Happy One Week Birthday!

We successfully made it through the first week and Aedan doesn't hate us yet.

It's been rather quiet. We've had friends and family stop by to check on the little guy and to make sure Pat and I are still sane which we're proud to say we are. At least we're as sane as the both of us were prior to Aedan.

We've experienced our share of diaper change disasters ranging from him peeing on himself, on the bed, on us, in the eye and in his mouth and then to me thinking I can run quickly downstairs with naked baby in hand to grab some butt paste and not have any accidents. While going downstairs I was bathed with pee and poo. Not a day goes by without learning some kind of very important lesson. We're both a little traumatized by our changing mishaps.

We've also learned a few more tidbits about him:
1. He hates his sponge bath and squeels when the warm wash cloth touches him
2. He's also not a big fan of the diaper change. We don't know if it's because we're awful at it or if he just plain doesn't like them.
3. Butt paste works like magic on red hineys and apparently on chapped lips as well so says the cashier at Burlington Coat Factory.
4. He's very smart and is already following voices.
5. He promised Pat that when he grows up he will be a CEO of a major corporation and be able to buy him tickets to the Masters.

Aedan is still sleeping really well through the night. He wakes up only twice for feedings letting mom and dad get roughly 6 hours of sleep. Not too bad.

I went to the doc on friday to check my incision. All is well and I'm healing properly. I was given clearance to drive and walk around the block instead of just up and down the driveway. Oh, the simple pleasures in life!

I'm happy to report that Aedan seems to like us and might be happy with his parental selection. It's still hard to believe he's here with us and is already one week old! I can't imagine how fast the next days, weeks and years will come.