3 Weeks and Counting

Happy 3 Week "Birthday" to Alexis!  I would say things have gone reatively smoothly.  We've (and by "we've", I mean April) finally gotten past the clogged milk ducts and Mastitis yuckiness.  The "fix" ended up being lots of massage and a cabbage compress that had been slightly heated up in the microwave.  No one is exactly sure why that works, but that's what the doctor recommended and it did the trick.

Lexie is starting to learn that whining will quickly get her attention.  Unfortunately, once she starts getting attention,  she doesn't stop whining.  We think a little bit of this is due to gas, and we are optimistic that she's not becoming colicy.  Most of the time, she is a really good baby, and like all babies she has good days and bad days. 

As far as progress goes, there hasn't been a lot.  She's holding up her head for longer periods of time, but I  can tell she's still not really focusing or anything like that.  We've seen a few smiles, but all the "experts" claim that you don't get "real" smiles until four months.  Apparently what we are seeing is due to the aformentioned gas.

When I found out April was pregnant, I decided that once Lexie was born, I wanted to take at least one picture for every day.  That way, once she's a year old we can make a slideshow of one picture for every day, and everyone would agree that we are very cool parents.  As I layed in bed last night, I realized that no picture had been taken as of about 11:15.  I spend about 30 minutes going back and forth trying to decide if I should scrap the idea, or take a picture from a different date and change the timestamp and EXIM data.  This is effectively lying, and I would always know that I had "cheated".  So I got out of bed, figured out how to mute the camera, and took a  very bad picture at about 11:30.  Neither baby nor mother even knew it happened.  Disaster averted.  I was sure that I was going to wake everyone in the room and receive the wrath of my wife, but luckily that did not happened.  I figured that, in that case, it would be eaiser to ask for forgiveness than permission...

One last point.  I was looking at recent DVD releases (on my personalized Google homepage, no less), and saw this.  I really love parenting so far, but I am not looking forward to buying that kind of crap, no pun intended.  At least that is offset is by a timely release of The Wizard, which is possibly the greatest movie ever made.

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