Six Weeks Later...

Pretty boy you are getting so big! Mommy put you in the sling yesterday for the first time in about a week or so, and I kept trying to get you to slide down in further because it just seemed like you wouldn't sink far enough down into it. And then I realized that was because you ARE that big. Holding your head up a little better. It's kinda funny cause you hold up your head, but after awhile it's like your muscles get tired and you start almost vibrating - you want to hold it up but so tired... We try to put you on your belly, but unless you are on your belly on someone, you don't really want anything to do with it.
And to think... I could be going back to work, but thankfully, I have a little more than a week left. We have decided that I'm gonna work a little fewer hours for November and then completely full time in December. Unless I decide I like it too much... in which case the clinic might not be too happy.
You've migrated to the sink tub baths, and your big sis likes to help. You don't seem to mind them too much...


This is for you mom :)
When Daddy put this outfit on you, he ran into the living room to get my camera cause he thought you looked way too cute. Unfortunately, you've already managed to outgrow it! You are definitely longer than your sister and seem to be outgrowing your newborn outfits much younger than she did. You like your little giraffe which plays music - seems to sooth you (temporarily of course). Still only slightly entertained by rattles - although, like Meg, you like to stare up at fans.
You scared Daddy and had your first couch slide off... don't really if it's a combo of falling into the crack or you wiggling or kicking your little legs... But we have to be more cautious!
Daycare is going to be a rough adjustment for you, Bubba. You are quite clingy and would be completely happy just nursing and hanging out next to a breast all day long. Your swing is more tolerable, and sometimes you will stay in it for awhile depending on your mood and the time of day. Daddy has already declared he's "cutting you off" - as in "you need to learn to not be held all the time" --- Momma still is more of a softy though. Daddy isn't sleeping with you on the couch anymore. It took a couple of nights of waking every 2 hours in your basinette for Mommy to figure out that you sleep so much better in your swing at night. Last night, you slept until 3:30! Usually, we are averaging waking up 2 or 3 AMish and then about the time Daddy leaves.
New step in our journey is pumping and bottle feeding. It started this week, and you seem to be doing much better with it than Mommy. Daddy gave you a bottle, and you took it like you have been doing it forever! The lesson here: don't wait until 3 months into it screaming happens - like with Meghan...Here is your bedroom... put it in your book for later. You are still noisy - don't know if less-so or if we have just adjusted to it. Last church, you stayed in your carrier the whole time, and as we were leaving, the woman in front of us stopped us and said your little noises had been a blessing through her worship experience. Now, we wouldn't have put it that far, but your little noises are endearing. Especially when you are sleeping and do this little sleep-laugh thing. Mommy is still waiting on the smiling to start up. You do tiny little grins in your sleep, but you won't just outright smile. Makes it difficult for Mom to capture on camera.
You made friends with Mark, Kathy, and Karah several weekends ago when we went to Dallas for Angela's wedding. We stayed with PA friend Haley, and you melted her heart :) - at least I think so! You were a pretty happy baby for most of the trip - your first road trip (and cold weather), and you slept most of the time except for snack breaks. You seemed like you were getting kind of tired of the whole thing on the way back about an hour outside of Houston. Mommy was able to sit with you two in the back seat to make sure Meghan wouldn't throw things on you.
You are definitely alert more... not really evidenced by the pictures though.



You are growing too fast, little man! So sweet and so loved!