Couple More With MorMor

Here's a couple more cute pictures with MorMor.

Eating (he eats all the time):

Here's Cash drunk on milk (again):

MorMor Is In Town!

My mom is in town for the next couple of days.

She has decided that she'd like for Cash to call her MorMor (it's Danish for mother's mother). I'm still trying to teach Cash to call her "old woman". Grandma Marsha would like to be called Mimi M, but she said she'd settle for "Hey, you dummy." Hopefully, we can teach Cash a better name for Marsha than - Hey, you dummy. It'll be interesting to see what name Cash gives to each of them.

This afternoon I got an entire two hours of uninterrupted sleep. MorMor fed Cash a bottle, rocked him and took him out into the sunshine.

Before my nap, I got a few cute pictures.

Everyone has been asking me how all the animals have been adjusting to Cash. Mouser is the most jealous, but the other three don't really seem to care about Cash one way or the other.

Here's a picture of Cash, MorMor and Mouser - Mouser is trying to take away the attention from Cash.


Maybe Liz is right and I'm a little too hard on Mouser. In this picture it just looks like Mouser wants to see Cash. I think it's a pretty sweet picture.

Here's one more cute picture of MorMor with Cash. MorMor's friend bought Cash some really cute outfits plus five pairs of these super cute socks. I love them!

Postpartum Doula Visit

This afternoon Doula Darlene came to visit Cash and me.

Darlene gave me the time line of Cash's birth and my memory wasn't too far off what she documented.

Here's a condensed version of the time line:

April 5, 2010

9:43 PM - We call Doula and notify her that I'm feeling birthing waves (or gas pains).

10:01 PM - Buttin calls Doula back and tells her we're on the way to the hospital.

10:53 PM - Doula arrives at the hospital and meets us in triage. Patty (my awesome nurse) tells me that my birthing waves are 2 - 3 minutes apart.

11:15 PM - Patty does a vaginal exam, and I'm 100% effaced and at 4 cm. Patty leaves to prepare the room.

11: 32 PM - I'm moved to my birthing room.
April 6, 2010

12:52 AM - Courtney (name of the nice blond nurse that I mention in my birth story) says it's OK for me to get into the shower. Once in the shower, my water breaks and I feel like pushing.

1:10 AM - I'm given the OK to push baby Cash out.

1:52 AM - Baby Cash is born.

Doula and I chatted for about an hour and a half about all things Cash related and I've decided to join a new mother support group (meets Wednesday mornings in May) that my Doula and another Doula are hosting.

Now, here's the daily picture of Cash - it looks like I coordinate his outfits with the Boppy pillow cover, but I promise that's just an accident. This is a little post feeding smile.

Three Weeks Ago

Cash was born.

It's strange to think that three weeks ago, he was just a few hours old right now. So much has happened in three short weeks. I find myself thinking back (actually quite fondly) to my time in the hospital with him and it just feels like forever ago.

I didn't post any pictures yesterday, so here are a few for today.

A little smirk:Bonding with Daddy:

In the most awesome hat that Aunt Tara made:

Cluster Buster

Baby Cash's sleep patterns are making it a little difficult for me to get much sleep at night.

Apparently, Day-Night reversal is very common (that's why we call him vampire baby) and usually resolves itself somewhere around week 4 to week 8. (Crossing my fingers for week 4).

Baby Cash also likes to do something else that is very common - cluster feeding. I'd never heard of cluster feeding before (not even during my birth classes), but it occurs when a baby feeds on and off for a LONG period of time. Cash likes to cluster feed from about 11:30 PM - 3:00 AM. He eats for five minutes, sleeps for ten minutes, eats for 10 minutes, sleeps for five minutes and so on. This makes sleep extremely difficult, but the books I read tell me this should be resolved as well within the next couple of weeks.

I'm not anxious for the next couple of weeks to hurry up, but I am looking forward to getting more than 2 hours of sleep at a time.

Two Good, One Bad

We had a relaxing Sunday here at the Naylor house, but I still managed to take quite a few pictures.

First the two good.

I love taking pictures like this . . .


And this . . .



And now for the bad . . .

If you'll remember Scratch loved to sleep in Lumpy's bed, but now it's Mouser who loves to sleep in Lumpy's bed - especially when Lumpy is in the bed.

In this picture, Mouser knows he's in trouble. He tries to play it off like, "Oh, I was just sunning myself in the window.", but I know he's just trying to get into that Nap Nanny.

A Run! A Run!

Well, more like . . . A jog! A jog!

For the first time in a very long time, I used my Garmin for its intended purpose (instead of as a light to keep me visible to cars.)

It was a beautiful morning for a jog, around 55 and sunny.

I left the house around 7:30 and was back (exhausted) at 8:00. I went a whopping 2.10 miles at an average pace of 12:50 per mile. Really slow, but it felt good to break a sweat and I actually felt better the second mile.

When I got home my legs felt a little like jello, but I'm looking forward to doing it again - maybe tomorrow.

Now, for the Cash picture of the day. I had intended to take pictures of Cash and Buttin in bluebonnets, but we couldn't get to the park by our house because of stupid construction. It's probably for the best, I know I'm not really kidding anyone by taking pictures in a park - we're really more "couch" people than we are "park" people. So here's a picture of Buttin, Cash and Cartman at our favorite place.