My Little Love is 6 Weeks Old

Dear sweet Atticus,

Daddy and I cannot believe you are 6 weeks old already! You can be a crazy little man, and much of our entertainment comes from watching you and your funny and sweet antics. A few of our favorite things to watch:

1. You lift your arms in the air as if you are Superman. Sometimes your little arms will be floating in the air for 10 minutes or more.

2. You have this unbelievably adorable full-face smile ~ and we can see your little heart shaped tongue!

3. Your endless, endless facial expressions; one of our favorites is your single eyebrow raise.

4. Your especially long pooping sessions, accompanied with the loudest bum bubbles we have ever heard (people can hear the sound from other rooms in the house!).

5. The way you form your mouth into a little fishie shape when you eat.

6. Your sparkly, and kind eyes (as daddy calls them) surrounded by your lovely dark eyelashes. Those eyes melt our hearts baby boy!

At your 6 week check up, your stats are: 9lbs 13oz, 23inches and your head is 15inches (your head grew!). The doctor said you were a very alert baby with well-groomed hair (of course you have coiffed hair ~ you are my baby after all). I told the doctor we had switched to cloth diapers, and he said babies wearing cloth diapers potty train earlier! We can only hope.

You also received your first round of immunizations. This made you a little cranky, but the nurse said you recovered quickly from your crying session. Once again proving you are a tough little man. I am so very proud of you!

Love you 6 weeks times infinity my precious son.

How quickly a month flies in baby time!

The last five weeks have been the craziest and loveliest of my life. When Paul and I are gazing at our sweet baby boy, we feel as if Atticus has been with us all our lives. In a way, he has ~ we have talked about our theoretical baby for so many years. He used to be a sweet dream, and now we can hold, kiss and cuddle our little man.

We have also dealt with some very real moments of living with the "Period of Purple Crying." The hospital made us watch a video about this before we returned home. The "Purple" is an acronym and includes the following elements of crying: Peak of Crying, Unexpected, Resists soothing, Pain like face, Long lasting and Evening. Poor Atticus has also been a little congested, which I know cannot be fun for our little man. After feeding, changing his diaper and burping (which Paul calls Atticus' "levers"), we are sometimes at a loss as to why he is crying, and we just have to remind ourselves about the Period of Purple Crying.

After particularly difficult days with long periods of crying, we feel relieved when Atticus finally drifts off to sleep. We tip-toe around the house, or stay as still as possible if either one of us is holding him so as not to disturb his slumber.

For the most part, Atticus is a pretty laid back baby. He loves to socialize and wants to spend hours looking eye to eye and cooing and talking. I cannot even begin to explain the complete joy I feel when he gives me one of his endearing, full face smiles! He is such an expressive little gent too, with bright eyes and constant baby thoughts and observations. Each day we learn a little bit more about our sweet boy ~ what an amazing journey so far!