Day 18 and 19

Thankfully Brayden's sleeping patterns improved.  Friday night was definitely a godsend and Brayden was able to sleep in 3 hour intervals.  Sherry and I were both well rested (more so than before) on Saturday morning.  The sleep positioning seemed to help by keeping his head slightly elevated.  We also bought different formula going with the Gerber Good Start Gentle Plus formula on Friday night.  Brayden seemed to like the flavor of this formula over the Enfamil Newborn and Similac (he hated Similac).  Unfortunatelythe batch of Gerber we bought came in 8oz cans which are too big, so we we'd need to split them up in order to effectively used them.  We also bought the Enfamil Gentlease formula which we used for most of the weekend.  This formula seemed to work better for Brayden as he was less fussy.  The result was that since he wasn't storing gas in his belly anymore, he was letting it go at random intervals.  Whenever Alvin would try to burp Brayden, the baby would burp from his butt more often than from his mouth.  

Alvin spent most of Saturday morning playing basketball with his friends while Sherry took care of Brayden.  Sherry appreciated the smaller shifts (as opposed to the longer shifts during the week when Alvin is at work).  Alvin, Sherry, and Brayden met up for lunch an had lunch with the Le's (Phong, Tuong-Vi, Thong, Linh, Hong, and Nathan) at the Irvine Marketplace.  This was a great time to break from the daily grind of being at home and just concentrating on taking care of Brayden.  It was great to see their friends again.  Since it was Alvin's shift on Saturday afternoon, Sherry spent her break going to the mall and getting her hair done.  Brayden spent most of the afternoon sleeping so Alvin was stuck watching whatever was on TV.  He ended up watching Justin Bieber's Never Say Never which he mildly enjoyed.  The night's entertainment was Parking Wars which is a show about meter maids around the country.  It was amusing as to how people who do not pay their parking tickets get so upset when their car gets the boot or gets towed away.  It is kind of sad how society has a trend to not admit to their mistakes and tries to weasel their way out of being at fault.

On Sunday, Brayden was starting to get fussy again (maybe he's only good during the weekends)?  Alvin spent the morning cleaning the pool and doing laundry, while Sherry took care of Brayden.  The family took a mini-adventure away from being at home and go their portraits taken at JC Penney.  The session was ok, but our timing with Brayden was a little off.  By the time we had arrived at the portrait studio, Brayden had just woken up from his nap (ok...he didn't just wake up, we kind of woke him up when we transferred him from his bassinet to the car seat, but we had to make our appointment).  He threw a tantrum the whole way through.  Giving him some milk seemed to help, but we basically were able to calm him down in 3 minute intervals while we were getting our photos taken.  He was very active during the photo shoot and kept moving his arms and legs around.  Afterwards we went to Babies R Us and BestBuy.  Alvin bought a better point and shoot camera (Canon S95), which was on sale at BestBuy.  We bought more swaddle blankets at Babies R Us, since Brayden seems to make a mess of the two we do have on a nightly basis.

Anthony visited us in the afternoon to watch the Heat and Bulls game.  The Bulls are such a great defensive team.  Their bench is pretty deep and it will be tough for Miami to beat them even with their 3 superstars. Alvin cooked some spagehetti and meatballs for dinner.