Sunday, January 06, 2008

Adjusting

We get the question often - How are you all adjusting to having 2 children?
- Calleigh is doing great. She gets held a lot and she sleeps a lot.
- Dax's favorite thing to do with Calleigh besides hold her is kiss her. He randomly throughout the day tells us he's going to kiss her and where (her head, hand, cheek, belly, etc.) then proceeds to do so.
- Mommy and Daddy are trying to remember what it was like with a newborn - is this the same or different than it was with Dax? Is this or that normal, etc.
- 12 or more diapers a day just for Calleigh - I don't remember changing this many.
- Dax isn't sleeping so well. (So neither are mommy & daddy)
- Naps are a bit challenging. Dax is taking lots of car naps at this point.
- Getting out of the house takes a lot of work.
- Restaurant dining is nearly impossible - to the bathroom to nurse, back to change a diaper, again to nurse, another diaper, etc.
- Dax doesn't like Calleigh to be crying: In the car "Mommy, Calleigh's crying. Mommy rub her. Mommy, she's crying..." Then Dax breaks into hysterics if she continues to cry. Then of course Calleigh cries more.
- Daddy has to do a lot more work than he had to do the first time around. I think he's exhausted.
- Daddy loves his baby girl and she loves him. She smiles and makes all kinds of sweet expressions when Daddy sings to her.

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