Sarah and Adam: The Next Generation

Gus Sleeping at 2 Days

 

OK, this video is wicked old (so much can change in just 6 weeks) but this video of Gus sleeping when he was two days old is so cute! You get to see one of his sleep-smiles (we have yet to capture one of his awake-smiles on video), and his enormously active sleep, with much girating, etc. And for those of you who have met him, you'll be amazed by how much he's filled out in just six weeks.
Don't miss the new Jasper video below, too!

Jasper Reads

 

In this video, Jasper is reading to himself from his "Richard Scarry's Book of Words" which Grandma and Grandpa Ruben brought him on their visit. It's his new favorite book - he calls it his "word book". He's not entirely comprehensible, but there is definitely a clear "cook, cook" near the end (he's pointing at  the kitchen in the rabbit house, I believe).

A few milestones

This week has seen many exciting developments:
1) On Monday, Gus smiled for the first time (awake), a real smile. Woohoo! He also got kind of fussy, but we know it's just part of him figuring out how to smile.
2) On Tuesday, Jasper had his first temper tantrum ever. It wasn't so bad. Sarah was so shocked, she immediately took his temperature, to see if he was sick. (Turns out it was just a tantrum.) On Tuesday, Gus also turned 5 weeks old. That night Gus went for 4 hours without eating or waking up, allowing Sarah to sleep her first 4 hour stretch in over a month. We also started Gus on a bottle on Tuesday, which he gulped down with no hesitation whatsoever!
3) On Wednesday,  Gus weighed in at 11 pounds, 12 ounces. The boy can eat! That night he slept for 5 hours in a row, from 9 PM to 2 AM. Sarah was so happy when she woke up at 2 AM to feed him that it took her an extra 15 minutes to go back to sleep - she couldn't stop reveling in her joy at all the sleep she got in one stretch.

Today is Thursday, not sure what big developments will come today, but we'll try and keep you posted. Also, we hope to put up more photos soon - we've taken them, but having a hard time finding the time to get them up!

Falling asleep in the high chair

 

A couple moments of Jasper cuteness followed by a really funny bit where he falls asleep in the middle of dinner (now where did he get that?).

A little Gus and a bunch of Jasper

We just took 17 minutes of video off the camera: 20 seconds of Gus pooping, and 16.5 minutes of Jasper dancing around. Welcome to the second child.

9 lbs, 2 oz

Yesterday was Gus's 2 week check up (although he was actually 16 days old yesterday). He weighed in at 9 pounds, 2 ounces, up over a pound from his birth weight of 8 pounds, 1.4 ounces, and more than 1.5 pounds from his post-birth low of 7 pounds 8 ounces. Our boy can eat!

Two Boys Two Weeks

Two weeks into this grand experiment in parenting two children at once, it's both easier and more difficult than we had anticipated. Easier in that Jasper is taking the new addition in stride, Gus himself is just an easy going little guy who spends much of the day sleeping; and when he's awake, he mostly likes to just look around quietly.

The hard part is really the sleep deprivation. We'd somehow forgotten how much more difficult everything in life is when you are sleep deprived. Gus is not a bad sleeper, but I'd forgotten that for the first 6 weeks, they don't really get the whole 'day-night' thing, and, to make matters worse, every time he eats at night, he poops, then you have to change him, then he wakes up, then you have to feed him again to put him back to sleep, but that makes him poop again, and so the whole vicious cycle repeats. By the time we've gone through this once or twice, he's often thoroughly awake, and it takes an hour or more for him to go back to sleep.

We just put up some new photos, including a couple of Jasper and Gus together. Enjoy!