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Todays post is brought to you by the number 51 and the letter G.

AT WORK

Last night I had to close at work.  I’m closing 3 nights a week now (except for the weekends I’m off, cause one of my closing nights is Sunday) and I hate closing because so much of it involves cleaning up the crap that has been left behind by hundreds of shoppers in a given day.

One of the first things I had to clean up last night was barrets.  We have recent gotten a barret/hairbow section with our ribbons.  Customers have been asking for such things forever, and now its there.  Of course the first thing they do is trash it.

I counted them.  I often count things when I have to put up lots of them.  It helps ease the tedium….and prove I can count over 10 without using my toes.

Last night I had to pick up 51 packets of barrets/bows and re-hang them.

I don’t know if it was one person who pulled them all off.  A bored child maybe.  Or the work of several customers over the course of the day.  But that was a lot of putting back I had to do!

AT HOME

Do babies come with a warranty?

Do husbands?

Seriously, one or the other of them is going to have to go, because taking care of both of them is starting to make me pull my hair out.

Not really.  I’m not pulling it out, its falling out on its own.  In handfulls.  Its stress related.  It usually only happens around the holidays, when work is killer.

Speaking of the baby…

Parker turned 4 months today.  Okay, he’s probably a little under 4 months seeing as how February is oe of those short ones.  But he was born Nov. 18th, so his month-days are always the 18s for me.

We threw him a surprise party:

And afterward we threw him in a zoo cage full of rabid farm animals.  They have photographic evidence that we’re bad parents, but it was worth it to be on the 6 o’clock news.

PS

In case my subject/title confused you, its in reference to Prince’s song “Raspberry Beret” whose lyrics I’ve always misunderstood.  It’s a funny people, humor me and laugh.

PSS

No farm animals (or babies) were hurt in the process of creating this blog entry.

Ever since we brought Parker home from the hospital he has cried.  If he was awake, he was crying, unless he had a bottle in his mouth.  He hardly slept, and cried from the second he woke up to the second he went down.

People told me he was probably gassy or had colic and gave me lots of ideas of how to soothe him, and nothing worked.

Also, he was spitting up a lot of his formula, passed A LOT of gas, and his poops were all liquid.

I was concerned that maybe his formula was disagreeing with him.

He got to go to a doctor a couple of days ago, after I finally quit trying to contact the PED who had seen him in the hospital.  I’d been trying to get a hold of her since Before thanksgiving with no luck, so I finally just chose another doctor.

The doctor asked me about his sympotms, then asked what I was feeding him and listened to his enitre little body with a stethescope.

He said he thinks Parker is lactose intolerant and said we should try changing his formula.  He said it could take 5 days to a week to notice any real difference.

Well, here we are a couple of days later.  Parker slept 7 hours last night, was up for 3, and has been asleep ever since (exept when I wake him up to feed him).  He’s not passing gas as much (only one poot so far today) his poop is still soft, but is much more solid than it was, and he’s not spitting up as much after he eats.

He still seems to be fussy when he is awake, but overall changing his formula seems to have helped.

Here I go, being all “mommy blog”ish again.

After some up and down and back and forth, and arguments over prices and the like, hubby and I finally settled on a crib and changing table.  We ordered them from BabiesRUs.

This is my crib:

It is: Storkcraft Rochester Convertible Crib with Drawer - Natural by Storkcraft Baby  It is the one thing I REALLY wanted in a crib.  Its convertible, meaning it will go from a crib to a day-bed to a full sized bed.

I also like that it has extra storage in a drawer UNDER the crib, because as of right now this baby has more blankets than any southern born baby I’ve ever known (and more still coming from his gramma).  Not only will I have the warmest baby in Savannah, I’ll also have somewhere to store his blankies.

The changing table is also by Storkcraft.

The Storkcraft Aspen Dresser/Changer Combo is also a piece of furniture that will grow with the baby, going from a changing table into a “big boys” dresser with ease.

The colors don’t match exactly, but beggers can’t be choosers.  Plus, these are all we could find that we BOTH liked since the local BabiesRUs decided to stop carrying the crib and changing table combo that we wanted to buy.   One day we went to look and make sure its what we REALLY wanted.  It was.  A couple days later we went back in with the cash to buy them and…poof…they were gone.

We also bought a stroller, which is in the nursery waiting to be put together right now.  I can’t find a picture of it online, so you’ll have to wait till we get it built to see what our little one will be traveling in style in.