The First Week

Samuel is 8 days old. Here are the highlights of the first week.

• Samuel has learned how to eat, sleep and poop. These activities occupy his entire day.
• He sleeps very well. When we're lucky, 4-5 1/2 hours at a time. He eats all day, so that's okay with me.
• Today he learned how to spit up. It was gross.
• Since he was born, we've done five or six loads of laundry.
• We've used approximately 100 diapers so far. When he's awake, we're lucky if a diaper lasts 30 minutes.
• Grandma is really good at changing diapers, and willing too.
• Leah is a very nurturing big sister and continues to be a generally happy little girl. She likes to "hold it" (the baby) and keeps asking mommy to feed her milk, too. She can tell she's not the center of attention anymore, but so far is handling it well.
• It took us all week to finally capture Samuel's adorable dimples, featured in the last picture--look closely. (click any picture to see it enlarged)