Things I've Learned from My Baby.....

I've decided that there are certain universal truths to be discovered when an infant enters your life. I expect there are many but I've unearthed a giant one....The more complicated the baby's outfit, the sooner baby will puke, poop, or otherwise ruin said outfit. We have discovered this truth with a couple of Austin's outfits. He has two adorable overall outfits that are rather time consuming to get him into due to having multiple pieces and many, many snaps. (While snaps in and of themselves are not difficult, these little baby snaps become infinitely more complicated when you are trying to snap them on a wiggling baby!) Each time we try to put these outfits on him, he will inevitably poop or puke on them within two hours. It has happened EVERY single time with the exception of last week when he actually made it through most of the day in one of the outfits before it was time to change.

Things have been business as usual lately. We took our first out of town trip over Mother's Day weekend. We went to Jacksonville to see Aunt Jess for the first time and to see the grandmas and great grandmas. Austin did really well on the trip. He slept most of the drive both ways. Mommy, Austin and Great Grandma Graham
Nana and Austin

A couple of days after Mother's day we realized that Austin was losing his hair. He isn't completely bald, but he has lost ALOT of the hair he came with. We are curious to know how long it will take for the new hair to come in.

On Friday we visited Nathan's current job site. He is building a five story academic building for Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota. It will be over 80,000 square feet when finished. The project is moving along really, really fast - the concrete was poured for the second story floor on the day Austin was born and now they have poured the fourth story floor. We went all the way up to the fourth floor to check things out.


Austin is six weeks old today. This weekend he weighed in at 10 lbs, 8 oz. He is starting to fill out and is quite adorable. We had a milestone this weekend - two nights of the weekend he slept for a five hour stretch! Yay!! Of course it was the first stretch of the night, so I did not get the full benefit of the five hours, but we are celebrating anyway.

We have started taking tub baths each night. I expected that this would result in many minutes of screaming by Austin and frustration on our parts but I have been pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't say that he enjoys the baths,
but he doesn't hate them. For the most part, he just lays there looking around.
The crying usually occurs after the bath is over. He is not a big fan of being nakey and exposed to the world. Once he is bundled back up, he is a happy camper.

1 Month old!!!

Weeks 2 and 3

In the Snugli




Chillin' on the couch

Whazzup?!?

The Super Duper Pooper

We are attempting to adjust to the new "norm" of being parents. Austin is eating well, as evidenced by the bounty of dirty diapers he produces! The first day a baby is born, they are supposed to have one poopy diaper. Austin is so prolific that by 3am Wednesday morning (less than 24 hours after birth), he had produced 5 poopy diapers and was dubbed the "Super Duper Pooper" by our night nurse!!

Yesterday we had our 2 week doctor's appointment with Dr. Weiss, our pediatrician. Austin weighed in at 8 lbs which is further evidence that he is eating well since breast-fed babies are supposed to regain weight up to their birth weight in 3 weeks. He is in the 75th percentile for height (still at 21 inches) and the 25th percentile for weight (ie he's long and lean). Dr. Weiss declared him perfect! He had one shot - the first hepatitis B shot and did great.

After the doctor we ran errands and during our trips around town, Austin had an EPIC blowout!! It was so bad that the pad in the car seat had to be washed when we got home! Luckily we had lots of wipes with us!
The other momentous occasion that occurred yesterday was Austin's umbilical cord fell off! Yay! A real belly button now! In a couple of days he will get to take a real bath instead of a sponge bath.

Austin - week 1