A New Swing for Alex

Last week I caught mastitis which is basically an infection following a blocked milk duct. Thankfully frequent feedings actually relieved the symptoms and pain. I'd have felt really terrible if I was unable to provide for Alex.  I was prescribed a form of penicillin which unfortunately brought about another type of infection. Ugh. So this morning I had to get a check up and get yet another prescription.

Matt and Alex came along so we could show little Alex off to my OB/GYN doctor. After all he's been looking at Alex ever since he resembled a sesame seed.  We figured he'd appreciate meeting him in color and 3D instead of the usual grainy grey ultrasound view.

After that we headed to Oakridge where I had to go to Target to return a couple of things and buy some essentials.  My buying/returning trips to Target never end.  Matt and I started filling out those little surveys we get on the receipts. We go so much, who knows, maybe one day we'll get lucky and win the $5000 shopping spree. I could see us spending it all in about 10 minutes. Love Target!!

We were due for Alex's next feed at around half eleven so we headed home.  He's got a great little internal clock going and gives us reminders every 3 hours just in case.

We have a room in the house we call the "playroom" which is kind of a disaster zone at the moment since we're in the process of Spring cleaning/reorganizing and we're mostly using the room as a dumping ground.  The room is really spacious and about 15 degrees warmer than the rest of the house (when it's sunny out) so I decided to feed Alex in there today.  While I did that Matt started putting together his swing. It's been on our to do list for ages.

Matt wasn't exactly thrilled with the screws Graco provided so he replaced them with his own but other than that the swing was very easy to put together.  When I met Matt he could barely tell the difference between two types of screwdrivers. Now he's Mr. Handyman.

Like most things (car seat, co-sleeper, bouncer) , Alex cried for about 30 seconds when we initially put him in the swing and then immediately calmed down and was the happiest baby ever.  There are so many features on the swing - nature sounds, different music pieces and we love the turtle mobile that hangs from the top. Thanks again to the  Turnipseedes for such a lovely present!

I'll end on the note of Inspector Mau checking out the swing: