What's Goin' On

Eating rice cereal

Sean with his scooter.

Lincoln at 5 months

February has been a good month. I am officially done with my job. I worked on training my replacement last week. Luckily she has a lot of experience working in medical offices, so it was a piece of cake to get her aquainted. I love being home. Now that Lincoln is getting older and more active I've realized how hard it would have been for me to keep working, and I'm glad this little blessing came. Lincoln sure has grown up the last month. He's 5 months now as of the 23rd. He is now eating rice cereal twice a day. I gave it to him last week randomly to try it out again and he downed two tablespoons of it as if he knew how to eat all along... go figure. I think he'll start liking to try other flavors soon. We'll probably wait on that for another couple weeks. But he's lovin his rice. I feed it to him in the bouncer... which might have to change because he gets so excited when he eats that sometimes I can't get the spoon in his mouth cuz he's bouncing up and down so much. haha. He also won't take a bottle. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. He started to show dislike towards it about a week before I quit. What's not good about this is that I have about 30-40 bags of frozen breastmilk in the freezer that need to be drank and replaced before they go bad. I definitely don't want all that milk to go to waste. So... I'm hoping that within the month as he grows and eats more solid food that he'll like being able to hold the bottle himself and maybe we can get him to drink some of that milk. haha...he likes the fresh stuff. I don't blame him...Lincoln is also becoming extremely loud. He screams, grunts, and squeals constantly. Crying is no longer is method of communication until he's desperate or hurt. Now he uses is voice in other ways to get our attention. Just today we went out to lunch and he screamed so loud in the restaurant I insinctly tried to cover his mouth to muffle the noise. Yikes! haha...it makes us laugh though. Not sure if it would make me laugh a year from now... :)
Another milesstone: Lincoln slept for 8 straight hours last night! That was amazing. He didn't fall asleep til 11... usually his bedtime is 10... so I think he was extra tired. Then he slept til 7. And went back to sleep til just after 10. I even woke up naturally before he did about 9:45. That hasn't happened forever! It was wonderful.
Also, after about three weeks of using cloth diapers I have decided that I really like them. It's harder to get them on correctly with two wiggling legs, but once I get it on I think it's totally worth it to being able to save the money on tons of disposibles. It works for me because baby poop doesn't really bother me...but if you gagged at the sight of it... I wouldn't recommend using cloth. :)
So, I'm finally getting into Pinterest! I never figured out why it was so addicting, but now the last week or so I've been really into it. I've made some bibs for Lincoln from a tutorial that I found. And my future project might be making homemade laundry detergent. I think my latest hobby is finding a way to save money on things you sort of have to buy. Like diapers, or soap. We can't live without them, but why not pay less for them?! And spend the extra money on something you really want! haha... or save it I guess! :)
Sean is doing really well. He is still loving his scooter and he loves his job. It says it on the back of his t-shirt--that's how I know. Just kidding. He is getting really excited about the prospect of being promoted to a management position sometime before the end of the year. The managers are working on helping him learn all the stations in the kitchen so we can soon lead the team, which is exciting. He's going to be starting the bake station soon--where all those rolls are cooked. He also goes to all the meetings with the managers on Wednesdays, which gives him a leg up on what's what with the restaurants success and needs etc.
Anyways, that's what's goin' on.