Carter is 2 weeks old today!

We've had a good chance to settle in as a family this week as we've had guests stop by, but none staying at the house with us. I imagined that the days might go by slowly with the same routine over and over again, but time has actually flown by! I'm beginning to understand why people are always reminding us to enjoy every moment.

Most of Carter's life revolves around eating and sleeping right now (as does ours). He is sleeping wonderfully at night (fingers crossed that it lasts!) and one of my favorite times of the day is watching him wake up in the morning over 5-10 minutes with a wide array of facial expressions. I'm still trying to catch it on video, but haven't succeeded yet.

Last week we were commenting on how easy it was to keep him clean, but wow has that changed! We go through at least 3-4 outfits a day between getting milk on everything and oversoiling diapers. He's had a few 'exorcism' type spit-ups where we've had to start feeding all over again after he emptied his stomach - not a problem at 1pm, but at 2am...aarrgh!

He's getting stronger and stronger all the time (you can even hear it in the strength of his cry!) and is reliably gripping our fingers and looking into our eyes instead of past us. I still haven't found any games he likes as much as staring at shadows and swinging, but we continue to try new things.

I've been able to get out of the house to run some errands a couple of times this week and Hunter has done great with Carter - they seem to be two peas in a pod. I wish I had gotten a picture of Carter tied to him in the Moby wrap while we were walking yesterday - so precious!

We've started trying the cloth diapers - I love the concept and find that it doesn't create as much of a mess as you might suspect, but the big difference is in the bulkiness right now. He looks like an ant with a big bum in them, though he doesn't really seem to mind. We are going to continue trying different styles to see what works best.

I'll try to get the writer in the family to add the next update. He has had limited time lately due to his major gardening projects. We've been eating fresh asparagus every night for a week and will be overrun with vegetables this summer as long as the deer don't run over his fence to get to them!