Holy cow! Its been three weeks! I can't believe how much Collin has changed already. This we we had some more firsts. Collin had his first walk in the stroller, and loved it! We went to the park and walked around the lake. I had a good dose of 'this is what it feels like to be entirely out of shape', I was exhausted after walking, slowly, the whole way!
Collin also started sleeping a bit more at night, skipping his 12:30 feeding. He's been sleeping from about 11 to about 3, which is 4 hours! I never thought I'd be so excited about 4 consecutive hours!
We also got Collin's birth announcement photos back from Jenn, our lovely and amazingly talented photographer. She never ceases to amaze me! So instead of a weekly sampling of photos this week I've added lots of Jenn's photos. They turned out beautiful, as they always do. We LOVE Jenn!
So today, I finally ordered the birth announcements and baptism invitations after I finished creating them. If you read our blog on a regular basis, there is a good chance you'll get a birth announcement in the mail, but just in case you aren't on our list (we apologize) I've uploaded the announcement at the beginning of this post as well as the baptismal invitation (at the end) so you can see how cute our little guy is.
So far, Collin's been a pretty good baby, however he has been giving us a run for our money in the evening. Its interesting trying to figure out what is making him fussy every night, and it just breaks my heart to hear him cry when we don't know what to do but we're learning and with any luck he won't remember what a poor job we did once he gets older :)
Not only is Collin growing and teaching us about his needs, we're also learning a ton about baby maintenance. For example, I think we might consider buying stock in wipes and baby Oxi-clean. Its amazing to me how much he poops! We are washing diapers every other day and I had to order more just to get us through three days in a row. It makes me incredibly happy that we chose to use cloth diapers though, I can't even fathom how much waste we would have created if every one of those diapers was disposable. Its bad enough we are using disposable wipes, I'm feeling guilty about that amount of waste. Then, to add to the diaper duty, we are washing them, but pre-treating them with baby oxi-clean, which is magic in a container. Every day I am amazed at how it gets out all of the stains. The diapers look like new after every wash. I am waiting for the day to come when I look in the soaking bin and see stains everywhere, but so far we're in the clear.
We've also learned that its important to bring 2-3 of everything you can possibly need to bed with you. Sleepers, diapers, blankets, pacifiers, diaper wraps, sleep sacks, wipes etc. I can't tell you how many times at 3 am we've changed a diaper only to be peed on, then spit up on and then peed on again with not enough stuff on hand. Having to run downstairs with a screaming half naked baby isn't our idea of fun, and by the volume of his well-practiced lungs, its not Collin's either.
But hey! We've made it three weeks! Its supposed to only get easier, right?!?.
Errr..,,,right?!?!???
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It does get easier, I promise:) Your comments about changing so many times in the middle of the night made me laugh, the first night Will was home, I think we went through six sleepers, mostly from pee, it's hard to contain. And we both got up every single time, the blind leading the blind, ha! The pictures are beautiful, he is seriously so cute. My favorite is the one on the announcement.
Pretty soon he won't be peeing and pooping so much Alisha. It will get easier and easier shortly. There's not much you can do with Collin during his fussy times. Alex had them every night starting around 7:00. That's just his time to blow off steam and nothing is probably wrong with him at all, so don't go crazy trying to soothe him. He should outgrow that also by month three (hopefully sooner).
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