More of the Everyday

Well, Hadden is about 2 weeks old now. He is twice as old as he was last week. Still, his major talents are eating, pooping/peeing, crying and sleeping. No matter what we dress him in it seems it's only a matter of hours before he either soils it or pees on it. Yes, we are using pampers - I guess we're just working on our pampering/diapering skills. We've signed up for a diaper service and are going to try the sustainable route (altough there is a fair amount of controversy over this).

Yvonne is doing better now but is still recovering from the C-section surgery - still not allowed to lift anything heavier than a baby in a baby carrier. Leslie (her sister) is here this week so they are doing work and taking care of Hadden during the day while I go in to school to try and catch up on all the stuff that's passed me by the last couple of weeks. I'm trying to stay home on Tuesdays and Thursdays (I teach the other days) and so far I think it's doable.

We are thankful Hadden is a good sleeper. Typically, he'll hit the sack between 11pm and midnight and sleep until the 3-4am hour. Then he'll go down again until about 8-9am. That gives us enough sleep to carry on...usually.

Thanks to everyone who has stopped by, helped, given us food or baby clothes or extra pampers or baby toys. It's all much appreciated. We are still working through all the food and it's great. Tonight was enchiladas from Cathy, last night was chicken in a tomato sauce with potatos from Sara and the night before was pulled pork sandwiches from Bill and Anne. We have stockpiled a few frozen casseroles ourselves and will begin working through the remainder of those too. We have a great baked bean recipe frozen but are a bit afraid of eating it all and then watching Scooter get all "windy" on us. Some of his farts and poops are quite impressive - no pictures, I promise. Right now he's sleeping with mom upstairs and I just got home from a soccer game and finished dinner. Grandma Wendy says he changes every day and I'd say she' right. Can't wait to see him tomorrow.

steve