Lazy Thursday

Today was another uneventful day in Roseburg.  It was rather foggy and rainy so Sebastian and I entertained ourselves around the house.  Aside from catching up on all of this season's episodes of Glee, we also caught an episode of the Jersey Shore (so, so terrible), and had a mini photoshoot.  Since Matt left for Portland with my laptop, I am dependent on using The Poobah's computer to upload pictures.  As soon as The Poobah takes a break from his slide presentation on the merits of carotid stenting, I will get a few pictures up.  Hopefully, I will get the pictures up late tonight or early tomorrow... but, don't hold your breath... The Poobah is in the zone at the moment.

Daddy-o will be home from Portland for the weekend as of tomorrow.  We are looking forward to having him back!  Mommy is looking forward to sharing diaper duty (or, doodie... he he).  We are also eagerly anticipating Sebastian's first Halloween!!  Sebs will not be trick-or-treating this year.  We are going to give him at least a year to get some teeth before we start rotting them out. 

Fred has been the real trouble maker of the family lately.  He insists upon sleeping on the changing table (he is now being locked out of the room), he has been on every counter and/or surface with breakable objects, and he is constantly brawling with the other cats.  He sure is being obnoxious.  I did force him to participate in today's photoshoot though.  This cat will be tortured for his wrong-doings. 

Enjoy!

Worst cat EVER

Bye bye Daddy

We said goodbye to Matt (temporarily) on Sunday.  Matt left for his Neurology rotation in Portland at OHSU (Oregon Health and Science University).  He will be completing a four week stint with the Stroke Neurology service.  While we were very sad to see him go, he will probably be coming home on weekends.  Sebastian and I keep reminding ourselves that four weeks really isn't that long.  I am also pleased to announced that Matt was invited to interview at OHSU for his residency!!  So far Matt has been invited on six interviews which is fantastic.  Sebastian is very proud of his daddy. 

All remains status quo at Chez Foon (The Feldman estate).  We had our first official harvest today... hooray!  Despite horrible bird pressure on all agriculture in the area, Foon Estate had a decent first harvest.  I was out picking grapes in the mud today.  The experience was fun but much more difficult than expected.  I am also very thankful that I am up to date on my tetanus shot because I took a few chops out of my index finger (ouch) with the clippers.  Yay for first harvest and big YAY for free booze! 

We received the most amazing gift from Jazz Cisneros yesterday.  Jazz is the mother of our good friend and former roommate, Breanne.  Jazz made Sebastian a quilt, matching crib sheet and bumper, a bib (with a matching "Big Brother" harness for Fred), booties, and a teddy bear with a matching robe.  The entire package was fantastic.  We have received so many thoughtful gifts over the past few months.  We are very appreciative of everyone's kindess.  Please be advised... thank you notes are trickling out slowly... especially those Matt is supposed to be writing.  :)  We will get there!

I am getting worse and worse about taking pictures... Ahhh!  I will try to be better.

Love to all!

Sebastian is awake but Mom isn't...

Before Matt had to leave... boo hoo

Saying goodbye to baby for the week

Booties, quilt and teddy bear from Jazz

Friends and more

We had a wonderful weekend.  One of my oldest and dearest friends, Mae Lee, came to visit from Southern California.  She took a bunch of wonderful pictures of Sebastian.  The weather was goregous and the company was even better.  Matt, Sebastian, and I drove up to Eugene on Saturday to pick up Mae Lee at the airport where we met our friend, Sarah, for lunch.  We enjoyed a wonderful lunch in Eugene and we explored a fantastic local bakery!  Oregon is really quite spectacular in the fall.

Matt is now in his last week of a four week cardiology rotation in Roseburg.  He will begin his neurology rotation at OHSU (Oregon Health and Science University in Portland) on Monday.  We are all excited for Matt to get to know the OHSU neurology program and its faculty; however, we are all sad to think of the prospect of having Daddy gone for four weeks!!  We hope that Matt will come back to Roseburg on the weekends but we don't know anything about his call schedule yet. 

Sebastian continues to grow every day.  While in Eugene, we saw a 5 month old baby who was Sababy's size!  The 5 month old's grandmother remarked, "Well, not all babies are the same size.  Someone has to play football."  I responded, "You can look for our son in the orchestra because he will NOT be concusing himself on the football field."  Sebastian can do anything he likes as long as it isn't football. 

Enjoy our pictures from the weekend!

Cannons make good neighbors!

I am feeling inspired by the sound of cannons in the not so distant distance...  The Poobah had a cannon installed on the property yesterday to combat the continuous assault on the grapes.  Apparently, this is a particularly bad year for birds.  It should surprise no one to hear that the cannons are a wee bit obnoxious.  And, it should also surprise no one to hear that the cannons instantly made us everyone's favorite neighbor!  Only one more week until harvest and then all of the madness can stop... until next year.

Despite the loud banging everyone 1-2 minutes, Sebastian is sleeping like a champ.  He has now been asleep for over 6.5 hours straight!!  I started checking his breathing every 5 minutes once he hit the 5 hour mark.  I don't delude myself into thinking this behavior will last.  From what I have heard from friends, one night of sleep is easily made up for by three nights of torture.  So... yeah, we are rolling with the punches.  Just as I type this, I hear Sebastian screaming in the bedroom.  Now I'm typing one-handed with baby.

We had a week of firsts...  First night away from Daddy!  Matt went to Portland for a case with Howard.  First quasi tantrum in public.  First attempts at 5+ hours of sleep.  Sebastian is still working on composing his first symphony.

I am including some pics of mommy and baby hanging out during the day.  Somehow Sebastian has had multiple wardrobe changes before I can even get out of my pajamas.

Fall arrives

Well, we promised to take more pictures of Sebastian this weekend but the weather really threw a wrench in our plans.  This weekend was overcast and rainy which was rather disappointing.  Matt spent a good deal of time working as a manual laborer for Nana while The Poobah spent most of the weekend on his tractor.  Bob and Darby came to visit from Medford, OR as well.  Since Bob knew me when I was in diapers, I think he was a little terrified to meet Sebastian. 

On a funny note, we also drove down to Canyonville, OR (not worth visiting for anyone who might have a notion to consider the trip).  We drove down to view the giant pumpkin.  There was a pumpkin contest that boasted to have a pumpkin weighing 1600 lbs.  Nana was really excited about seeing the pumpkin while Matt and I were rather annoyed to have to get out of bed.  The pumpkin turned out to be rather underwhelming and about a zillion weird hicks without teeth tried to touch Sebastian.  Matt was not thrilled.

The nights are getting colder in Oregon and the sun is setting earlier.  The days are still beautiful but it is chilly.  Sebastian is growing like a weed!  He is already in his 3-6 month clothing and he will only be 6 weeks tomorrow.  We are starting to think he is going to be a rather big lad.  I am going to include the recent photos I have below.  As always, we will do our best to take pictures when we can.

Sebastian and Daddy.  Baby is starting to get a little neck control!



Tilly as our yard stick for growth...



That's right... Dr. Doodie

Tilly thinks she is the baby

He's a model

Sebastian now has an AMAZING hairline.  Matt says that Sebastian's hair can not keep up with his growing head.

Baby Super Chunk!

I have been bad about putting up blog posts because I haven't taken any pictures lately.  Since Matt isn't home during the week and my mother isn't capable of seeing the camera without her glasses, picture taking has slowed.  But, we intend to do a MASSIVE photoshoot this weekend. 

In the meantime, it is high time for an update.  Sebastian went to the doctor on Tuesday for a one month well-baby visit.  His stats at five weeks are as follows:

Weight: 9 lbs 9 oz!  (35th percentile); percentage weight gain: 43%
Height: 21.5 in (39th percentile)
Head circumfrance: 14.5 in (10th percentile)

Since his umbilical cord fell off several weeks ago but the area wasn't completely healed, the doctor decided to apply a little silver nitrate to the area.  When Matt saw the result later that night he had a major daddy freak out.  His response was something along the lines of, "What kind of a hack did you take our baby to?!  He is not going back!!"  He has calmed down slightly and I assure everyone that Sebastian is perfectly fine.  This mama grizzly bear does not come close to Daddy Grizzly!

We have a ton of visitors on deck for the next few weeks which is very exciting.  With any luck, we will have much better photographic documentation.  Photos will be posted soon!