1 Month - New Normals

It's hard to believe we've had our little Jackie Boy for a month already! Having a baby and being a parent is such a crazy-unbelievable experience. We are just taking it day by day, and everyday is different than the next. We are in no way on a schedule yet, we just go by what the baby seems to want to do. And he is such a good baby! Such a sweet little boy.

I hope I'm not jinxing myself here but compared to other's horror stories about their little ones screaming all day and night, he is fantastic, and so sweet. 

But night time can be....tough. Tough for two people who up until now, were used to just crashing when they felt like it and sleeping soundly through the night, and waking up feeling rested in the morning. Like normal people.

Well, I guess this is our new normal. Everything is now harder and more complicated. It's a hard fact to get over but we are doing the best we can to accept that this is our new normal and the days of us doing whatever we feel like, are GONE. So with that said... 

Some nights are easier than others to get through, and we are clinging onto the fact that eventually babies do sleep through the night! Not like we expect him to yet, I mean, he is a baby after all. But the hope is there that he eventually will. Currently he wakes up about 3-4 times a night and on a good night, goes back down to sleep without much of a fight. A bad night (like last night, *yaaaaawn*) means he wakes up every hour and a half or so to eat, cry, poop, fart, and/or demand that we co-sleep with him. 

We don't like the idea of co-sleeping at all really (although it does feel so nice to cuddle with him on my chest for hours at a time), but there is a point during the night, usually early in the am, when it's just easier to let him sleep with us in bed because we REALLY need to go back to sleep, or risk being extremely sleep-deprived the next day. Normal, right? 

Anywho, here are some of my favorite photos from our first month with the boy. He has already changed so much! 

Hi.

"I'M BATMAN"

Jackson Cody - melting hearts since day one

Mom thinks it's okay to change me in the car...WTF?

I have had one real, full-submerge bath so far in life

This is the one successful attempt so far in using our baby wrap. We try everyday to use it so Mommy can maybe get a few things done around the house. Fail.

"Bring me to the light, Mother"

A little puke never hurt