Settling In

Six weeks after he was born, and three days since he has come home, Harris continues to be the center of all our attention (as I am sure will not change for quite some time). Our little man has had many visitors this weekend and has charmed them all with his good looks and over sized cloths (it seems he is too big for preemie clothes and a bit to small for newborn).

As for parenting Adam and I are doing well - I was fearful I would be overwhelmed with exhaustion but I think the fact that he is home, safe and healthy has lightened the emotional tole which has really helped - it probably also helps that I had already been getting up all night to pump, and believe it or not getting up to feed the baby is remarkably more motivating then getting up for a machine to get milk that would eventually go to the baby.

Thanks to the constant noise in the NICU there is no tiptoeing around baby - yesterday Harris slept through the vacuum and Jeb's constant barking at the vacuum. Mommy and Daddy are definitely getting to expose the little man to some of our favorite past times. Yesterday Uncle Dan and Daddy gave Harris his first Lax lesson and Harris has been on two walks (Harris looks SO tiny in his stroller).

An exciting development: yesterday afternoon we noticed that Harris began to visually focus straight ahead (yeah!). He gazes directly at whoever his holding him, but one of his two favorite things to look at are his mobile above his swing and the rain forest toy on his crib.