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.