Baby monkeys like to wake early...

Well it's a little bit before 6am right now and I've got a very awake bebeh monkey in my lap while momma trys to grab some sleep before I head to work. I'm about to do a search on tranquilizers for newborns...

**Update** Successful sleep inducing was accomplished at 6:40am. Not too bad. And I didn't have to resort to chemical inducement (alcohol) either!

Video poll

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Autumn At The Grandparents

The first Father's Day

Well, it was a pretty decent first Father's Day for me. It started off with me waking up at 3am to feed Autumn, but it really didn't take very long. I was back in bed by 3:45am I think. Sharaze handled the rest of the morning chores so I slept in pretty much till about 11am I think. But for some reason almost all the rest of the day I was tired out of my mind!

Anyway, we all had a pretty good day by hanging out over at my mom and dad's place. Plenty of good food and everyone had fun playing and holding Autumn. She behaved herself pretty well too. She slept a pretty decent bit but as you'll see in the video below, she also was pretty darn alert which was cool.

And so for now, I'll leave you with this short but cute little video of Autumn being put on display. I've got others, but I don't think anyone wants to watch a 10 minute video of her getting a bath. But maybe I can find a to quicken it up and make something fun out of it.... We shall see!


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Where's the update?!

So I've gotten a couple of questions from folks wondering where the freakin' update is. Ok, so here's an update:

Autumn is still eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying. That's it!!

Mind you she does it all very cutely. Except for the crying at 2am part. Not so cute.

And I'm still tired.... But rest assured, I've got a couple of videos to upload, hopefully sometime this weekend. And that's all for now!!

First "close call"

Yeah, so it's 2:21am now and I just got done feeding Autumn. Well right at the end of this wonderful bonding experience (me trying to stay awake) Autumn starts to "blow it out" while I'm burping her.

Now being the good husband & father that I am, I resist the natural urge to let her just sleep in it and have the next spousal unit handle that bit of fun. Nope, I figure I'll go ahead and change her out since I'm (mostly) awake.

So down she goes onto the changing table and she's continuing to unload! I'm thinking she's dumping the whole stupid bottle I just gave her and no way am I going to stay up and hand her more. Finally a pause in her creation of gut chutney occurs and I leap into action. I get the little sticky tabs undone and start to lower the front part down in order to being wiping operations. And that's when it happened...

As I'm lowering that front part, I see her face get all scrunched up and her legs retract up to her sides as she's about to apparently eject all the contents of everything she's ever eaten. It was pretty darn quick, but I was quicker. I snap that diaper back up around her front and hold it up against what felt like a firehose of poo shooting out her behind. In a second or two it was all over.

I looked around to see if I had missed something or if things had been deflected onto the walls or carpet, but everything was cool. I stared at her to see if there were any further death star explosions on their way, but she was laying there as if she had just stepped down from heaven and all was right with the world.

And so now my little girl is (fussily) sleeping in a (temporarily) clean diaper. Ahhhh, it's such a beautiful experience this raising of children...

It's a bit short but still cute

Getting to the new normal

Well, we finally made it home this past weekend. That was a long long week, but it paid off in the end. :) Both Sharaze & Autumn are doing fine. We took Autumn in for her first pediatrician appointment today and that went pretty well. We've got to go tomorrow to have some bloodwork done on her (I will not stay in the office for that fun) but other than that things are moving right along. In fact, her umbilical cord fell off today which was kind of weird.

Sharaze is also doing better, although it's going to take a little while for her to get back to where she was. But she really is doing quite well and is already taking less of her pain medicine as her body mends up.

Life here at the house is slowly starting to slip into a new routine as we figure out how to all live (and sleep!) together. And that's the biggest thing right there. It's no joke what they say about the newborns keeping you up in the beginning. We feel great if she sleeps about 2 or 3 hours straight during the night. :| Hopefully this will be turned around within a couple of weeks...

And of course I have some new pictures uploaded for you guys to check out. Just click here to see the latest ones.

And for the final bit of fun, I present to you a video of Sharaze changing the first diaper in her entire life. How someone can make it 26 years without changing a single diaper astounds me but I guess it's fitting that her first one is on her own daughter. :)