Salad, Sleep and Beet Slime

Well, It's been a productive day so far. I've got 3 loads of laundry done, our bedroom clean, and cooked a massive pasta salad to work away at over the next few days. It's a new recipe, although I've made similar ones before. It's got rice pasta, cheese, green onion, grapes, peas and ham in it... and the dressing is a sour cream/mayo base with dijon, apple cider vinegar and dill weed thrown in with some other things. It sounds kind of disgusting as I sit here writing it, but I quite like it, and know Dave will too. One thing that I love about Dave is that he is NOT a meat and potatoes man. I mean...he loves meat and potatoes, because he really loves just about all food. But, he'd go for Indian or Mexican or Italian... or just plain KD.... over meat and potatoes. I'm the same way, and it makes cooking for the both of us more enjoyable and fun. I usually pull out meat and potatoes for company, and so we have our fair share.

Anyways... so the day has been productive, yes! Jesse, who goes to bed around 6pm, then gets up at 12 and 4ish, has been dropping that first feed quite regularly for the past few months. So, I've been getting to sleep from 10-4ish most nights , then will jump back in bed for another few hours before the real morning. So refreshing and rejuvenating...that 6 hour stretch... ahhhh... I thought it would never come.

Jesse was a very sad and distressed baby all last week. He failed to poo for about 3 days...then did nothing but poo for 2 days... so I think that had something to do with his mood. I indulged in gluten ALL last week, and suspect that was causing some tummy pains for the little tyke? So, I have recommitted myself to a Celiac diet for now... So, he's back to his loud and silly self, and it's made for a much more enjoyable week. Jesse has figured out how to take little wobbly steps forward when you are holding his arms, can finally now push his upper body up, has figured out the pincer method to finger feeding himself, AND bobs his body when he likes music. It's crazy how fast they learn and change. Jesse tried out beets last night, and what a mess! I told Dave to be extra careful not to let Jesse grab the spoon cause I'm sure "beet red" is a nightmare to wash off things... So, Dave carefully navigated Jesse's tricky little grabby fingers all the way to the last bite. At which point, Jesse let out a MASSIVE sneeze with a mouth full of beets and SPRAYED red beet juice all over Dave, the table, himself, the dog, and the floor. It was so funny. Even beet covered Dave laughed. Today, Jesse ate all the beets, then burped and puked them all up. Not sure if these are signs or something??? Either way, Beet red looks very good on Jesse...


Dave and I have started the LOST Series, and I am SUPER DUPER loving it. We are both sort of suspense wussies, and so there have been a few parts where we can't watch and end up just looking at each other. Then I worry I will miss something critical, and so I embrace the fear for a 5 second count(like Doctor Jack) then force myself to watch the rest.

Poor Dave, has so much school work to do, and he gets thinking about it through the night, and sometimes can't sleep. Last night was one of those nights. He tossed and turned until about 2 am, then went to sleep on the couch cause he thought he might be keeping me up. I'm a very light sleeper, unfortunately. Once Dave gets to sleep, though, he sleeps like a ROCK. He's head butted me in the middle of the night before, and NOT remembered it. No joke.

Well, just wanted to get in some randoms for the day! thanks for reading, I'm out.