we are beginning to see more and more of his precious little personality. his eyes are doing so much better, he is smiling and laughing and talking all the time. he likes to say “hoo hoo hoo hoo” so i am calling him my little owl now. he is unbelievably precious and adorable. :love:
i’m so sad that he has started his little “nursing strike”. he isn’t eating as much as he was. i’m praying it ends soon – he’s already a pretty small guy, and i don’t want him getting any thinner.
life is getting a LITTLE easier around here. it’s still no cake-walk, but it’s not he** on earth either. 
i am getting more normal again. bedtime isn’t as horrible as it has been either, and a lot of it is that jamin is getting on a better schedule. (ftr i’m not scheduling him, but he’s more predictable.)
i need to get some pics up at flickr. the boys dressed up on saturday. we were going to a thing at a friend’s church, but it ended up the friend had the date wrong. we were all in the van, ready to go over, when my mom called “which church was it? it’s not here!” so we had to quickly find something else to do…we found a “trunk or treat” place at a church…i was so disappointed – at a CHURCH, they didn’t even mention God. just gave candy and said the boys looked cute. come ON! i don’t need a sermon, but not even a “God bless you” or “Jesus loves you!”. i don’t know. the real reason for my disappointment was that we really wanted to go the other church. there was to be bible story skits, and at the end the kids would be given candy, then at the end there would be cookies and cider. it was a real bummer not to be able to go.
you know how we’re taking that financial peace university course at church? well, we are FINALLY getting really serious about it. we MUST get rid of our debt. no, it’s not as insane as some other people’s debt. we don’t have any credit cards, so we don’t have those racked up. but we do have a substantial amount owed. dave ramsey is a genius, and i would suggest anyone with money problems to go to his site to sign up to take his class.
speaking of money, does anyone have any unused monopoly codes lying around? if so, and you don’t need them, please email them to me! blessedmama {at} gmail {dot} com. i have a full virtual monopoly board, and still haven’t won anything but two video games.
we are still slowly but surely getting the websites up. i hope you’ll consider us for some holiday cards and gifts! 
so while this was good because i want to know for sure, it was kinda scary because now i’m like – he’s this concerned?!
wah!!!! so i went in for the appointment. tried filling out paperwork, but i was right that jamin needed nursing, so i actually didn’t get done with the paperwork until the middle of the appointment…when i stopped nursing in the exam room, jamin threw a FIT and wouldn’t keep his eyes open he was so upset. i decided to use the bottle, because then i could feed him AND they could look in his eyes. they put dilation drops in his eyes and we went back out to the waiting room. i tried feeding him the bottle while finishing the paperwork. finally got it done. went back into the room. to wrap things up, the dr said that he doesn’t see anything that he can do right now. he said some babies are born with underdeveloped (something or others) and some of them are very obvious to tell, because of their small size, while others are hard to tell, because it might be a very small difference in size. (i know, it doesn’t make a lot of sense when i say it, but it made sense to me at the time!) so he said he wants to see him back in 3 months. he was reassuring that nothing was seriously wrong with his eyes, that they looked healthy overall. he also said some parents leave and report back that a few weeks after their initial appointment, their babies’ eyes have improved. he said it’s like a lightswitch goes off in a baby’s brain and tells his eyes to start working. so we’re hoping that happens with jamin’s!!