the title of this entry has nothing to do with this post.  i don’t know what it means, but mommy told me to write it because she thinks it’s what i was thinking when daddy took this photo.  i don’t get it.  mommy says it’s something about austin powers.

anyway…  yesterday, mommy went out to get TDaP and flu vaccinations so that she won’t get sick and pass any bad germs to me.  she was worried about leaving daddy home alone with me for the first time.  but i took good care of him and we did just fine

mommy has also been really worried that i’m not eating enough.  mommy is my only source of food, but whenever she feeds me, i fall asleep after only a few minutes.  she tries to wake me up by poking me, stroking my cheeks, tickling my feet, stripping me down to my diaper, but nothing seems to work.  i get so comfy and warm when i’m curled up next to her that i just want to sleep.  and mommy won’t let daddy bottle-feed me because she doesn’t want me to get too attached to the bottle.

so today, after my bath (i had a real bath today now that my cute little belly button is all healed up), mommy and daddy took me to the hospital’s breastfeeding center.  we talked to a lactation consultant and i was weighed on the baby scale.  i’m supposed to be back up to my birth weight by tomorrow (the 2 week mark), but it turns out that i’m already 8 pounds 1.1 ounces — that’s 9 ounces more than when i was born!  i’m still only in the 31 %ile, but at least i’m packing on the pounds… errrm, ounces.  the lactation consultant said that whatever mommy is doing is working just fine and that she has nothing to worry about.  whew, what a relief!

can you believe that i wasn’t even supposed to have been born until tomorrow?  i wasn’t due to arrive until october 15!  i can’t imagine what these past two weeks would have been like if i was still scrunched up inside of mommy.  and mommy and daddy can’t image what these last 2 weeks would have been like without having me to hug and kiss all the time.