Sleep, birthdays, and smiles!

First off - SLEEP...that's something I need more of! ha! The past few days have been a little rough in terms of rest. As Nicholas told someone at the hospital when they asked how the baby was doing yesterday, "He's great, but he just forgot how to sleep!"  Luckily yesterday afternoon and last night were better, but the night before that he only slept a total of one hour ALL day long, and then we couldn't get him to sleep at night until 3:30am, after which he woke up every hour and a half! Talk about TIRED!!! Maybe he just wants to make sure we really appreciate those 3 hour stretches of sleep in the night a little bit more! :) (I only thought I was tired last week!)
Yesterday we took a walk to the grocery store (have I mentioned again how much I LOVE the BOB stroller?!?!) and I picked up a few things, and we enjoyed the gorgeous weather! After we got back, the little guy got fussy again, so this was the only way I kept my sanity...

God bless the Baby Bjorn!!! (And thank you, Danielle!!!)

He fell asleep in it and I was able to eat lunch AND tidy up a little bit before one of the girls in my Bible study brought dinner over - which we were SO thankful for! And then Mills took a nice, long, late afternoon nap, which was fabulous! And of course I thought he looked cute so I thought I'd take a picture! Nicholas teases me that I'm gonna have a picture from every day of his life, haha!

And this is also from yesterday, although the flash scared him a little bit, hence the funny eyes!

Today, the weather is SUPER nasty outside, but thankfully my sweet friend and neighbor, Katie, came down to help me get Mills in the car without getting him soaked to go downtown and celebrate our January birthday gals - Katie and Calee - at Sermet's Corner! It was great to visit, and soooo yummy!

Of course Calee and I had to get a group pic with our new cameras! :)  (And yes, I'm wearing the same sweater from Monday, but the sweet baby boy decided to practically projectile spit-up on me 10 minutes before we walked out the door, so I went to the closest top in the closet!)

By the way, I think Mills does have a bit of reflux going on, or something like it...my mother-in-law told me when Nicholas was a baby she used to have to carry around a towel instead of a burp cloth for his spit-up...uh-oh, I'm afraid he's going to take after his Dad...so it appears my new perfume will be Eau de Spit-Up
 ...Mmmmmmmmmmm!

AND, last but not least I had to share this picture from when Mills was just 5 days old, but I love it! Even if it's not consciously, he has the cutest smiles! Especially right after he eats or when he's falling asleep!

"Smiling's my favorite!"

Or maybe he's smiling because Auntie Elle booked her flight and is coming all the way from Boston to visit us the first weekend in February - wahoo!! :)

Well I suppose I should try to get about a 30 minute nap, if possible, before he wakes up! I had hopes of getting to the Verizon store to get my phone fixed today, but it's not gonna happen in this nasty weather! I'll try to update again when I get a spare second...keep us, and our sleeping habits, in your prayers! Hope your Thursday is wonderful!