What we're learning about Jake

Isn't he just adorable!!??  I couldn't believe how much older he looks when his hair is all puffed up after he gets a bath.  I couldn't believe he was born with hair in the first place.  And we swear it is getting lighter every day as it continues to grow.  It also took us a while, but he's finally starting to gain weight and lose the jaundice from his eyes.  We're already so proud of how well he can held his head up and turn it from side to side during tummy time.

 

 

Dave says this is Jake's 'Go to move'.  He often looks like this when he's sleeping and resting, one hand by his head, posing and saying "I'm so adorable".  

 

 

He is like Catherine in the bottom half of his face, his mouth and chin.  I can't wait to see what color his eyes turn out to be.  He likes his pacifier like Samantha and also likes to be swaddled when he sleeps, like she did.  He tries to suck his thumb like Catherine still does sometimes when she's sleeping.  He's a slow eater like Catherine but burps like a champ, like Samantha did.  He cries while he's still asleep, like Catherine still does.



 

 

But Jake also has qualities all his own.  He makes the cutest facial expressions, especially with his eyebrows and forehead.  When he does that he reminds me of his daddy.  He has even done the Zoolander face a few times.  He cries when he needs something and as we've gotten to understand his feeding needs better he's become a much more calm baby who can be put down to chill out and play and hang with his sisters.  

 

He loves his swing like the girls both did, but we're still trying to find out if he likes music.  The girls are getting along with him OK so far.  Samantha goes from interested and helping to indifferent equally.  Catherine can be a mother hen.  She wants to know where he is and if he's awake or eating, and she'll bring him his pacifier or get me a diaper or burp cloth.  My mom has gotten both of them to help hold him and that has been nice to see.  And though they picked out his name from a Disney cartoon they used to watch, if you ask them if Jake is a pirate they say "No, he's just Jake.". So, here we are, getting used to our new normal with Jacob Daniel.