Life is so good!

I can't believe that Riley's already 7 1/2 weeks! I feel like it's flown by (and at the same time, I don't know how we ever lived without him! It seems as if we've had him for forever)

I have a ton of pictures but none on the computer I'm using. I'll have to remedy that later. For now I'll just say that he's a growing boy (he was 10 lb 3 oz on the 20th) and oh so cute!

He's smiling and having "conversations" with us now. I love it when he stares into my eyes and coos. It really seems like he's trying to communicate something. And I swear this guy has sweet dimples in his cheeks, though of course, Ryan has never noticed them and probably thinks I'm imagining things. I still haven't been able to capture a photo of him smiling :(

I feel like I have been to the doctor more times in the last 8 weeks than in...well, you get the point. Not only have I taken Riley to his newborn and 2 week check ups, I have taken him in for having eye gunk that glued his eyelids together, and again for not having a bowel movement for a week. I never had any of these issues when Sienna was a baby...I really hope this is not a shadow of things to come. I have also been to the doctor a couple of times for myself, but I am doing really well. At my 6 week checkup I only had 12 or 13 lbs to lose in order to be at my pre-pregnancy weight. I'd like to lose 10 more on top of that (to be back to my pre-marital weight). I ordered Jillian Michael's 30 day shred and am going to attempt to do it in our tiny apartment. I've heard that it's pretty tough, but that it gets results. I'll let you know :)

Sienna had a major upheaval in her life this week-Ryan and I decided it's time to give up her binky. On Tuesday night, I snipped the ends off of both binkies and told her they were broken. She was pretty upset and kept asking for a different binky. She cried herself to sleep and we couldn't help but feel like we'd made a mistake but the next night she sucked on the broken binky without complaining, and tonight she went to sleep without the binky and without even asking for it. I don't think she's going to give it up so easily, but I'm encouraged by the progressive ease of putting her to bed. It makes us both sad, though. Our little girl is growing up. I can't for one second blink because if I do, she's going to be gone. *Sigh*