First Smiles

I can't believe that Collin is already over a month old!!! The past month seems like a blur (I'm sure that has to do with how exhausted I am!).

Collin is still doing well. Last week, I started supplementing with formula. Not a lot... just an ounce or two after each feeding. I feel really good about it, and am so much more confident knowing that Collin's tummy gets to feel full. Ethan and the kids enjoy feeding him his bottle, too, which is nice.Collin has also been falling into a nice routine. We've been trying to get him into the cycle of: eat-play-sleep. He's done really well with it, and his schedule is fairly predictable now. At night, he was waking only once a night last week, but now is back to waking two times a night. Oh well... The only thing I forgot about was the time change. Here in England, we changed our clocks back last weekend. Previously, I had Collin waking at around 6:45am each day. So, of course, with the time change, he was then waking before 6am the first few days. We're trying to shift that. It'll just take a little time, I suppose.

Last Friday, Collin gave me his first official smile. A big gummy one! It was so precious. I've been trying to take a picture of him smiling, but he gets too distracted by the camera. We also started putting Collin under his gym during his play times. He just loves it. He gets all excited and starts kicking and swinging his arms. It's so fun watching him.

The rest of us are doing well. The kids have this week off of school, so they're getting to spend a lot of time with their brother. As for me, I have some great days, where I am out and active and getting house chores done, etc. And then I seem to come to a crashing point where I am just exhausted. Last Wednesday, I called Ethan at work, completely crying from exhaustion. My dear husband actually took the afternoon off from work to come home so that I could sleep. What a guy!