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We're alive! I promise! I've totally been slacking and haven't been updating. oops! I actually started a couple of posts that are now totally outdated and not worth posting. I don't have any pictures to post because my computer died, so Matt's computer is the only one we have, and I can't find the cord I need to move pics over from my camera. As soon as I find that I will have TONS of pictures, I promise!

Couple things, Victor and I were oth sick the past 2 weeks, him more than me. Poor little guy, he was sooooooooo miserable! It was his first time really being sick and it was a doozy! He had RSV, a nasty cough that made him throw up at least once a day, usually 2 or 3 times. He was getting dehydrated and we almost ended up at the ER. He had only had 2 wet-ish diapers in a 24 hour period and was very lethargic, was only staying awake for barely 30 minutes before passing back out in my arms. We basically spent several days just laying in bed. He was so stuffy that he didn't want to nurse a lot, or even when he did for a few minutes he would cough more and throw it all back up. We finally got some water into him and he started nursing more and keeping it down and once he did that it was a really quick turn around. Seriously, one day I wanted to take him to the ER and the next he was up and playing and soo much better. What a relief that was!! Of course, then I got the bug and was miserable for a couple of days, but luckily it didn't last as long for me as it did for my poor baby.

In the midst of this he nightweaned himself too! Some of you will horrified when you read this, lol, but we were still nursing at least every 2 hours at night. Thank goodness for co-sleeping and keeping my sanity! But while he was sick he would wake up and not want to nurse and just be cuddled and comforted and put himself back out and for the past week since then he has been sleeping in 8-9 hour stretches! Woo! I knew it would happen when he was ready, without any help from me. I hate that he had to get sick for it to happen, but thrilled that we are here! Hooray for sleep!

I'm also hoping that means my cycle (ya know, that thing your body has to do in order to get pregnant) will even itself out a bit more. I FINALLY got my first period last month, yes, that's right, thanks to breastfeeding I just had my very first post-partum period at 16 months. I was thrilled!!! I thought I had to wean him a bit more before it would finally start but it came on its own! However, for anyone who knows anything about cycles, my luteal phase is only anywhere between 5-8 days, which if you know about this stuff you know that means I have no chance of getting pregnant again until it lengthens out to at LEAST 10 days. So, with him sleeping longer and thus we are nursing less, hoping it will even out my hormones a bit more and I will have a chance at getting pregnant soon!

I am DYING to be pregnant again!! It seems that all my friends are pregnant and I've been itching for more babies for months now. I really wanted to be pregnant again by now, really a few months ago... every month that goes by that it doesn't happen kills me cause it's that much older victor is going to be and that much older I am going to be.... If I want 4 kids before I'm 30 we better Hurray up!