Accomplishments

He's tough.  Don't you forget it!

Another week down and we're both still very happy about this little dude.  The smiling helps A LOT, for me anyway.  Anyhoo, onto the recent accomplishments:

• S has gained more than 5lbs in the last 6 weeks - he's just about 13lbs now.  Crazy!  (No wonder my shoulders are crying.)
• We've been cloth diapering for about a week now, I think, and it's going quite well.  I'm still a little bothered by the bulkiness of his butt - the proportions are all wrong - but it's not that big of a deal.  We've got a good process for dealing with poop & washing 'em up.  I thought it'd require a lot more effort but so far, not too bad. 
• I started pumping breast milk and it's going quite well.  I was pretty freaked out about it in the beginning, but again, not that big of a deal.  I definitely feel bad for cows though.  Pumping just once a day makes me sore.  I can't imagine how brutal it is to be pumped by some industrial machine.  Ugh.
•  6 week check up at the midwives and all looks good!  That's a relief just because - I mean, pushing out a baby is a lot of trauma to the innerds and undercarriage.  I pulled my stitches the first few days afterward and was nervous the whole time that things would heal poorly.  (And - I love the oldest midwife.  My god, she's good.  Her bedside manner is amazing.  She's able to ease my mind about everything under the sun that I might be worried about.  Pretty helpful seeing as I'm a worrier.  If only the other midwives could be that good.) 
• I've learned to keep a safe distance when changing S.  I was inspecting a bit of diaper rash the other day and wouldn't you know he decided to poop right then.  If you're familiar with breastfed infants, you know their poop is liquid.  And S is well known around these parts for pushing out poops during diaper changes.  Anyway, the geyser shot out right at my face and I just barely got out of the way in time.  Grateful the sleep deprivation hasn't affected my reflexes too badly.
• Finished a big fat book - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.  Not that big a fan.  It wasn't totally believable and it didn't end the way I wanted, which was annoying.  
• Discovered that the black adhesive gunk on our kitchen floor is softened by water!  A much easier way to remove it than scraping off the dried crap.  Eventually it'll look a lot less shitty and that's just nice. 
• 11lbs to go before my "pizza-dough belly" is hopefully gone.  
• I went a few places and S didn't spend the entire ride screaming in the car.  Hooray!  He's still not over the car screaming but he's getting better.  I don't feel like I have to stay home anymore - driving seems do-able.  We even grocery shopped at Trader Joe's this evening.
• 9pm bedtime for big kids!  This only happened 1x this week, but it was awesome.  I plan to try and make it more of a regular thing.  
• S slept for 5 hours one night.  It was amazing.  Had I known he was going to do that I would've gone to bed at 7:30 with him.  Maybe next time, which I hope is soon.
•   My shoulder is feeling better!  I've been doing my exercises regularly too, except for today.  
• I made it to the farmer's market this morning!  It's been 7 long weeks since we've been.

Okay, enough of this.  Time for sleep.