6 Weeks

Our little sweet pea is growing up! On his six week "birthday" he weighed exactly 12 pounds, and today when I picked him up he was noticeably heavy. Part of me can't wait to see what his personality is like when he's a little older, and the other part of me wanted to freeze him when he was at week one and never let him grow up.

We've had a very busy few days as we get ready to move (yet again) to Kentucky for Thane's new job. Praise God that He's providing us with a nice, modern two bedroom apartment with a full kitchen (minus a dishwasher...). But we'll take it, especially in light of where we stayed the last time Thane and I were at Fort Knox together...(the infamous Craig Apartments, for all of you fellow army people who've had the pleasure of the experience.) Thursday is the big day that Asher and I drive up together, pray for us please! Haha, I'm sure it'll go just fine. And believe it or not, I'm excited to get to Knox and I'm convinced that this go-around will be infinitely better. I'll have my hands full with full-time mommying (and dishwashing), so I doubt I'll get as bored as I did before. And after all, the good Lord always has a reason and plan for everything, so we're excited to see what that may be for these next four months! But even if it's not obvious, we're trusting that He'll use it for good. After all, He's faithful and true and has never let us down before, despite our many many shortcomings. So thank you Jesus, and please just let Asher learn to sleep through the night! Haha, I forsee many single soldiers being less than thrilled to get 3am wake-ups.

Speaking of sleeping through the night, he's getting there! He only wakes up once between his last feeding of the night at 10:30pm and his first morning feeding at 7:30am. So that's an answer to prayer in preparation for living in a small space with Thane who will have very early mornings and long days. He's done really well on an every three hour nursing schedule since he was about three weeks old, and I'm pretty sure that's been the key to his good sleeping at night. At one point towards the beginning I went off of the schedule for a couple of days, and as a direct result he was up about every hour all night wanting to "snack". So, back to the schedule we went, because this momma does not do well on zero sleep!