A week in the life of Callan

Look at that baby, always rooting for food!

Precious Our squadron puts a sign up in your yard after you have a baby announcing to everyone the arrival and birth stats. Our squadron mascot is the thunderbird. Hence, the thunderbaby sign and it is dropping an egg.
The boys got a hold of some vinyl scraps and decided they all needed mustaches!

If you look close enough on his shut eyelid you can see one of his many birth marks.

Just chillin on his light billy blanket.

As life goes it has been an eventful first week for lil' Cal (or Cow as Creed pronounces it). He was home all of about 5 hours before we turned around and headed back to the ER. His poor little "personals" were bleeding from the circumcision site. After waiting 4 hours to be seen (thank you ER doctor for forgetting about us in our exam room, it was awesome spending over an hour waiting for you to return.) it was midnight and we were finally able to go home and go to bed.
Monday morning comes along with another outing, this one to the pediatrician for his newborn check-up. As luck goes the poor guy has severe jaundice! His levels were 17.4. So yippee we get to do photo therapy for the next 3 days. And daily blood pricking's. We had to do the same thing for Mack and knew that the billy blanket strapped to his body day and night made for some fun nights.
In true Shirley boy fashion he is always hungry and I seem to do nothing but sit around and nurse. Unlike my first baby I am able to admit defeat and am not naive enough to think that I have all the answers. So he gets a bottle here and there to give me a reprieve. Hopefully in the next few days we will get regulated and on a little bit better eating cycle.
However, despite those minor medical issues, we have also had a lot of fun getting to know our new little brother. The boys both love to hold him and be near him. Which those opportunities are rare because he is always with me eating. They are eager to help and do whatever it takes to make him happy. Let's hope their enthusiasm holds up until he is 18!

I had forgotten how much I love these first few weeks of life. Thanks to my mother in law who handles every thing else and allows me time to just be with Cal. Every moment I spend with him I am reminded what a precious gift life and health are and luckily I have experience on my side to know that in a blink this stage will be over.