Fathers Day

Yesterday for the first time, I was the focus of a Fathers Day celebration. Karen is a bit jealous that I get a fathers day this year and she has to wait another year for her first mothers day, but she is happy to have Sarah here.

We had both of our families over yesterday, just to make it easier for us and Sarah. That way we didn't have to take her out of the house and worry about getting her all ready and being in yet another strange environment. I have a feeling that Sunday nights will be here for a while for the same reasons. We did the typical summer Bar-B-Que foods on the grill and just enjoyed everyones company.

The past few nights have been interesting to say the least. We had her rooming in with us at the hospital, so we are used to having to get up with her. She just hasn't picked a schedule yet :) She seems to alternate good nights and bad nights, not that her bad nights are really bad. She has decided that she doesn't like sleeping alone in her basinette at this point, so she lays with us for a while each night. Her feedings have become more uniform and consistent, every 3-4 hours and feeding for 20-25 minutes each time most of the time. She is just sooo cute!

We are already beginning to see small milestones in her development. She no longer struggles to hold her head up, although she still does not have the fine control over it (and won't for a while). She can pretty much hold her head up to look at one of us if she is laying on our chests, and she keeps her eyes open for a long time. It's really interesting to just watch her looking around and wonder what she is seeing. No one really knows what or how a newborn sees, but it's obvious that she is beginning to recognize our faces and voices.

This morning, she left me a little surprise when I was changing her. Nothing disgusting, just her cord. I guess we really can't put her back now because her means of plugging in has fallen off. It was just hanging out in the outfit that she slept in, and everything looks good, at least as far as I can tell. She does have quite the inney though.