Must Have Sleep!

Thaddeus is three weeks old now and you'd think we'd have settled into some sort of schedule by now. Well, we sort of have but it feels more like a rut than a schedule! Thad sleeps all day, waking up only to eat and have his diaper changed, and sometimes it seems like he even sleeps through that. Nothing can wake him--even Callia squealing and running and laughing and bouncing right next to him only makes him go "eh" to complain. He doesn't cry or open his eyes. But at night, starting at around 10:30 or 11pm, which is the perfectly terrible time considering it is when we like to go to sleep, he wakes up to eat and doesn't go back to sleep. He works on moving all that food he consumed during the day through his little body, grunting and shifting his weight around as much as he can. His eyes are wide open, he looks at us, and seems to be listening when we talk to him. His favorite thing to look at seems to be the ceiling beams in our bedroom. He can stare at those for a long time. He stays awake at least until 2:00am, sometimes until 4:00am or even longer. Sometimes he drifts off into a light sleep, but he wakes up as soon as we try to put him down, maybe sleeping for fifteen minutes in his bassinet. I try to take up most of the slack since Nathan has to get up in the morning for work (yesterday and today he had to get up at 5:00am, but when he works here in Fredericksburg its 7:00 or 8:00, depending on what time he wants to go into work, or what time Callia wakes up). Its getting to the point where I am getting desperate for more sleep. I sleep in the morning while he is asleep, but it is hard on Callia, and the sleep isn't very good since she usually needs something, like a button done, or a refill on her drink, or her bottom wiped. Its a little hard on her and I think we are beginning to reap the consequences behaviorally with her.

Talking on the Phone

If I had to guess what Callia's favorite thing to do is, even at three years old, I'd have to say I think it is talking on the phone. Here she is talking to MeMaw, who she called to thank for the Valentine's Day gift from her and Grandaddy of a little bag of ginger snaps and gum, tied with this hairtie, which Mom left it here yesterday and instructed me to give it to her today.

Relaxing Together

My baby is so sweet. I'm sitting here with him sleeping in my arms on the couch and he really does seem like a little angel. I feel like I could sit here with him all day and be happy just feeling him squirm and stretch every once in a while, and feel the rhythm of his breathing and watch the expression on his little face change every once in a while. Alas, I have another little one to care for and she is calling me right now from upstairs, "Mother....Mother...Muhhhhtherrr....MOTHER!".

Silly Daddy

Something funny I thought might be worth writing down:
Callia was pushing Thad in the baby swing, probably a little too vigorously, and Nathan said, "Don't push too hard, sweeie. It makes his head fall off".

He apparently meant to say "the blanket (holding up his head) fall off".

Little Snuggler

"I wanna hold 'im!"

The biggest problem we've had so far with Callia adjusting to not being the only child is that she constantly wants to hold "her" baby. If I say "Sweetie, he is not your baby, he is Mommy and Daddy's baby, and you're Mommy and Daddy's little girl, and Thaddeus is your brother", she says "but I want to pretend he is my baby". There have been countless confrontations where she throws a fit and whines and begs because she wants to hold him NOW. It doesn't seem to matter if she has just held him five minutes ago! The main reason this is a problem is that he doesn't seem to like the way she holds him...he normally starts crying within a minute. They are doing pretty good here in this picture, though. And it is cute.

Thad's First Bath

Thad had his first actual bath today. It didn't go too well. We did it in his tub on the floor of the bathroom while Callia took her bath. She thought it was exciting, and she was so loud in the tub I kept having to ask her to be quiet because she was startling him even before we got him in the tub. Once he was in the tub, he was too upset about the water to think about Callia's noise, though. He was making plenty noise of his own screaming for us to stop! He peed all over the place, too. Having had a girl first, we're not used to it shooting out instead of just going into the tub!

Here he is all clean after we were done. Not one to hold a grudge; he's feeling much better.

New Brothers are Fun!

Hospital Picture

We decided not to buy any of the packages of this picture because they were so expensive for what you get. We have up until his first birthday to change our minds, though.