Ben’s Blog

This was Cassie’s first week to keep the boys on her own. I’d say it went very well. Luke continues to warm up to Liam, but we still have to keep an eye on him. He still likes to shake Liam’s bouncer occasionally.

Liam is doing better about sleeping at night. Occasionally he’ll stay awake for a short period at night, but it’s fairly rare. He gets up about three times to eat during the night, and Luke still gets up once around 2am. That means Cassie and I have to get up twice each. I’ve been drinking two cups of Earl Grey tea a day, just to keep going. It could certainly be worse, but I’ll be glad when Liam starts sleeping for longer periods of time.

Luke was supposed to have his first “swimming lesson” at the Turner Center on campus last Tuesday, but they postponed them a week due to pool renovations. (Which they didn’t bother telling us until we got there for the lesson.) Luke and I will be doing that for the next month on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully I’ll get a few pictures.

Speaking of pictures…we’ve taught Luke to take his bottle by himself. This helps Cassie when Luke and Liam decide it’s time to eat at the same time during the day. One day this week I came home to the scene below. I thought it was cute. Luke had apparently spilled something on his shirt earlier, and Cassie didn’t bother putting anything back on him because he was about to eat. Notice the glob of milk about to hit his chest in the second picture.

Liam is two weeks, one day old today. He went to the pediatrician for his first checkup this afternoon, and he’s still looking great. He’s already gained a few ounces. He still wants to wake up for long stretches during the night, but he’s gotten a lot better. He’s going about three hours between feedings on average, but at night he’ll occasionally go longer, so we can’t complain.

We had to drag out the old bouncer for Luke.

Luke has adapted well to being a big brother. He occasionally likes to bounce Liam’s bouncer, but other than that he’s being very sweet. Luke became very fond of playing with our dishwasher and oven, so we now have gates on both entrances to the kitchen. He’s also been trying to climb things. Yesterday he managed get up on the couch by himself.

Luke’s discovered our laundry nook. He’ll open the sliding doors, get in, and close the doors behind him. A couple of weeks ago he locked himself in his room. I wasn’t able to pick the lock, so I had to take the door knob off the door to get him out. He hasn’t really learned any new words lately, but he’s jabbering up a storm.

Cassie is still doing great. She goes back to the doctor on Friday, but we expect a good report.