13 weeks

Things new this week include a jumparoo, my first weekend of call as a mom and father's day...lets start with the last one first.

Dominic made my first mother's day quite wonderful by including things like breakfast and diamonds so I wanted to make him feel special as well.  Since diamonds don't seem to appeal to men like they do the ladies I figured I'd go the electronic route. And since I like my iphone and so does Dominic I decided to get him the ipad!  He LOVED it.  He's been getting apps and playing words free all the time.

And now for the jumparoo. I think this is Liam's version of the ipad. Although he can certainly hold his head up and push off, signaling he was ready, he was still a bit short to touch the ground. Not sure how tall they expect a child to be considering Liam is tall for his age, but I remedied the situation with an old text book! He will sit, jump, smile and play in it for up to 45min, guess that means I like it just as much as Liam does. The only other issue is that he can easily see the television so we had to move it to limit his view. (how on earth a baby that is about 3 months old can find the tv is beyond me, but he did) Guess this means it's time to really limit our viewing and chose programs wisely! So far we're sticking with ESPN, national geographic, discovery, and food shows. Another new development is his interest in Eclair. He'll watch her play fetch and has even grabbed at her a time or two. Plus, we're actively working on teaching him to roll over, although I'm hoping he holds off a few more weeks since it means a semi-mobile baby and that equals harder to control!

A few more gifts arrived on our door this week as well.  The onesie is from Jim and Lauren, O'Dea is the highschool Dominic attended and the one I've been told Liam will attend as well.  The book is from a midwife friend, Lydia, and her lovely family.  It's one I've heard was good and I'm excited to share with Liam.

A few goodies we picked up this week on our own...yarn for a big new project and an Ergo baby carrier for back wearing Liam

Lastly, a report of my first call weekend since becoming a mom. Things actually went really well. I was crazy busy on Friday night, having 3 deliveries but the rest of the weekend was quiet and during the busy time I was able to make it home to feed Liam during his one night feed around 2am. I'm sure they won't all be this smooth, but I'm hoping the next one coming up in just 2 weeks is. I'm thinking after that he may have dropped that night feed and we won't have to worry so much about heating up bottles in a hurry while I'm gone.