Is there a baby crying?

First night away from the kids since Gabe was born, and I still wake up multiple times thinking I hear a baby crying! So much for getting rest while on travel...

Luke has been throwing a fit at the lake. We're not sure why, but going to bed has been an all-out war. He argues about everything, even though he's been talking about the lake for months.

Luke has been using the potty, though, which is great! Almost back to one in diapers...

My Temporary Building

My group at work is going to move to a brand new building. In the meantime, they had to make room for some new hires, so I was moved to a temporary building. I had to pack up 5 years of work and cart them over. My new office is small, and the people who work here are out of the office most of the time. I'm fairly sure I could come to work without pants and no one would notice.

Meanwhile, Melissa still tries to get some sleep when Gabe lets her. He fights sleep, especially when he's "overtired". He basically cries and kicks while Missy tries to calm him down. He's immediately calm and quiet whenever we hold him, but that's a big no-no when trying to get them to sleep in the crib. He also eats like he's been starved for a week at every meal.

Melissa finally found a way to get Luke to use the potty - tell him he had to do it to go to the lake. He responded immediately and has gone several times. Luke really, really likes the lake.

You're soaked again!?

Gabe somehow manages to soak his entire outfit virtually every time he pees. It doesn't make sense. He's definitely aimed straight into the meat of the diaper, so the diapers must be absorbing nothing and deflecting the rest out the nearest opening. Several different brands have the same results. Surely this isn't common, so how exactly is Gabe doing it? We'll end up wearing our washing machine out at the eight outfits per day we're averaging.

Luke and Gabe handle a car ride pretty well. Luke, amazingly, can stay awake and quiet for an hour trip. Gabe just sleeps the whole time. This is good news since long car rides will be common this summer.

Luke's Baby Pig

Luke has started creating pretend babies of his own. I think it's part of his way of dealing with Gabe's arrival. Here's a conversation we had yesterday:

Luke: Daddy, look, it's my baby. *Shows me a black and white spotted pig*. It's my cow.

Me: That's a pig.

Luke: He's cute. *Looks at the pig. Runs away to play.*

2 minutes later, Luke: Daddy, look, it's my baby. *shows me the pig*. It's my cat.

Me: It's a pig. Look, see how his ears stand up?

Luke: Hold him. *Hands me the pig.* He's cute. He's my baby. *Takes the pig and runs away.* He's crying, he's hungry.

We need to get Luke some dolls. He has a police car, and the current passengers are: an octopus, the pig, a jack, a police badge, and a block. Usually the police car is delivering a pizza (we almost never get pizza delivered).

Gabe's had a stomachache and hasn't slept in 24 hours. Hopefully he sleeps soon or Melissa might be sleeping in a rocking chair.

Restarting the Blog!

Melissa helped convince me to get the blog going again. You can find the old blog at lukematthewmiller.blogspot.com.

I'll try to post here occasionally to let you know what's going on in our family.

Right now, we're pretty tired. Gabe (3 weeks old) has developed a sleeping pattern of fussiness for 24 hours, sleep heavily for 24 hours. The 24 hours of fussy wear us down pretty well. Occasionally he will take a decent nap, but his timing is poor - usually it's when I have to get up for work, or when Luke (2.5 years old) is home.

Luke's adjusting to Gabe pretty well. He wants to take care of him. He really likes to pat Gabe on the head (which scares us to death because Luke hasn't exactly learned the difference between gently patting and breaking bricks with his fist).

More to come soon.