Day 53: Seven Weeks

Aww, doesn't he look all sweet and content? It's too bad this is the less common picture of Mitchell and the one to follow is my life lately.
This is Mitchell immediately after arriving home from a shopping trip of just the two of us. If you look closely you can see he is bleeding. He was apparently so worked up that he scratched himself hard enough to draw blood. Today's shopping trip was pretty much a total fail aside from spending a gift card on Maya. I can't even remember the total number of meltdowns Mitchell had at the mall. He is still eating every two hours, if he can even go that long. To me, this is excessive, but I wouldn't feed him if he wasn't showing me the hunger signs of sucking on his hands and fingers. In addition to eating so often, each feeding lately is followed by serious discomfort and screaming fits. I can't figure out if it is gas or reflux. If we are at home the only thing that calms him down is putting him in the swing. Today, I had to hold and shush him while trying to shop. Needless to say, I wasn't able to find anything for me.

When Maya got home from daycare I gave the things I bought her. She was so cute looking through the bag of goodies. Here is our conversation after Maya pulled out more underpants:

Maya: "I love these panties."

Me: "Keep looking, there's more."

Maya: "For reeeaal?"

Me: "Yeah."

Maya: "This is ridiculous."

I think she is going to be a butterfly for Halloween if I can find a costume. I couldn't resist this shirt when I saw it.

She was so excited to put this shirt on. Cute, right? Well, let's hope the strawberry milk she spit out all over it doesn't stain. At least I got a picture before she decided to act up tonight.