All Things Supercinski

This has been a long month. Poor Mr. Speedy was extremely fussy. He screamed every time he was in his car seat. He screamed in a bouncy seat. He screamed in the swing. It even got to where he screamed if he was swaddled and held in a baby carrier. It was a long month. He has reflux and has had to sleep upright, which means I get to wear him in the sling while he sleeps during the day, and I sleep propped up with pillows and him on my chest at night. Did I mention that it was a long month? Thankfully, things seem to be going much better after his two month checkup and a prescription antacid. I can actually lay him down to nap! It has only been a few days, so we haven’t attempted the nighttime laying yet.

Speedy began giving us lots of smiles and coos and almost giggles. He giggles in his sleep, which is just precious, even though it wakes me up since he is on my chest. He smiles at Sugar and Bud, even though Sugar can be too rough and too close to his face most of the time.

He is getting so big! He was 12 pounds and 23 inches at two months, and almost outgrowing many of his 0-3 month footie pajamas.

He likes being outside, being worn in the sling, and nurses often throughout the day. We are struggling to manage the oversupply (it seems more abundant than the past babies) and the poor kid chokes at every feeding, despite block feeding for longer and longer periods. It definitely didn’t help the reflux. Here he is with his future best bud and next door neighbor who is only four days older than him. So fun!

He is such a sweet baby, and even through all the difficulties of this month, I can honestly say that I am enjoying him as a newborn more than I have ever enjoyed a newborn. He is just so sweet and snuggly!

A sweet young lady in our church came over this week to practice her photography skills on Speedy. She captured his sweet little expressions so well, and you might notice some little rolls developing on our little guy.

There were more good ones, but the subject is not happy with a distracted mommy right now.

33. Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow – the ladies in my church have been going through this book this year. I really enjoyed reading it. I think the title is inappropriate for the content of the book, as the book is more about finding contentment. I highly recommend it to any ladies looking for a good book to read.

34. Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovic – this little gem is probably the best book I’ve read all year and the best mothering book I’ve read in a while. I felt like the author read my mind and knows my sinful tendencies perfectly. I highly, highly recommend it. I want to buy it for all of my mom friends, it was that good. One of my favorite quotes:

“When Scripture says to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, it is not talking about finding the most effective way to organize them. This is a very easy trap to fall in, because the more children you have the more difficult it is to keep them clean and clothed and fed. Just the basics are a full-time job…. Christian childrearing is a pastoral pursuit, not an organizational challenge. The more children you have, the more you need to be pastorally minded.”

35. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen – not sure where I saw this recommended, but I gave it a try. It was really trite and the writing got on my nerves a few times, but it was a really cute story with some unexpected twists. Great light reading for nursing sessions.

36. Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath – Thomas was reading this, and it sounded interesting, so I read it too. It is about what makes some ideas stick and why others fail. I learned a lot that will make me a better teacher to Bud and in childbirth and breastfeeding classes. It also makes sense why Speedy’s birth story seems to precede me everywhere I go!

37. Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward – I thoroughly enjoyed Lisa Lutz’s Spellman Files series of books last year, and I was so excited to hear she had a new book out. She wrote this murder mystery with her ex-boyfriend, each writing a chapter and then the other writing another chapter. Their footnotes in the writing to each other were hilarious. I laughed so much that I kept waking up Speedy while I was nursing.

And I’m going to count our read-aloud books of the summer, since they are real books and not just kiddie ones (I have not ever counted our read-alouds, but I enjoyed these and found myself reading ahead.)
38. The Magician’s Nephew
39. The Voyage of the Dawn Treador (twice)
40. The Silver Chair
41. The Horse and His Boy
(Bud listened to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.)