Week 3: Why do first time parents complain?

For Week 3, we enjoyed being the parents of just 1. My parents graciously offered to keep Helen for almost the entire week. While she enjoyed romping around with cousin John Dylan, we breathed in the peace and silence. We watched a lot of tv...The Office & 30 Rock episodes mostly (I have no attention span for anything longer than 20 minutes.) It is funny to think that we thought we were so exhausted when we had just Helen as an infant. Except for the sleep, a newborn is very easy. I don't have to worry about corrupting his brain when I watch Maury Povich, and he has no opinion about what kind of spoon he wants (and yes, the Dora spoon is almost always in the dishwasher.) Nathan enjoyed not getting thrown about and kissed a million times, but overall, we missed Helen's spunky attitude (but not enough to want her to come home early.)

Alan took many pics of Nathan while they were hanging out. We are trying to increase his number of pictures as Helen had WAY more than him at the same point.

My sister-in-law generously sent us a few newborn outfits. We were surprised at how small Nathan was. We never thought a Johnson/Walker combination would produce a baby that was less than 8 pounds! We have plenty of 3 months clothes, but they were swallowing him whole. Monica's outfits arrived just in time. He only had 3 outfits that fit him and it was getting downright scandolous on how many days he was wearing them!!

This is how Alan looks after his Friday night duty.

On Saturday, we had a great time visiting with Uncle Mike and Killi. With just Nathan, we were able to go out to eat with them and sit and have a nice, long conversation! What a novelty! Saturday was also exciting as we decided at the last minute to take baby boy to the doctor due to a goopy eye and a bleeding belly button (probably 2 of the most common newborn issues.) We felt like first time parents as we were driving there as the eye had stopped being goopy and the belly button had just about healed. But, onward we drove. We were completely floored to learned that he was 8 lbs 6 oz. A whole pound of growth in just 1 week!! Eating every 2 hours definitely is causing the little guy to gain a lot of weight! It was funny to think that he was almost exactly the same size as Helen when she was born.