3 Weeks

Today my little Leo is three weeks old. As always with newborns, time seems to go fast and slow at the same time. I'm trying not to wish these newborn days away, but sometimes it's hard. I feel like I've got the whole 3 kid thing under control, it's the newborn-ness that is taking it's toll on me. I keep telling myself that it won't be like this forever and soon this will be a distant memory, but in the moments of frustration that doesn't really do any good.

Leo is still proving to be a very good baby, which I am beyond thankful for - I would lose it if he was a Finn baby. Not kidding. He got a horrible diaper rash a few days ago and I want to cry for him every time I change his diaper. Thankfully I still have some medicated cream (poop goop) from when Finn had a nasty rash that I'm using on him. This cream is seriously miracle cream. It's already looking a million times better. Poor little boy, but he sure is a great popper :-)

Nights are still the same. Waking up 2-3 times to eat. Although I think it's more of a sleeping/pooping issue that is waking him up at night because he's not downing his bottles like he is starving. Then again he's waking up in shorter intervals than I would like too. We are still in the trial/error stage too, which can be extremely frustrating as well. The GOOD news is that he's sleeping in his crib on his back since Saturday. This makes me SO happy.

Tom was out of town this past weekend for a wedding, which I opted not to attend. I just didn't think a 6 hour car ride to Chicago with a 3 week old would be that much fun. Thankfully my mom came and stayed the weekend with us. It was SO wonderful to have her here. She played with the boys, rocked Leo back to sleep every once in a while, did a few middle of the night feedings, it was just so nice not having to be solo for the entire weekend and having some extra hands.

We are heading up to the cabin later on this week. I'm nervous about the car ride up there, because Leo doesn't exactly love his carseat. But Jack and Finn are SO excited about the cabin and I really don't want to stay back here with just Leo. It's going to be a packed car ride up there, especially with Bailey! We are going to let the boys watch a DVD on the way up there too - I think we will tell them we only watch DVDs when we go up to the cabin.

It's proving to be hard to whip out my camera as much as I'd like. I also think that Leo is going to start smiling soon. I just have a hunch, and I seriously cannot WAIT. It's like you put all of this time and energy into caring for this human being and getting a smile feels like a big fat thank you - which I feel like I deserve. ha.

Enjoy these pics. Gotta fly, Leo is waking up.