Colin is 17 days old

Colin is now 17 days old. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Everyone keeps saying that it goes fast, but it has. Now that Rob has gone back to work, my Mom has been here to help. It has been so nice to have an extra set of hands to help out with as I have been transitioning from being able to do things when I want to, to now doing things when Colin enables me to. aka when he is sleeping. Plus as each day passes, Colin is showing us his personality and is getting a little more fussy so it has been great to learn tricks of the mommy trade for soothing.

We had some more visitors last week. Bill and Caryn from my old job stopped by for dinner. It was great to see them and they brought Colin some great boy clothes.

Colin is now sleeping about 3-4 hrs. at a time during the night. Most of the time I need to wake him up to feed him. We are considering ourselves lucky. So we will see how long that lasts.

This past weekend we were able to get some additional professional photos taken of Colin at 2 weeks. So we will be sure to post some of these once they are ordered. Otherwise, it was a pretty relaxing weekend. Unfortunately the Chicago cold is definitely keeping us inside on most days. However we were able to take advantage of the 30 degree weather yesterday and go out to Babies R Us and eat out for lunch. After being inside for the past week or so, it was great to get out.

In addition, yesterday Colin found his thumb and went to town on sucking it. Although we are not sure that he will find it again soon, it certainly did the trick in soothing him last evening. Now that his cord has fallen out, we plan to give him a real bath soon. Colin is so lucky to have a ton of bath toys for bath time, that it should be fun.

Each day Colin is more alert and getting bigger. We will post more pics soon once I can get on Rob's computer.