8 Weeks on

Hey,
I'm back !! :)
And so much to talk about. Just had so little time with work and looking after my son.

So yesterday my son Jake was 8 weeks old. Time flies !

He's doing well, sleeping most of the night and started talking...
Well I say talking, making more noises than just "Waaaa".
Although I admit when he first was going "Mwaaa" it was very cute !

(That can become less cute after an hour.. )


So back to the point of this blog..how am I coping !

Well at the start I let my wife do everything. She is amazing - have I told you that before.
I was a bit worried about holding , carrying etc, so at the start she passed him to me sitting down etc. 

But then I learnt ways to pick him up with one hand (from the ankle right?) and I became more confident with handling him.

Feeding is fairly easy - I don't produce milk, so not much I can do.
Although I have fed him with the bottle a few times and he's fine with that.

A half doughnut cushion is great to position him and then use my hand to feed him, and my left hand to just make sure he doesn't fall.

Winding him is a bit harder, but I can throw him over my shoulder okay. 

Changing is also fairly easy once I got used to it.
The changing mat on the cot is a must, great hight to change him. And because it is the same place I change him, he has learnt the routine and is very calm when I change him.
I tried with the leg ties I mentioned previously, but to be honest I seemed to get myself and his feet more tangled.
I might try again with them, but at the moment I'm coping without them.

He seems to stay still for me when I'm changing his nappy or clothes. Either a good baby or being nice to me !

He's been out a lot in the 8 weeks he's been here
to pubs numerous times (taking after his Aunt !)
To a friends wedding where he was good all day and night. Even let me have a drink or two
And 2 weeks ago we took him to the Olympics. that's a whole other post, but we had a great time.

So far everything is great :)

Olympics

So a long time ago before Jake was born we decided to get tickets for London 2012.
I managed to get 2 sets of tickets for myself and my wife. The first set were for the basketball and the second for a day in the stadium watching the Athletics.
When we realised that Jake was going to be born and he would only be 6 weeks old then we thought we'd have  to stay at home and not see any of the Games. However as we had been going out a lot and he was a good baby, we thought we'd give it a go.

The first fun was the train, realising that I now need to look for all the lifts everywhere which was not something that I was used to. And the amount of prams often meant I had to let the wife use the lift and walk up the stairs.
For anyone who went to the games they know that the Games Helpers were amazing and very helpful.
The day we went was in the first week and therefore the stadium itself wasn't open which actually was useful as there were 80,000 less people there in the park.

Plenty of changing facilities and there were enough seats that my wife could feed Jake so it was great.
For the actual Basketball games my wife wore the baby carrier as this was a lot easier than trying to hold him all the time. Although for the second match there were spare seats that we could use, save walking up 50 steep stairs.

Atmosphere was great, and I think Jake loved it too !