the first adventure for our stroller-bound baby

It's been another busy couple days. On Thursday, Megan Schiefelbein stopped by to say hi and see Dane again. This time, however, it was nice for her to see him at home rather than at the NICU. After hanging out for a bit, she and Larissa went and got some shopping done at Target while I stayed home with Dane - luckily, he slept right through the 45 minutes I was watching him.

Later Thursday afternoon, Babette (from Tyndale) came to bring us a pizza dinner. Nice! It was also fun for her to see Dane at home, rather than in the NICU like her last visit.

In preparation for all of Dane's visitors, he got another bath (usually this is just to wash the milk out of his neck-folds more than anything else).... We think he looked a little bit like a wizard when wearing his towel... don't you agree?

Lastly, Thursday night we packed Dane into the BOB stroller (which is amazing!) and took him for his first stroller adventure. This was just a really long walk, but the weather was perfect. It really is starting to feel like summer (of course, then the temperature dropped about 20 degrees so that several days later it was highs in the 60's instead of in the 80's...) Dane does look really small in the stroller, but he was very stable once we packed him in with a bunch of blankets.

On Saturday, my parents came down to see us. It's always great to see family - and always nice to have them come bearing food. Not surprising, Grandma Anderson had found several more cute baby outfits and also had had a friend give her a big bag of baby clothes to give us. We now have plenty of clothes for the next several months...but when Dane decides to go through clothes, he can go through them very fast. It's crazy how he is able to spit up on every outfit we put on him, even when he is well wrapped in burp cloths.

He's still hit or miss as far as sleeping through the night, so we're feeling pretty beat. He's also starting to enter a stage where he cries in a way that seems to say he's just angry, versus for specific reasons like being wet or hungry; his pediatrician said that infants peak at crying sometime around 2 months old, so we're hoping that his recent crying spree will start to slow down eventually. Larissa feels most helpless when she can't figure anything out to help him when he's crying like that (and being exhausted and hormonal doesn't do much to make it better!). She's also been experiencing a larger reduction in her milk supply than we'd hoped for; in part, we think it's because Dane is not really taking to breastfeeding, which would help regulate her supply. It's frustrating to be tilting to the other end of the spectrum; it would be really nice to have something just work as it was supposed to on the first try.