Quick Morning Update

We made it through our first night together! He started to settle down about 10:30, so I turned off the lights in the living room and held him for awhile. Then changed into our jammies (and the Halo sleepslack) and moved to the bed. He was still awake, but definitely going down. I've got big square pillows lining one side of the bed, he's in the middle third, and I've got the other third. He twists and turns and squirms and squawks and squeaks. This kid can find and insert his pacifier at all hours with his eyes closed. When he popped it in his mouth about midnight and the hands came up looking for the bottle, I decided we won't cut that out of the schedule quite yet. He wolfed it down and went right back to sleep, after I changed his sopping leaking diaper. Awake again at 5ish. Had another bottle at 6. Then had explosive diarrhea. (I knew this was going to happen given we have the wrong food in the house, a situation I have to correct today.) Soaked through everything faster than I could get to the diaper and the clothes off. By the time he was cleaned up and changed, he was wide awake. He was content to go back to bed, but was babbling, kicking, and gazing at me (weird and cool being stared at in the dark by a baby), then decided to climb all over me, finally falling asleep again on my shoulder. I LOVE that he likes to be held. He is loving it more than he did when we started bonding.

He's conked out now, while I boil water to wash dishes, donned a pair of plastic gloves (PAP tip!) and rinsed poop out of the clothes in the tub enough to be able to put them in the washer. Good thing about the washing machines here is that they heat their own water. Nope, still no hot water. I am covered in formula, spit up, drool, poop, and pee, and only got a few hours of sleep. Desperately need a shower. Definitely need more clothes for the both of us at this rate. Given no heat and not so warm days, the laundry takes awhile to dry!

Since crawling is his favorite thing to do, I cannot put him down on the bed until he is fast asleep. I want a crib. I need a crib. He's used to his crib. But, no crib. Almaty for sure (they have cribs in the apartments), the sooner the better.

He was such a happy guy last night. Playtime at 10pm is much more fun than during the day apparently. He is pushing up with his legs now when he is on all fours (I keep thinking in terms of his "hind legs" which has my fellow pet parents laughing at me) and is trying to stand. When he pulls himself up and is cruising on the sofa, he's starting to lift those legs in an attempt to climb. He also showed me his raspberry blowing skills! First time I've seen that one! Very cute. Parts of me just want him to slow down and not be making such speedy progress! I know these baby days are numbered.