ole schnikees: baby ole

i can't believe we've had trevor for 3 weeks! he's so awesome!! and i finally remembered that we got blocks from the burge's to take his picture with so i hope to continue those now.

he had his first diaper/peeing little boy incident this week; and actually ended up having a couple of them. momma & daddy quickly learned to cover that thing up at all times :) the first time was when i was changing him on the couch. he peed on my hand, all over himself including his face, and on the couch a little bit. the second time was on daddy, himself & grama's couch.

we got a ton more snow this week (9-12 inches) on top of the ton of snow we already had. when we were at mom's over the weekend, the piles along the driveway and the amount in the backyard were more than i had seen since i was little. and my brother actually said the same thing. crazy. it's also still very cold!! and will be this next week too. the average temp is 32, we're in the single digits most days and colder if there's wind. :(

we took our first "road trip" as a family and headed up to the cities on saturday afternoon. the big snow storm was on thursday and the roads were still not great by the time we left. saturday night al and i went to akita for sushi for our valentine's & my birthday dinner. then trevor and i went to bed early. sunday we ran to target and old navy (daddy's still got his sympathy weight and needed new jeans :]). then we went to kunde (the johnson's) house for the daytona 500 party. always good to see my friends! sunday night we went to papa's house so trevor could meet his great grandpa; papa was so happy & excited & just kept saying "thanks for bringing him over." we also got a picture of the 4 generations of francis's (middle names). papa also told me that he gives more money for the 2nd baby :) i told him it might be a while for that, to which he said, "gives me reason to stick around then!" :] then monday, gina took trevor's new born pics at her studio in downtown st paul, and they're so cute! even tho someone would not sleep for gina :) although he is older than she likes to do for newborn pics.

tuesday, we headed into eau claire to have lunch with my coworkers and so they could see trevor. since i won't be going back to work there, i also grabbed all the rest of my stuff. kind of bittersweet. i'll miss the people but definitely not working for menards.

trevor had some issues with being gassy this week too. both at mom's and then at home; monday night, he was up every 10-15 minutes from 2-5 am fussing. no good. turns out i should have done some more research on food i should avoid while breastfeeding because i had eaten broccoli and cabbage multiple times that week, and these 2 are on the top of every list i've seen for gassy veggies to avoid. i will be avoiding those for a while now. i've been avoiding dairy for the most part already and will continue to do that (i do that normally anyway) with the exception of yogurt. after just 1 day of avoiding the broccoli and cabbage in our fridge made a world of difference. tuesday night he slept in 4 hour increments all night, which meant i only had to get up twice and then at 8 am! so nice! i think that's partly from him being so tired too but i'll take it!

he likes bath time a lot more now that i figured out to put

a warm wash cloth on his chest/tummy to keep him warmer.

he splays out his hands/fingers like that when he's cold or

shocked by noise :)

skinny little legs :]