That's a Nice Picture You Got There!

No matter where we are sitting with Romeo on the couch he is always staring at a picture of Bear and I dancing on our wedding day. He is content to sit and stare at it even if he has to crane his neck and eyes to see it. Sometimes he has a confused look on his face, sometimes content, and sometimes extremely concentrated. I wanted to see if he really was staring at the picture so while Bear was holding him I took the picture down and brought it closer to him. Romeo's eyes followed the picture down and immediately he started looking the picture up and down very rapidly about 5 times and then he smiled a HUGE crooked smile. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Apparently he likes to see his parents dance...?
He is starting to interact with us. If we tickle him, touch his nose, or dance with him he smiles at us. Cute baby!!!

Lions and Tigers and Angry Little Bear. Oh My!!

It seems like Romeo already knows that home is a nice place to be. He was very fussy the whole time we were in Ohio. I got NO sleep and I caught a cold. He demanded VIGOROUS bouncing non-stop at night until like 3 or 4 am and then woke up every two hours. Bear had to wake up at 7 and I usually stayed up too. It was nuts... As soon as we got home he was back to his lovely self. He slept the entire first night home.

Romeo has been to the zoo already!! He can never say that we never take him anywhere :) The Columbus zoo was only 3 minutes from where we were, Bear got out early his last day and I thought it would be a shame if we left with out going. My camera was dead before I could take any pictures, unfortunately, but we had a lot of fun. It was our first stroller endeavor (that thing is a smooth ride!!). Well, early that day I had taken Romeo for a walk in the cute downtown area of Dublin.

It's good to be home!!

Good baby? Good mommy? I'll go with both :)

Romeo is a very good baby in my opinion. He seems to only cry when he needs something and a lot of his awake time he is content to just sit and look around. But what I found out is that I think he is such a good baby because I hold him 24/7.

Mom got me this book, "The Happiest Baby on the Block," where this PHD guy spent his life figuring out how to help newborns calm themselves. I have really enjoyed reading it and I think the man is a genius. He says that newborns are looking for the 'fourth trimester.' This means we need to mock their life in the womb as much as possible until they learn to calm themselves on their own. His advice REALLY works. One of the things he says is that, in the womb a baby is 'held' ALL the time. If you hold them 12 hours out of the day after they are born, even though that seems like a ton to you, the baby feels like he's getting ripped off. Anyway so I hold him every second I can and I snuggle with him all night.

Yesterday was the first day when I didn't hold him very long. Bear has training for work in Ohio from Tuesday until Thursday so yesterday we took off on the 5ish hour drive to the training. This means the baby was strapped in the car seat for a long time. He did NOT like it. He did fine until the trip was just about over and he was crying non-stop. Once we got into our hotel room he would not stop loudly wailing unless I was VIGOROUSLY bouncing him (basically tossing him in the air). I had to do this literally non-stop until about 3:30 am..............................

Then we had to get up at 7:30................................ Poor Bear, he has to be tired in a boring training at least I get to chill in the hotel room............wifi.......cable.....Romeo's happier today :)