All smiles, sometimes

On most days when Alex isn't sleeping, he's generally crying. He does have his moments when he's happy. Usually it's on the changing table. We can almost always get him to smile there. It's AWESOME! 8 weeks old today.

Is this wrong?

Today, on 2 separate occasions, I craved alcohol.

1. I passed by a wine and spirits store on my way home from food shopping. All I wanted to do was stop in and buy the necessary ingredients for a Cosmopolitan.

2. Dave has bought beer b/c we had some friends over during the snow day. After Lilia went to bed a beer sounded good to me. I'm pretty sure my last beer was in college.

Today I asked Lilia what she wanted for Christmas. Here was her response...

"A ding dong bell and a door. That will be exciting! Yeah!"

Alex, 7 weeks

A nice treat

The past 2 days have been a little rough. Yesterday was better than the day before, but we're still just barely getting by. Alex is not a good sleeper during the day so I don't get much of a break. He cries often too.

Last night Dave and I were shot. Since 2pm yesterday, Alex was eating ever hour and a half. He had barely slept since then. Around 10:45ish we were both so tired. Dave put Alex in his car seat in his room and came to bed. Alex was wide awake, but content. We prayed and asked God for mercy that Alex would fall asleep on his own. The next thing we knew it was 6am and Lilia was coming into our room. Alex was still asleep! I think his last feeding was at 10:20pm. Since I was awake anyway I went to wake him to feed him. He ate and went back to sleep shortly after.

Thank you God for the really nice break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday he weighed in at 10lb 10oz.

You know your daughter watches too much tv when...

Instead of using the word "then" to transition a sentence, she uses the phrase "coming up next."

Shu shu Matt