Whew!

Aaron and I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into! Parenthood is awesome and we are both so in love with this kid. I think there may even be some push and pull as to who gets to hold the baby and/or hang with him. I think it is great that Aaron is so involved in being a Dad. We've pretty much adapted to a system at this point with me taking care of input and Aaron taking care of output. We are even getting a fair amount of sleep. The baby sleeps between us and maybe because he feels safe when he half awakes during the night he doesn't fuss or demand to be fed that much. I usually have to feed him twice or three times a night. I feel like I should knock on wood after saying that. I don't want to jinx things. Ian seems to be a mellow soul with little fussing. He just crys when he is hungry or needs to be changed. This kid knows how to go through diapers too! He thinks it's really funny to bomb whoever is changing him too. When we went to see the pediatrician the nurse almost got it in the mouth. You would think a pediatrics nurse would know better than to bend over a naked boy baby. I was kinda proud of him at that moment. Today we had our first adventure outdoors. It's a beautiful fall day with lots of sunshine and it seemed a waste to stay indoors. So we ventured down to Zingerman's to let Aaron's coworkers oooh and aaah over the baby then we headed to the mall to pick up a couple of things for me with no luck. It was nice to get out of the house briefly. Our friends, family and neighbors have been great to us. The support we've been getting is incredible. We only moved into our apartment complex a couple of months ago but the couple down the row made us dinner last night and our downstairs neighbors brought Ian a present. It gives me warm fuzzys about our new home. Well... I don't want to waste all my nap time so I'm off to sleep while I can.