We're all doing quite well here at the Lansford household fully into the second week of life as a family of five. Webster and Manu seem to have reconciled themselves to their new roles in the hierarchy and accepted Drew as a full-fledged member of the pack. I'm finally not carrying around a donut-shaped pillow for sitting on everywhere I go (I cannot quite describe in words how exciting that is, but I am VERY happy about the change). Andy is enjoying his time at home and has been trying to turn Drew into the world's youngest musician by playing non-stop music and dancing around the living room with him each day (which Drew LOVES, so apparently it's working).

Drew is both a good sleeper and a good awake member of the family. He has figured out that he should try to sleep a bit longer in stretches at night since we might ignore him if he pulled anything different anyways, and usually gives me about 3 hours in a stretch, which I appreciate. He has also started to spend long periods of alert awake time during the day. This morning he got up at 8 and actually stayed awake until about 12:30! He's very curious about the world around him when he's up and gets quite grumpy if someone has the audacity to try to make him sleep during his big boy time. ("Quite grumpy" is extremely relative- he's an incredibly good-natured baby and is super easy, and hardly ever cries. Thank goodness for genetic recombination and my having married a mellow man with deep sleep tendencies!)

Drew really enjoys his swing and bouncer and basically movement of any kind in general. He's particularly taken with it when Andy rocks him as hard as his little machines will go- his eyes open really wide as he realizes he's being rocketed through the air. (I sense an adrenaline junkie in the making.) He also seems completely at peace with being devoured on a regular basis by loving dog tongues and doesn't even bat an eyelash at the general level of chaos our canines create in his world.

I think both Andy and I were bracing ourselves for the worst- imagining NO sleep, trying to function as walking zombies with a constant high pitched screaming in the background (I'm hypothesizing that they try to terrify you in baby care classes so you end up thinking you've won the lottery when your child isn't totally miserable all the time). On the contrary things have been very sane and manageable and dare I say low key hanging out together. At least thus far we're not nearly as tired as we thought we would be- hopefully that will continue to be the case! We are so incredibly lucky that Andy is taking time off of work so that we can all spend these precious days together. We're so happy and feel so very lucky to have Drew in our family! And he seems to be pretty amenable to hanging out with us as well- at least for the time being. We're trying hard to enjoy that while it lasts...