I have really enjoyed our morning routine and so thankful I can be home during this time in our child's life.  Tank will nurse about 5 am ish and I can put him back down until 8 am.  If we don't have to be anywhere I nurse him again at 8 am in our bed and we watch the Today show together.  He is really interested in tv these past 2 weeks!!  uh oh!!  We'll usually stay in our pjs for  most of the morning.  That is why a lot of pics you see posted are in his pajamas!

Today he woke up at 5 am to eat and I put him back to sleep, got dressed and went to the gym.  It worked great!!  Chip gets up at 6 am and starts working from home and carried the monitor with him.  I was gone about an hour, got home, ate breakfast, took a shower, laid back down for about 15 min. before Tank woke up at 8am.  He is now taking his morning nap (a new thing!) and its been about an hour!  I think I am going to try this 2-3 times a week since it gets dark so early these days!  We'll see...

I clipped his nails for the first time on 10/24. I usually just file them down because I get so afraid of clipping too much and he doesn't sleep much for me to do it then.  Trysta and Joe were scheduled to arrive later that day so I took the plunge.  It went great.  His nails grow so fast and he nicked himself the day before.  Trysta and I have a joke about inspecting his nails/fingers/toes for "toe jam!"  He gets those fuzzies between his fingers and toes all the time!!  So I "floss" between them with a baby wipe to get him clean each day!  LOL

Tank loves shopping and is much better at restaurants these days!  Grammie came up this past weekend 10/24 and we ate at TGIF.  We had an adventurous time changing the diaper in the ladies room and all was well.  He stayed up and socialized and Grammie took him for a walk while we took turns eating.  Sometimes he'll sit and keep entertained in the carseat and sometimes not!  We stopped at Joann fabrics to order his last frame from his newborn photos and the sales lady tried to get him to smile,etc. and he wouldn't take his eye off me!!  So funny!!  I love that he is a mommas boy!!

I keep going back and forth about using the breast pump.  Our goal is to start cereal after Christmas once we return home from visiting family on both sides for the holidays- less to hassle with while we travel.  I want to mix the cereal with breast milk so I eventually have to do it.  Right now I plan to just get some supply in the freezer and we'll see where it goes from there.  Nursing is going so well I don't want to give him the bottle, just go to the sippy cup of breast milk when that time comes. Fingers crossed.