Random Thoughts

I have some thoughts, but frankly I am so tired right now that I have no urge to put them all together in a logical, flowing story-telling monologue. Instead, I have these offerings in no order or priority.
*We have now switched Kole’s formula again to one with natural cultures, which is still milk-based but supposed to be better for digestion, and the cultures are supposed to be good for colic - which we still haven’t officially diagnosed him. We’re using the Nestle Good Start Natural Cultures.
*I can sleep with more noise than I used to. We’ve always slept with white noise - a ceiling fan and an air purifier which nearly sounds like the motor of a Yamaha motor bike. But, now I can sleep or nap with the TV volume higher than I ever thought I could. Even at night, we used to lower the volume before going to sleep and putting the TV on a sleep timer to turn itself off in two hours. Now I can sleep soundly with the TV at a volume where I normally would need to turn it down just to hear Kathy talking 5 feet from me.
*The house is in a constant state of noise. Kathy retrieved the boom-box/CD player from her work and we have that in Kole’s room. Since he doesn’t know “Mary Had A Little Lamb” from U2's “Vertigo” we just keep it on one of the normal stations we would - Jack, or whatever.
*The guest bedroom has become a nightly fixture for the graveyard shift of feeding. No need for both of us to lose sleep. For example, If Kathy is going to do the midnight feeding, she’ll go in the second bedroom while I sleep in our bedroom. After his midnight feeding and Kole is back to sleep, she’ll roll the bassinet into the bedroom with me, then she’ll go back to sleep in the other bedroom. That way she’ll sleep through the next wake-up call at around 4:00 or 5:00am when it’s my turn..
*I hope women don’t start hating my wife. Here 24 days after Kole’s birth, she’s just 7 pounds off her pre-pregnancy weight. Her medical condition in conjunction with the birth is getting better. She did lose a suture somewhere along the way, but the doctor says it’s fine.
*The kid is definitely acknowledging more - quickly darting his eyes to notice things while he’s in his swing. Our lovely 58-inch HD TV is a mile wide for him, so he has to look all around in order to take in the images he sees.
*I don’t shave very often. Since work is so sporadic and I don’t have to go in every single day, and since it’s such a challenge just to get away for any good length of time while at home, shaving has been put off until it is absolutely necessary. I’ve become accustomed to having a regular scruff of a beard, which I use to comb Kole’s head when I’m holding him and trying to calm him from a cry. It normally works and I’m starting to consider it my secret weapon.