Life with Xan

Xan is such a joy! We all love having him as a part of our family! Camden is doing so well with him too!

Xan's club foot needs have obviously added some extra effort to parenting a newborn, but Xan's more mild temperament has helped this process as well.

We do find ourselves at the doctor's office much more frequently though.

Xan's 1st week of life: 4 doctor's visits

2nd week: 2 visits

3rd week: 1 visit

This week: 3 visits

With all this attention for Xan, we've had to do some extra special activities here and there to help distract Camden a little more, but overall, we're getting into the swing of things well enough that Camden is used to the routine.

Here's Camden playing with shaving cream on his tray. It was a desperate attempt by mommy to give him something "new and fun" to do and yet, educational as we practiced identifying shapes and letters. Camden has been fascinated with letters of late and can identify about 10 letters consistently!

We've also been playing and digging in our new "rice and noodle box". Thanks for the rice and the idea grandma!

Camden LOVES this penguin! Few people may know that penguins are my favorite animal, so we have a few about the house. Anyway, Camden has decided this is his baby! He'll put it to bed, sing to it, give it kisses, put it in the baby swing and bouncer, we even changed penguins diaper today! It's so cute!

We've been doing the growth changes with Xan too! Camden just isn't into that game anymore however.

Week 1 growth for Xan... Camden's saying, "Ack! The baby is touching me!"

Week 2, Xan still wants to touch his brother, and Camden doesn't seem to mind the touching quite as much.

We love our boys!