Wow, Eli is growing and changing so fast. So several things have happened since our last blog. Joe and I took Eli to his first Yeand family reunion at the cabin on Rough River in Kentucky. It was a 5 hour drive and on the way there he was crying quite a bit. But while there amoung the many nurses and mothers they managaed to get Eli to sleep in a pack 'n play by himself. It was amazing getting to 2 nights of sleep in the same bed as my husband without a baby crying all night. However, once we got home he decided he didn't like his pack 'n play. It was good while it lasted. A couple days after we got back Eli had a checkup for his surgery. Amy took the bandage off and it looked great. Then the same day he got his shots! He was so mad about that, but did a lot better then I expected him to once we got home.
He continues to smile more and more and is awake longer throughout the day. He is now 3 months old and still giving us quite a problem with the sleep routine. He does not want to be alone for long at all. So Joe and I are still switching off being next to him half the night each. Everyone keeps telling us different things on how we SHOULD be dealing with this problem and that we should just let him be by himself and cry. But it kills us to let him do that since Joe has to work in the morning and has to get some sleep and Eli doesn't give me a chance to sleep during the day so we are just surviving the sleeping issues for now.
In the past couple days he has started to stick his tongue out all the time when he's happy and it is so cute.

Eli Update: 13 weeks old, 12 lbs

Picture Update #1

Here are some more pictures if you can't get enough!

Got Milk?

Well, this has been quite a week. It started off bad with me running a high fever over the weekend through Monday. Then it was a busy week with getting ready for Steph and Tom's wedding running back and forth from Indy, doing nails, having lunches, rehearsal and dinner, then finally the big day. Joe and I turned over Eli to the grandparents for 2 whole nights while we remained in Muncie for the wedding extravaganza! It was both stressful and wonderful not having Eli connected at my hip for 2 1/2 days. So I went to get ready for the wedding at the church, I pumped twice be fore going out for the ceremony and of course I begin leaking in the dress before we even walk out. Thankfully, it was not going all the way through so no one could tell but me! Sitting in a wet dress through the whole celebration, then pictures, then the first dance and cutting of the cake I finally ran to the bathroom to pump and change into another dress I had brought just in case. As I stand in the stall my batteries die so there was no pumping. I change clothes and within an hour I had leaked all the way through the new dress and it was more obvious then the last, but I couldn't do anything about it so I didn't. Lesson learned: ALWAYS BRING BACK UP BATTERIES!!!

So on Sunday we trucked it home to prepare for the dreaded surgery. Bright and early Monday morning we made our way to St. Vincent's and with Eli now in his 4th hour of not eating when he normally he eats every 2 he was a very unhappy camper. The crazy surgent came in and drew a smiley face on his hernia. Eli was in and out of surgery in about 30mins. When he was brought to us he was so sleepy from the anastesia we were doing everything to wake him, but had no luck for probably a good 10mins or so. So, now we are home just trying to heal and he is doing much better then we thought as far as being upset. Here is a picture of Eli with his St. V's bear and his battle wound!

Eli Update: 10 lbs!!!