On Friday we packed up the car, dog and all, and headed down to New York. Jesse's last roommate from college, Brandon, got married on Saturday in New Jersey. I was not ready to leave my child at home and drive HOURS away and stay overnight, so thankfully Bryce decided to come 2 weeks early so we were able to stay with Matt and Kara in New York and be just about an hour and a half from Adin.
We hit some traffic on the way down. I had to hop in the back seat and shove a bottle in Adin's face. I was planning to just give him an ounce to bring him through the last hour of the trip but the little man did not agree with my plan, so he took a whole bottle. While I was in the backseat I decided it would be good to pump. So I plugged my Ameda pump into our adapter and got to work. I was nervous that the adapter would not be able to handle it, but with the exception of some decrease in suction it worked well! We made a stop at Starbucks and did a driver switch...and I got to drive my least favorite narrow windy road in the dark. Our arrival time was about 6:30. Kara and I immediately switched babies and got some snuggles in. We got to see the completed nursery, and ate a yummy dinner. Adin surprised me by being hungry very early. Again, I thought a snack might make sense so I could keep him on schedule. Again, he had a different agenda. I could not tell you how many ounces he ate! But, maybe he's growing.
Saturday Kara and I took the boys out shopping and I was able to score a few necessities for real cheap as well as exchange a duplicate book that I had purchased for one that I still needed (babies R us has been having a buy one get one 50% off on Dr. Suess books so I've been trying to complete the collection of little ones). Then I started getting ready for the wedding (which I had an inkling would be fancy and I'm not in fancy shape). On the car ride to the wedding I decided it would be a good idea to pump in the car again - however this time it didn't work. The power light flickered then went out on the pump. I spent the last 40 minutes of the ride in a sweat looking up places to purchase a new pump on my phone because the ladies couldn't go the evening and night without being released. When we got to the wedding site we booked it (not really because I was wearing heels for the first time in MONTHS) to our friends room and I frantically plugged my pump in. IT WORKED! PHEW!!! Huge financial expenditure avoided!
The wedding was beautiful. The timing of events was a bit spaced out - however in Brandon and Christine's defense it was actually perfect, I'm just not used to being up and active that late and that's why I thought it was too spaced out. They had an open bar, however I only had a few sips of things so I could still pump and use my milk. We left after the cake/bouquet/garter shenanigans and headed home. I, of course, was the DD for the evening and got us home by midnight.
We found out that Adin had had some painful gas/pooping the evening before and was up quite a bit in the night squeaking in discomfort. I started to get worried. We packed up and left in a timely manner so we could get home shortly after noon. Adin was able to go over 5 hours between feedings so all the straining from passing gas or pooping must have tuckered him out! He was quite hungry the rest of the day as well, so now I'm researching changing his feeding schedule and adjusting the amount that he's getting fed. We were at just under 4 ounces (110 cc's) every 4 hours, with the very occasional 4.5 hour stretch at night. Today I am going to try 100 cc's every 3 hours and see if he can chug down a bit more before bed and sleep for a chunk of time.
Below is the first installment of pictures from this weekend. There were so many (thank you Kara for emailing them to me!!!) that I am going to break it up into two groups. That also guarantees that I blog tomorrow :)
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