Am I Missing Something?

Can somebody please help me? There's gotta be a way to pump free-handedly. I have about had it. The other night I decided to have a glass of wine with dinner. Which wasn't the first time since Trey arrived. Usually it was early enough to where I could pump and dump and still be fine to nurse Trey when he woke up in the middle of the night. However, this night was different. One glass turned into a couple glasses and 9 o'clock turned into 11 o'clock. So when Trey woke up at 1:30am for his feeding, I still wasn't able to nurse him. So I'm tired and short-tempered, Trey is screaming his head off while Deo is waiting for the bottle to thaw, and I'm fumbling around with the damn pump. Why do they make a two-breast pump so difficult to use? You're supposed to hold both pumps up to your breasts, and then turn it on, press the let down button when you're ready, and then adjust the setting. Now am I missing something, but how are you supposed to do this while holding the pumps up to you? So it's 1:30am and I'm trying balance the pump on my knee while I'm adjusting the setting, and the darn bottle falls to the floor and spills the milk everywhere. Trey's still screaming, the dogs are looking at me like, "quiet this kid up" and at this point I had it. I came 2 seconds away from grabbing some dang duct tape and slapping it around my body to get the pumps to stay on without me holding them. There has to be something out there that allows you to pump while using as least one of your hands. Come on all you pumping-experienced people out there...is there anything I can do?

Baby Weight...and a bit more

So now that I've had the baby, I guess it's time to start trying to lose the baby weight! And since I was a little (ah-hem) overweight when I got pregnant, I'd like to lose a little more than just what I gained. My aunt told me about a cool and *free* website that can help you track your nutrition, exercise, and weight. For all you normal people (i.e. non-pregnant/non-breastfeeding) you can use SparkPeople. However, I realized when signing up that they have a separate website for women who are pregnant, trying to conceive, and post-baby. So I signed up for BabyFit and we'll see how it goes. So far it's pretty cool. It gives you a daily meal plan to follow, and the coolest thing is that you can print out a grocery list for the meal plans it suggests (which I always thought was the most annoying part in following a "diet" plan). You can input what you eat and it shows you how many Calories you have left for the day, track your exercise (which is also gives you suggestions), and it even has cool articles, blogs, and message boards. Hopefully this helps kick-start me into getting some of the weight off!

And because I can't seem to post any blog now without adding some pictures..here's some more recent ones.

Trey with his cool cousins, Ella and Cole

Trey dressed up for sushi with V and MPM

Snuggle time with Daddy