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It’s 4AM in the morning and I’m wide awake. Why? Because Jayden’s wide awake. I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before, but just in case anyone missed it, Jayden’s sleeping patterns are backwards. He sleeps throughout the day for the most part, but as soon as 2AM rolls around, he’s wide awake and kickin’! And he’ll stay woke until around 7AM. Usually Mommy would take the “night shift” while I sleep since I have to work during the day, but I decided to stay up with him tonight.

So just a few minutes ago Jayden and I were both lying in bed, and I was telling Mommy about how my mother told me that he rolled over on his own while we were in Chicago. I wanted to see if he would do it again for Mommy and I. So I put him on his stomach to see if he could roll over to his back. After fidgeting around for a bit, he used his left arm to push his body up a little. I was thinking, “This is it! He’s going to roll over!” So to give him some encouragement, I said to him, “Come on, Jayden, you can do it!” At this point he’s still pushing himself over with his left arm and he’s completely on his right side now. He’s halfway there!

“You can do it! Push, Jayden! Push!”

And that’s when it happened…

PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTBRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

He let out one of the loudest, wettest, most glass shattering, earth shaking farts he’s ever produced!

I guess that’s what I get for telling him to push!

Update: We’re receiving word that they’re feeling aftershocks of his fart all the way in Australia!

So we’ve been in Chicago since Monday to visit family so that they too can welcome Jayden into the world, and now we’re at the tail end of our mini vacation. Before we made our way to Chicago, we talked about spending every day taking Jayden to millions of places and showing him the exciting city of Chicago. Wanna know what we’ve done so far since we’ve been up here?

Monday - slept
Tuesday - slept
Wednesday - slept
Thursday - slept
Friday - took Jayden downtown to Lake Shore Drive
Today - slept

(somewhere in between all of those “slept”’s, we ate, used the bathroom a few times, and slept some more)

I’m sorry, but when you factor in a week off of work with tons of family wanting to spend time with Jayden (aka babysit him), you better believe we’re going to catch up on those countless hours of sleep we haven’t been getting! Over the past couple of weeks, Jayden’s sleeping patterns have been backwards. He’ll wake up around 2AM in the morning wanting to play, and won’t go back to sleep until about 7AM. So basically, around the time that Mommy and I are going to sleep, Jayden is waking up. So we’re currently working on turning that around!

In other news, our little one has broken out in what seems to be baby acne. He started getting red bumps on his right cheek during our first couple of days in Chicago, and they spread to his forehead and parts of his left cheek shortly thereafter. We’re thinking the detergent my mother used on the sheets in the bed we’re sleeping in could be the culprit (yes, we co-sleep, and please, no unsolicited baby advice!), or maybe something or someone he has come into contact with since he’s in a new environment. We’re not totally sure, so we’re going to see if they start to clear up once we get back home. Anyone have any experience with baby acne, feel free to chime in! Edit: We wash all of our laundry in Dreft detergent, wipe Jayden’s face with just water, and bathe him in Aveeno baby products! Forgot to mention that!

Thanks to everyone who congratulated us on the engagement! Just to clear up any confusion: I know I’ve commented on some of you guys’ blogs claiming Mommy as my finacee’ way before our engagement on Sunday. We had considered ourselves engaged for about a year prior to Sunday, but never really considered it “official” until a ring was on her finger. The boyfriend/girlfriend title just didn’t fit us anymore, as we felt we were way past that, but I just wasn’t in a good financial position to purchase a ring back then. Now I am (sort of), so now it’s “official”!

So tomorrow we plan on heading back downtown and getting more pictures of Jayden in the Windy City. Hopefully it won’t be too cool. Anyone who’s from Chicago knows that Chicago weather is unpredictable. What the weatherman says means nada. We plan on getting the pictures we’ve taken over the past week and the ones we take tomorrow uploaded and posted tomorrow… that is, if we don’t sleep the day away again. So see you guys here tomorrow! Hopefully.

By the way, can anyone recommend any good video editing software/programs? I’ve finally put my new camcorder to use and shot a few videos of Jayden. Now it’s time for the editing and uploading part.

By the way again, this is actually our 100th post. Eh, we planned on making a big deal out of it, but those plans kind of subsided since we just realized that this was our 100th post 10 minutes ago. I was thinking of doing something along the lines of what BusyDad did, but I’m not that creative (plus I couldn’t think of 100 things about me, I got stuck at 12). So, I guess I’ll just say, Happy 100th Post!

So we finally have time to send out thank you cards along with Jayden’s birth announcements, but we have a problem…

At the baby shower Daddy’s great aunt kept a tab on gifts by writing them down on paper. Thing is, she wasn’t descriptive with outfits. What do you do when almost everyone bought a pack of onesies and blue layette sets, lol? What do you write in a thank you card to someone who you can’t remember what they bought?

How do you say Thank you for sharing such a special day with us! We forgot what the heck you bought us, but we appreciate it! without sounding canned?

Hi guys, Mommy here! I just wanted to let you all know that our baby shower was Saturday, we are so pooped. It was a great turnout! I won’t get into details, save that for another post. We are still at our folks’ houses (5hrs away from where we live) and we’re having some car trouble. We have a lot lined up for Mommy Daddy Blog, but we just can’t get to it at the moment, sorry! Hoping we can get caught up this week, commenters and 5 Minutes For Mom partiers we haven’t forgotten about you! We’ll get back into the groove of things as soon as things settle down. So stay tuned!