Bruce-ness

Last night I decided to go up to bowling with Bruce. Our team was bowling the team that one guy (our age) has a son 3 weeks younger than Bruce and his wife was coming up with him. It was cute to see the two together. They both have the same amount of hair. It was funny, when we first got there, Roger’s cousin was holding him at the other end of the lanes. I didn’t really want to go down there cause I didn’t want her stealing Bruce. Well I was talking to the mom (Dayna) and she goes "Oh I better go get him, he’s crying". She comes back and he’s still "crying". Later on Roger and I were laughing cause his cry is just a peep. Bruce has a set of lungs. Like I said, for the second he was born, I knew he was mine. Those set of lungs are so I can hear him.

Even one time a few months ago I went to my cousin’s (with June baby) and she had a friend there that I knew. Bruce was napping on the floor and when he woke up he just let out a cry. The friend said "wow, that was loud!" I laugh. That’s my boy! Although when we’re out and about and he does that, everyone looks. Oh well. But that little boy’s pip squeak. I would have trouble with that. My cousin’s girl i sn’t that quite. She’s not as loud as Bruce but not much quieter.

It was cute seeing the two boys together. Bruce was squealing with excitement. Westin on the other hand wasn’t that into it. He was getting tired. I guess he goes down for the night an hour earlier than Bruce and it was getting close to that time.  We couldn’t set them on the floor there either, ick.

Saturday, I come home from work to find that Bruce has taken up crawling while I was gone. Like CRAWLING, not the roll to get somewhere or inch. He’s using his knees. Now we’ve been closing the babygate.

I’m going to try to pump bottle more, just do a morning and nighttime feed. I think I need to start trying to get him off me. It’s so easy and convenient to just feed him. I just feel by summer, when we go to the cabin, I don’t want to be breastfeeding anymore. I know some people at this point just switch to formula and I’d rather not do that since my supply still seems to be good. It would be nice to go somewhere and not have to excuse myself to feed him or give him a bottle and that means I’m skipping a feeding. Formula is so expensive, so I’d rather not do that since my supply is still fine. Maybe I will at 9 months. IDK.

I get paid every other week. I’ve been trying to put $10 into my savings since I don’t touch that unless I NEED it. It went down to $100 when I was on leave. I know $10 isn’t much. But I can’t give up too much of my money cause I pretty much am down to $50 by the next check. Putting $10 is little enough that it’s not noticeable but if I need it back, I can get it. Figured in a year that’s about $240. Not a whole lot but that’s money not spent. That could maybe be Christmas spending money.