after more than a month of not posting, lots has changed in baby world. the most exciting thing is that adams is basically sleeping through the night at this point. he's been doing that for about a month i think. also exciting is that he has a new attitude. he spent the first 8 weeks of his life being a real crank. he had his moments of "charmingness", but basically he was tres unpleasant. at his 2 month appointment, we learned why. he had only gained a few ounces since his 1 month appointment which is obviously an issue. the doctor didn't see anything wrong with him otherwise but still was slightly concerned and had us schedule a 3 month appointment which is usually unnecessary. in the first couple days after the appointment, we realized that he was not getting enough to eat. uh, duh. within days of being fed more, he was a new man. and at his 3 month appointment yesterday he had gained 2 lbs! he's got meat on his bones now. so i shant be complaining about a happy, sleeping baby.
we got a new car last month. the car we had was just too small to fit a car seat. i had no idea a car seat would take up so much space. i basically had to sit with my knees up to the dashboard b/c the baby sat behind me. anyway, the new one has a good bit more space and is similar to the last one, just the model above it. oh, and it's a station wagon.
we've been on a couple trips in the last month or so. in july, we went to wilmington, delaware. joe had to drop something off there for work so we went up with him. it was a 3 hour trip and the baby cried the whole way. it was dreadful. but he was just as charming as could be when we got there. we spent the night and after joe had dropped his stuff off, we walked around wilmington. it's actually quite a nice place. it's pretty small but charming nonetheless. after that, we went driving around since the baby likes the car so much and found ourselves at one of the dupont family summer homes. it was incredible. the grounds were huge and the gardens really cool. most of them were informal but very nice. there were lots of rare trees and a giant sycamore. there was also a very fancy museum. the place was very well kept up and obviously very well funded. we didn't go in the house since it took so long to walk around the grounds but it was absolutely huge. highly recommended if anyone ever finds themselves in delaware. and the other trip we took was a couple of weekends ago. we decided to get out of town for a while since it was blazing hot so on saturday we drove over to west virginia. we spent the day in thomas, wva. it's a little, old mining town on a river (not sure which). there were cute stores and a neat restaurant/coffee shop that used to be a general store. there seemed to be a real hippy presence in the town i guess b/c it's on a river/near trails/in a skiing area. that evening we went to a brewery where the band cracker of 90s fame just happened to be playing. we didn't stick around for the show b/c we had the baby. afterward, we went back to our hotel and put the baby to sleep and played scrabble (i won). the next day we drove around a bit and went to black water state park and did some exploring. there was a great waterfall there. that trip was kind of practice for the big trip home next week. knowing that adams hates the car, we thought we'd do a practice run. this trip was much better. we ended up getting a new car seat and i spent some of the time sitting in the back with him once he got frantic. i'm really not a fan of back seat sitting with babies but it sure beats a hysterical child. anyway, it was much better than the trip to delaware and i've got my fingers crossed that the trip to michigan will be even better.
