Up On The Rooftop

Rex and I haven't gotten to see too much of Rob lately- here's where he has been hiding.



I think I mentioned a few months ago when the snow started to melt that we discovered we had a leaky roof over a portion of our garage/four seasons room. The power to our house also came in at that area on the roof and into the attic so we had to get all our electrical undergrounded. Now that the undergrounding has been completed, Rob has been working on re-roofing the leaky half of the garage. We got some quotes from roofers to do it but with Rob doing it, it's saving us lots of money. LOTS. Still, I think if he had it to do over again, he may have opted to just pay someone because it turned out to be more difficult and time consuming than he imagined. He's stopped giving me estimates of when he thinks it might be done but I really think it's going to be soon. None of us have enjoyed him spending all his free time in the evenings and weekends up on that roof. But yay for saving money and him almost being done!

Rex continues to be doing very well. He's getting something of a schedule going now which includes two 2.5-3 hour sleeping periods in the night. He goes down around 11:00 or 12:00 at night and then wakes up around 2:00 or 3:00. Feeding and related business usually takes about an hour then it's back to sleep until 5:00 or 6:00. That's not so bad- I can definitely live with that. And some mornings he'll even sleep a little more after that feeding but not for so long. I watched an episode of Baby Story on TLC today- something I never did while I was pregnant and for good reason. The lady on there today looked like she was about to pass out because of all the pain and then it turned out she was only dilated to 2 cm! She was asking for the epidural already. Then it kept wearing off and by the time she got to 9 cm, they couldn't give her any more drugs because she had already asked for too many. Yikes. She ended up having a boy that was almost exactly the same size as Rex. I don't know if she was a total wimp or if I was just pretty tough or I had it easier but my goodness- my labor experience seemed to be a ton better and easier than hers. Glad I didn't watch that show before Rex was born or I probably would have been terrified!

Here's a photo of Rex from this morning. He's gotten so much bigger and his legs and arms and face- everything really- are all filling out so much. I wish I had a little baby scale at home to weigh him but I guess we'll just have to wait until he goes back to the doctor for his 2-month check up.