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I haven't checked LJ since we went on our trip to DC around Memorial Day, so if anything exciting has happened, please let me know, since I'm not going to be reading back entries, due to being stupidly busy lately ( Read more... )

If you were a PGE customer anytime between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2001, you may be eligible for a refund. The Oregon Public Utility Commission has revised the amount that customers should have paid for the Trojan Power Plant, so PGE is refunding the difference of $33.1 million ( Read more... )

So I kind of figured that the first word(s) Mat said would be Mama or Dada, something we said a lot, and that clearly was important to identify. I totally forgot that other word we said a lot, one that was much more interesting than either mom, or dad ( Read more... )

Mission 1: Put pantsless baby in pack n' play to give him some air and sun on his rashy butt, while I work on the yard.
Status: Epic fail.

Mission 2: Spread blanket on deck while pantsless baby crawls around, plays with toys, gets some air time for his poor rashy butt, and eventually get peed on by said baby.
Status: Epic success.

Mat's nursing strike lasted about a day, and was possibly the longest 30-ish hours of my life. I never realized how many of my good feelings about myself as a parent hinged on nursing my MatMat. I almost cried the first time he nursed while fully awake. Luckily, he was able to take a bottle the few times he needed one. It also never occurred to ( Read more... )

( Movies of MatMat in action! )

Mat decided yesterday to have a nursing strike. I can get him to nurse if he's just waking up, or if he's asleep, but that's it.

Thank goodness for ladyleo who is both helping me keep my sanity about the whole thing, and loaning me her electric pump. Mat apparently will take a bottle now, provided he gets to hold it, and play with it occasionally. ( Read more... )

Turns out, I don't have mastitis, I have ductitis. Woo! I'm supposed to be massaging the area, manually expressing from it, and keeping it warm. I got something for the pain, but really there's nothing else I can do ( Read more... )