Well today was a fun day for me. I run a photography site that has a forum. So I spent some time over the weekend making a new theme for the forum that was bright pink AND backwards… In order to have some fun with the members I had to stay up until midnight so I could swap the themes right as april fools day began. Everyone got a big kick out of that I hope. Beyond that I had been growing a beard over the winter. Make sure you check out this post if you haven’t as it has a comparison between me and Dad with his beard back when he lived in Alaska. Well I also decided it would be fun to have some fun shaving it off on april fools day… So I shaved it into some nice big old sideburns and a handle bar mustache. I look horrific which was perfect. It was fun to see everyone’s reactions at work… A few people even liked it! Nikki couldn’t even look at me w/o cracking up.

When I got home Nikki and I spent some time playing with Elias on a mat we got as a gift. It was a lot of fun, and Elias can follow items now. He’s move his head from the left to the right as we’d move things across his peripheral vision which was amazing to see.

4-2-2008, 1 MONTH OLD!!!!

Elias is one month old today! Wow how time flies. He’s getting bigger. MUCH bigger. He’s already into size 1 diapers. He’s growing out of a few clothes already. He’s noticeably heavier. It’s been a blur over the last month with the lack of sleep and the hectic household but it’s also been a lot of fun for the both of us. I guess this also means there are now 31 days worth of pictures of Elias in the PAD as well as the extras from days when I’ve had more to share. It’s fun to go back and look through them.

Another Doctors Appt.?

You bet! This time Nikki had to go back to her doctor for a checkup… Everything is fine, but she’s still not back to 100%. Elias loves going places though. Anytime you put him in his car seat he settles right down. Once the car is moving he’s out like a light 99% of the time. It is weird though because Nikki rides in the back with him. So I’m a chauffeur…

Oh no, it’s almost midnight!

……..and I haven’t taken a picture yet!!! I was hanging out with Elias downstairs tonight. He was in his swing chillaxing and I was watching TV and doing some stuff online. I realized with just enough time to spare that I hadn’t taken a picture for the blog/PAD yet, so you’re stuck with this uncreative shot of him in the swing. The only light on in the room was the TV I believe… He LOVES his swing though. He’s been getting a little fussy lately and settles right down when we put him in his swing. Nikki’s felt a bit bad about it actually because she doesn’t want him to need the swing, but she called Debbie, who informed us Nikki was EXACTLY the same was as a kid… So for now he spends a lot of time moving. Carrying him around also works well, but with such a small house you get bored of walking in circles quickly. The swing has been a life saver. Or should I say swings? Debbie has a bunch of baby things at her house. A swing was one of them (check the easter post to see it again). Nikki had her bring it over so she can put him in it when she needs “personal time” upstairs!

Weekends, gotta love ’em!

Yes another post declaring how awesome weekends are. For a bunch of reasons, but let’s start with the fact I get to spend more time at home with Elias. This also means Nikki has help and can get to more things she doesn’t have time for on weekdays. Nikki let me sleep in ’till 9am this morning. Then I got up and brought Elias downstairs so Nikki could catch her morning’s nap. Elias woke up around 11am for another feeding. Then we all got ready to go out to run some errands. We pickup up a new DVD from Block Buster. We then went to Bellini maternity to get Nikki a sling for holding Elias around the house (now that he’s 10+lbs, it gets tiring holding him fast!). On the way to Dave’s we noticed a place called super supper…

We stopped by to check them out, and it’s an interesting business idea. They premake meals for you. They have them frozen and 3 serving sizes and they have these buffets lined up with ~10 options for meals to make to take home and cooked. These serve ~6 people. The meals cost about what it would cost you to make them yourself at home actually and it saves you all the prep work which is awesome. The meal cost about $5 per serving for the frozen meals and only $3.50 per person for the fresh meals (but you buy more servings). This is definately something for us to try out in the future. We brought home their chicken pot pie for dinner tonight and it was quite good. We both had one serving, and the leftovers will be lunch at work one day this week.

Then we went to the grocery store for the usual. After that Nikki drove home to see how that felt. She did fine, but it was very weird for me to ride in the back of my own car. After that it’s been a bunch of hanging out and getting the blog caught up. We also caught Fargo on one of the HD channels after dinner. That’s when Nikki caught Karat napping on my lap with Elias.