Home A Week!

We're home!!!  At long last, our baby boy is with us.  We've been home for just over a week, but life has been a bit busy...to say the least!  :-)

Baby Boy has a new nickname.  Now that we have spent a little time with him Hubby has dubbed him Dozer, short for bulldozer.  He really likes to come at you head first and bulldoze into you.  I think that will change once he is walking, but it makes for a cute name.

I'd love to find the time to go back and write about our trip, but I can't at the moment, so I'll just give a quick update.

We arrived home last Thursday night, Oct. 4th.  Dozer has been doing really well overall.  That first night was a little rough because he was completely confused about time and basically stayed up the whole night.  He spent the next day or so napping a lot, but no long stretches of sleep.  I think that helped him acclimate to our time zone a bit and by Saturday night he went to bed around 8:30.  However, sleeping through the night is a different story.  He wakes for a bottle several times a night, but the kicker was that he was waking at 4 A.M. and done sleeping for the night.  That lasted around four days and now he is finally on a better schedule and sleeping till 6:30 or so.  I say that like it's routine, but it most certainly isn't.  Last night he was cutting a tooth and all bets were off.

It has been both a great week and a hard week.  Dozer has adjusted so much better than I was anticipating.  He has such a sweet personality; gives us tons of smiles, eats well, and is even sleeping in his crib in his own room.  However, I came home with a terrible cold and with all of those long nights I just don't seem to be getting any better which made that first week really tough.  Hubby, being the healthy one, was able to do a lot, but then he succumbed to my cold too.  I finally went to the doctor and got some meds and, with Dozer sleeping better, hopefully Hubby will be able to recover from his cold more quickly than I was able.  We are looking forward to a more normal week next week and really seeing what being a family of five is like!