Well, my mother-in-law Mary went home today. She has been with us since Jonathan was born. Honestly, I don’t know how we could have made it through the past couple of weeks without her help. She didn’t sleep much while letting Meg and I get some sleep and recover from the birth ordeal. But her help went much further than that.

Obviously, Jonathan is our first baby. Meg was really worried that she wouldn’t know what to do to take care of him. And anyone who knows me knows that I am not a baby person. Mary really helped us to understand how to go through the every day routine of taking care of a baby. And the diaper-changing tricks that she taught me have saved many shirts from getting peed/pooped on already.

But the best was just helping us know that Jonathan wasn’t just going to drop dead, and that when he cried, it wasn’t the end of the world. I am so thankful that she was able to spend the time with us that she did.

Now we are on our own, and so far so good. Little Jonathan is getting bigger by the day. He is almost 9 pounds now. The doctor says he is doing great. He’s not sleeping through the night yet, and it is random whether he’s alert during the day or night, but we’ve got awhile to go before he gets straightened out. Our big task now is for Meghan to learn to sleep when he is sleeping, and to let me handle him if he’s not hungry. We’re still breastfeeding so when he’s hungry, there’s not much i can do, but i’m a diaper changing, baby-calming machine, and during the weekend when i’m not working, i’ll work overtime to help her get some rest.

I found a nice link via Instapundit for the Books For Kids Blog. It may be a little early for Jonathan, but I think you can never have enough books.

Meghan is blogging about her pregnancy experiences at www.megdriggers.com. Go read now!

Here’s a good video. He is a little more animated now than he was in this video, but it still is chock full of cuteness.

The baby shit on me. So I win my first daddy merit badge.

He still hasn’t peed on me, but it’s only a matter of time. I’m pretty good at covering it up when I’m changing him, but one day he’ll break through my defenses.

Well, we are finally home. Mom and baby are both doing great, and we are very very happy to be out of the hospital and relaxing at home. Meg’s mother was nice enough to cook us a delicious meal, and we are now trying to decompress and relax after our busy couple of days.

My mother-in-law got me a nice coming-home present also. A Flip Video Camera! So now I’m working on getting some good footage for you guys. Here is my first sample: