Six Weeks.

We've made it to 6 weeks already! And what a busy week it has been!

Joe has entered the "Entertain Me" phase, also known as the "I'm old enough to know that I want to be entertained but not old enough to do it myself, so pick me up!" phase. So on top of the colic scream sessions at night, we now have fussy periods of boredom sprinkled throughout the day, too. All I can say is praise the Lord this boy is sleeping through the night already or I'd be a walking zombie (okay, more of a walking zombie.)

On that fantastically awesome note, this child is such a rockstar sleeper. So much so that I am still in disbelief and am waiting for the other shoe to drop. He sleeps a 7-9 hour stretch each night, no joke. I feed him sometime between 9 & 11 at night, he's in his bed shortly after, and we typically don't hear a peep out of him until between 4 & 6 a.m. Once he's fed and back in bed, he'll sleep another several hours. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. I think it's so hard for me to believe it because his sister was a craptastic sleeper. And that makes me appreciate him so much more. I always hated women that talked about how their kid slept through the night from, like, week 2. Pure jealousy, of course. And now I'm one of them...for now, at least.

He has gotten very vocal this week. He seems to love the sound of his voice, which works out well for me because so do I :) And the smiles...oh, the smiles! I'm convinced he recognizes me as his mama because I can get the biggest smiles out of the kiddo (either that or he thinks I have a goofy lookin' face, which is equally plausible.) His little smiles are the most precious things on the planet.

When I mentioned the busy week, I was mostly referring to the preparations that led up to Joe's baptism on Saturday night. Our baby boy is now an official Catholic :) His baptism went very smoothly, with not a single tear out of him. All of our family and closest friends surrounded us as our little man was blessed. They then showered him with gifts and pretended that the pulled pork we served them made up for all of the love and support they've shown us. It was a lovely evening and I'm so glad it went off without a hitch. Many, many thanks to everyone that helped - as always, we couldn't have done it without you!

A very happy, freshly baptized little boy :)