Life with Noah & a Blogging Plan

So much for my plan to blog every day since the baby was born.  Yes, I was that delusional.  Although I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to blame the baby for my lack of posts, considering I spend hours of my day sitting on the couch taking useless close-up  photos of him and wondering if I should actually start to contemplate what real life will be like once the “new baby” excuse wears off.  But the good news is I have a plan that I’m hopeful will encourage me to blog on a regular basis — I figure the least I can manage is to share one thing I’ve learned every day about having a new baby, and whatever other random thoughts pop into my head that may help other clueless moms like myself.  Plus I need an excuse to shamelessly post all his close-ups because Facebook can only be exploited so much (& I’m sure I walk the line).

So tomorrow the new blog begins (or maybe later today if I’m super ambitious). But just to catch everyone up, I thought I would share some notable moments (that were actually photographed) from Noah’s first couple of weeks at home:

(1) A couple of days after we left the hospital, we took Noah back to the doctor to get circumcised.

Doctor trip

Noah oblivious to his pee pee’s fate

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He’s Here!!

It’s Official: My baby countdown blog transitioned from a 10-day countdown into a 12-day countdown into an actual real live baby blog! Noah Michael Cherkasky was born on September 23, 2013 at 4:08pm. He weighed 7 lb 1 0z and was 20.5 inches.

But first things first.  Because it’s been quite the journey from my last post on September 22 to sitting here today with my 6-day old baby boy.  I won’t bore (or horrify) you with the minute-by-minute details of my labor or our first days with the baby, but here are some things that I have learned in the past week: Continue reading