Happy Birthday Caleb!

It's hard to believe that Caleb turned one month old today! While time has certainly gone by quickly, it is difficult to remember what life was like before we were parents. Our days have become focused solely on our little man and keeping him happy...which in some cases is impossible. We no longer plan our evenings around shows we want to watch or our weekends around where we want to go out. Instead, our evenings consist of trying to keep to Caleb's schedule and our weekends consist of trying to watch his every facial expression.

We have learned so much in the last month and, more often, have been humbled by what we didn't know. Every day is new and every day he does something different. Over the last week he has made many attempts at smiling. While there have been many, many moments of frustration they are certainly outweighed by these precious smiles that he shares with us. He is sleeping for longer periods and starting to be easier to put to sleep. Of course he cries and can be quite fussy for amazingly long stretches but we are beginning to learn how to handle most of it...okay some of it...well a few times we have succeeded.

Our love for him has truly grown stronger every single day. What's even as enjoyable is seeing how Allison and I have grown together through all of this. We told each other from the very beginning that even when things get tough we would work together. There have been many times when we have been tested on this and despite a few sleepless moments we have succeeded. It's a lot more difficult than we could have imagined to be "nice" to each other when it's 11:30 at night and your baby has been crying for three hours.

So after a month, Allison and I are so proud of our little man and can't wait to see what will happen over this next month. We have enjoyed sharing our stories with everyone and look forward to sharing many more.