Forgot!

Tomorrow is Halloween and for those of you who don't know, Gena and I are huge fans of this holiday. Check back after tomorrow to see what Lincoln will go as for his first Halloween.

Also, yesterday we gave him his second bath since we have had him home...pictures below...

So Fresh and So Clean

Time is Flying

Today is Friday, which means that Link is now one week and almost 2 days old. How crazy is that?! We are glad to be done with the hospital, but it feels like it was just yesterday that we were packing him into the car and driving him home at 25mph the whole way to avoid any potential risks!

A few new things have happened since we last posted. Angie, Shelby and Ben all came over to visit and bring delicious food. Others have stopped by with food and gifts, to which we say "Awesome!! and thank you all!" Grandma Gayle has been here a couple times to help out and to visit. She got us a neat new baby monitor yesterday to keep track of our little guy. We had a visit from our good friend baby North and aunt Polly. I got a haircut and danced in the livingroom with Link. Pictures form all of these events are in the album linked below. Enjoy!

Visitors

Take a Look

I have a feeling that I am going to be one of those crazy dads who is constantly taking pictures and video of the most inane parts of my child's life. But isn't that what dads are for?

I posted some new Lincoln pics today and moved the old ones to a new album called archive, which I will link in this post. The archive album will be where all older pictures now reside to make way for the newest of the new. I should be getting some video clips up soon as well so keep an eye out for those to be posted. The videos may be difficult for those of you with slower internet connections to view, but hopefully the picture albums are loading quickly. Please let me know if there are any problems looking at aspects of this blog and I will do my best to correct any issues that may arise.

Last night we got more sleep than normal, but we also slept on the couches downstairs because Lincoln was up and down all night. We found out today at the doctor's visit that he lost a little more weight and that he isn't getting enough milk when he feeds so we are taking steps to correct these issues. Keep your fingers crossed for us on Thursday because we go back in to get him weighted again and see if he will have to end up on formula instead.

He seems to be happier all around today and he isn't nearly as fussy as he has been, so we figure something must be going better. The pictures that are running on the slideshow to the right are from just before the walk we took him on yesterday. There are more with me and Link in the moby, but I will post those tomorrow.

Until next time!!

Archive

Another early morning...

Oh Lincoln, you great emancipator of sleep! Once again you have liberated me from the tyranny of my slumber!

He would not stop fussing! Finally, after two hours I decided to take him downstairs and give Gena a break to go to sleep. It took me another hour of singing, humming, shushing and, finally, finger sucking to get him back to sleep. Now he is laying on my chest, listening to my heart beat while the black cat sleeps next to us on the couch and the grey cat rubs against my legs. Oh what a family we have here! In the end they all say "It's worth it" but we are far from the end.

Hope all is well with you dear reader...

New Pictures

When we got home, I got my hands on the good camera and then I lost all self control and took something like 74 pictures of Gena and Lincoln. The slideshow at the top right of the main page has changed. I intend on keeping that slideshow running new picture albums instead of letting the same old stuff keep running. This way you all will know when new pictures of him are up.

We got home today and just crashed. I had to go out and get Gena's prescriptions and cash my paycheck, but otherwise we have been here taking time with baby.

Time for bed...

Leaving Time

Leaving Day!!

We just found out a bit ago that they are putting our discharge paperwork together right now. Gena got her staples out about an hour ago and Gayle is coming up to help us get home. We put him into the outfit we bought before we even knew he was a man child. It is toasty warm so he won't get cold on the ride home.

We are all ready to go, just waiting on the paperwork to clear us out of this place!

We're coming home kitties!

Freedom!!

It is finally Saturday. We should be able to leave tonight or maybe, if we're lucky, this afternoon. Soooo happy!!

Lincoln is doing awesome. His sucking instincts kicked in fully around 1:45 yesterday and now he is a master. If this is indicative of the rest of his life, he will be the smartest man alive!! hahaha

I'm not sure what we will do when we get home, but I think the first thing we should get settled is the sleep schedule since neither of us has gotten any in the hospital. As you can see, I wrote this at 5:30ish and that translates to me getting 2 hours of sleep, waking up to help Gena feed Lincoln and then allowing Gena to sleep while I let Link suck on my finger to pacify him.

i took him for a walk up and down the hall this morning and one of the nurses said "Good morning." I can't even tell what day it is anymore, let alone whether or not it's morning. Sooo looking forward to sleeping in a real bed again.