Chris and Hannah Newman : Working Towards the New Normal

Life has been pretty good for the Newmans lately. Things are continuing to constantly change all the time but at least the changes are working towards a new normal. We are enjoying being close to my family and having a new adventure of living in Texas. I'm not sure if our update will be as exciting, but I'm sure someone will enjoy it.

Chris and Hannah

Chris is really enjoying being at Baylor All-Saints. He is enjoying working with his co-resident Nolan and it seems like they are becoming really good friends. He still is working with learning the hospital's data entry program but he is half way through his training. He is already getting swamped with projects and we're trying to learn new time management skills with having a baby around. It's really hard especially since I've been at home all day and I really want to spend time with Chris. But more importantly I want a break from taking care of Jacob. We're trying to figure it out but we're already looking forward to next year when Chris can come home from work and leave work at the hospital.

Things with me are doing pretty well. I am just trying to take it one day at a time. I honestly thought that staying at home with Jacob I would have time to do things like reading and sewing. Well I've learned that is not the case at all. I do the same thing every three hours during the day: feed Jacob, play with Jacob, put Jacob down so he can play with his toys and hope that he doesn't get fussy, and put him to sleep. When I do have time for myself, I am usually doing housework, getting myself presentable or taking a nap (I don't care what anyone says, taking care of a baby is tiring). There's really not alot of time during the day for myself. I'm really hoping that will change when Jacob is older and we don't have a three hour feeding schedule.

Jacob

Lately Jacob has been growing like a weed. Last week he went through a growth spurt, I think. He has out grown alot of his clothes and he has been sleeping like crazy, but compared to the first two growth spurts, this one has been nothing. He wasn't hungry or fussy all the time. Which is great cause he wasn't strapped to my chest the whole time. Probably sometime next week we'll switch all his clothes to the next size up.

Mom had to buy me new clothes, cause I'm huge now!

He is learning and moving around alot more recently. Last week he finally figured out how to roll over all by himself from his stomach to his back. He also figured out how to roll on his side from his back. He is continuing to figure out on how to scoot around the house. He is controlling his head a ton better, I think we can remove all his head restraints in his car seat really soon. He is continuing to try to find his thumb. He's gotten really good at sticking his fist in his mouth and now he's trying to isolate just his thumb. Sometimes he succeeds and other times he just sucks on one of his other fingers. He is turning into a thumb sucker and there is little I can do to stop it. Jacob's personality is slowly starting to come out and he is so much like his daddy. We joke that Jacob looks and acts just like Chris, only he is a lighter version of him. Since he inherited my eyes, skin and hair. He is such a chatter box too with his grandparents. Whenever he is with my mom, he'll just talk her ear off. It's the cutest thing! I've posted a video on the bottom of this post of him talking to his Mama Sugar (aka Grandma LaFerney).