Bonding Time...

Alexander & Daddy are slowly building a new little bonding time place since it's too cold out. If Mommy has plans during a school night and Daddy has to do bedtime, Daddy & Alexander will go out to dinner together. They go to Burger King. It's similar to Mommy & Alexander's visit to Target.

They went on Friday night and this time Alexander came home with a crown. He loves it!

Male Bonding Time...

For some of this week, Daddy & Alexander are on their own for some good ole male-bonding time!

Mommy has a little trip for a family wedding so the boys are staying home to keep an eye on things.

Mommy has put everything together to make it easy for the boys. So here's hoping the boys have a fun time together while Mommy is gone.

Miss you boys!

Like Father, Like Son...

How cute are the boys today? I laid out clothes for Alexander last night so Daddy can bring him to the playground (in a matching ensemble) and it turns out that Daddy picked out a very similiar outfit, just swapped the colors.

Bonding Time...

This was a big week for Daddy & Alexander! Not only were they home together on Tuesday (Alexander's sick day), but Mommy had plans to go see the Five Bad Boys from the Beantown Land on both Thursday & Friday.

This meant that Daddy & Alexander got to do dinner, bathtime, and bedtime together for two nights in a row!

Earlier in the week I was apprehensive only in the sense that Alexander's teeth has been bothering him and he's been waking up wanting to cuddle with Mommy. So I was hoping that since I wasn't here and if he did wake up, Alexander would let Daddy calm him down.

Thankfully, the boys did just swimmingly and Alexander slept fine! And Mommy had fun seeing the original boys...

Twins

It's always cute when a little boy wants to be just like his Daddy...

My Men...

Daddy & Alexander enjoying outside on a crisp, fall, New England day...

Check out how cute they are!

Daddy & Alexander day...

Mommy had day planned so that meant Daddy & Alexander got to spend the day together.

Alexander woke up @ 5:30am, so Daddy brought him into bed where they both slept til 7am!
Then after some breakfast & playing they went to go visit Uncle Matt & Laura at their new place. Alexander & Michael got to play together again - two weekends in a row!

Alexander then had an early afternoon nap and hung out with Daddy. They played with blocks, chased each other around the house and went to the Mall to get out of the humid, muggy air.

Then as they were finishing dinner, Mommy came home and gave him a bath...what a nice way to spend a Saturday.

Daddy & Alexander

Here's a cute shot of Daddy & Alexander relaxing on a sunny Saturday afternoon

Doctor Dan...

Doctor Dan/Daddy reporting for duty!

Let me start by saying that Dan has been absolutely incredible with this whole "becoming a daddy" situation. Not that I ever doubted him, but I was curious to see how squeamish he would be with dirty diapers, and all of the bodily noises & fluids that accompany babies. He hasn't flinched once. He's changed just as many diapers as I have - and believe me I've changed a lot! (Obviously, Dan only put on his hospital garb for the picture - he doesn't put these on every time!)

I still have to type up my thoughts on the whole delivery and hospital experience but in the meantime since Dan is portraying a doc here, I figured I'd type up our first Doctor visit.

Dr. M & his wife (who's an RN) came to our house this afternoon. Very rare these days, but extremely thoughtful. They came to check out Alexander and to answer any questions we may have. Dan has been waiting for this appt all week, to help ease the mind.

We chatted about - talked about his feeding schedule, his sleeping schedule, how to try to fix his sleeping pattern, etc. I did mention that he has his days & nights mixed up, right? Last few nights have been a ball! They gave us some great tips on how to help regulate his schedule and what queues we should look for and what to do about them. I think the biggest challenge for us has been information overload. We've gotten so much advice and "To Do's" from everyone (nurses & doctors in the hospital, family, friends, books, internet, etc..) that it's hard to know what to do. Dan & I talked and feel that although people are going to give us advice we need to do what we think is right and best for Alexander and just let the rest of the advice not affect us.

Then the doctor asked us to go against his own words. He told us to go wake up Alexander so Dr. M could exam him. Now, we don't know if all doctor's say "oh he's cute" because they want to be nice, but Dr. M commented a few times about how cute he was. Now, if the baby wasn't cute would you say it more than once, I think not. Again, I'm biased.

He measured his head, length and weighed him. He's 19 1/2 inches so he's grown 1/2 inch in 8 days. He weighs 5 lbs 12 ozs so he's just back to birth weight (he was 5 lbs 14 ozs when he was born but when we left the hospital he was 5 lbs 4 ozs). I'm glad he's gaining weight since he lost 10 ozs while we were in the hospital. So he's gained 8 ozs since Monday, and that's a good thing!

Dr. M said he's still a little jaundice in the face but because he's not jaundice in his body and he's peeing & pooping that everything looks great. He was impressed that his umbilical cord fell out on Wednesday and his belly looks great! We also got an A for taking care of his circumcision and that we no longer need to do the gauze because it has healed very well.

All in all a very good visit from the doctor and Alexander got an A+! They're going to come back next week for his 2nd week check-up and then after that we'll start to go to the office.