All Ira, all the time.


Here's Ira with his buddy Isaac. Oh, babies...so cute. They're made this way so that when you need to feed them at 3 AM, you think it's real sweet. Everything is going good so far. Thank goodness I'm not feeling sick anymore (I developed and recovered from HELLP syndrome). I am still tired because of the late night feedings and anemia (souvenir from the HELLP). I'm also sort of getting a little bored/stir crazy from being mostly cooped up inside. Yesterday we took baby to the co-op for lunch (he just LOVES spicy udon noodles!) and today we went to Target. It's kind of hard to make a lot of plans though. Right now, baby wants to eat every 1.5 - 3 hours and that's from the start of one feeding to the next. So if he takes 30 minutes to eat, I might only have an hour to nap, clean, shower or feed myself until the next feeding. But, baby...so presh! So worth it.

Phew, I made it.


Sars guys, not a lot to say right now because me and babers are mega busy eating and sleeping. Here's the run down with more details coming when Ira learns how to use Blogger:

Ira was born last Wednesday at 11:30 AM, after a 9 and a half hour labor. He just kind of blew in with the wind! We stayed in the hospital for about 4 days. My sense of time was pretty warped because I was on some heavy duty anti-seizure meds. So what else? Labor? Ouchy! Breastfeeding, also kind of ouchy. Hospital food? Salty! Baby Neon? Total preciousness!

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Orange squashy things


First orange squashy thing: our pumpkin this year. A couple years running we had some fun ones, Homestar Runner characters, MF Doom's mask...but this year we couldn't decide what to do. Finally I channelled some mellow energy and freestyled a unicorn on this year's pumpkin and Leon carved it out. Voila. A touch of whimsy!

Second orange squashy thing: Anasazi butternut squash soup via heckasac, from epicurious.com.


It came out pretty good. We made all the appropriate vegetarian subsitutions though with soyrizo and veggie broth. Another modification I had to make was adding a little oil in with the onion and garlic sautee because soyrizo does not render the ammount of fat that regular chorizo does. My only complaint is that this one took forever to prep.

Labor watch 2006 update!
Teeni's intuition says baby Neon is hatching in the next 3-7 days!

Labor watch 2006


I keep having mega braxton hicks contractions, but no baby yet. I saw the doctor today and he said that baby Neon is engaged and ready for hatching, but my cervix (sars, if this is TMI) is still closed. This means that baby is not likely to hatch this week. Thank goodness because I have a lot to do still. Like next week's last hurrah party for Tower on Tuesday and our interview/meeting with McKinley Montessori on Wednesday. It's never too early to shop for preschools, right?

Okay, Top Model last night? WTF? After one bad picture AJ is off? Jaeda has been stinking every week and also totally bombed the challenges (in my opinion worse than AJ did), and she gets to stay?

Then Project Runway? Ugh! I still think that Neck Tattoo cheated and it's totally unfair that he won. I was really rooting for Uli towards the end there.