Sweetness!!!

So last night went GREAT! We are up and getting ready to get ready to go to church :o) One of us is still snoozing and it's NOT the mommy and daddy :o) The plan is that Brandon is going to take a shower. First, he is headed down to the front desk to get some more towels. Some certain mommy didn't anticipate spit up from her 11 month old son, so we had to improvise. It wasn't much, but he did spit up with 2 bottles and enough to warrant something bigger than a wet wipe. At first, Brandon tryed to hand me his Monster bath towel. As you can imagine, I encouraged him to look in the bathroom!! That towel is special!! :o) We'll be on the hunt for burp cloths today.

Towel aside, Brandon has done a fabulous job of loving Harrison right along with me (not that I expected any less...I am OVERLY confident in his fathering abilities :o)...with everything he has in him, and I, with everything I have in me.

We meet his every need ASAP! We have had small bumps in the feeding process and go figure that that's the only thing that can make him cry. & that's pretty much a scream. The first time he did it, it was after he was coughing while drinking. I took the bottle out and could not believe that scream came out of our little guy!! My response after putting it back in was giggling. The sound of his VERY IRRITATED cry was enough for me to take note!! He sounds like a little piglet most of the time sucking his bottle. When he gets about half way through he worked SO hard to drink it that his breathing (a little raspy still) sounds like he is whispering Hii-yah! (like a karate chop)

Anywho..the challenges are:
no formula scoop in the formula!! Didn't find this out until i went to prep his midnight bottle. So I just decided to wing it until morning. I am sure there is some genuis conversion I could have done with the oz. on the bottle, but it was late and I was tired. He did not have one problem drinking his bottles. I don't know if it's a Taiwan thing or if we just happened to get a fluke can with no scoop!

After his first bottle, we all stayed up for about an hour. I am sure he would have gone right back down, but all three of us were ready to play! Of course, I took pictures!!

As you could probably guess!! I LOVE these pajamas. I've known for months that these would be his first-nighters!!! He broke them in well with his spit up! I wish I didn't cut his head off!! He loves the brown crib strings on this elephant. He'll just play with them for a good while. Rubbing, pulling, & waving them around. He loves his blanky and the elephant! So care packages are very worth it. This is something he is familiar with when all of the other stuff in this new part of his life is not. He likes to have both of these when going down. We LOVE it! It's just absolutely precious! He loves to throw the blanky up around his neck while sleeping!! He leaves a little U shape for him to stick his head out!!


He is wonderful ya'll...and I am telling it all!! He had another bottle at 4:30am and went right back down once I held him on my chest, on his blanky, with his paci, and me patting his back for a few minutes.

He'll also stare right into our eyes for very long periods of time. He is CHECKING US OUT....over and over. He'll touch our faces and roll from Brandon to me as he is lying in the bed. We have yet to get a laugh out of him. Several smiles, but not a real laugh! We're determined though!! Co-sleeping went well. We think it is very beneficial at least for this time while we are in hotels anyway. It is highly recommended for bonding and attachment purposes by many and we thought why not give it a shot?? He did great and we slept well. In fact, this is the best sleep I've gotten since being here!!

That's our nightly dish!! Bottom line is: WE LOVE HIM!!! Just as much...possibly even MORE than we anticipated as we began this journey! Stay Tuned!