Nap time-- quick, post!

The last week has really been a whole new game.  I finally feel like I am getting a handle on this newborn thing.

The week did not start out auspiciously.  JD and I both got a cold, but it wasn't an all-out incapacitating illness.  Just enough to make the sleepless nights a little more hellish.  This impelled Speedy & I to change our sleeping situation-- we had been trading off "sleeping" upstairs on the couch with Jonas-- which was essentially an endless cycle of hour-up/hour-down waking and sleeping, changing and feeding against the backdrop of endless episodes of Seinfeld*.  But the cold meant I wanted to be in bed, which meant that Jonas was going to test drive the bassinet in the bedroom that he had abandoned with extreme prejudice several weeks ago.  And all of a sudden, our little nighttime peeper became a nighttime sleeper.  The first night it was two hours down, on hour up (which was an improvement, believe it or not.)  Then three hours.  Then last night, FOUR stinkin' hours!!  Granted, he woke up at 5:30 after going down from 11-3 and then down again at 3:30, but wow-- what a refreshing stretch that was!  At 6 I took him into bed to nurse where he stayed for the next two hours without so much as a peep.  *I* had to get him up when it was time to get moving with the day's chores. 

I have also been tracking his daytime sleeping and it turns out he does have a pattern emerging-- he's a 3-4 naps a day kinda guy, but now I know vaguely when they might happen.  And when he's fussing, I now have a way of figuring out that it might be naptime crankiness setting in, which is a whole new power (and a very important one with such a wee little dictator who doesn't speak English!)

And on the eating front-- I have 8 whole ounces in the fridge and 3 in the freezer, which indicates that my production is actually outstripping his needs!  I couldn't be happier.  Now if only I could find a way to get off the grueling every-three-hours pumping schedule I am on, especially since he is now sleeping longer than that.  Suggestions are welcome.

Speedy has returned to work, which sucks.  It makes us both even more tired and even crankier.  I am not going to lie and say things have been roses here.  We have definitely had our ugly moments, but I think that is to be expected.  The important thing is that we are strong enough and love each other enough to weather the moments of exhaustion and frustration and general lashing-outness that happens when one or both of us has had only a few hours' sleep and the demands of our daily lives have just just doubled with the latest addition to our pack.

Oh, and we were wondering if his 1/4 Korean genetics were evident, but our housecleaner put that to rest when she came in last week, picked him up, and in her big laughing Trinidadian way, said, "Look!  He got Chiney eyes!"

*A kind friend loaned us ALL NINE SEASONS, which is pure gold as far as I am concerned, since I stopped watching TV at around the time Seinfeld ended, so it remains the pinnacle of sit-com mindlessness for me.