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I haven't written much about Nathan's developing personality or our daily lives lately, and this is mostly just for my future memory, so feel free to stop reading and just look at the pictures.

I'm sure pretty much ever parent feels this way, but he's just delightful. 90% of the time he's just smiling, chatty, and happy to entertain himself until he feels ignored. At that point he'll start cooing, smiling, and flirting until you notice him. The other 10%, while not as delightful, usually comes in the evening and is understandable.

Bedtime can be a bit rough if he doesn't think he's had enough to eat that day or his room is too warm, etc. For a week or so that I thought implementing a bedtime of 7-7:30 was a good idea. It wasn't. It was a total failure and took Liz saying, "It's early to have a solid bedtime, and maybe this is too early for him because he wants to eat more." for me to come to my senses. The voice of an expert.

It turns out he's happier going to bed somewhere between 7:30-8:30. I can't tell you how much easier that has made all of our lives. He usually gets up from his afternoon nap around 5ish and is either up until he goes to bed for the night or will take another short nap around 6. He usually wakes up after 45 minutes, but is relatively easy to get back to sleep by popping in his pacifier, and then we're set until 4-6 am. I feed him and he'll go back to sleep until we wake him up or 8:30-9:00. This all went off the rails with his last cold and I went back to work, but I think we're getting back on track.

He's still not really happy to be awake for more than an hour. It can be done, but most of the time I just don't see much point because he's just rubbing his eyes uncontrollably and clearly annoyed that you aren't getting the message. 

Large groups of strangers still have him on his guard, and he is very quiet with very few smiles just watching everything closely. If new people are introduced one or two at a time, he's pretty quick to warm up. I think he gets that from me. Sorry, buddy.

His affinity for bottles from Cathy changes on a daily basis, but we're just going to keep at it. Reverse cycling is not an option!

Sidenote: I can't help but think how desperately I need to have Mom over to help me make my bookshelves prettier. Mom, can you come over and make my bookshelves prettier?

We took these for my company's newsletter. Go sports!

We love it when Liz comes over for dinner. It's a great opportunity for me to pick her brain about all things baby. Like bedtimes.