Introducing . . . Baby Isaac!

Baby Isaac arrived right on time-- just a few hours after his due date: December 15th at 3:22 am. He was 8 lbs. 6 oz. and 21 1/4 in. long. Here are pictures from his first two weeks. As you can tell, infants change so much from day to day. He looks different in every picture!! We love having Isaac in our family. A few fun details about him: 

• He has been a champion nurser. After spending 4 days in the NICU to receive antibiotics and sun tan under the bilirubin lights, I was worried about how he would transition to full-time nursing since I was not able to nurse him for every feeding in the hospital. The first day and half we supplemented with Similac (which he had been eating in the hospital), but after that we've exclusively nursed and he's done great! He has some mild thrush, but we've been taking medicine for that.
• He hates getting his diaper changed! I'm not sure if he was traumatized at some point or what, but for the first week and a half, he screamed at the top of his lungs through every diaper change as if we were torturing him. And he kick, kick, kicks his legs, making it very difficult to get the job done. Over the past two days it's gotten better though. We hope it's just a phase. 
• His cry is a high-pitched scream that my mom says is exactly what my cry was like. When I was a baby, my family called me a mouse. 
• He is hardly fussy at all-- which is very different from how I was! He cries when getting his diaper changed, when he's hungry, and sometimes when he has indigestion, and that's it. We hope this is NOT a phase. :-) 
• He has long stretches of quiet alert time. A few times we've put him in his crib, thinking he was going to sleep, but he will just lay there--for up to 15 minutes-- just looking around. Right now, Brent is holding him, telling him a story, and he's just looking at Brent and listening quietly. Yesterday, I put him on his stomach for some tummy time and put some toy keys near his head. He tried for about 5 minutes to grab the keys-- trying to lift his head and squirming. The amazing part to me is that he didn't get frustrated. 
• He is a big grunter. He grunts so much in his sleep, we can hardly sleep!