Two Weeks Old

Reid is officially two weeks old today--I can't believe it! The hospital stay already seems soooo long ago (and I don't want to forget anything), and the past two weeks have been a blur of diaper changes, crying, feedings, and attempts to sleep. And it has been absolutely, utterly amazing :)

On the Monday we arrived home from the hospital, Aunt Kristen and Oma/Gamma drove up from Houston to see our new arrival.

Aunt Kristen brought the cutest Aggie gear--check out those precious booties--which I dressed Reid in this week. (and yes, I was a big dork and wore an A&M shirt that day, too) We have tons of LSU goodies, but the Aggie goodies are beginning to catch up!

Grammy took good care of us all week long. She cleaned, shopped, brought me things I didn't know I'd need when nursing, and put up with my craziness/weepiness as I got no sleep. Literally. One night, I survived on 30 minutes of sleep. Reid got about 45 minutes. Now I understand what "babies have their days and nights mixed up" means!

I was trying to get a video of Reid's beautiful, dark blue eyes (I'm sure they'll change to brown since Jason and I both have dark brown eyes, but you never know...) but ended up with a funny hiccupping kiddo. He had the hiccups daily while in my belly--it was reassuring and cute while he was in there, but out of the womb it's been interesting...cutest sound and facial expressions, but not so cute when it's 3am and he won't go to sleep b/c of them.

But who can resist this precious little guy? Most nights, I was fine with the little sleep thing, but a couple of nights I thought I'd go mad b/c I had no idea what he needed. The mental checklist: Is he fed? Check. Clean diaper? Check. Warm enough? Check. Burped? Check. Needs to be held or rocked? Check. So why's he crying? Who knows!! ...but at least someone in the house is sleeping...albeit during the daytime ;)

Thank goodness for swings! Ten seconds before this, he was screaming his head off...

I try not to use it unless he's inconsolable and it's nowhere near a feeding time, but how cute is this little guy? Reid can sometimes hold Ducky all by himself (I'm sure it's by accident, but still really adorable!).

And here's what we do most of the day...drift away to dreamland. I am quite grateful that for the past two nights, he's figured out that nighttime is sleep time (and of course, we eat every couple of hours) and daytime is for alertness, naps, and being awake. Makes Mommy one happy camper!

Finally, how are the "fur babies" reacting to baby boy's homecoming?? It's been interesting, to say the least. The first day, we had the video camera out and ready, but Dixie cautiously approached and sniffed from four feet away...Samson just stared for a second and went right back to sleep. The first time Reid really let out the big wails of a newborn, Dixie freaked and went to bite Samson's hiney. Weird!! But the most humorous thing is how the cats have taken all the new baby goodies...they apparently think it's new stuff for them. A couple of examples: