Daddy's Home!

Brian took an extended period of time off of work over the holidays and boy was Mommy and Trevor glad he was home!! It was great spending time the three of us!! We had a lot of fun things planned - shopping at Mall of America, dinner at Murray's steakhouse, lunch at Benihana, and just hanging out!! We did all that we wanted to and more!!

Here is a great pic from that time - all three boys sleeping!

One of the more exciting parts of Brian's time off was Trevor learning how to breastfeed!! We had decided to give-up on it, more or less, because it was causing too much anxiety for Sara when Trevor wouldn't latch. Then she'd have to scramble to get a bottle ready and then wait to pump. It was just too much. It was easier to simply commit to bottle feeding and pumping, which she did without complaint. However, on our trip to Macy's at Mall of America we had one round of Brian feeding Trevor with Sara pumping in the Mommy room. The next time Trevor got hungry we headed back to the area we were at when Sara said 'why don't I just try to see if he'll nurse.' At this point it had been 12 days since our last attempt and Trevor was pretty worked up from being hungry so not quite sure what Sara was thinking but Mommy instinct must have worked because Trevor latched on like a champ and nursed!!! It's been smooth sailing ever since!!! Nothing like mastering it at 4 and a half weeks old!! Yeah Trevor!!!

Another highlight of his time off was Trevor sleeping through the night - 7 hours!!! We put him down at 1 am and we were up at 6:30/7:00 waiting for him to wake up. Finally the sleepy-head did a little after 8:30am!!! What a treat!!!

Funny picture of Trevor - Sara was taking a series of photos of Trevor sleeping in his swing when all of a sudden he makes this face for one second then he was back to his calm self and sleeping. This is definitely his mad face!