The First Six Weeks

Daniel is 6 weeks old today!  It honestly feels like it's been a LOT longer than that (at least today it does!)  It's been a wonderful and exhausting 6 weeks!  Now that Daniel is here (outside my belly!), we can not imagine life without him.  He is so sweet, and already smiley.  The kids love him too! 

The hardest part has been functioning on a lot less sleep!  With the other two kids, I could take at least one nap during the day, but with older kids who don't nap, that just doesn't happen!  Also, I think the other 2 were doing a 5 hour or longer nighttime stretch by this point.  That's just not happening with Daniel right now!  I'm happy if he goes for a 4 hour stretch.  So sometimes, the days are long, but when I REALLY need to close my eyes for a little bit, I can put on a short movie for the big kids (I've done it a couple times).  The first 3 weeks we kept him in our room, and I was really getting almost NO sleep.  I wanted to have him right there, but it just didn't work for us!  We moved him to his crib in his room and that made a BIG difference.  Also, my mom helped us out the first 4 weeks, and I don't think I would have survived without her help!

All in all, I'm enjoying being a mom of 3, I'm just a little tired.  :) 

Here are Daniel's first 6 weeks!  I'm missing week 3.  Oops!