One Month and Easters

McKay's first month (now six weeks) of life has been full of cold, miserable weather and LOTS of hours spent indoors. He has avoided all the sickness that we have had so far, and for that I couldn't be more grateful. He has had a little snotty nose, but it seems to be getting better, and it never really bothered him that much.

He is a very gassy little guy, and he stinks! Mostly, though, he doesn't act like it bothers him too much.

He only poops about every other day (besides little squirts) and then they are HUGE and get everywhere.

He still has the baby acne, although it looks a touch better than it did last week.

He is doing a lot better at night. He sleeps 3 hours at a time (mostly in his bed) and usually goes right back to sleep. Last night he slept 4 hours, from 11:15-3:15, which was encouraging for me. And usually he ends up in bed with me after the second night feeding (5 or 6 am).

He is doing a little better during the day at not needing to be held constantly, meaning I can sometimes get 15-30 minutes of good behavior at a time. BUT, I still have to hold him MOST of the time. Everything I do takes 3 times as long (it took me an entire day to get the laundry done and the house vacuumed), and some things just don't get done at all.

There are many, many, MANY moments of mass chaos and I think I'll lose my mind (and I admit, my patience is running thin most of the time). Someone is always crying. But I have realized that when the sun comes out (and it seems it has been out only RARELY lately), everything seems better. Please, oh please, can Spring come and stay?

This is pretty much my life right here.

Here is is one month pic. You can see he was not too thrilled that I took off his clothes and put him down. Typical.

This shirt is from Old Navy and says St Patrick's Day 2011--McKay's birthday. How could I resist?


He is holding his head up really well and coos and smiles at us all the time. My milk has started dwindling already, so I'm taking Fenugreek and giving him a little bit of formula if he doesn't seem satisfied after a feeding. I think that's why he slept 4 hours last night--I got him full!


Carter loves him, but has no idea how to be gentle. He tries to say "baby," but it comes out "daydee." I got a good pic of Carter going in to touch McKay and Jeff reaching out to stop him. Ha ha.

We also had Easters. Not much to be said (McKay is screaming on my lap, so this will be short). Dyeing eggs was fun, but SUCH a mess. And I need to have a little more patience before we try this again.


And the kids all got new clothes (except McKay, who didn't go anywhere near the church building anyway).