5 Weeks

My titles have really been boring lately. Sorry about that... I will try to be more creative in the future.

I am writing this via email on my Blackberry with you sleeping peacefully on my chest, so I am going to try to keep it fairly short. And I will post pics in another post.

Does the "back to sleep" rule apply when on mommy or daddy's chest?

I tried to measure you today and you seem to be about 22 inches. You are still about 10 pounds, so you have hit a plateau. Of course, you still seem to be eating a decent amount of the time.

I still have about 15 pounds to lose though, so I think you should maybe eat more. Maybe.

On a brighter note, my face has finally cleared up from the horrible post baby breakout that appeared on my chin right after I had you. It only took 5 weeks, R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S!!

You, my little man, have your own acne problems. But yours comes and goes in a matter of days and sometimes hours. Not weeks! I think it has to do with your eating and my arms and oil and dirt and all that good stuff.

You are holding your head up on your own more and more and your smiles seem pretty darn intentional!

I thought I had more to report, but as usual it is slipping my mind. Will post later as things come back to me.

P.S. Your eyes are still blue so far!

- Tiffany

Two Weeks

How do I slow down the clock. I cannot handle how fast this time is flying by. Or how fast you are growing. We had your two week check-up yesterday. You are now 8 pounds and 20.5 inches and your head is 14.25 inches. You just keep growing on me. I know that technically is a good thing... but I really wish it would slow down some.

Obviously you are eating plenty, and don't I know it!! You have mostly gone back to normal eating patterns, but you have your moments when you decide to eat every hour or so.

I felt horrible when they did the second round of the newborn screening and had to prick your heel and squeeze the daylights out of your foot. You were doing the newborn cry that I haven't heard since two weeks ago!! No amount of kissing or loving was calming you down. But you immediately stopped crying when she stopped messing with you.

Here are a couple pictures of you at two weeks! Mimi took some tonight too that should be pretty cute.

Showing off your eyes

Hanging out with your eyes open

Sleeping with your daddy.

You are trying to hold your little head up on your own occasionally. It is very cute! Oh, one thing that I never reported was your tendency to pee. First it was as soon as I took your diaper off. I don't remember ever having that issue with Austin though I was always warned that little boys do that. Now you just wait until I put a fresh diaper on. I am not sure which is worse!!

And just for kicks... my 40 week belly pic!!

That's it for now... until I think of more!