One month old!

Sleeping baby! That is what he is doing right now. But is in the swing right now. So this might be a short post. But I wanted to get on and do an update since last week! He is a month old. I can't believe it. I have had him for a month. What a fast and crazy month it has been. Wow! But we are figuring it all out. Or at least until it changes again. He has no real routine at all. We eat when he's hungry, he sleeps when he is tired, and he is awake and alert some of the time. But he is changing daily. I might have gotten a real smile this morning. He definitely looks me in the eye now. I can hold his gaze for a while. He is slowly starting to see more than a few inches away.

We have been out and about a lot this week. I have even taken two trips without him and one with only him, no Adam. I had to go and buy dresses for the upcoming weddings, so I braved the mall without him and left him at home with a bottle of breast milk for daddy to feed him. Adam has been doing some feedings, a couple a week with the bottle, just to get him used to it once in a while. He seems to do fine with it! Pumping is a very strange thing. It's very weird to put a machine to your breast and then watch your nipple be sucked in and out with milk squirting out. I still am in awe of it. You can see the milk go from the front milk, which is mostly sugar, to the hind milk which has all the fat and calories. You see the squirts. I know its the same thing that happens in his mouth, but it's weird to see it. And weird to be hooked up to a machine pumping. Just strange. I have talked and thought more about nipples and breast in this last few months than I ever have. Breast feeding is an amazing and wonderful thing, but its also REALLY hard and has some strange components to it. I can see why so many people give up on it. I have a friend who is struggling with it now, having just given birth to her daughter through a C-Section. Milk not coming in, babies getting hungry, your nipples getting cracked, sore, swollen, and then once your milk comes in being engorged, and your milk letting down. It's all very strange and sometimes very painful. But it's the perfect food that we produce for our little babies! It's amazing that we produce food that is made just for them! But it takes a while to get used to.

Other than that, we are getting along just fine! Next week is a big week. We head to Spokane for Rowan and KK's wedding. His first road trip. But until then, we are just hanging out.

He seems to spend lots of time on Daddy's lap. It's a good place!

It's fun to see his facial expressions. I hope I caught some on video. I will have Adam help me post some of the ones I took (I don't know how to do it yet). I am trying to capture some of his super funny faces!

All swaddled up and ready to sleep!

Nikki and Mark came for a visit! He was a bit fussy. He seems to be pretty fussy from about 6-9 pm unless he has gotten a really good nap in the afternoon. He seemed pretty content with Mark though :-)

And, we went to our first baseball game! We invited Oliver, Jen, Bjorn, Becky, Kevin, and Brody all to join us on the lawn for a Bellingham Bells game. They came from behind to win in the bottom of the 9th!

And here is one of his funny faces! Ha!

Wow, I made it through a whole post! He is still sleeping! He will be hungry when he wakes up though! Good thing I got food :-)