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Sleep and smiles

I believe we are going through the six-week growth spurt now. Ethan has been sleeping around the clock and waking only to eat, then falls back to sleep. He has been giving me one four hour stretch at night, but then wakes up every 20-40 minutes for the rest of the night. So I'm hoping this doesn't continue for too much longer because I NEED SLEEP!

During his limited awake moments, Ethan has started giving smiles. It feels so rewarding watching his beautiful smile spread across his face. Stay tuned for pictures!

In other news, today is mine and Patrick's five year anniversary! These five years have gone by so quickly and I am so happy with the life and family we've created during these years :) My mother-in-law will be watching the kids this evening so we can go out to dinner together. I am so excited for a little break!

Words on the blog... OMG!

So I decided to start posting actual blog posts rather than just uploading pictures. This was my original intent for this blog anyways, but I was too caught up in the "no one cares what I have to say and it will all sound dumb" mindset. But I no longer care if anyone else cares or if it sounds dumb, because there are too many small daily occurrences that I would like to be able to look back on in the future and remember. Especially because with my lack of sleep at this point, there are a lot of things I cannot remember from one day to the next.

To start off with, I just want to document how hard this new baby thing has been. I'm sure it was very hard with Katelyn, and I have some memory of it, but I don't remember it being this difficult. I don't know if that's because with all the sleep deprivation in the beginning and the amount of time that has passed, I just forget... or if she really wasn't as difficult. So far, Ethan only enjoys two things - sleeping and eating. If he is not doing either of those things, he is really fussy and grunts all the time (even in his sleep). He has this high pitched ear-piercing scream that breaks your heart to hear, and that happens very often when he is awake and not eating. A big part of the reason he is always so fussy is that he has SO.MUCH.GAS. I've talked to the pediatrician about this, and she said babies digestive systems are still developing, so it will get better, and she is not concerned at all because Ethan is gaining weight like a champ. And to be fair, he does have a little more chill awake time everyday. But I have yet to see the really happy baby that I saw all the time when Katelyn was young, and I SOOO want that. So, here's to hoping over the next few days and weeks that Ethan will become a super chill happy baby who no longer needs to use his heart-breaking screech.

7/14/13