Catching up...finally.

A few things worth remembering have happened during my hiatus from the blog.

This is the third week of my Practicum placement, and it is definitely obvious when observing the infrequency of my posts. I started in a 4th grade classroom at Tates Creek Elementary on February 23rd. It took a while to settle in, but I'm getting to know the students and teacher much better now so the days are more enjoyable. This schedule has definitely thrown both Axl and I for a loop. When going to UK, my first class started at nine. My alarm would go off at 6 a.m. and I would get myself ready and Axl's things ready (diaper bag, 2 thawed bottles, cereal, etc.). I would wake Axl up at 7:30 and nurse him until about 8 when we would leave to get to Leighann's by about 8:20 so I could get him settled and leave there to make it to school on time. I now have to be at the elementary school at 7:15 every morning, Monday through Friday (I had Fridays off at UK). So, needless to say, our mornings are MUCH more difficult. My alarm goes off at 4:45 when I should get up. I usually snooze until 5 and then get up and get ready. I now have to pump his first bottle of the day before he even wakes up :( I wake Axl up at 6:25 and we leave at 6:30. Leighann gives him his first bottle at 7:30 and his schedule stays the same while at her house. I have really missed being able to nurse him when he wakes up in the morning and the extra pump of the day has made me a little more uncomfortable than usual. The days are long. I get up early and get ready for the day...come home and get ready for the next day...go to bed...get up and get ready for the day...etc, etc. I only have one week left after a brief reprieve of Spring Break next week. :) Until then I'm just trying to stay awake.

Axl started eating baby food the 21st of February. I made some sweet potatoes for him and he absolutely loves it! Since then, we've had plums, carrots and green beans. I was afraid he wouldn't like the green, but he doesn't seem to show a dislike for ANYTHING going in his mouth thus far.

THIS JUST IN....seriously....as I was typing Axl just rolled over from back to belly!! I was so afraid he was going to do it first for someone else, but I saw it!!

Anyway...shortly after the first baby food, Axl stopped pooping. The last time I could remember him pooping was on a Sunday and we ended up going to the doctor on Friday. He didn't seem uncomfortable at all except at nighttime. Anyway, the Doctor ended up just "checking" him and Axl promptly pooped for about 10 minutes straight. I never thought I'd be so happy to see someone pooping...but for some reason --I hope this isn't just me me-- but since becoming a mother I'm obsessed with all things Axl...even down to the BMs.

The Thursday night before I started my practicum placement, I woke in the middle of the night with the worst ear pain I have ever felt before. I couldn't go back to sleep and after several hours, I decided that if Tyler was going to get up and go to work the next morning, I wouldn't be able to drive myself and Axl to the doctor if I needed to, so we headed to the ER. There, they told me a bunch of stuff that made no sense and sent me home with discharge papers that said "diagnosis: ear pain". Is that not the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? By then, I was just extremely tired and I felt a little better, so we just went home. No medicine, no advice, no nothing. When we got home the pain got progressively worse. We made an appt with the Ear Nose and Throat doctor and went in...only for him to look in my ear for about 1.5 seconds and say, "your ear hurts because you have an ear infection". So he prescribed an antibiotic, but no pain medicine. It wasn't until I was on my way out to the car that it registered in my mind that he had said, "you should feel much better in about a week or two". The rest of the day continued with that extreme pain. I said afterwards that I would have rather been in labor all day, than feel that kind of pain, and I'm seriously not kidding. It literally did take about 2 weeks for the pain to be completely gone and for most of that time I couldn't hear out of my left ear...but happily, everything is back to normal now.

I think that's about it. Hopefully it won't be as long before my next post, but I'm making no guarantees. :)