Sorry, I don't have any more pictures today. They're all still on the camera at home, and we'll post more soon. I have about 9 minutes to update this, and then I am headed home to see my boys.
I am absolutely loving motherhood so far. I love Isaiah, and he is such a good kid. The last week or two I have dragged him to school so I could resubmit a paper that got rejected. He loves being in the sling (although I have upgraded to the Mei Tai because it's a lot easier for walking), and falls asleep within about 3 minutes (or less) when I'm walking. Go figure--all that walking during the pregnancy definitely paid off.
I don't know what the best part is, but I have to say it's hard to top the feeling of holding him when he has a full stomach, and we have recently (within the last 2 days) bathed him so his hair still smells like baby shampoo. He hasn't 'really' started smiling yet, I suppose, but is getting pretty darn close, and I can't wait until he is actually responding to the antics we put out before him. I am sure Dan will be getting more smiles and laughs, as Dan has had more practice singing, dancing, and crooning to the kid. I haven't had to develop those entertainer skills yet, simply because I have mammary glands. That's enough about that for now.
Dan is an awesome Dad, and he is currently taking care of Isaiah so that I can come to school and work on my thesis for more than 20 minutes without being interrupted by Isaiah (which I don't mind, it's just not great for productivity). I didn't quite know how the whole getting up in the middle of the night would work, because Dan's a deep sleeper and I used to not function on less than 6-7 hours of sleep. Thankfully, apparently your body does physiologically adjust. Plus, Isaiah is now sleeping probably close to an average of 5 hours at a time (at night), which I guess is highly unusual at 6 weeks. The last few weeks, Dan was on steroids (I'll let him tell you all why when he updates his blog...don't hold your breath) so he couldn't sleep anyway, so that was kind of sort of maybe not so much a silver lining, but now he is able to sleep and thus is feeling the aftereffects of interrupted sleep patterns (before it was just no sleep at all).
Anyway, all that to say that we're all doing well, everyone's relatively healthy, we're all very happy, and I think we'll keep him. I'm proud of both of my boys, and love getting out as a family. TOnight we're going to a progressive dinner with our church, and Dan insisted that we could make sushi for the appetizer that we need to bring, so I need to go home to help out with that. I did have a relatively productive day writing, though--about 4 hours to write 4 measly paragraphs isn't too bad. Anyone who has had to do serious writing knows what I mean.
TTFN.