This weeks firsts!

This week was a week of unique firsts for Kyler - first bath (not sponge), first passport photo (see photo - a bit of a challenge given we needed his head looking straight on, eyes open and not crying while he was placed on a white piece of cardboard!), and first trip to Riyadh (in addition to his US passport we needed to register him with the Greek embassy).

Sleeping Diary

I almost hate to write this but its been great. The last two nights Kyler has slept at least seven hours at a stretch. The first night I was so intent on waking if he needed to be fed that I could only dose. Although sleeping he kept up his small grunts and coos until the alarm went off.

Last night, different story, he slept soundly and I only woke to check on him around 2 A.M. Lea says he slept until 6:30, after going down at 10 P.M.

I'll add more photos tonight, and will try again to add a video. We want to capture his grunts, pretty funny hearing him muttering.

More Week 2 Photos!

Kyler is 13 days old...

Days and nights at home are spent in the family bedroom. Adults, dogs and babies are all welcome. Kyler likes to start getting ready for bed about 7:30-8:00. He's changed into his night time onesy, has a nappie change and gets ready to have his pre-sleep snack, which is about as large as every other snack. We're pretty happy about this because it allows him to sleep until after 12:00 A.M. (normally).

People have asked us how the dogs behave around Kyler. I hope the photo gives some indication. The two females love him and Nour, our female yellow lab, is very protective of him already. You can just make out Luna on the right. She is so black that its often difficult to capture her on film. She performs a manuever we call the periscope with Kyler, trying to stretch her neck as far as possible to smell or lick him while "more or less" staying where we told her to stay.

More Kyler

Awesome, he slept 6 straight hours last night. By midnight he'd been un-settled for three hours or longer. Then, out of nowhere he eats well, get swaddled and settles himself. Did I say awesome?

He's here...

Kyler was born on the 3rd of January 2009. He arrived just after midnight, 12:09 A.M. He's a star!