January 30-February 2, 2007

Samuel's First Week

We started off the week with a very sleepy boy. I am not sure if it was because he was early, OR some say that bigger babies are more content to begin with. Anyway, Sunday through Tuesday of this week Samuel did nothing more than sleep. I had a difficult time getting him to even wake up to eat, and when he did he barely ate anything at all. He was even sleeping 7 hours at night. Something I am totally not used to...both Gabrielle and Allison ate every 2 hours around the clock after they were first born and they were both big babies too. Anyway, by Tuesday afternoon, he started to be awake more and catch on to the eating thing and now he is a pro at nursing and definately filling his allottment of diapers.

He still will go 3-4 hours comfortably between feedings, but eats very well when he does. BONUS....he has only given us one sleepless night so far, the other nights he is only waking once during the night (between 3 and 5 am) and then sleeps until 8-9am. Totally not used to that....Allison has been keeping us up during the night more than he has.

He seems to be a very content baby so far which reminds me a lot more of Nicholas as a baby. It seems like Nicholas was laid back and sort of settled himself into his own routine quite early. Both boys were sleeping well in the bassinet, or the bouncy seat or where ever...they also both sleep well on their back (so far). Both of the girls were "moody" and more agitated right from the beginning. It seems like we had to work more to get them to settle down and both of the girls ended up being stomach sleepers, because they just wouldn't get comfortable anywhere and would rarely sleep more than an hour at a time. Hopefully, Sam's contentment trend will continue as we have a very busy household these days.

Here are some pictures we took throughout the week.....

First sponge bath.

He didn't like it...but in his defense it's not very warm anywhere right now.

I tried to make it as quick as possible.

He likes to be touching or holding something in his hands when he sleeps.

In this case, I caught him apparently saying his prayers.

Allison spends some time with her baby brother.

She is doing pretty well so far, but has been caught hitting him once.

She loves to give him kisses and bring him his blanket...only problem is

that she likes to put it right over top of his face.

Allison and Sam have a conversation!

Sam loves to be swaddled nice and tight when he is sleeping.

However, we quickly found that he needs to be able to get his hands

up to his face or he just won't settle down.

Check out my new duds....aren't I handsome?

Hanging out with Papa!