Adventures in teething, and a wonderful night out!

And I've blinked and summer is basically over - crazy! This summer has not been like summers past for us. I have not gotten out nearly as much as I usually do. I have definitely found the third kid to be the back breaker where getting out is concerned. Getting that third child ready to go out is apparently just too much for me. The kids have been great about it. They seem to like playing in the house or just outside the house just fine. All this being hermits is about to change - come September, we will be out every single day, twice a day bringing Lynsey to Kindergarten and picking her up. I'm excited for her, but scared for me - what a hassle! I'm hoping I'll be able to adjust Nathan's schedule so he sleeps right between pick up and drop off, but we'll see how successful that will be (start time is 12:09 and end time is 3:10).

Another exciting thing I did over the last few weeks is register Lynsey in Gymnastics! I hope she likes it! We decided not to do dance this year and let her do something different to see if she likes something else just as much or more than dance. I am not willing to do more than one thing, and she seemed fine with no dance this year.

Nathan stopped nursing last week. He was down to two nursings and two bottles a day, when he all of a sudden just refused to nurse. I guess he was finding the bottle much more convenient! I'm okay with it, as I was kind of aiming to be done by 6 months, but it was a bit sooner and a bit more sudden than I had hoped. It's okay - I'm just pumping a bit here and there and it's all working out fine! It's nice to have him solidly on a four bottle a day schedule - feeding at night is no longer an issue for the most part. He has not had a repeat of his 11 hour straight night unfortunately, but he's generally only waking up once, maybe twice at night now. He's had a few 6:30 wake-ups, but I think that's just him still adjusting to no more night feedings. We just keep him in his crib until at least 7, and I try my best not to feed him until 7:30. Today he didn't wake up until 7:30 so I think he's getting it. I remember this with Adam - he was waking up early for quite a while still once he was on the 4 bottle schedule. It just eventually got later and later until he was on a 12 hour night, so I know Nathan will get there, too!

One more piece of news on little Nathan - those bottom two teeth are as good as through! I give it a few more days before they are completely out (teething is such a process!). He's been a bit finicky, not extremely fussy, but you can tell it's bothering him. Baby Orajel seems to help.

Brian's parents came over on Friday night to watch the kids so we could have a date night. It was wonderful! We were quite the multi-taskers with our night out - first went for haircuts (so nice without the kids there!), then picked up my race package (I'll explain later), then went for dinner at The Keg, then watched The Dark Knight Rises! It was a really nice night. I needed a break really badly. They stayed until Saturday and took the kids to the park in the morning as well which was really nice - they got some more Grandma/Grandpa time, and Brian and I got some time to do a few things around the house (I made babyfood - almost time to get Nathan on more than just cereal!).

I ran a 10k night race on Saturday! I had hoped my time would be a bit better, but I ended up doing it in 59:06 (my watch had the distance at 9.89k, so a full 10k would have been about 59:30 give or take). It's about the same as my time last year in this race, which is a bit disappointing - I had hoped to improve. I realize that yes, I did have a baby in-between, but I've been working so hard, running 3 times a week faithfully in a very hilly area! It's okay, though - gives me something to work towards:).

Last but not least, I have to mention that I have joined the land of the living and gotten a smart phone (Galaxy Nexus in case anyone cares:))! I love it so far! I just really don't want to be one of those people that is always on my phone, so I need to watch that. I think the novelty will wear off quickly, but I can see how it could become a bit of an obsession. Mark my words, that will not be me!