The week!

For some reason I didn't manage to download the photos I have taken earlier in the week. Will try again tomorrow.
The week has had some ups and some downs. Thursday morning when I was having a fika in the city with some friends mum called and told me that dad had 40 degrees temperature and obviously not feeling so great. We had to call an ambulance and mum went with dad to the hospital and Isak and I came after by car. He got given antibiotics and they took lots of tests and quite quickly he started feeling better. I stayed there for a few hours and mum and I had lunch at the hospital and when I left to go and get Jakob dad was just getting moved to a privat room.
So many people have been sick in the last few months so I am surprised that it has taken him so long to catch something. Having a high temperature is hard for the most healthy person so of course it hit him much harder.

Yesterday was a busy day hanging out with friends. Went to the singing in the morning and Jakob was quite calm for a change. Normally he runs around like crazy and I always worry that he is going to run over the babies laying on the floor but this time he was pretty relaxed. And as always hanging on to his cars. After singing we went to Sigrid's house to celebrate Elvin who turns 5 today. There were 5 of us (mums) with our 5 boys and 5 babies (4 girls + Isak) and I have to say that it was full on and I was exhausted when driving home. It went really well and we had a great time, but just being around that many kids for a whole day makes you tired. I don't think I could work in child care... In just over a week the same group of people have hired a cabin at a ski resort together and are going away for 2 nights. I am really excited about it and it reminds me a bit of my own childhood where we used to go away skiing for a week every year. I hope we can make this a tradition! This time of the year it can be so beautiful outside and to spend a few days with lots of friends and their children is always fun.
Friday ended with a girls dinner in the city, same people as earlier in the day apart from Camilla who couldn't make it. Both Jakob and Isak went to sleep like little angels just before 7 so I got to the restaurant only a few minutes late. Zara had picked the perfect place, and we got the perfect table, and the food and company was perfect. It was so nice to get together without kids for a change, we realised after, that we didn't even talk about the kids at all! normally we talk a lot about children and babies and everything that involves them so it was nice to be out not having to think about nappies etc. I hope we can do it more often. I got home about 10.30 and all the boys were in bed asleep :-)
Isak is now 6 weeks old and has grown a lot. He is now sleeping really well at night I think. He goes to bed at 7 every night (like Jakob) and some nights he has a cry every 20 min or so for the first our or so (not every night) but he doesn't really wake up before his first feed somwhere between 11pm and 1.30am. More often it is around midnight than 11pm. His second feed is somehwere between 4 and 7 pm and depending on the time for his second feed I might feed him a third time around 6.30-7 where he goes back to sleep for an hour. In the beginning it took about 50 min before I had him back asleep after feeding, wrapping, settling etc but now it is normally just 20-25 minutes. Isak is still sleeping a lot during the days but I am noticing a change with more time awake and also that he wakes up more easily. Some days he still has a 3 hour sleep in the middle of the day but some days he wakes up for a feed.
When Isak is awake he is quite relaxed and happy but he is not the sort of baby you can just put down and he is happy on his own. It does work sometimes but most of the time I hold him or play with him when he is on his back. He normally has a short time during the day when he is a bit unsettled but nothing too bad. This morning he gave me a big smile in bed just after he woke up. That was a really nice moment. He started smiling a few weeks ago but normally he smiles at the fish above his change table, but this morning I am pretty sure it was me he was smiling at :-)
Jakob has started doing something strange since Isak was born. If he wakes up before Adam he doesn't come in to our bedroom like he used to. He just sits outside our bedroom door and play with his cars until Adam comes out a few minutes later. I guess he is doing it because he doesn't want to disturb Isak and wake us up. It doesn't seem to bother him at all, he just sits there and plays and talks to himself a bit. I don't want him to feel like he can't come in because of course he is always welcome, but at the same time it is quite good at this early stage of having Isak to get that extra sleep in the morning and to not have Jakob jumping in the bed like he used to if I am feeding Isak. I don't think it is worth talking to him about it since it doesn't seem to be a problem, he still hasn't shown any signs of being jealous and he is happy in the morning so we might just leave it for a while and see what happens. This morning he woke up at 5.30 but as always Adam gets up with Jakob so I can sleep a bit longer.