Dear Nathan,

Today you are 8 days old!  And today you gave us a run for our money!  For at least an hour (it felt like 3!) you screamed and cried your head off.  Nothing consoled you: a diaper change, a bottle, a pacifier, nothing!  Daddy and I were beside ourselves on what to do.  Mommy then remembered reading a book, The Happiest Baby on the Block, and decided to try what the book calls the 5 S's.  And guess what?!  It worked!  I swaddled you, I laid you on your side, I sshed you, I swung you, and I gave you something to suck on  (a pacifier!).  It didn't work the 1st time.  Or the 2nd.  But it did work the 3rd!  Yay! 

Love your exhausted Mommy