20 Weeks

 
Arching his back while sitting and when he's on his belly so he can move around--though he has no aim when moving.


He's better at tummy time these days but hates it after awhile.


He slept through the night 11-13 and 11-14.  He slept from about 7:30-4:30 and I get up at 5:00 so it was perfect.


He's inching forward and around on his belly and back.

He's begun arching his back even on the changing table and wriggling out of my grasp when I try to change his diaper.


We can't leave him lying by himself on the couch anymore.


He's starting to calm down a bit at home but he still wants to be held most of the time.

He's fussy when I get him at daycare.

He's eating 7-10 ounces, now, while I'm gone.

He is sucking his bottom lip a lot.


He rolled over once from his back to his belly.  I'd left him alone to do dishes and he was really fussing but I just couldn't get to him and when I came back he'd rolled over!

He's so much more contented these days.  It's easily been a week since I last gave him Zantac.  He still spits up a good bit but he doesn't seem as irritated.


He's content to play for longer periods--which is extended even more if Bunny is there to play with him.  He'll be okay if he's not being held only as long as someone is with him.  I sit with him and play guitar for him still, or even do laundry and he can handle that for a good 20 minutes now.


He doesn't like the idea of the car but it will lull him to sleep now.  A little music helps too, which is the first time that music other than mine has been soothing to him.


He also likes to reach for the toy that usually hangs from the car seat handle. 


He adores Bunny.  He thinks she's amazing and she returns the sentiment.  Sometimes I think she's being too rough with him but then he's giggling so what do I know?


We did our first back carry with the Boba so I could roll out pastry dough and it was mildly successful.


He's become calmer in the afternoons.  We have a routine when I come home from work.  I leave him in the seat while I put away dirty diapers and store new milk, then we play a little, followed by nursing which almost always puts him to sleep.  Then I put Bunny to bed and him in his crib and I get a little time to myself to catch up on housework or writing.  During this time of the day he'll sleep anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.  His other naps are never longer than 30-40 minutes.


He strokes and beats my chest or flails his arms in circles when eating.

Some family FaceTime with Daddy when he went on break.

A comparison of Bunny and Bear at around the same age.

He's serious about going at his chew toys in the high chair.  He goes there during meals and sometimes when I have kitchen work to do and he's awake.

We got them matching sleepers for Christmas--the striped polar bear ones were the only kind in both of their sizes, though there were definitely sleepers more suited to Christmas.

Still uses the pacifier with Daddy.

Sometimes, I just hold him during naptime rather than put him down and get work done.  It's restful to me and a balm to my Mommy soul.

Playtime in the afternoon before bedtime and after naptime.

I was trying to get him to roll over here by taunting him with a toy but he got so irritated that he couldn't reach it that he screamed rather than roll over and I just gave it to him. 

He got a cute, crocheted, little man hat from me--my first crocheted garment.

Playtime with Bunny

Always needs to chew! This is Christina's dining room table.

Daddy with the kids in the morning after breakfast and before I go off to school.

Crazy boy loves to eat burp cloths/blankets/clothing and then put them over his face.  He thinks it's a great joke!

Oh, man, those eyes!!!

19 weeks

He weighs 16 pounds 10 oz at 4 month check up.  He's in the 75-80th percentile and he's been there all along.  He's 26.5 inches long.


He's starting to get some fuzzy, new hair on his head after losing ALL of his newborn hair.


He has the sniffles.  The doctor says it's a light cold.

He definitely has eczema and not ringworm.


He needs more tummy time so he'll roll over.  I've just been picking him up every time he cries and holding him all the time which might be a reason why he isn't doing much physical stuff.  I'm not sorry about it, though!

He likes to suck his bottom lip in.

Old Navy and Target socks don't fit him like they did his sister.  ALL socks we try fall off.



He screams when happy and sad.

He lost his amber teething bracelet for awhile and we think maybe his temperament worsened.


This is us either at family breakfast or family dinner--probably the former. 

He always sleeps best when Mommy holds him.

He puts up surprisingly well with his big sister's antics.  He actually loves what she does to him most of the time.

Some more tummy time--naked so he can air out his little bottom and stop any rash before it starts.

They're gonna be great friends one day. 

He's so chunky! I love all his chunkiness!

Meeting his new little friend.  He dwarfs her like he dwarfs all new babies. 

I think he has his Daddy's lips.  Mine aren't that full.  Neither are Bunny's.

18 Weeks

 
He is very musical and just loves when I play the guitar and sing for him.  He squeals and giggles and smiles!


He scoots around a little on his back.  He doesn't do it to get anywhere, it just happens as he wiggles.
 
He very purposefully reaches for things that are within his grasp.


He can hold himself up while sitting for a second or two before falling over.  He doesn't seem to have any concept of balance yet.


He grunts when he goes to nurse or when he is intent on chewing something.

When he's awake and nursing and not ravenous or angry, he sucks, then pulls away and talks to me or just checks to see that I'm looking at him.  It's cute except for the fact that sometimes he pulls away quickly while still latched on.


He is very sensitive to sound--especially when sleeping.  We have to have white noise going during his naps if we want him to stay asleep while we run business as usual.


Rolling over wasn't really a priority for him towards the beginning of the week but towards the end, he was really truing to do it.  He hasn't rolled over on the floor and he hasn't tried on the bed since he did it a bit ago. 


He went in the church nursery for the first time on 11/3 and to daycare  for the first time on 11/5.  Cried both times.  He misses his Mommy.

Seems to need 12-15 ounces of breast milk while I'm gone in the  mornings.  This is much more than the 2-4 oz that his sister drank while I was gone.  We're still not sure of the exact amount of oz he'll need, though.  This is a rough, early estimate. 


He likes to chew on burp cloths and sleeves in addition to his teethers.

He regularly grabs any hair (or anything, really) that's within his reach.



This week was my first week back at work.


He sleeps better in the crib so as of Monday night, that's where he sleeps during the night now.

We try to practice "inversion" with him daily--but it ends up being a couple of times a week.  The chiropractor has had us do it for both kids until something like 18 months as it improves the health of their spine. 


He met a new little friend--only a couple days old--and completely dwarfed him.  He'll catch up, though!


He's so BIG!!!

He's a happy little guy!!!

...most of the time. :-)