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!