Latest on my family's life

As I titled this post I noticed that it hasn't been often that I've said "my family" in reference to my phil-me-oliver family.  Usually it was in reference to my parents, John, and me.  I guess when Phil and I got married it didn't seem like a family yet; 2 people?  It seemed incomplete and Oliver seems to make us into a family.  Strange because I always tell my students that there are all kinds of families and some are huge and some are very very small even 2 people...  but I guess it's hard to believe what I'm telling them myself because growing up 2 people never constituted a family for me.  I think it's important for kids to view 2 people as a family though because what if they grow up and realize they're infertile or something and for whatever reason can't adopt?  I would hate for them to think they couldn't be a family.

1 Year Wedding Anniversary Approaching

This should be a big anniversary, that 1 year one.  Still in the honeymoon period of our marriage, still all happy and having climbed over the initial hurdle of the first adjustment to living together...  I actually know a friend-- Georgina-- who has completely mapped out her entire married life seriously-- I mean she has the wedding all planned out from the dress to the food, figured out payments for musicians, seriously eeeverything.  And she doesn't even have a boyfriend!  I never planned like that for my own wedding even though I knew who I was marrying for years before the marriage.  Now I'm trying to plan for an anniversary present with only a few weeks' time and my brain feels like  a dried up raisin.  I definitely wanna give something meaningful and sweet to my husband but can't think of anything that won't either cost lots of money or take lots of time, neither of which I have "lots" of.  I'll come up with something good though.  I really just wanna go out and spend a wonderful day together!  If Oliver wasn't nursing I wouldn't mind so much but I don't want him to be stuck with a bottle all day all of a sudden once.

Oliver's Sleep Habits Lately

So By going out as soon as he gets fussy at 5 I eliminate fussy time on the whole.  We went out tonight and he fell asleep as soon as we were out the door within 1 minute despite the cold slush and freezing rain (I was frickin cold but he was just fine and toasty warm in his carseat).  Then we came back and ever since he's been eating, sleeping, eating, sleeping, and being very happy.

I think that the best way to keep him happy is to make sure he gets his 4pm nap, and make sure he's home by 6 or 7 so he can go to sleep for the night.  But really ideally he should be home by 4 and then in for the rest of the night excepting his nightly outdoor walk at fussy time (whenever that turns out to be-- 5, 6, or 7) maybe to a nearby store or something.  But not out anywhere in the evening.   That makes it rather inconvenient for people who wanna have us over for dinner or see him after work but oh well.  I read about how to not be tied down with a baby while sleep training but it doesn't work for oliver.  He's not stupid-- he KNOWS when he's in a foreign place and he wants to either be home nestled in his own co-sleeper, or he wants to be awake (and fights sleep angrily) to see all the action in the new place.  Covering him with a blanket, singing to him, soothing him...  they don't pull the wool over his eyes that easily.  Oh well; I have so much to do at night I don't mind being home in the evenings.

Wow

These blogs take a long time.  I dont' know where people find the time to keep them up daily.  Holy moly.