We are loving having Nathaniel around. Chris is always so excited to hold him when he gets home from work. He will just sit and play with Nathaniel for a good thirty min to an hour. Which definitely wears Nathaniel out. I usually do chores during this time. Then I walk in on them being cute, grab my camera and suddenly Nathaniel is at the end of his rope for play time. That is why most of my videos to this point have ended with him crying. I always seem to come in at the end of playful Nate.
We are kind of getting a little bit of a schedule. Many nights he sleeps in three hour spurts throughout the night till about 10a. Then he is alert for a couple of hours, takes one or two two hour naps and then he is alert again for when Daddy gets home. Then it is night time again.
Unfortunately, Nathaniel doesn't like something I'm eating, it makes him gassy. The nights that he gets gassy are pure torture. He only sleeps in 15-30 minute spurts and generally only if I'm holding him upright. Minutes after I lay him down he will wake up. On the positive side we think we've narrowed the possibilities down to onions, corn, dairy or any combination of the three. Now to eliminate and see what makes him feel comfortable. : )
Update on Nathaniel's cleft. We went to see the surgeon. He said that the cleft is very minor. It should be a one and done easy surgery. We will have the surgery mid-may and stay the night in the hospital to make sure he is still feeding well. There is a little bit of a question if the jaw is involved. The surgeon thinks that its just a little dent in the jaw and Nathaniel's teeth should come in fine but he says there is no way to know until they take x-rays. Which there is no point in doing now because that surgery wouldn't be until he was 6 years old anyway or we could give him fake teeth in that area. Really he just suggested waiting to see if the teeth come in and if they don't, then getting the x-rays.
Chris is doing well at work. He really likes his new job working back in the pharmacy. He loves how busy it gets. The busier the shift, the happier he is when he gets home because he says it goes by so fast.
We started doing Family Home Evening again this week. Monday we talked about scripture study and how we want to do it with Nathaniel as he grows older. We also talked about how we can improve in our family scripture study now. I feel like we set some great goals and I'm really excited to work towards being more consistent.
I really liked this blog post. It gave us lots of ideas. Not exactly what we want to do but I'm putting it here so I have it for future reference. Also, you can read it if you like.
http://www.raisinglemons.com/spiritual/scripture-power/
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