Well folks, David has reached the ripe old age of 25 days. That’s right, three days shy of four weeks (which, in this case of February, is also a WHOLE MONTH)!
Saturday David had a photoshoot with one of our friends, Sunny, who is the director of our 11am choir, and does photography on the side (her main occupation is graduate student). Tonight we get to look at those photos, so “soon” we will work on getting some formal birth announcements printed and sent out.
We’ve also discovered that our printer is actually quite good at printing photos, so I imagine we’ll be using up a bit of ink in the near-term.
Mimi and Papa (Kristina’s parents) were here this past week. They flew in a week ago, and took a cab to the hospital we had been at. No, they didn’t think we were still there, but we had left one of our two cars there, so one of us could sit in the back with David on the way home from the hospital. We were very thankful they were able to do that, so we didn’t have to take extraordinary measures to get the car home. Kristina’s Dad left Sunday, while her Mom was able to stay and help out through yesterday morning. Now we’re back on our own (for a few days until Aunt Rebecca arrives).
By the way, thanks to the friends who have been bringing over meals while we’re on our own. It has been a great help to not have to worry about getting dinner done every night in amongst our primary focus, taking care of David.
Let’s see, so what’s new for David…. Well, he has now been alive during two months. He’s been at home almost two weeks. He’s pretty good at eating from the bottle, and so we’ve actually started preparing him 2.5 ounces for each feeding, which he often drinks in total. He’s also showing signs of being awake more often – he’s actually looking around sometimes now, and will study your face while you feed him. He still doesn’t let us sleep between night feedings sometimes, he can get fussy, for various reasons. But we’re getting better at sleeping during his loud-sleeping, and we’ve made a decision to feed him outside of the bedroom so the other of us can sleep.
During the day, we try a variety of things with him from tummy time on blankets to laying on his back on the blankets. We try occasionally to show him toys, but so far they hold no interest for him. We’ve given him two tub baths at home, which was complicated because the bathroom sinks aren’t quite big enough, and we don’t have the tub for the bathtub yet. Mimi also gave him a sponge bath Saturday morning to prep him for his photo shoot. Tonight he’ll get another to prepare for a shower some of our friends are having for us tomorrow.
Lucy has so far been very tolerant of David. She has not been brave enough to go up to him yet, and has not tried to get into the bassinets with David. She is mostly content to sleep on the foot of our bed. To accommodate her, we’ve been leaving a piece of clothing on the bed for her to sleep on. I think in part, she’s defending her foot-of-the-bed space.
Tomorrow David will go back to the pediatrician, to see how much he’s grown since coming home from the hospital. So we should have new stats tomorrow.
Okay, so here are some newer photos (March 2-5). You’ll see a lot of them are still of him sleeping, because, well, that’s what he does most of the time (except from 3-6am, when we aren’t busy snapping photos…)
