It's Official

It's official. Having a baby has truly changed my life, scrambled my brain. Before this weekend, other than adjusting to less sleep, I could have argued that my life was not much different. Then it happened...this past Saturday...I FORGOT the draft. ME...just completely forgot. I remembered about 4 hours in, just in time to catch the end of the first round.

Despite the fact that it's changed me, I am enjoying motherhood. I'm loving my weekends with Jake. We've been able to spend lots of alone time on Saturdays. He hasn't weighed in for a couple of weeks, but he's definitely well over 8 pounds now.

Mother's Day weekend, we are walking in the March of Dimes WalkAmerica (www.walkamerica.org/jakerice). It terrifies me how many people I personally know who have been touched by premature births. I know that Jake is part miracle and partly a product of all of the research and development accomplished with the help of the March of Dimes. So, I'm really looking forward to working with this organization.

Okay, back to Heroes . . . which has become a television version of the X-men. Of course, I love the X-men!

Saturday Night

These days, my Saturday night's are simply thrilling. I'm still in my pajamas at 9:25 p.m. and posting to this blog. I really don't have anything to say, but did want to post some newer pictures of Jake. He is now weighing in at nearly 7 1/2 pounds. Today he's been eating about every hour and a half, so he may just make it to 8 pounds this week:) He's still on his heart monitor, but barely wearing it. He's had no real alarms since we've been home, so he now just has to wear it when he's asleep and we're not close by. We can get rid of it for good once he undergoes a sleep study. Overall, Jake is still the sweetest thing and Andy and I are still counting our blessings!!!