We got.....drum roll, please....5-6 hours of sleep last night! Max's problem is that he likes to stay up late. He didn't decide to sleep until after 1, and then he woke up at 3 for a feeding. After feeding and changing him, he went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 5:30 or so to eat, and then he woke up at 9. All together, our grand total of sleep was 5-6 hours, so that's a good sign. Both of us can live on 5 or 6 hours.
It takes him a long time to eat and it still takes us longer than the professionals to change his diaper (partly because we are caring for the cord and circumcision, but once those heal, changing should go faster). He is a hearty eater and is regularly eating 2 ounces per feeding. He cracks me up--as I was feeding him last night, he tried several times to grab my breast and nurse. I felt so bad about it, especially because he was so cute doing it. Really makes me think again about nursing, but I still don't know how I could do it with school just 8-9 weeks away.
The dogs have really calmed down. Lucy and Pippi were no problem to begin with (shocking, I know), and it has taken Shelley a few days to chill out, but she has managed. They all really love to smell him and lick his head (while we are holding him and supervising, of course!). Pippi also likes his feet (but whose feet doesn't Pippi like?).
In other news...we had a brief scare last night. At around 4:45, our electricity went out. Any time our electricity goes out, we (and the whole neighborhood) cringes because we were out for 8 days in July and 6 in December. We called Ameren and the recording said we would have power by 2 am. Fortunately, it didn't take until 2 am, because around 7pm, Brandon saw an Ameren truck drive by to fix the downed line. We had power restored by 7:30. It really scared me because it's not exactly easy to pack up and leave right now if something like a power outage were to happen, but there's also NO WAY we could stay in the house if we did have an extended power outage. Let's just hope that never happens again.
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Okay, so the "cardinals suck" picture... awesome!
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