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Laxius - Friday, 27 June
Hi,

We are going to the shore, or the beach as they call it in RI from 6-28 - 7-5. This is a July 4th tradition my husband's famly did when they were young and his cousins have kept it up over the years. Last year John and I decided we would bring John's sister and parents back into the fold by renting a house in the same neighborhood as his cousins. JOhn's Aunt is a nurse in a hospital birthing center and all of his cousing(3) are women with kids. John's sister does child day care for a living and my niece works in pre-school, helping her mom out at time. It works out nicely. A lot of teenagers in that family to keep us on our toes as well as a 5 year old high energy Austin and his 10 year old sweekt cousin, who I have only met a handful of times and I hate to say it, but I never remember her name. The sweetest little girl who takes everything in and won't say boo. I pull a lot of info out of her. It's very odd because the other nieces, nephews and first cousins of that generation need no help in that area. Well this year everyone is going to meet Penelope. And the tradition continues. So they make fun of me because I say we are going to the shore while they are going to the beach. All I have to say is one can swim at the Shore(NJ) because the water is actually above FREEZING!!! I tell you, after growing up and summering in Sea Bright, I thought I had no problem with cold water until I moved here. They actually sell Chowder on the beach. You don't need chowder on the beach in NJ!!!!! I remember going to Long Branch and Asbury Park to catch the fireworks and not needing a jacket. They are missing something!!!

John is upstairs with Ms. P now. This is the first night we made it through her bewitching hour with no bewitching. Are we lucky or just getting to be better parents? John found when she just won't stop crying no matter what and we know all her needs are met, we need to put her in her crib and walk away for 15 min. She will keep crying, but when one of us goes back to pick her up she is much more managable and stops crying, even if she is a little fussy. And that hungry thing!!! ON Tuesay July 17th the girl weighed in at 7 lbs 11 oz with no clothes on. On Wednesday July 25th with her clothes on she weighed in at 9 lbs. The doc expected her to hit 9 lbs mid-july! Surprise!! I thought I was loosing my mind. I would just put her down and she would be acking for more. Did you think that you weren't producing enough or there was something wrong with your breasts? I did!!!! Yesterday I pumped 1 oz of milk the first time I tried pumping. Then I pumped another ounce. The kid sucked them down in under a minute. Now I know why it takes so long to feed her!!! She is a big eater. I am waiting for her to wake so we can feed before she goes down for the night.

Tonight we bathed her and I will probably wake her at 11:30 for a twilight feeding if nothing else. Want that belly full. I will be pumping so John and I can go out next week. His parents will stay with us as usual and his sister and her two kids will come and go inbetween summer jobs and Paula(John's sister) incredibly demanding schedule. Paula's husband may come for a day too depending on what is in the mix for him. Then the cousin's who didn't rent this year will be staying with us a night of two and there will be plenty of visits from the rest of the family. After all RI is 20 minutes accross!!!! Just like Jersey, don't try to go near the ocean side at peak times because it will take a million year to get there. His entire family i scheduling time to take the baby so we can have time out together. I need to get some milk together. We could use it. We enjoy her, but we want to enjoy each other some more. We still hold hands and cuddle but not as much as pre-Penelope. Boy I have been lazy the first 40 years of my life!!!

I went shopping today for clothes for our trip. Despite loosing 20 lbs in the first 3 weeks, I still am huge!!! It's hard to not buy bigger clothes with these gigantic milk glands!!!! I still have about 20 lbs to go and need to go 15 lbs down from there!!!! It will come, I must remember that.

Don't worry about the smiles. When he hears your voice does he try to find you? I left the baby with John today and she had eaten 30 min before I came home. I walked in the door and the minute she heard my voice, the cat napping baby bobbled her head around looking for me and then cried like she had been abandonned and left to be raised by the cats. Does Ryan make the eye contact? It's all in the eyes!!!!

A lot of people are talking about the cereal in the bottle. They swear by it. I have no spit up issues and have been purely about breast milk at this point. Then again she is 3 weeks and 3 days old. My time may come. How often do you have to feed Ryan? I am not sure what the time between feedings should be beore I implement this trick. I am averaging between 2 and 3 hours, and during growth spurts it can be an hour between feedings at certain times during the day. I have found that she can go into a feeding frenzy, like a shark!!! And when that happens and I can't calm her down, I give her to John to burp her and talk to her. Someone told me this is because she smells and hears me and it mean milk. With him, she knows he doesn't have any. So she calms down for him.

I am getting better with the scenes. I had P out Wednesday from 10:30 am until 3 PM. We were at the Mother's group until 1 PM, so I could feed there and tend to baby comfortably. Then we went to the mall to look for a bathing suit to support the annoyingly ample bossom. She let out a cry like she hadn't eaten in days, meanwhile I just finished feeding her 1 hour before. So into the dressing room I went, for 40 minutes. Then I went looking for the swim suit. I heard the sound forewarning me of a massive poop. Ran back into the dressing room when I knew she was done and changed her. Bad news is there were no more diapers in her size because the mom who has it all together was using the last newborn diaper and only had premies. She realized this as she used the last wipe. I went home. My husband said I was a brave soul and he was impressed with the amount of time I spent from home. Me, I am not sure. It took a few good friends to say it's ok that when she causes her scene you can't think straight, but you have to rise above that. So much for that, when I realized there were no more diapers and she was wailing I couldn't even think straight enough to know that CVS was right next store and they carry diapers and wipes!!! I guess we have no choice but to keep putting ourselves here. The other thing I did until last monday was jump the second she made a sound. No more, I take care of what needs to be done, but I am not going to put myself on pins and needles like that. I will eventually tire out sooner and resent her or not have my ducks in a row. It's ok if she cries while I go upstairs and get a diaper or outfit. Last week I was running like apanick stricken lunatic. Not good for her or me.

I will talk with you soon!!! Sorry for the sporadic internet checking on my part. Also, have you heard from Shannondawnb?

take care you lucky, unfrozen beach goers!!!!
Val

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