Husband: I pulled out a whole wad of your hair from the drain last night. It was like pulling out in animal.
Me: Must have been my spirit animal.
H: Must have been. It kind of growled at me.
M: Did it have teeth?
H: I think so.
Post partum hair loss rocks.
We have recently changed over from a PC to MacBook. I’m still trying to get the hang of a Mac since I haven’t used one in over 10 years.
With that we transferred over all of my pictures onto the Mac. Almost 10,000 pictures…
Just in the last year we took over 6,000. There were many birthdays, baptisms, outings, etc.
Most, if not all, my pictures are taken on an iPhone. Out of the four images the water pitcher was the only one taken with the Canon Rebel that we own. I only take it out on really special occasions since it’s bulky and heavy.
I’m loving the MacBook Pro for image storage so far. It’s a lot easier to upload pictures to the computer, edit and then upload to the blog. Maybe now I can blog more often… When I have the time. 
Things have been a little interesting here at Casa de Bridges.
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Rafael has developed a little bit of “Mommy’s Boy Syndrome”. It’s a nerve frazzling condition in where baby boy needs to be near or around his mom’s body at all times. Doesn’t matter if it’s day or night, I have to be right there with him or else he starts to cry. It wouldn’t bother me, but I’m losing some sleep because I can’t get things done during the day and I have to try to play catch up at night. I have been doing some babywearing to help ease some of his crying but he gets so hot in the Moby after a while that I have to take him out after a while. I’m pretty bummed out that the sling I bought from a “free” website doesn’t fit. Being large in the chest area has a lot of drawbacks.
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Gabriel seems to having a growth spurt every day now. I finally got around to hanging up a growth chart in his room. Last week we measured his height and this week he grew half an inch. Did I mention that he likes to stick his finger up his nose? Or that sometimes I’ll catch him trying to put something up his nose. I think he might have stuck a piece of granola up his nose because yesterday I asked him to blow his nose to get some boogers. Mid-blow he sneezed and out comes flying a huge piece of granola. My husband has a theory that he had it in his mouth when he sneezed. I think he shoved it in there. Regardless, the eyes on the back of my head needs some fine tuning.
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Zumba… The gym I go to started up a special on Zumba classes. A 10 pack runs 50 bucks on my membership… $5 a pop was too good to let it go by. The first class reminded me of how horribly out of shape I’ve let myself get. Three songs into the hour long class I thought I was going to die mid-cumbia. A slight exaggeration I know, but I couldn’t catch my breath trying to keep up with the petite ball of energy that was our instructor. However, from that class grew my love for it. I’m almost addicted. I can’t wait until the next class. My 68 year old Grandmother went to last nights class with me. She loved it despite not being able to move to the rhythm or being able to keep up with the steps. If she can Zumba, anyone can Zumba.
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The kind ladies at Bigger Picture Blogs, Melissa and Brook, have taken me under their wings for a skirt challenge. If you know me well you would know that I would wear skirts, all the time. I would pair my skirts with t-shirts, blouses, and tanks. Or I would just wear a dress even when there was no occasion to. After having Rafael I haven’t been wearing skirts or dresses. I guess I haven’t really given myself a reason to since I’m not working an outside job lately. It does get tiring to wear yoga pants day in and day out so I’m forcing myself to wear a dress or skirt at least three times a week for the next month to help myself out of the yoga pants rut. I will be posting pictures on Instagram and Twitter so watch out for #MSFlies.
Congratulations to Melissa on the birth of her beautiful baby boy!
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Monday was Casmir Pulaski Day. In my husband’s family it’s a pretty big deal. A family friend hosts a rocket launch at a golf course. Not sure why they do it but it was fun to watch. This was the first time Gabriel and I watched the launch. Rafael was miraculously sleeping through the whole thing.
Gabriel and his Papa.
Small clip of the first rocket launch. They also have the “Shamrocket”…
Setting up.
We got this onesie at Gabriel’s baby shower from a family friend. Best find ever.
Usually around this time of year I start itching to plan a family vacation. Unfortunately, haven’t had the luxury to vacation since… ever. The farthest out David and I have been together has been Indianapolis or Wisconsin Dells. I’m ready for us to go somewhere warm and tropical. Fortunately, I think we can finally make it on a bona fide road trip! Seems like anywhere within a 100 mile radius to us was hit by a huge snow/rain storm. We got a nice amount of heavy snow… finally.
Before take off the heavy wet snow.
After pushing off all the heavy snow.
I went out to dig our cars out of the snow so it wouldn’t take so much time in the morning. Gabriel’s got a play date with a girl friend early. I hate to be late to things. Anyway, isn’t the snow pretty?
Usually I’m a lover of snow, but now I’m ready for spring. Come on out Easter bunny! I’m ready for you!
I don’t know what got into me yesterday. My stress and anxiety levels were off the charts.
It might have been a little bit of Rafael putting up a nursing strike, or his eczema getting worse, or Gabriel’s cranky mood.
In just the last month if have done so much better with being a patient person. Tomorrow {today} is another day!
Speaking of nursing strike {prepare for boob talk}: this is my first time exclusively breastfeeding. We have been doing well the last month up until a week ago when Rafael started to want to eat every hour or two after going for 4 hour stretches. Yesterday morning he wouldn’t get latched on. There was a ton of crying and arching his back so I gave up and gave him his pacifier. He slept for half an hour while I held him. He woke up as soon as I put him down, of course. This went on all day. I think we only had about three “good” feedings. I’m hurting pretty bad right now and pumping is no help at all. I don’t think he’s sick so it can only mean that either he’s teething, having a growth spurt or that darn eczema is really bothering him.
His cheek this morning.
His cheek before bedtime.
Thankfully it’s just on his cheek, eyebrow and a little on his earlobe area. I’ve been trying Cetaphil lotion and Aveeno’s Baby Eczema Therapy. I guess only time will tell if it will get better or worse. Darn weather isn’t helping either. Yesterday it was 50, today it was 12. Make up your mind!
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David and I take turns getting Gabriel in the morning.
It’s on of my favorite things to do because I get to see who was evicted from his crib.
Today it was…
Elmo 2 of 3!
This kid has a zoo of stuffed animals he HAS to sleep with. It’s so darn cute.
Gabriel pulled off a hang nail from his finger. He kept telling me it hurt so I put a band aid on him. He liked it… for two minutes then he wanted it off.
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Per my request we’ve been brewing the coffee stronger around here. It’s just the way of life sometimes.
I swear I only love Dunkin’ Doughnuts pastries during Febuarary. So cute and yet so yummy.