Thursday, June 10, 2010

Ha! Ha! That's Funny.


Susanne forced herself to stay awake until the 3:00 am feeding. She knew that if she did not do this, she would not wake up.

Paxton slept a lot more than he usually did, but that was probably because it took him so long to settle down last night. Susanne just let him dictate to her what he needed and she followed orders.

Susanne was in the middle of pumping when she heard the people that take care of her lawn show up. They were supposed to come on Friday mornings like they had been for the last few weeks. It wouldn't be such a big deal if she did not have a dog that she needed to clean up after. The company was asked to please call before they came so that Susanne could make sure that James was not outside and that she had time to pick up his stool from the yard. She had to stop what she was doing and rush outside to try to beat them before they got to the backyard. She was successful.

Susanne was running on empty. Even with seven hours of sleep on Tuesday night, it was not enough to make up for all of the countless days of limited sleep. Also, Susanne was bummed to find out that Colleen would not be coming over for "Pajama Party Thursdays", but she understood because she had a concert to go to. Susanne tried to remember the days when she could just leave the house to go live it up. Hopefully, Colleen would have a drink in honor of Susanne. Susanne was all mopey until Scott surprised her by coming home. He must have been running on empty too. They were able to fill each other's tanks immediately after just being able to embrace each other. It felt good to be in each other's arms again. Two weeks was definitely way too long to go without seeing one another.

Paxton's daddy got to play with him quite a bit before it was time for him to go down for the night. Scott was able to see all of the great progress that Paxton was showing. Scott could tell that Paxton was attempting to roll over on his own. After minutes of being super silly, Scott was able to get Paxton to laugh for the first time. He has one funny daddy. Of course, his laugh was in response to monkey noises just like what Susanne had done to get him to smile. The best part was that they were able to capture it on the video camera. It was awesome that they would be able to relive that moment forever.

When it came time to put Paxton to bed, Susanne played him a CD that she got earlier that day from her cousin, Kendall, and her family. Paxton loved listening to music before falling asleep and he was excited to have some new tunes.

After Paxton was in a deep slumber, Scott assembled a mobile that they had purchased for him. He loved to stare at objects especially if they were in motion. Hopefully, this would help to strengthen his motor skills.

Scott and Susanne were in heaven. They were able to cuddle on the couch and watch some TV before heading off to bed. It was amazing that just seeing each other for the short time that they had, recharged them to be able to get through another week. Love was such a powerful thing.

1 comment:

Kimberly Westrich said...

Such a happy post! I'm glad Scott was able to come home and surprise you. In the past few days all of your posts since May 20th have popped up (all the June ones through the 12th popped up tonight). It's so good to be able to catch up on Paxton's adventures. Take care and don't beat yourself up over the little things. You are doing a great job with all of the big things :)