1 month old!

I can't beleive a whole month has gone by, wowsers.

His one month checkup went fine. He screamed like crazy at the needle, poor thing! He weighs in at 11.2 pounds, and 22.5 inches. He also has hydrocele, which is pretty common in newborns and no big deal (unless it gets swollen or doesn't go away in a year.)

Guinness is fussier than Gemma was, at least that we can remember. I spend almost every evening, from 6-midnight feeding him and holding him. He doesn't want to be put down, and he cries and fusses most of that time. He is good in the day, and good at night but the evenings aren't his thing. Oh, and he can tell when he is being held sitting down, and then he cries. He likes to be held upright and to be walked around the house. He ate like a pig today so hopefully he has a good sleep now, and not too much tummy trouble.

Bath time fountain

So I was giving Guinness a bath tonight, mostly for cleanliness but also because it was 10:30 pm, not feeding time yet but I was getting tired of pacing the house with him and needed something to do. And I found the advantage of fountain peeing; he peed and it went right up over the edge of the tub, so hardly any got in the actual bath water. Nice!

Of course he pooped minutes later... drats!

Guinness News

We have belly button! The stump fell off earlier this week. Gemma kept calling it poop, so I am glad we can put that behind us.

He has been a little fussy lately, crying when he is awake and wanting to be held. But he can tell if you are not standing up and holding him, so despite my million efforts to sit down in the rocking chair he insists on being carried around the house. I think he is having gas issues, so I am examining everything I eat, and trying to not overfeed him. Also had two projectile vomits this week. Nothing like the sound of gagging followed by the SPLAT of milk hitting the tile floor from shoulder height.

AND he smiled at me yesterday! Might have just been a well timed gas smile, but I looked at him and said Hi Guinness and I got a great little grin :) How sweet.

Guinness' first Easter

Passports and Penises

Yay, we did it! With only one trip to the Canadian Trade Office, Guinness will have a passport in 2 weeks and citizenship in about a year. The people were so kind and friendly. What a relief, I think it took us 3 trips with Gemma by the time we got it all right.

Took Guinness to the Dr. tonight; he's all stuffed up and makes these snorting sounds when he is eating because of all his boogers. Nothing serious, just a cold so that is also good. Pray it goes away soon!

And a Dr. Lee story... You have to know that Dr. Lee really likes Chris and always jokes around with him and converses with him a lot when he is there. So when Chris went in today to get Dr. Lee to be the guarantor for Guinness' passport, Dr. Lee told Chirs, "You know, your son has a pretty big penis. Much bigger than Chinese babies." So of course Chris got into the manly game and said "good good" and Dr. Lee said, "But don't worry; I didn't charge you more." (in reference to the circumcision) What a joker, eh? (I hope this story is as funny online as it is in real life)

Passport photos

It is time for Guinness to make his way into the bureaucracy and the paper trail begins... We will begn his passport application process and Canadian citizenship application stuff hopefully tomorrow. First step; passport photos. I am sure I blogged about this with Gemma too, but it so silly. The whole mouth closed, eyes open, both ears visible. He had a snack around lunch time and stayed awake and alert so I ran to the photo shop on the corner and said Quickly! He is not crying or sleeping and we managed to get a good shot in about 5 minutes. I draped a white blanket over me and then try to hold him up on my chest with my hands under the blanket, trying to keep his head sort of looking up and straight and praying he does his part by keeping his mouth closed. Then we did some more reading and citizenship photos are different than passport photos, so I printed off those regulations and went back to the photo shop to order those.

What else to do? Chris went and picked up the English birth certificate today. I got all of our ID out. Next on the list; print off neccessary paper work and fill it out. Then a trip to the Canadian trade office. Hopefully only one trip but I am not getting my hopes up.

Guinness has been so great, pheww! He sleeps well at night, only waking up once to eat. He sleeps most of the day, too, but wakes up to look around every few hours. Gemma always exclaims, "His eyes are open!!!".

He has some gas issues and he cries out when he is trying to poop and fart; poor thing! Ovul seems to help. Mostly though he is very cute and sweet and I just can't get over how awesome he is. I can't believe he is 2 weeks old already; it seems like just a day or two ago.

New McKenzie Website

New website address: http://web.me.com/chrismckenzie/themckenzies

With the arrival of Guinness (our new son) I realized that we would need a new blog for the little guy. I also started thinking of you the readers (potential readers) and how bothersome it would be to jump back and forth between 4 blogs and a Flickr site. So what I've done is created a website that hosts all four of our McKenzie blogs and that gives us an opportunity to share so much more....like photos and videos. I'm using a hosting service that tends to be a bit slow loading, so I apologize for that, but I hope you'll enjoy the new look. Please remember to "bookmark" this page or save it in your "favorites".

From now on rather than going to our individual blogs just head to our one main website and everything you need is there.