Anyway, this week finds us on the year anniversary of finding out I was pregnant/D getting into the P.D. It’s very weird to think that last year we were just finding out, and kinda scared/nervous/disbelieving, and now here he lies, sleeping on his mat on the floor all 26 (or so) inches of him, and probably around 18lbs by now.

He has his four month check up next week, although he’s officially four months old tomorrow. He’s outgrowing 3-6 mos old clothes now, and into 6-9/12, depending on their weight category. There are still some brands of 3-6 he’ll fit in, but not many. We’re also having to see about upgrading his car seat, given the one he’s in is only rearfacing/suitable for 20lbs children, and he’s not old enough to go into a front facing seat yet, has to be at least a year, and the only other seat we have is front facing. We’ll get things sorted now.

I’ve been working also on my own business websites, given this month we’re planning on getting my occupational licenses. While D has been working a trying case for the PD for two weeks now, with quite a bit of overtime, which is the only good part of it. It makes me feel bad that I’m happy for the overtime, when it comes out of such bad circumstances for someone.

He’s officially teething. We’re having fussy, cranky, drooly baby, and I felt some toothy shaped bits in his top gums. He seems to be having a hard time of it poor mite, but we have Hylands Teething Tablets, which Mum thinks must be like ‘cooling powders’, and I’m trying to track down some Anbesol, because he’s too young to use Orajel.
I’ve also been giving him some Children’s Tylenol at night so that he can sleep, as it takes down the fever that he has, so that he can rest. He’s definitely not happy about this whole process and makes sure that we’re well aware of it but trilling and yelling very loudly at every opportunity.

Hopefully this shall soon be over. Although I’m sure on Tuesday after he has his shots as well, he’s going to be very VERY unhappy, and we won’t get any peace.

I’ve added another couple of sections to the photo album of him, a page of 3 mos photographs and a bit of video as well.

My parents are going to be back in the state by next week. It’s been so weird with them gone, even though I don’t live with them any more. Mum is afraid that Declan won’t remember her when they get back, but I don’t think it’ll take too long for them to bond again.

I’ve been having my own quandries due to car seats and high chairs and money and everything. This next week we need to get my occupational licenses paid for, and that’s going to be the major thing, so that I can advertise, apparently it’s free on yellowpages.com, and also so we can things moving, but it’s also important he has a car seat and a high chair. One of the ladies we know had given us money to get him a highchair, but well, that was when he was three weeks old, and because of breastfeeding issues buying things for bottle feeding became more important, and so that and diapers is what the money wound up being spent, although later I set the equivalent aside in our savings account to use for baby things.

Anyway, thanks to the lovely ladies on punkymoms.com I have a few other options to look into, like a highly recommended carseat from Cosco which is apparently on sale right now, and the highchair I had seen there that was about the same price and, I think, Cosco brand as well. So, that’s something to look for, if I can’t track down a place that does ‘car seat swap’ in the area. Last time we’d looked at carseats, when we thought neither of the ones we’d been given were going to be suitable (one of the ones some ‘friends’ gave us was full of roaches!! Ugh…) then thankfully the one we have now was uncovered and was not full of roaches, and the other one is front facing only…so no good for right now.

Anyway, when we’d been looking then they were expensive, or they came as part of strollers only and were over $100.

In good news, I didn’t have to recertify for WIC, which was a blessing given the government still hasn’t come through with Medicaid, and without that I get auto-banned. They just printed me two more months worth of checks and we’re good until October 22nd. If that hadn’t happened we’d definitely be pleading for a car seat somewhere, given that’s at least $170 a month that saves us, and most of that is formula.

I still have some bills for my one webdesign client, hopefully she’ll pay me and that money can go towards the car seat.