Luca at 4 Weeks

A whole month has passed since Luca broke out and joined us on the outside. In the interest of recording his development for posterity, we'd like to make a practice of monthly highlight reels. Here's the first, covering what he's being up to these four weeks.

Hazmat

Luca is an expert poop producer and wall sprayer. There were two early omens of his proficiency that we might have heeded more carefully. First, he produced some meconium in utero - a cause for concern during delivery that turned out to be no big deal. Then there was one particularly long trip to the nurses' station. They'd had a clean-up on their hands after Luca made a pee fountain to entertain all the nurses.

Since then we've lost count of all the incidents of wet walls, wet clothes, and ill-timed diaper changes, but there have been a couple of memorable occurrences worth mentioning:

- At one trip to the doctor's office, Luca peed on the examining table not once, but twice. Since the same doctor performed Luca's circumcision, the peeing seemed purposeful and perhaps punitive.

- Airing out the baby is a good idea, but it's one that should perhaps be executed on the lawn and not in the front room. I had him on my lap, wrapped in what turned out to be a permeable blanket, and was rewarded with a soaking in baby poop.

- And you've seen the picture of the sopping mess Luca made of T.

Babar

In the middle of the night, Luca makes sounds more appropriate to a baby elephant than a human baby. Curiously, he doesn't seem to make these noises during daytime naps, but only when T & I are trying to sleep.

Luca "the Bruiser"

Luca is a fairly easy going baby. He'll cut you some slack on diaper changes, and he lets me drag him all over town to run errands. But get in the way of a meal, and you're in for it. He's ferocious about feeding.

The result is an impressive weight gain. During one six-day period he gained almost a pound, going from 9.4 lbs to 10.25 lbs. The 2.4 oz per day increase this represents is more than double the 1 ounce expected max daily weight gain.

Yes, we are planning his NFL career.

Rewards

In just the past few days, Luca has started to punctuate his usual expressions with occasional smiles for T & me. It's the greatest.



Here's Luca working very hard to build neck muscles.