Simon decided this morning that he wanted to eat at 2:30am, 5am, 7am, and 9am this morning so I didn’t really have a restful sleep. I eventually got to take a nap but that made us late getting out of the house. Apparently while I was napping, Simon wanted to eat again at 10:30am so Ron went ahead and fed him with some of the breast milk I’ve been storing in the freezer. Simon’s pediatrician recommended that we bottle feed him once a day so that when I go back to work, the transition won’t be too awkward. Plus it’s a good way to give him his vitamins (by adding it to the bottle). His pediatrician also recommended we give him daily vitamin D supplements since he probably won’t get enough vitamin D from the sun. We are giving him Enfamil’s Tri-Vi-Sol (without iron) which has Vitamins A, D, and C.

But as we were getting to leave, Simon decided to wet himself (and his clothes) and since his hair seemed a bit oily, we just decided to give him a bath. He wasn’t amused. Do you think Simon looks really serious, really constipated, or just really cranky?

We needed to go out today because we were running out of diapers. We had a small supply from the hospital and received some at our first baby shower but didn’t have enough time to order them online plus we were looking for the Pampers that we used at the hospital. At Kaiser Redwood City, they use Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive diapers which have the unique feature of a wetness indicator, a yellow stripe that turns blue when wet. According to diapers.com, the wetness indicator feature was recently discontinued so I didn’t want to order from them so we wanted to find them at either Target or Babies”R”Us.

But since we were so delayed in getting out of the house, we decided to go have lunch first at In-N-Out.

Unfortunately, Target did not have the Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive in Size 1 so we went to Babies”R”Us and found what we were looking for, at least for now. Apparently, Pampers is discontinuing the Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive and replacing it with Pampers Dry Max so we’ll have to see what we’ll do after our supply runs out. Another shopper said the Dry Max works well, apparently it makes liquids into a gel (like the Huggies we have) so prevents leaks better… but the Huggies we have still leak so not sure what to make of that. I hope the effort we took to find these Pampers will be worth it. They just seemed to work well in the hospital, seem softer, and the wetness indicator was very useful.

I guess Simon decided this morning that he wanted to model his new clothes for us since he kept on peeing on himself so that we’d change his clothes.

He started out wearing his ducky T-shirt from yesterday and his diaper leaked so we decided to change his outfit. We wanted to try out his Paul Frank onesie from Auntie Tiffany and Uncle Alex and Ron even combed his hair to try to look like a rock star.

Within 30 minutes, he needed another diaper change because he pooped. While changing his diaper, he decided to pee again and shot a urine stream to the side of the changing table which ran down to his back and got this outfit all wet. So once again, we changed his outfit to something more appropriate, his “PP” shirt from my co-workers.

After this change, he promptly decided to poop some more so it was my turn to change his diaper. So as I started to change his diaper, he shot a urine stream above his head. This time it ran down the changing table and onto his hair. Now we thought it best to give him a bath to wash his hair. After his whole body was clean, he then decided to poop in this bath tub! Such a troublemaker today.

This wasn’t the last of it, later on in the afternoon, his diaper leaked. This was probably our fault as we didn’t make it tight enough. So his last change of clothes for the day was into his UC Berkeley onesie. Late afternoon, my parents dropped by unexpectedly since they were in the area and brought us some BBQ pork buns and sponge cakes.

In the evening, Elaine and Edgar dropped by for a visit and brought Simon a gift of a very cute pair of overalls from Janie and Jack.

I can’t decide which of these pictures is cuter… I love his big eyes!

I am just so unbelievably enamored by Simon!

After yesterday’s marathon feeding, today all Simon wanted to do was sleep. After each feeding, he’d doze off and become like a sack of rice. He’s been playing with his hands more so they’ll end up resting on his face or on my chest. It was a bit cooler in the apartment today so maybe that helped him to settle down back into his routine of sleeping longer periods of time.

Simon’s chubby little arm and fingers.

Training to be Superman!

So I made up for lost time today and got plenty of sleep while he was sleeping too. I think the sleep deprivation is starting to get to me as I find myself more tired during the day now. The first two weeks I could stay up during the day and only sleep at night, now I find myself taking more cat naps.