Happy Labor Day!

It's business and usual over at our house today -- neither Mom nor Dad has to work, except for changing diapers, feeding babies, doing laundry, picking up toys, or cleaning little faces and hands. ;) Mom and Molly are trying to spend as much quality nursing time as possible, so we can get past that last hurdle and get Molly nursing full time. This can sometimes be challenging when Max is in the room -- he always decides that when I'm feeding the baby is a really good time to bring me his heaviest toys and try to deposit them on my lap (thereby clunking Molly in the head). This afternoon while I was nursing he brought me the train station that attaches to his Little People train track (he was happy to detach it just for the occasion), the bulk cashew container that he snaked off the counter, several volumes of our ChildCraft kiddie encyclopedias, and a really heavy toy train. Happily, I managed to prevent him from squashing the baby with his toys while managing to keep Molly latched on. Victory! Perhaps to thumb her nose at her meddling brother, Molly set a new personal nursing record -- 128 mls! If only we could convince her to do it consistently!

Molly is still eating and growing like crazy. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz the day before yesterday, so I'm guessing she'll hit 8 1/2 pounds when I weigh her tonight. I realized today that I spend more time holding Molly than I did with Max, even though I have more demands on my time now. I'm not sure why -- maybe we were so afraid of overstimulating Max (he was very easily overstimulated for a while after coming home) that we thought he was more comfortable in his bassinet or his bouncy seat. I'm almost a little sad about that now. Molly loves to be held and she's never happier than when she's snuggling with Mom or Dad. I let her sleep on my chest while I'm reading or watching TV and we have lots of nice snoozes together. We were given a sling that lets you wear the baby upright against your chest -- as soon as my lazy butt gets downstairs to watch the instruction video, we're planning on making use of that as well.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm sure everyone has heard about Steve Irwin. I was up pumping in the middle of the night last night and saw the report of the accident on an Australian news site. I'm not sure why, but I'm really saddened by his death -- my heart goes out to his family.