three weeks old

It is so crazy to me that three weeks have gone by so fast, and yet at night... not so fast.  This little boy is such a sweetheart, and I am loving him to pieces.  He has been a bad sleeper at night and likes to wake up to eat all the time. The longest he sleeps is 2 hours and for the first two weeks he pooped ALL THE TIME!  I would just get him changed and start feeding him and then he would fill his pants.  Get that changed and then he would want to eat again... so we would be up for a hour or two every time he would wake up.  But this last week has been much better.  He is still only sleeping for a hour or two at a time, but he isn't pooping all the time and he will eat and then go right back to bed.  That makes a huge difference.  I have been trying to nurse him and the first week was going well, but the longer I nursed the less milk I was getting.  So we had to give him a bottle after I would nurse and so feeding him was also taking a very long time.  I don't know if he is a little  pig but it feels like he eats all the time, and he eats a lot for how little he is.  I have given up on nursing now... I am so mad that my body is being so weird and won't produce any milk at all now.  I always had more than enough with the first girls so it makes no sense to me. 

I have to say that Ryan's dad has been a life saver to me.  Ryan was put in as the second counselor of the bishopric and so he has been gone a lot.  Tuesdays are a really hard night for me and it is just crazy.  Ryan's dad has come and helped me the past three weeks and I wouldn't have made it through the night without going a little crazy.  Alexis has a basketball game that night, and then she always has a bunch of homework along with the other two girls.  Then Max is a little fussy at night so it is so hard to take care of them all.  Then putting them to bed is also a little crazy with a baby that wants to be held or fed at the same time.   So Thank you Denton, you are such a great help!

Chris and Cindy made a trip to see Max and bring the girls back to us. 

Elizabeth really wanted to stay home and not go to IF.  But I knew that she would have so much fun playing with her cousins.  When she got home she was so excited to hold him and she missed him and me a lot I think. 

He is getting better about getting him naked and changing his bum.  At first he would freak out if you would ever take his diaper off.  I wondered if it was because he was still sore from his little boy surgery........ But with how much he was going poop we had to take them off a lot.  I figured out that in the first two weeks we went through 150 diapers..... That has slowed down and now I hope they will last longer.

This is what he does when you put him down most of the time.... He LOVES to be held.  He is a little spoiled

This was his first bath.   It looks like he liked it, but he was a little scared.  He was only in it for about five minutes and then he was done. 

The day that I was thinking about going and getting pictures of him he scratched his face so bad.... so we decided to wait until it went away.

I don't know if you can see his belly button very well, but it is a major outy.  The doctor said it is a umbilical hernia and it could go in in a few years or we may have to do surgery if it bothers him.  I am really hoping that once he gets a little fat on his belly it will suck it in.