First Bath, Playmat, and Cribs

We had a pretty good day yesterday. We had some family in town to take care of Luke a bit while we slept. He actually slept fairly late into the night, which is fantastic.

We had several firsts, such as his first bath. Melissa and I clearly have different opinions on what "warm water" is. Luke protested at first, but then he settled down and seemed to enjoy it. We also tried him out on a playmat. He seemed very interested in it, which was kind of surprising. My sister's baby Macy is now nearly three months old and she apparently likes these things too. It must be the bright colors or the happy music. Can you overdose on cuteness, bright colors and baby talk?

We have been attempting to make him sleep in cribs instead of in our arms to get him used to it early. He's already a lot less fussy in the transition (usually setting him down made him stir). He slept a solid two hours in cribs yesterday, which is far more than he's been sleeping.

Luke has a lot of moro reflexes. These sudden twitches have scared several people who have held him (poor Sarah). One thing we're noticing is that it actually will make him wake up a bit when he's sleeping. I am clearly a genius when it comes to babies, so I came up with the idea of swaddling him before we laid him down in a crib. It immobilizes him a bit more when he has the twitches, so I think he's been sleeping soundly when not in a person's arms.

Today we have a doctor's appointment to see how he's doing. We have a few concerns, but what new father doesn't? Circumcisions are scary.