What a week!

It is crazy to think that tomorrow is Saturday. Although I've taken the entire week off, the weekend still seems real to me. In part because it means that I'll start back at work on Monday. Not full time, if I can help it, but I'll still be back in bright and early Monday morning. Yikes.

We have had friends trickling through this week. Thanks to everyone for the flowers, food, and company. We love you guys. For those who haven't come by, and want to, give us a call. Don't worry about waking the baby, he sleeps through anything when he wants to. And when he doesn't want to, NOTHING will make him sleep. Ughhhh.

Xander got to see Leah again on Wednesday. She seemed perplexed that he just cries at the drop of a hat sometimes...

So far the sleep thing has still been pretty good. The last few nights have been a little rough, he has been sleeping about every other hour. I've still been taking one feeding with a bottle each night, which is working pretty well. Unfortunately, this doesn't always put him to sleep, something about feeding with mom puts him right out, where the bottle doesn't.

Xander had his first bath on Wednesday. He was generally pretty calm through most of it, especially given that neither he nor I knew exactly what we were doing. It looks like I dumped the poor guy on his head. Good thing babies are resilient. We've got video on this one folks, although I didn't know it at the time... Enjoy.

The dogs are doing great with Xander. Otto particularly looks out for him. If Xander is crying, he runs over to him, sits down beside him and looks at us as if to say, "Guys, can't you see he is crying, come on now, do something about it." They are becoming great friends.

Xander got to meet his "other half", Alex, last night, and parents Peter and Audra. Alex is going on 6 months old and it is amazing how grown up he is. It is hard to imagine that our little guy will be like that soon.

As I started to write this, he was wide awake at 8:30 PM. More awake than he had been all day. By 9 PM he was acting hungry and fussy so I went ahead and got him a bottle, although it had only been an hour since he last ate. By the time I got the bottle warmed up (thanks to Allison and Todd for the bottle warmer its awsome) he was completely asleep. Its almost 10 PM now, and he is still sleeping. Once he wakes up, its time for him to eat, and then hopefully bedtime for both of us. We'll see.

Jake