.

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It finally happened.  Two teeth later and Baby bit me.    Here's hoping that he is just like Gabe and it only happens once or twice

Baby's First Tooth

That's right.  Baby finally has his first tooth.  It popped out on Thanksgiving!  Hopefully that's why he was struggling so much with sleep and crying so much (b/c he's doing much better now).  He's been crawling for months and he's been standing unassisted since the beginning of November, but now he has a tooth

nicknames

Since I did it with Gabe, I feel the need to have a nicknames lis ror New Baby too.
He has adopted some of Gabe's old nicknames like Mr Kickster a few times and Baby Nana a decent amount because he's so sad sometimes.  He also has been known as Hux, Zach, That One, Your Life Is Hard, etc.

crawling and pulling to stand

I was tonna be good wife and lie that Hux did anything big until the first time he did it after Hubby came to be with us in a few days...but Hux crawled a few steps yesterday (not army crawling or scooching) and today be pulled himself to stand up at Gabe's bed.

As I Cry Here In The Dark *expletive warning

It took about an hour to get Baby to stop screaming.  It was so bad that Gabriwl and I had to go in the other room (alhough Gabe was very good for about fifteen or twenty minutes).  I feel wo had for Gabe.  I feel way less had for Baby.  He will be six months old in less than a week.  He does not.need.to.be.waking.every.hour.or.two.  I've been vwry spoiled this last week.  Mom was so great and just took over the nightshift ever since I got home from the hospital, even now that I'm less braindead.  I feel so bad for her that she had to put up with this.  I love Baby.  I really do...but I just about (and by that, I mean I did in reality) yelled at him to shut the fuck up and just go to sleep.  I told you: me? I'm over it.  I can't very well do the modified cry it out like we did with Gabe whwn !) The boys are sharing a room, b) Hubby isn't here to offer a fridge bottle in case he truly is starving, and c) we're about to be moving/going through tra nsitions again.  But I also can't handle the waking up and the incessant screaming anymore.  Huddled up in the dark struggling not to bal my eyes out isn't how I normally roll.  I just don't know how many o be a good mom and balance both meeting his needs while still making sure we both get enough sleep t function throughout the day