All Smiles

I am sure that the feeling is not uncommon to parents all over the world, but let me just start off by saying; our son is quite possibly the cutest baby I've ever seen!

He is now almost 8 weeks old. He first started smiling about a week or two ago, but has in the last couple of days been smiling much more. He smiles when you touch his upper lip and today he was the smiliest I've ever seen him even cooing loudly in what seemed to be the first signs of laughter. It was quite a moment for a parent to share that interaction with your baby.

For the past couple of weeks he has seemed to get more into a schedule for going to bed at night. This has been a great relief to his mother and I. He still seems to get a bit fussy in the evenings, but we (to the credit of my wife) have had success with instituting a bedtime routine that includes bathing, massaging (although I'm still not convinced of the necessity of that one and it seems my wife is beginning to question whether he likes it or not either) and singing before putting him down for the night.

It is amazing to me how my priorities have slowly begun to shift. This was not something that changed instantly for me (I am guessing that I am either more stubborn or more honest than those who say that the change in them was instantaneous). But the truth is where I first wondered when I would have time to do all of the things that I used to do before being a father, I recently have more of a desire to spend time with my wife and child than to constantly do the activities that I used to. This is not to say that I don't still enjoy time at the beach or having beers with my buddies (because I do still feel that my wife has been great at allowing me to still do these things) but in truth I now find myself enjoying just interacting with my smiling son as much as these other things.