Day 78...what a good boy!

Apr 7

When we got up today, I convinced Eli to call his best friend Mark because today is his day off. I've been wanting to go see Mark for a long time, and also I was hoping to catch his wife, since she hadn't met Martyn yet.

Mark came over and met him when he was just a few days old, but that was the last we saw him. So Eli finally called him, and we decided to go to his house and have lunch. We ended up going down to the food carts on Belmont, which are still kind of new (I hadn't been to them yet).

Man they have a good set up down there! We took Martyn out of the car seat and just carried him around. Eli said the guy that we got our Gyro's from couldn't keep his eyes off me and that's why he loaded our Gyro's up so heavily, ha! Ok, I'll take that.

We went back to Marks house and I fed Martyn. Manpreet (Marks wife) came in while I was still feeding the boy....we had gotten her a philly cheese steak at the carts and she was in between school and work for a few minutes. I got done feeding Martyn, and came and sat at the dining room table with everyone else to eat my Gyro. Man that was good!

Martyn was so good the whole day! After we had lunch, and Manpreet left, we went down to a place Mark had wanted to try, called Immortal Pie, and had some pie...just the three of us and Martyn. For what ever silly reason, that place didn't have coffee....doesn't it seem like pie and coffee should go together? Oh well...so we walked down a couple blocks to a coffee shop and sat and visited with Mark for a little longer. Then we decided we needed to do a Target run while were over by Mall 205, so Mark just went with us.

The whole time, Martyn snoozed a little, or we took him out of the car seat and he just hung out with us even though he was tired....his afternoon nap kind of got interrupted, but he just rolled with it. Mark was super impressed with how good he was. It made me feel good that someone else recognized that my baby is a good baby, I mean I'm his mother....I'm more than a little biased.

When we got home, Martyn had fallen asleep in the car of course. He woke up when we walked in the door, and stayed up for a bit. I fed him, and just held him in the recliner and after he ate he was a little fussy. I figured he was just really tired so I got him into a comfy position and he just crashed out. Eli, who is always wanting to touch him and mess with him, came and sat down on the couch and started playing with his hand, which woke him up eventually. I was a little annoyed, because Eli had also just brought me dinner and I was starving. But he fell back asleep long enough for me to finish dinner.

We decided to watch Tron (on netflix) but then Martyn started fussing agian....so I decided to give him a bath and put him to bed. He sure does love his baths. The water was a little hot though, and even though I still introduced him to it very slowly feet first and he didn't cry or act like it hurt him, it made his little skin red all over. He was a little red baby, and so cute! I would let him sit in the tub with me, and then get him out for a bit, then sit or lay him in the water, then take him out....back and forth like that so it didn't burn his skin. He never protested it being too hot though.

It was bed time for him when we got out of the tub, so I got him ready and put him to bed. It took me about 20 minutes, I think that's a new record....he was really tired, that's why. I didn't even have to use the pacifier to keep him down when I got up. Man I love that boy, he is just so good!

So tomorrow afternoon/evening will be the test-sit for the nanny lady. I'm kind of nervous...but curious to see how it's going to work out. I had the thought yesterday to check with my work and see if there is any paperwork or anything I needed to do before returning to work, and found out I need a release from my midwife to return to work. So I emailed her and she emailed me back saying I needed to contact the office ladies from the Birth Center....I figured she was on her leave month. So I called the Birth Center today and rang through to the Tualitan birth center, filled Rosie the office girl in, and gave her the info and she said she would get it all taken care of. She called me back later though and said she had the wrong fax number....since I was at Marks I couldn't look it up right then and told her I would call her back. Well, when I got home tonight, I was thinking about that and realized I'll have to wait until Monday to do that because I think they are not open on Fridays. Boo. Oh well, it won't hurt anything to wait until Monday, I just like to have things in order and not feel like they are hovering.

Maybe that was a purposeful delay and I'm not supposed to return to work...ha! Doubtful, but I can dream.