Miles is a wonderful little guy and I love him to death. He is doing very well and growing like crazy, this week we actually had to pull some clothes out of the rotation because he was getting to big for them! Pure craziness. Nights are going better in my opinion, we have finally settled on a night routine of bath around 7 then food and finally sleep. The process is not perfect yet, but he seems to be slightly aware of it. Another interesting note is that lately he eats a ton, but he seems to like to eat a small meal and then 30 minutes to an hour later eat a larger meal, which holds him longer. I appreciate his effort to eat regularly and avoid a few large meals a day, but even for me just giving him bottles feeding nearly every hour really puts a damper on getting anything done, especially when you throw diaper changes in the mix. Usually we can get him settled for stretches, sometimes and 30 minutes sometimes a couple hours, it can be hard to tell how long he will be calm for at times. One thing that really seems to help is music, Callie plays him a bunch of childrens songs, I push for just classical music, but she says he does not like it as much, so we get a bunch of highly repetitive, somewhat violent and in my opinion scandalous songs.
Saturday night, 1/18, he got the chance to meet his new cousin Daniel Joseph Glass, we went over to my sister (Jess) and her husbands (Brian) house and my parents came over as well and they got to meet. In terms of them meeting it was pretty uneventful, neither even noticed the other as far as I could tell, they both just wanted to sleep. Grandma and Grandpa were delighted to have them both in the same place at the same time with Madison (Jess and Brians oldest) and they spent as much time holding the trio as they could. This was Miles first trip out of the house other than the doctor since it is flu season. I have to admit I am curious how it will go with Miles once we do start taking him out when run errands and stuff, I guess it will just be another one of those little things we get to find out about.
As for me, I started back just after he was a week old, and he is now three weeks old, so I have had two weeks working and coming home to Miles. So far so good, thankfully Callie is able to handle the night work for the most part and her mother has been able to spend about a week or so down here as well to allow Callie to heal up more from her c-section. I will say I love Miles and love seeing him and look forward to the weekends with him, but it is nice to be able to work and get out of the house, I feel for Callie being stuck in the house right now while she heals and since it is flu season and all and we are not supposed to be taking him out. I do enjoying coming home and being able to talk to Miles and play flash cards with him, nothing fancy just black and white drawings that he seems to like, but it is fun and fun to see him react and concentrate on them. I am really looking forward to him being able to hold his head up and while I know once he starts moving things get even crazier, I think it will be fun as we will be able to be more interactive with him.
Other than all that having a baby has certainly been a change, my favorite thing to mention is about how we had one of everything he needed, but after having him we quickly realized one of most things is not enough as anything he touches or uses will be quickly covered in some sort of baby gunk. I am still trying to run several times a week depending on my energy level and have not been able to get my morning workouts in at all as I am just too tired, hopefully I can get going again like normal in the next couple weeks/months. Callie is doing an excellent job of making or at least getting something around for dinner most nights.
Appendix:
Flash Cards - Wee Gallery Art Cards for Baby
http://www.amazon.com/Wee-Gallery-Cards-Baby-Collection/dp/B001CBAJBQ/
Songs
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/100-favorite-childrens-songs/id506561566
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