Learn as I go

So, here I am at 2:00 a.m. on Friday morning - I am still awake, why you ask? Not because I have a fuss baby but because I HAD to HAVE diet coke. All day I had been craving diet coke, I am trying not to have caffeine but I couldn't help it. My whole pregnancy I never really craved anything now that I have to watch what I eat I want all the things I can't have. David got home about 8 o'clock tonight and I had him stop by the store and get a diet coke, because I just had to have it. Well guess what so did Daniel whenever he nursed at 10 o'clock. So here we are all caffeine up and we need to be asleep. Hello, Stacey use your head!

Today I went to put a diaper in his diaper genie, we had hoped to use cloth diapers but his little bottom is so small we have to use pampers for the time being. So anyway, I go to put a diaper in the diaper genie and it won't go in. It never dawned on me that it would already be full. I thought there's no way we have only been home since Sunday. Well, it was and when I opened it up I was amazed at the number of diapers we had gone through in 4 days. Live and learn!

Today was a nice day, we got up around 9. That doesn't mean we slept til 9, I usually do his first feeding, change him, and eat breakfast in bed then get up. It's just easier! Today was the first day that he nursed all day. After we left the hospital I had to pump just to make sure he was getting enough milk. So he nursed all day today which was a whole lot easier. I forgot to write that he lost his cord on Wednesday. I was changing him and I went to clean it and it was gone! I looked everywhere for it and then I laid him down and he started to cry. I picked him up and there it was under his shirt. My baby is already growing so fast.

Some of the things we have already discovered about him...

He can not go to sleep in the dark - a little light has to be on.

He loves the sound of birds, they make him laugh then he gets the hiccups.

He is amazed by light, we had to set him by the window in his moses basket for a while and he was amazed by the light outside.

He isn't fussy unless something in wrong.

He hates blankets, I have to dress him very warm because he kicks the blankets off. I go and check on him and he's freezing - I don't think he even cares as long as he doesn't have to have a blanket.

He can already roll over onto his side - being a first time mom I thought this was normal until the doctor said it wasn't. He is a very strong little boy.

So far things are going great. Daniel is growing like a weed and I am getting used to having another person to take care of.