I feel like there are a lot of thoughts that I'll have throughout the day or week that I want to write about, and now that I actually have time, I can't think of them. Of course, two in the morning isn't normally my brainstorming time, but I'm waiting for Coen to completely pass out in the swing before sending us back to bed.

We will forever be learning more and more about this little man, but we already have made some observations:

1. Coen is loud. He is loud in his sleep. He moans and groans and I'll go to pick him up and he'll be fast asleep. In the very beginning there were even times where I'd arrange all of the pillows so that I could nurse him, then turn on the bedside light only to find him fast asleep, just making noise. He also makes noise when he eats. He'll make what I think are "yummy sounds." It makes it hard to feed him in our room in the middle of the night though cause I don't want to disturb Doug. I've told Doug not to worry about middle of the night stuff. Most of the time there's not much he can do to help, and if I'm up all night I at least will have a chance to sleep during the day. But since Doug has to get up to go to work, he should be able to sleep the best at night.

2. We think he likes bath time. The first time we gave him a bath we weren't smart and did it in our kitchen sink. We have a baby bath recliner for him to sit in and we put that in the kitchen. I'm sure it was too cold though and even though we were constantly pouring warm water over him he just wasn't having it. It could just be that it was a new experience that he wasn't used to. But tonight I turned on the heating fan in the bathroom, closed the door and filled up the tub partially with water. When he sat in his seat he was sitting in the water a bit and he seemed to love it. He didn't cry and he even fell asleep for most of the bath--even when I washed his hair. He also conked out right afterward so we're hoping it  might become part of his bedtime routine if he really does like them.

3. He loves being held. This might just be an infant thing, but I don't have much experience with that. The last couple of days he has wanted to be held most of the time. Which is fine with me. I don't believe you can spoil a baby and he won't always want to be held, or be small enough where holding him is easy. Pretty much I only put him down if I'm needing to do something myself. If I'm sitting on the couch watching TV while I nurse him and he falls asleep, I'll just continue to hold him as long as I'm there. I'll use his swing though if I need to eat or if I'm going to nap myself. But sometimes that doesn't last long and he'll want to be in actual swinging arms.

4. He doesn't have a solid routine but he definitely has some patterns of sleep and wake. He's awake mostly in the late evenings. Sometimes he'll be awake in the mornings too, but lately he'll have breakfast and then conk out for another few hours. Then it's just sleeping and eating every few hours until evening. He'll be awake for a few hours, eat one more time, and then fall asleep. He usually only wakes up once during the night, maybe twice. Of course, he doesn't usually go to bed until midnight or one, but he can usually go 4-5 hours at night. And it feels longer when we wake up and it's light out as opposed to waking up multiple times in the dark.

I think he's solidly out so we're going to go back to bed now. Got to take advantage of his sleep time!