April

Time to reflect on the past month...
Cash is by far the most awesome baby in the entire world. He has really started to connect his actions with reactions. He reaches and grabs for things and can put them in his mouth. He kicks his feet and when the land on something - usually me - he notices how it feels. When he "talks" and gets a reaction out of Chandler and I, he talks more and louder.
My favorite part - really all his parts are my favorite - but one of the best parts about Cash is that he wakes up so happy. When we go to get him out of his crib he just looks up and gives us the biggest smile, almost to say, "you are exactly who i wanted to see". So many smiles out of this little dude - we can't wait until he pairs them with laughing.
He is definitely getting stronger too. He pushes himself all around his changing table and ends up at the opposite end of wherever you put him down. He refuses to put his head down - something he has done since the beginning but now it is constant. Whether he is laying in bed or sitting in his swing or you are holding him, he struggles to get his head up to see everything. He rolled over twice (says Chandler) but hasn't seemed to be able to replicate this effort. He sleeps through the night every now and again. It doesn't bother me that he wakes up at night, its actually kind of nice to just sit and watch him in the quiet.
Daycare is going well and he is charming the socks off everyone at Sylvia's. The little boys love to watch the baby and he is already better behaved than the little girl! He eats about 6oz every 3 hours - I'm working hard to keep up with that demand - and he gets to play on the mats with the other kids for a few hours.

4/23 Last night Cash slept through the night. I put him in bed at 10pm and had to get him up at 5:30am. good boy.
4/24 He did it again! next we move him into his crib.

Rolling

Cash is so close to rolling over we can taste it. He did it twice for Chandler but i missed it. We couldn't get him to do it again though - but he came close.

That's Pumpin' Hillarious!

Pumping at work is just cause for hillarity.
Everyone at WMC brings frozen lunches because getting in and out of the parking lot is such a hassle it takes 2 hours to go out for lunch - and we all know the HR Manager isn't going to stand for that!! So yesterday I was sterilizing my pump parts in a microwave steam bag and our very friendly man-ceptionist asked me what was for lunch - I guess he assumed that if i was putting something in the microwave it was probably a Lean Cuisine. I replied, "oh, just some steamed things." hee, hee, hee.
Also yesterday as I was leaving the office for the day a co-worker was passing me in the hall just as I was coming out of my office door. My pump was sitting on my desk in the big black case it comes in and the nice person looks into my office and kindly let me know that i had forgotten my purse. They went on to add that motherhood makes you forgetful.
Well I guess motherhood does make you forgetful because on Monday the tiny little ounce that i did manage to pump after having the stomach flu all weekend was left sitting on my desk after I got it out of the freezer to take it home. From the car I called my poor intern and asked her to put it back into the freezer for me. I bet that wasn't in her job description!
More to come from the land of boobs

Boob Job

There are boobs and there are jobs. At some jobs there are boobs. At my particular workplace there are three boobs that currently matter. Two are mine and they need to be pumped every 3 hours for mine and my child's health and happiness. The other is the Human Resources Manager - she is a real BOOB. I have asked her repeatedly for a place to pump. My request has been simple and my needs moderate - a private room, an electrical outlet, a table (or even a box) and one chair. I started work on Monday and nothing...Tuesday, nothing. Tuesday I was informed that someone needed to use the room they were going to let me use so I would have to use the conference room (thats right, the conference room with all those windows, especially the floor to ceiling window overlooking the lobby; yes the conference room that i'll be kicked out of each time there is a meeting). Before learning of this however the HR Manager called me "haughty" and "out-of-line" for reminding her how important this decision was for me and that it wasn't an option - I will continue to breastfeed. In a tone that I still cannot believe, she told me she didn't care about my decision. She didn't care because she doesn't have children and my decision doesn't mean anything to her. Thats right folks, you heard me. The HR Manager said she didn't care about my decision. I'm not asking her to care about my decision but I am asking her to care about one of her employees' needs (isn't that her job?).