3 weeks

Our third week of life continued to be busy and fun!  Daddy had to go out of town for the weekend so we decided to join my family at the Camp house.  Bennett came over before we all headed that way and he rode with us to the camp.  He is so in love with Wells and always wants to hold him, kiss him, and make sure he's ok!

We wore a diaper shirt and diaper cover for the 1st time this day

sweet baby tushie

Somewhere I have a picture of Ben as a baby where his face looks almost identical to this pic of Wells...

The first night at the camp we barely slept at ALL... the lack of sleep started around 1:45am and at 7am when I heard someone in another part of the house I was relieved and handed baby off to my mom.  Change of scenery and sounds, sleeping in Nap Nanny instead of Bassinet, and Daddy being gone made for difficulty sleeping I guess.... After napping almost all day Saturday (me), we actually slept much better Saturday night.  I don't know how I could go without this video monitor.

When we were at the hospital, Emory really wanted nothing to do with the baby (as you can see from the pictures)... but at the camp she asked to hold the baby, absolutely LOVED it, and did NOT want us to take him away from her (Wells really wasn't upset the whole time she held him, only during the picture).  SO sweet!

Sunday, we were so happy to get home and snuggle with daddy

Monday we went on an outing to the Vet's office because Harper's eye was bothering him.  We put our animal onesie on for the adventure

We try to play on the playmat at least once a day

and this was the 1st time I used the Baby Bjorn around the house to be productive... Baby only wanted to be held but momma had things to do!  I cooked Ben's Birthday cookies, unloaded & loaded the dishwasher, and did laundry while babywearing!

For a little while, I put him down in his crib to nap for the 1st time

The next day, August 21st, was Ben's Birthday!!!  We went out to buy his presents and posed for a picture to make his birthday card!

We got dressed up for Daddy's Birthday dinner and flashed a sorta smile for momma!

His eyes melt me

YAY for real baths now!

Most of the time he LOVES laying on the changing pad.  I am so glad the dresser has the mirror because he loves to just stare into it and it usually makes him fall asleep...

This is why we don't like to be swaddled anymore.... his favorite way to lay down

Yep, once again another week had gone by and he turned 3 weeks old!

Age: 3 weeks old

Likes: laying on his tummy, mommy holding him, sleeping in the Nap Nanny, his PACI (from the beginning we were offering the paci but he didn't really seem to care one way or the other, but now he really loves it to soothe)

Dislikes: bath time, his bassinet, when the car stops (he doesn't mind being in his carseat but he knows when we aren't moving and doesn't like that)

Eating:  Breastfeeding every 3 hours during the day (and whenever he wakes up at night) and doing GREAT with it.  

Sleeping:  Hit or miss.  For the most part he still sleeps steadily for 3-3.5 hours at a time at night until he wakes up ready to eat.  Only 1 or 2 nights (like that night at the camp) have we been up all night.

Diapers: Size 1 Pampers (I opened a package of size 1 Huggies this week and he had a BLOW OUT... the legs don't seem to be as snug on him as Pampers are so we can't use Huggies until he's a little chunkier)

Clothes: All the newborn PJ's are put away and we wear 0-3 or 3 month clothes exclusively.  This week, for our picture, the plain white gerber onesie in 0-3 month was too small so we had to wear a 3-6 month onesie!  

We're well on our way to turning 1 month old!