Growing up so fast!

Its been 5 weeks and three days since Collin entered this world. He's growing up so quickly we can hardly believe it. This week I had to pack away all of the newborn sized clothing and switch to the 0-3 months sized clothing. It was actually sort of sad to put all of the cute little outfits away. But, as it turns out, everyone who bought him an outfit must have bought something in the 0-3 months range because we have TONS of clothes in this size for him. He could probably wear something different every day of the 0-3 month range and never have to repeat himself.

This week we had more firsts. So, as or weekly update goes- here's what we did.

Collin saw his first parade and even made it on the local TV station (much to mom and dad's disappointment)- we looked absolutely terrible that day, and of course it was the day we were zoomed in on in the local Roseville channel. People who were watching at home were probably thinking, "Oh, look at those new parents"...then upon a closer look: "Wow, they look like hell! Is that spit up all over her shirt? What is their dog doing? Don't they have better control of it? Why is the dad slumped over the stroller like that? Is he sleeping?"- oh, the joys of being captured in your finest hour.

We went for a walk, which has become our nightly stroll to the park to help soothe Collin during the 'fussy time' that he tends to get into in the evening. We take Samson (so he isn't such a nut case come 10 at night) and go around Lake Bennett.



We also started getting serious about the tummy-time. I don't think Collin likes this all that much, but he's got to be able to lift his head up at some point, so we push on. Sometimes he does get excited about the little rattles and weird monkey that seems to sing in Spanish.






To add to the stress in our lives we have started to try to get Collin to sleep in his crib during the day for naps, which he doesn't like at all. We are hoping that by getting him to sleep there for naps now he'll have an easier transition when he moves to his bed to sleep through the night (right now he is in the bassinet up in our room), but he seems to think this is an awful idea. Its like he has a small sensor that detects whenever we are even approaching the crib, alarming him to wake up, or if we actually get him in the crib, wake up after a few minutes of sleep. We're working on it....


We also made our first trip to the local Como Zoo. The zoo is so close and it was such a nice day out that we thought we should give Collin his first glimpse at the animals. Apparently, every other family in all of St. Paul had the same idea, as the zoo was packed, but still fun nonetheless. Collin even got extra close to the giraffes and we saw a super cute baby orangutan.








Otherwise, things are getting a little bit easier and we're thinking we are a little less crazy. Its amazing how your body can adapt to such a reduction in sleep. I'm starting to think that its not so bad sleeping only 3 hours at a time...er wait, maybe that's the sleep-deprivation talking...