Oh, for a good night's sleep.......

We are slowly adjusting to life as four. Simon is such happy and sweet baby - he is such joy. Unfortunately he likes to be happy and sweet from about 2-4:30am :-) His days and nights are still flipped around and he thinks it is play time in the middle of the night. He goes to bed around 8:30 or 9:00 pm - actually we struggle to keep him up this long. He sleeps well in his crib unitl anywhere between 11pm and 1am when he wakes up generally confused and a bit disoriented. At this point I usually just keep him on the mattress on his bedroom floor with me. He wants to eat around 2am and then, like I said, wants to play. He goes back to sleep around 4:30 or 5 and sleeps until anywhere between 7 and 9am. As you can see, we are still trying to get on some sort of schedule. He naps great during the day - I actually have to wake him up from his naps or he might sleep the day away. His eating has been pretty inconsistent - sometimes he is starving, sometimes he wants nothing to do with his bottle.

He had his first doctor appt yesterday. He weighed in at 16lbs, 13oz and measured 28 inches long - this puts him in the 45th percentile for weight and the 95th for height. Our doctor said that he looks perfect, but we knew that already :-) We do have to take him for some routine bloodwork and update his immunizations in the next couple of weeks.

Anna....well, she can't decide how she feels about Simon being in our house. Sometimes she absolutely adores him and smothers him with love and kisses. Other times she insists through tears that we take him back to South Korea and that it is no fun having a little brother in the house. Sharing our attention has been difficult for her, but she is slowly adjusting.

Joel finally got a good night's sleep last night, so was up with the kids this morning while I got an extra few hours of sleep.

Here are some photos:

The three of us on the airplane


All four of us at the airport


Smothering Simon with love


Smiley boy


He LOVES the exersaucer