John – So far so great! Our first week with Evan was capped off with a visit to the pediatrician, who pronounced him healthy and fit, and in the 97th percentile for height and weight. Thus, he has officially been designated a big boy! The last seven days went by very quickly, a blur of feedings, diaper changing, outfit swapping, remnant shopping, visitor greeting and relative meeting. It was great to have everyone meet our little (er..Big) tyke, and many thanks to all of you who brought him gifts and brought us food. Special thanks to Robin for introducing us to the wonderful invention of “Edible Arrangements“. It’s like flowers that water you..
We’ve been getting a pretty substantial amount of hours of sleep per night, but they’re coming in more bite-sized increments of 1.5 to 3 hours. It’s actually not so difficult to get up after the shorter amounts of time, it’s when I’m hitting the REM sleep at 3 hours that I tend to wake up in a daze and not really have any understanding of what’s going on. All in all, the sleep situation is pretty under control.
I feel a tad sorry for Jeanette as Evan has proved to be a bit of an eating machine, and aside from the initial elation of him taking to breastfeeding like a Senator to Lobbyists, he tends to eat ALL THE TIME, thus relegating Jeanette to a form of milk vending machine (just deposit love!). Hopefully he stretches out the amounts of time between feedings a bit more so that Jeanette would be able to leave the house alone sometime in the next few months..
As an odd aside, being a new father and technically inclined, I had to do some research on the web for baby related musings. I came across a List of 20 Baby Products Great for Traumatizing Infants and I had a little laugh. Granted, I don’t plan on buying any of these, but judging from how Evan likes to play “Fire hose” when being changed, the Peepee-Teepee might just come in handy.
Well, that’s all from the trenches for now, until next post, goodnight and good luck..
Er.. It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, evidently I have lost all concept of time..








