"Finding Nemo"

An excerpt from Finding Nemo as told by Michael in a cheerful, sing song voice at bedtime:

"The two fish swam after the mask into the deep, dark water... even though they were physically incapable of withstanding the pressures involved... They found the mask and read the address 'P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.' After an encounter with an angler fish, Marlin and Dory quickly swam away... even though rapid decompression would surely kill them, but only if they were lucky. If they weren't they would develop a condition called the bends where gas bubbles are released into their bloodstream and joints. If they were very unlucky, it would completely destroy their brains! They would be an empty, hollow, husk of a fish... living out the rest of their lives in pain and suffering. :)"

Conner doesn't feel good!

I called the pediatrician a few days ago because Conner has been acting super fussy from around 6-8pm every night. He cries and cries and it's so hard to make him feel better. He acts hungry but refuses to eat; he acts gassy but patting his back just doesn't help. The pediatrician told us to go ahead and come in to make sure it wasn't something serious.

Turns out he has colic. Which is good, because it's not serious and fairly common... but bad because there is nothing we can do about it. We just have to do our best to calm him down. We feel so bad for him because he's so upset! We are learning the tricks that distract him: skin to skin contact, walking up and down stairs, going outside and looking around... hopefully this will pass soon and we can have our calm baby back.

He's awake!

At around 5am this morning, Conner woke up with sad little sobs of loneliness. Once he was picked up and snuggling with me, he just stared around for all the world as if he realized for the first time that his eyes could see. It was so unusual for him to do that I had to get a video! Sorry it's a little dark, it WAS 5am in the morning! About 10 minutes after this was taken, he passed out again until his normal wake-up time of 7am.

Grandparent's visit

Well, Grandma and Grandpa Rodgers just left after a week-long visit. It was great having them here to help out, and I know Conner enjoyed all the extra cuddling! We were sad to see them go, mostly because that means everything is down to Michael and I again, which is a little scary, but we can do it!

Shadow was very curious about this whole being on the floor thing. It was pretty funny to watch him kneel down and watch Conner as he tried to figure out what was going on.

Lucky didn't even notice the baby on his back. Literally... he slept right through this.

He says he couldn't resist...