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Colin has had quite an eventful first week (or so) of life.

We were pretty amazed at how long Colin’s fingernails right from the moment he was born. In what we thought was a pretty bizarre twist (though at least we knew to expect it), the hospital is not allowed to cut the newborn’s fingernails. That struck us as weird, but even weirder when we were told that the reason they couldn’t “cut” Colin’s fingernails was because that would technically be surgery! Oooookay.

That said, I don’t blame them—it is pretty scary cutting those tiny nails, but Debra and I had to do it almost as soon as we got home since he’d already scratched himself on his face once.

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Three activities Colin has particularly enjoyed this first week are his (1) after-dinner naps with his mother, (2) an occasional escape from the apartment—this time to Target, of course!—and (3) story time with his dad. Colin has been out of the apartment twice already, it turns out he seems to really like the car and the bumpier the road the better. He’s a bit of an oddball that way; we’d also noticed the other day that it seems like he also likes it very noisy. Grandma and Grandpa had stayed up later than Deb and I and were watching football while Colin slept soundly. As soon as they turned off the TV he started crying. I’d also noticed he calmed down as we got closer to the noisy mixer on Thanksgiving day.

But, of course, Colin’s favorite activity is sleeping… His parents are thrilled whenever he indulges that one!