After placing some Christmas lights in our kitchen window I decided to pour us a glass of wine and update the blog. Caden is sound asleep and Boonie is pacing between the kitchen, where we are, and Caden's room. I ask my wife what she would like me to blog about tonight, her response was, and I kid you not; "Ok, we have the cutest little baby". Enough said! :)
The weekend was very relaxing, fun and filled with new experiences. Saturday we headed up to the Santa Cruz mountains (Cath, Caden, Boone, Nik, Kyausha and Salah) for our traditional Christmas tree masacre... I mean tree cutting. Boone was off leash and following us down the hill into the tree farm and he was loving it, smelling every thing he could smell along the way. Caden, he was resting in his infant car seat tucked under my arm and we made our way through the tree's looking for that "just right" tree to bring home. Our perfect tree is one that represent a wild grown fern and not one of those perfectly symmetrical "wannabe" tree from a Target or Lucky's parking lot. Nik has a target parking lot tree ;) I am so full of BS tonight that's it's killin me and my wife is about to kill me too ;)
Sunday we awoke knowing full well what our goal was, to have Caden feed from his first bottle. Yes it is that time already for him to take the next step in the feeding evolution.....the Bottle. We went into this with an expectation that he would be fussy about that and we know better to have expectations about something we have never done before. I sat down in our big comfy chair with Caden sitting up in my right arm and Catherine gave me some tips as to how to proceed and what to expect from Caden when he feeds. Next thing we know he is off sucking down a bottle and half which was about 3 ounces. He fussed not one bit.
Sitting in the chair feeding my son was probably one of the best things I have ever done on my life. I can add this to a few choice things in my life that I dreamed of and actually got to act on that revolve around keywords like "Tube!" "3 pointer at the buzzer" "SR11" "Sack!" "Goal!" "Save!" "10 hour sole hike" "The Cup!" "I passed?" and now I can this to the list "I have a son and I am darn proud to be here!!!"
Tuesday night, tonight, I fed Caden again and once again he ate like a champ taking in 4 ounces. Geesh that boy sure is cute.
A few items to note and then I need to get some sleep. Caden turned 6 weeks young this past Sunday morning. Boone sleeps as often as he can next to Caden. And yes, biscotti tastes good dipped on white wine too :)
