Busy week!

Xander had a busy week of meeting new people.  Dustin, Ava and Luca came over Sunday night. On Monday, he got to meet Grandma SuAnn, Mike, Brandon, Brittany, Nancy, Dan, Laura and Sierra.  Yesterday he got to meet all of daddy's coworkers and go on his first trip to the sushi restaurant.  Anjee was very happy to have some raw salmon again after not being able to during her pregnancy.

Tomorrow we head up north for Grandma SuAnn's graduation/birthday party.  He will get to meet Auntie Trisha as well as most of the rest of the Olkives side of the family.

Other than that, Anjee and I have really enjoyed spending time getting to know our handsome little man.   Sometimes he's so cute it's painful.  He's starting to sleep for longer stretches, but continues to be an eating machine.

Today I took a bunch of pictures for his announcements.  I won't show the announcement here, you'll have to wait to get one in the mail, but here are a few favorite photos.

Settling in at Home

Everything is going great so far at home. Xander has been pretty content, reserving his best screams for when he's hungry or when he has his diaper changed. His sleep schedule is a little erratic, but Anjee and I have been trading off sleep when we can. It's a little tough when Anjee is the only one that can feed him right now and that's all he wants to do. 

Dite has now met him and is doing fine. She's a little freaked out still and just doesn't know what to do with herself when Xander's crying, but overall she seems to be taking to him okay. We also had his first check up with Dr. Pagel and he's perfectly healthy. 

Some fun things about him:

- He has hairy ears. 

- When he's hungry, he tries nursing whatever is in front of him, including my nose today. 

- When he's about to nurse, he furrows his brow, opens his mouth, and shakes his head around looking for a boob. We call this "shark face".

We looked up the meaning of his name today and it means "defender of men".  I like the sound of that. 

Welcome to the world, Xander Kevin Spinler!

He's finally here!  

Xander Kevin Spinler

Born 5/21/13 at 1:45 am

9lbs 2oz, 20.5 inches long

Isn't he awesome?  

Xander's entry to this world was not really a quick one.  We went to the hospital on Sunday after Anjee started having contractions only to be sent home that night.  When we went home, the contractions were already 3 minutes apart, but no dilation meant no hospital.  The night was miserable for Anjee and we went back in Monday morning.  After a long, long day, he finally came at 1:45 am after about 34 hours of labor.  Anjee was absolutely amazing through the whole thing.

We are now happy at home and ready to start this new life with our little family of three.  Anjee and I are so excited and completely in love with this little guy.  I'll post updates, pictures, thoughts, etc. in this blog to keep family, friends, or whomever else is interested in touch with what's going on.  It will also be my way to keep a journal of the fun, trying, happy, sad, and everything in between that comes with figuring out this whole fatherhood thing.  

Wish me luck.  Let the fun begin!