Smiles!!!

Ethan is 7.5 weeks old and we caught some smiles on camera finally :-)

This and that....

Well Ethan is now 5.5 weeks old but it feels like he's been here forever. We've seen one smile but that's it. He's a very serious young man. This pic was taken when he was 4 weeks old.

So far, it's had it's ups and down. Although I know he's not a difficult baby, I did think it would be pretty easy with both me and Josh home at the moment. Ethan is currently having a rare day sleep in his cradle but generally likes to be held all of the time so it has been tricky getting anything done. 

As soon as we try to lie him down, he wakes up. Thankfully he seems to recognise the difference between night and day and has good long blocks of sleep in his cradle while we're in bed. I was naive and thought that he would sleep most of the day in his cradle and it would be easy to get everything done LOL. 

Josh has been a bit grumpy because he's not getting as much "me" time as he would like but I would love to see how he would go if he had the boobs. Yesterday afternoon he gave me the afternoon between feeds off which was great. I fed Ethan and then closed myself in the bedroom for a few hours and as much as I love our little man, it was fantastic to just to be alone for a while. 

Next weekend, we're going to an ice hockey game in Sydney and we're leaving Ethan with Mum and Dad. We're having around 6 hours bub free. I'm looking forward to it but I'm also a little nervous that they won't be able to settle him or Dad will get frustrated at him crying while Mum is out working as she has one client while we're gone. I really hope it all goes well. 

Anyway that's about it. Not much to report at the moment.