Loooooong Week

"Hey, this bumbo's kind of fun!"

"But my head's getting a little heavy, Mom."

"Get me out of this torture contraption!"

"Daddy and my paci to the rescue."

"Daddy's a weirdo."

This week has been a little rough at the Baker house.  Otis has obviously decided that he's not getting enough attention now that I'm back at work, and throughout the week managed to destroy quite a few clean diapers, an entire pack of wipes refills underneath our bed, a burp cloth, and as his grand finale, chewed halfway through the shoulder strap on O's car seat.  On top of that, Olivia's been uncharacteristically cranky, and seems like she's in a lot of pain during her afternoon and evening feedings, which I myself diagnosed as possible tongue tie and then later ruled that out with professional help--thanks Angie and Jayna for humoring me!  For now, I'm going with the theory that her reflux is getting worse.  

The nurse at the clinic convinced me, against my better judgement, that I should bring her in to see the doctor--I really didn't want her in the same waiting room with flu kids, but they gave me the first appointment of the day so we'd be the only ones there.  I talked to this doctor for a while (this was the first time we'd seen this particular doctor), and he said that if I didn't think the Zantac was working well, I could just take her off of it.  (INSIGHTFUL!)  He also said that I could try switching her to soy, but that she obviously didn't have a milk allergy.  (SO, WHY SWITCH?!)  When I said that I'd heard Prevacid works better for a lot of babies and that I'd like to try that, he said that she cried only a relatively small portion of her day, and that they didn't put babies on Prevacid unless they cried all day long every day. (SERIOUSLY?!)  As he sent me on my way with no more information than before, I noticed on my billing sheet under "Diagnosis" he had hand written "fussy baby."  (YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!)  I may be switching clinics now.

To top the week off, the Hogs let Houston Dale and the Rebels run all over us.  We're so much better than that, but just didn't show up for the game Saturday.  

Oh, and Colin had to clean off our computer a couple of weeks ago because it was being slow, so when he plugged in my iPhone to update it yesterday, I lost everything--contacts, apps, photos, everything!  

Now that I've vented, there have been a few good moments this week.  Some were caught in the pictures above.  Also:

1.  Colin and I had our 4th anniversary, and he babysat while I got to have a massage!  I really needed that!

2. Hillary had little Miss Arden Grace on our anniversary, and I was so excited to meet her. Holding her really did make my day.  She was very close to O's birth weight, and I totally forgot just how teensy that is!  She and Olivia are going to have so much fun together.

3.  Got a text this morning from Tami saying that baby K's on his way.  I'm so excited to meet this little guy too!

For those who don't know, Hillary, Tami and I work together in an office of only 11 people, and were all pregnant at the same time.  I just made it back from maternity leave, and now they're both out!