one month old

things with ezekiel have been going really well. he turned one month old on Christmas Day. he seems to have some good sleeping habits so far. he wakes fairly early (like 5 or 5.30 am) then naps around 8am for anywhere from one hour to nearly two. he then naps around 10 or 11am for two to three hours. he has other naps in the afternoon and hits his fussy time around 4.30pm and it lasts around 45 minutes before he falls asleep or just calms down. he usually goes down for the night around 6 or 7pm and sleeps until 10 or 11pm which is great. then his night wakings are around every 2-3 hours.

by one month he has rolled over, done a push-up with his upper body, smiled, made cute sounds and is very active with kicking and batting his arms.

diedre is doing really well in relating to him. she is excited, very excited, to see him in the mornings. she asks about him if we put her in the car first. she helps out anytime she feels like it (she used to always want to throw out the diapers for us, but now she lingers a little too long holding them so we have temporarily taken back that responsibility).

diedre's sleeping patterns are a disaster at this point. thankfully derek is off work and very willing to help soothe her and get her sleeping. she has gone to bed at a reasonable time maybe 3 times in the last 3 weeks. she still wakes up at 5.30am regardless of her bedtime. we are continually working to try to get her back to getting to sleep on her own...oh those were the days!