One Month Old

Well, Ivan is a month old today. With all the sleep I've been getting (not much) it kind of feels like it's been one continuous day. But we love our little Ivan and we wouldn't trade him for all the sleep in the world. (And to be perfectly honest, Lincoln has contributed a lot to the non-sleeping factor, don't know what the deal is, but he gets up almost as often as Ivan at night these days.)

Ivan keeps amazing me at how much he is his own little person. I knew, and tried to prepare myself right from the beginning that he would be different than Lincoln, so it's not really surprizing that he is so much different than Lincoln was, but really just amazing. For example, Ivan was bigger than Lincoln, and is still bigger than Lincoln was at one month old, but Ivan seems smaller because his face is long and skinny whereas Lincoln's was round and chubby. Ivan has outgrown most of his newborn size clothes. Lincoln did that pretty quickly too, but Lincoln grew out of them around the waist because he was shaped like a ball, Ivan is growing out of them length wise because he's got a long body. Ivan likes to be swaddled, Lincoln really didnt. Ivan likes the binkie and will take it almost always, Lincoln never took a binkie. (Well, he takes them away from Ivan all the time now, but that's different.) Lincoln started cooing a lot and being a regular little chatter-box by this time (as much as a one month old can anyway), and Ivan doesn't coo very much at all. I've only heard him a few times. He seems more quiet and observant. So it will be interesting to continue to watch his personality develope and see if he turns out to be anything like Lincoln at all.

They are similar in one way, they were both calm, peaceful babies. Neither cried a lot, only when they needed something. So I got off pretty easy, yet again. I'm sure I'm really in for it when I have my third one. I'll have to name him Jackson :) (haha just kidding Juice!)

Also this last week Ivan's umbilical cord stub dried up and fell off, so we were able to give him his first bath in the baby tub. He liked it a ton better than the sponge baths we were giving him previously. And he's doing a lot better with his diaper changes, he doesn't cry through the whole thing anymore, and usually he can even have one without any crying at all. Definite improvement.

Another good improvement this week, Lincoln is getting a lot better about being soft with Ivan. I can actually leave Ivan in his chair and Lincoln will usually (but not always) leave him alone. That's nice. Maybe eventually I'll be able to leave them in the same room alone together without worrying that one of them will be dead when I get back. :)