5.5 weeks

I hate winter. I hate the snow. I NEED the weather to immediately stop being both! Not only are we already buried under inches of snow from the last half week, we're supposed to get more on Sunday. That doesn't work for me! I finally nailed down the baptism date and have everything set and now it's supposed to snow a lot. I'm praying that it'll be a false alarm like last night, where they were calling for anything form 3-7+ inches and we only got about 1, but who knows. I don't want to have to cancel the baptism!

Will is almost 6 weeks old. He's super smiley now. Instead of just doing smiles to the fan or while dazing off, he really interacts with me. He gets ticklish now, he likes me to caress his big chubby cheeks, and he does a little breathy baby giggle when I do either. Yesterday he was fussing in his swing, so I went to get him. He looked right at me, gave me a huge smile, then fell asleep without me needing to pick him up, like he just wanted to make sure mommy was right there before he gave into sleep. He's getting so adorable and super lovable. He's just a big round chunk of cuteness! While I miss his tiny newborn-ness, it's also a lot of fun to have this baby who interacts with us now and loves to try and figure out his surroundings. He enjoys being sat up against me so he can scan the room over. He likes moving shadows, fans, the fish tank, and watching Katie jump around.

He's finishing up his first and last box of size 1 diapers already. I remember Katie stayed in them for a few months, but Will is already barely fitting and blowing out of them. He only has been wearing them since 3 weeks old, and at almost 6 weeks, he's already grown out. Which really stinks, as we received a lot of size 1 diapers at Christmas that are now useless. He's also stretching out of his 0-3's and into his 3-6's, which I only have a handful of.

When Katie was a month old, I already had the next baby's names set. But even though, during the hours of me walking Will, I like to think about names for the next one, I don't have much of a clue. It keeps me awake to wonder what the next one will be, what the next theme is going to be, but I can't decide on anything for once. It should have been easy this time - we already have our boy's first name set in stone (though his middle name is up for debate - I've given Bill two names to go with the first name and he really dislikes both.) and we had two girl names for if Will was a girl that have gone unused. I had one for a winter baby - Cecelia (Cece) Snow, and one for a summer baby - Charlotte Ariel. But now I'm thinking about putting them on the shelf, as they don't seem quite right for the next pregnancy. I have two new names in mind that Bill actually brought to me and I've become quite emotionally attached to, though I have no themes for either of them and no idea for middle names. I guess it's good that we have a while to go before the next pregnancy! Or maybe the next one is bound to be another boy, since his name and theme are already mostly set.

As for me, I'm hoping that I'm mostly healed now. The lochia has mostly stopped (FINALLY!!!) and the small tear I had that I kept reopening before I knew I had it seems to have healed. I don't have my "6 week" appointment until next month when I'm around 2 1/2 months PP, so I have to try and guess myself. I can't wait until I can exercise, I think I'm going to start trying next week with slow things. I have a bunch of DVDs waiting for me - Pilates, Yoga, Turbo Jam (which got me in great shape when I used it years ago), and a few others. Now if only my body will listen and let me start!