9 Weeks Old

9 weeks old and he's getting quite good at stuffing half his fist in his mouth. Also, here he is taking his morning nap, zonked, arm completely comfortable straight up in the air. I thought it was cute :)

Boi says hi and says I should write "stuff." So there you have it.

Stuff.

I get to snuggle against his shoulder as I type, that's nice. He's got two more days and then I get him for 2 or 3 days. We're both too lazy to go find out. Ok, he's not too lazy, apparently I'm STOPPING HIM from going to get it. The only way I'm doing that is by snuggling against him. What I think he means to say is that he was silly and didn't look when he grabbed the schedule, when the whole point to bringing it home was to find out if he worked on Friday or Saturday. He makes a point in that if that was really all we wanted, then he would have looked and not have brought it home. I SAY THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS! Really, all I want is food. Yummy food, like baby cheeks or baby toes. I bet they be tasty. But no, I don't think you should go wake him up and bring him down here Boi, we spent an hour getting him to sleep. I cheated by putting a finger on his temple and another on his nose, and his eyes shut due to the proximity of my hand, and then he just fell asleep before I lifted them BRILLIANCE I SAY! But then he ended up waking up - which he usually does do at least once before drifting off into nighttime sleep. 

Boi gave him a massage, I usually do it, but he got home as I was putting him to bed, as he was becoming fussy and I couldn't wait any longer. He did a good job. Ok, Peanut was becoming fussy, if any of you were confused and thought I was talking about Boi. No, but Boi did warm up a tofurky while I was getting Peanut to bed. LEFTOVERS OK, SHEESH. Anyways, it was stinky and I thought Peanut had farted. INSERT PICTURE OF PEANUT CRYING AT TOFURKY! Boi thought of the picture, so you can thank him for me putting it in. I'm no longer snuggling against his shoulder as I had to reach for my Powerade. It's green flavored. I should just switch to water, as I've already consumed one today (orange flavored), but I needed to take my vitamin so I opened another. I also should be working but I've gotten several hours in and now I'm staring at and going blaaaaaaaaaah so I'm taking a break by snuggling (not that I'm doing that anymore mind you) and blogging.

What else should we talk about Boi? THAT'S RIGHT, BABY HAIR! I had three pictures to choose from, one was blurry, one was EXTREME CLOSE UP and this one was a nice in-between. Boi agrees that you can see the new hair growth nicely in this picture. My tummy gurgled, foooooooooooood I want! Anyways, baby hair, isn't it cute? I hope he doesn't loose the stuff he was born with. I don't know what the chances are of that exactly. I know he doesn't currently have a baldspot, he has baldish spots, but not a baldspot. Just the silly infant hairlines. He's excellent and sleeps on different parts of his head and doesn't favor one spot over another. I don't think. We'll see what the doctor says on Tuesday. I've decided to go with the Sears vaccination schedule. So he'll get the DTaP and the Rota then. And we'll go in at 3 months and get two different ones. And we'll hold off on the HepB for awhile. So there's that.

HANDS! Here are our hands. We tried like a bazzilion pictures, we didn't get any real great ones, here's the best. Boi just left me temporarily for his soda and a cookie. OH that's right, I bought root beer with caffeine in it, darn it all! Bad job me! But it was on sale. But I didn't know. Or I didn't realize. I knew one had caffeine in it, but I can never remember which. Boi is watching the football game and is no longer reading what I'm typing, so I can type evil things about him, like he's a doody head. BIG FAT DOODY HEAD! Hahahaha!

Peanut is slowly improving, I don't think I'll have to cut out soy. Which is good. The rash is still on his face, but his diapers are more normal - so normal THEY TRIED TO DESTORY HIS SWING! He got poop on the safety strap, the cover, and it soaked through that. Eeeeuuu! He also got poop up his tummy and up his back. Way to poop little guy. DARN IT HE'S AWAKE! he slept for like 40 minutes, I wonder if he's gassy? If that's what's wrong, Boi should be able to fix it with a pacifier... we'll see. And while I'm waiting to see, I'll embed a video I took right before bedtime. Yup, he was just crying in his sleep so it was likely gas. I could feel the bubbles moving when I was rocking him to sleep, I guess they started up again. Nothing like plastic in your mouth to make it all better!

Ok, g'nite y'all, and enjoy this video!

2 Months Old!

Today Peanut is 2 months old! He has spent the day most whiney unfortunately. Lately days he doesn't sleep much, he's whiney. Days he sleeps all day, whiney. We've apparently hit an uncooperative whiney phase. That or the dwindling amount of dairy in my system is still bothering him a lot. He cried a few hours yesterday afternoon while we were up north, while we were all trying to eat and enjoy the game, and he put on a repeat performance for us today. I had to undress him to keep him from overheating from crying so much. Hense the picture on the right there. Hopefully someday soon he'll be back to the happy boy most of the time. He was pretty happy when he was awake during the night, but we're not going back there. And then of course when we got it fixed was when I accidentally fell off the no-dairy horse.

So I made myself dairy free mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. The pie will be ready to eat in a half hour or so. The potatoes were delish, and so was my turkey loaf. Mini thanksgiving for the win! I can't wait to dig in to the pie!

We've got to make it 4 days without Boi again, he's got inventory going on :/ supposedly he'll have an extra day off though after that, so then I can has a happy again. And I'll hide his phone so they can't call him in and he won't know it so it'll be ok. Just don't tell him! And forget this when you read this Boi! It's not ok to stiff people on their vacation days!

I really want that pie now... I hope it's good. I used coconut milk! Same with in the mashed potatoes. It tastes way better than almond milk. I was also going to try to count my calories today... but I didn't really do a good job doing that earlier and now I don't want to try to figure out the homemade stuff today... maybe I'll try it tomorrow. When I'm hopefully much more rested. Chances are I'll be just as tired though. I should also try to do some work, looks like I got contacted today, but today wasn't a really good day. We didn't get to do a lot of the stuff we wanted to do either, like take a walk since it's still was kind of nice :(

I think maybe I'll get a tiny slice, mwaa haa haa! Have a good evening!

I miss milk

So I screwed up and ate cheese. Then 6 hours later he got scream worthy gas. So then I figured, well lets make absolutely sure. So I drank milk. And ate pizza. And ate yogurt. And I was happy. And then the last two nights Peanut was lucky to make it a 2 hour stretch. So. Fucking. Tired. I had me a wine cooler after putting him to bed and told Boi he was on Peanut patrol. I crashed like 20 minutes. Then I got up every freaking hour to either feed or soothe him. Then at 4 I fed him, he was wide awake, so I tagged back out since he needed to wake up at 430 anyways. I slept like 20 minutes. Boi left him in his swing, but he did not nap after he left, Peanut started crying. Pacifier nowhere to be found, and still too early to feed him, I turned on the swing full force. And now we're laying here. I discovered I was only wearing one contact. For how long no one knows. Well, who else is there but me I guess.

I hate insomnia. I haven't gotten like... more than 4 hours of sleep a night for a week or more. Mostly much less. I think, too tired to remember. Having a baby should cure it. I should be so tired I can't help but just fall asleep. But no, I'm just so tired I can walk around with one contact in and not notice. I'm getting a nanny for kid #2.

We're Just Doing This

Since he woke up at 7PM, we're obviously just screwed. So we're going forwards and not backwards. We'll get him to bed a little later each night until we're fixed. So I've got my Mountain Dew and we're playing at 1:45 at night. In the dark though. On the off chance that he does just crash. I'd be thrilled but I doubt that'll happen.

It's now 5:45. He got hiccups that derailed naptime, and then he wouldn't nurse them away. 

It was 5:45, now it's 8:00, I'm working on waking him up from his nap. He got crazy fussy after I started that last paragraph.  I want to make sure this is just a nap and not sleep. Because he can't sleep, we need to move him away from sleep. We need him to sleep during the night!

Sooooo it's 10PM now, he fell asleep in the carseat at 10 am, then we crashed at mom's, got some human interaction and some food, he got bad gas, woke up at 6, stayed up, we went home, and he's been napping ever since. Atta boy.

Boi will hopefully be home at midnight. Then he has tomorrow off. Wee! I think I'm going to have him take the first shift. He's screwed anyways, he works 6am Monday.

All I talk about is sleep. 

Update! He woke up for good at 1:30. Boi sent me to bed, got up a few times to help him with the crying, and then we swapped at 6. Got him to nap in the swing, but then we both crashed around 9. Woke up at 1130, woke up Boi for the game and to help me wake up Peanut so that we could continue to force awake time. It's now 2:30, the Packers are winning. Peanut has been napping again for an hour, gonna be plenty loud now in hopes he wakes up on his own. 

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

5am again

Fuck this, neither this kid nor I are ever sleeping at night again. He's been up since 1145 and it's 5 now. His longest nap was maybe 30 minutes. He's been like this since Sunday. I'm doomed.

Life at 7 Weeks

9:45 PM (Last Night) Peanut and I chill out on the couch, he has minor gas issues, doing some work
10:45 Peanut wakes up and bedtime starts, got almost as big of a smile as Boi got a week ago while giving him a massage.
11:15 Talk to Boi, he's not going to be too late so I stay up and wait
11:20 Fold laundry
11:30 Curl up on couch staring mindlessly at 'No Reservations' then an episode of 'Inuyasha' on Netflix while poking at the facebooks. Wishing I was tired enough to fall asleep or awake enough to be productive
12:30AM Boi comes home
1:00AM Go to bed
1:00-1:45 Awake listening to the loud radiator
1:45 Change a stinky diaper, Feed Peanut and lie awake for awhile listening to the radiator some more
5:00 Feed Peanut and lie awake for awhile listening to the radiator and now a snoring Boi and scratching in the walls
6:30 Boi's alarm goes off. More than once
730 Boi is gone and Peanut wakes up. Bring him to bed with me and feed him. Doze on and off while a noisy grunting baby chills out next to me who is suspicously doing a lot of coughing/sneezing
10:30 Feed Peanut, get up, put him in the swing, do morning things while he half dozes and half stares at his fish above him
11:00 Eat eggs on toast and ham (Boi got me a giant free ham) while watching 'No Reservations' on Netflix
11:15 Peanut permanently wakes up. Play with Peanut (tummy time, fish on mat)
11:30 Hoping Peanut has had enough awake time to poop if he's gonna, change him. Peanut pee's three times, but I avoid. Dress Peanut in something cute. Peanut starts spitting up clear liquid. Still sneezing and coughing. Nose looks clear though
11:40 Peanut starts pooping 
11:50 Peanut gets changed and pee's again. All over his cute outfit. Still sneezing and coughing so I decide to try to get him to sleep a lot today and put him in something warm.
12:00 Peanut gets the hiccups and I nurse them away while watching a new episode of 'No Reservations'
12:10 Put Peanut down on the couch for hopefully a nap.  He stays asleep
12:15 Start looking up possible heating repair guys while talking to Mom about getting their guy over to patch up the siding outside our bedroom. 
12:30 Eat more ham and a few oatmeal cookies and get a can of coke for headache and continued sleepiness
12:40 Start blogging and start looking for something randomish to put on. See 'Wonder Years' and figure what the heck 
12:50 Start working 
12:55 Peanut wakes up
1:00 Finish up an amazon order thats been open a few days while holding a coughing baby 
1:15 Put Peanut in his swing to watch his fish, put on the next episode, clean up kitchen/do dishes
1:25 Watch Peanut to see if he's sleepy or going to stay awake. Uncertain. Kairi starts to want attention
1:30 Attempted playtime (singing and dancing and spinning and the mirror) after downing ibuprofin for headache. Got a few semi-gummy smiles.
1:35 Take a picture of him next to a Pooh
1:40 Settle down on the couch with him on my lap after more coughing up clear liquid. Is he just becoming a drooly baby or is a symptom of being sick? He's never spat up anything but milk. Sounding a little congested.  Start new episode
1:45 Radiator goes on the fritz and give in to his his fussing and feed him
2:00 Peanut goes back into his swing, eat more ham and finish coke. Kairi goes to the window, and turn on a new episode
2:10 Peanut falls asleep in his swing, KMFX that he stays that way 
2:20 Peanut wakes up for a minute, falls back asleep. Feeling hopeful, brings work back up. 
2:25 Eyeballs again. Push swing. 
2:30 Peanut falls aleep again, will he stay that way? Start a new episode and continue working. 
2:45 Radiator makes a loud bang and Peanut wakes up again.... and falls back asleep. Phew. Get a Powerade, Kiara becomes interested in me, meowing... she better not wake him up! Sickish boys need their rest!
2:55 Next episode, Peanut wakes up again... and doesn't fall back asleep
3:00 Pause TV and take Peanut up to the bathroom so I can shower and hopefully that'll help him sleep good.
3:20 Realize the broken radiator makes the bathroom no longer a restful spot. Smell a dirty diaper, change. Skillfully avoid getting peed on
3:30 Feed him, hoping my antibodies will keep him from getting sicker.
3:45 Season 1 of Wonder Years ends. Start season 2 as Peanut sleeps on boppy. One handed interneting while he goes in and out of sleep 
4:15 Transfer Peanut to couch and go feed two annoying loud meowing cats. Peanut stays asleep, huzzah for acheiving deep sleep at last!
4:20 Collect snacks (cookies and... yeah. Ham) and more water. Call Boi and ask him to pick up some saline spray for the little guy. Start working again. 
4:25 Deep sleep didn't last long, squirming starts. Likely objecting to sleeping flat on his back. Hand on chest seems to calm
4:35 Peanut starts to fight sleep laying on his back (he dislikes it) so I transfer him into his swing. Start to watch him to see if he'll wake up or go back to sleep
4:40 Give him one last chance and turn on the fishes. He quckly zonks Start warming up a pan for pea soup
4:50 Start sauteeing onions. Peanut wakes up coughing. 
5:00 Soup bits all together and simmering, Peanut once again napping. Switch into night mode, lights on, shades drawn, fold laundry, play with the cats a little
5:25 Feed Peanut 
5:45 Peanut dozes off
6:10 Attempt to put Peanut for a nap in his crib and finish up soup
6:15 Peanut is awake and crying, singing and dancing commense! Spits up on my shirt, this time normal milky color!
6:20 Activity mat time 
6:25 Peanut becomes unconsolable
6:30 Boi calls, is headed home 
6:40 Finally accpets his nook and sleepily lays on my lap.  What was wrong, no one knows, but he's no longer coughing/sneezing and his breathing sounds better
6:50 Place Peanut in swing and put sweet potatoes in oven
6:55 Attempt to keep Peanut happy
7:15 Feed Peanut
7:20 Boi comes home 
7:30 Eat soup
7:40 Potatoes are done! Boi changes Peanut, yay!
7:45 More soup and a potato!
7:50 Back to Wonder Years and Peanut is now happy in his swing. time for chat! 
8:00 Peanut fusses up, back in my arms, attempt to finish potato.
8:02 Attempt failed, lament potatoes
8:15 Start bedtime, bathtime!
8:30 Feeding
8:45 Asleep

Pretty much a 24 hour period there. *sighs* time to relax and hope he sleeps well tonight! He's sounding and looking better than he did this morning at least, hopefully tomorrow it's the same :) Time to hopefully work and enjoy the evening!

*update* 10:45 now and he's not actually asleep yet. He just fooled us with a short nap. So much for working after he went to bed... 

*update 2* 4:00 AM now, Boi went to bed at 2, and it took an hour and a half of him laying on my chest but I finally was able to move him into his rock 'n play to sleep. Of course it's been over 2 hours now since he was last fed so who knows how long this will last. We're down in the living room, I could go upstairs to bed, but I might as well stick it out here, and hope he sleeps awhile. And when he does wake up, goes right back down. I guess if I don't update again, we were both able to finally get some sleep. 

7 Weeks Tomorrow!

Peanut is 7 weeks tomorrow! At the end of the month I'll have accurate weight and measurements! I just have to decide between now and then if I want to do the normal vaccination route or the alternate. It's not like I don't have the time to take him in for additional visits to space them out. And if you're thinking to yourself the ol' "if it worked for you/us then the normal way it will work for your kid' line. Mmhmm. Things have changed since I was a baby!

I want him to be vaxed, I want him to be protected from these things. I do think it's a little insane how much we put in their tiny little bodies. But mainly I just think it's a little insane giving him so many doses together. I had just 4 vacs together last fall, and I had crappy leg pain for a couple months. And there would be nothing the little guy could do to let me know that that was what was wrong :(

Ok, so that's all on that. Below, an even better almost rolling over video! 

I miss Boi :( He worked 15 hours last night, booo. He better come home on time tonight, but then he'll be gone before Peanut and I get up for the day tomorrow :( I spend a good chunk of my day trying to fulfill my required calories sans dairy (Soooooooooo hungry!), then over half of it entertaining Peanut or tyring to get him to nap. Whatever bits remain, I fill with work, a bit of fb, perhaps moving pics from the camera to the computer, blogging, with tv on in the background. And then once Peanut gets older I want to try to phase a lot of that tv time out. If only Boi were here, I could be a bit more lazy! Ok, the goal is more productive. At the very least the kitchen is more likely to get cleaned. Someone comes over and I'm like AWESOME here take this kid, and I'm just going to start a load of laundry :)

So I think there's a critter in the walls and/or attic. And the radiators are making different sounds. Possibly broken. The upstairs seems perpetually colder than the rest of the house as if the water isn't making it up there. It sounds kind of like a toilet up there when it's running. And every day more and more insurance claims are coming in. And I can never remember to take my vitamin. And leg raises SUCK! And I want a cookie. And cheese. But I can't have cheese for awhile. It's been awhile now that I've been strict no dairy, and the last couple days Peanut hasn't had any long painful gas episodes. So perhaps no dairy for a loooooong time. We'll see about adding it back in if I confirm later on with a giant glass of milk that it is the problem.

So someone has brought it to my attention that I post too many nice things about Peanut. So I submit example 1 of not so nice things about Peanut. When he decides that he didn't want to eat that much after all :( You guys might get a crying montage next time :P

Timeline

Born: 9/25
Came home: 10/2
First sponge bath: 10/4
Bellybutton: 10/11 
First Bath: 10/12
Held Head Up: 1o/20
First Smile: 11/3
'Rolled Over': 11/06
'Rolled Over Twice':  11/09
Stringed two vowels together: 11/10
Started intentionally using fist as comfort: 11/29
First stomach virus: 12/2

As in 'aa-oo' according to baby books, they're supposed to stick to one, and he's stringing them together. So I think that's notable! 

So he was being Mr Fussy Pants two evenings ago, so I was trying to find different things to make him happy. I thought maybe I could convince him to nap on his belly in his crib. INSTEAD HE ROLLED OVER! I cheered for him, then flipped him back over to try the nap again (happy but tired with him at this point) AND HE DID IT AGAIN! So now I'm pretty darn excited, repeat rolling over? I ran downstairs to grab the camera, came back up, and he wouldn't do it again, but he tried. He was jabbering pretty good though, the video doesn't do the jabbering justice though.

Yesterday was date night! I started off with a nice nap when Boi took Peanut down to the living room when he woke up. Then I went in for my final appointment, I'm apparently healing beautifully and now I must do 10 leg raises a day. They hurt, but oh well, will do. No pain no healing. Or less healing I suppose. Then Boi continued to take point on Peanut all day, enabling me to lounge around. It felt gooooooood!

Then Mom came over and watched Peanut while Boi and I went out for dinner and a movie. I drank two alabama slammers (mmmmmmmmmmm) and ate a big ol' new york strip steak. I'm just doing it for Peanut! He needs more iron! Then we went and watched Puss in Boots. It was cute, but definitely no Shrek. Swung by the grocery store quick for more gatorade and then went back home. And snuggled with my little boy :) It was a fantastic day off that ended with Peanut sleeping for 5 hours straight :D Too bad we stayed up for 2 of them figuring he'd be up as usual, but he wasn't. Oh well :) He still did it which means he's capable of doing it! Now was it natural or was it the oz of formula/bm slushie we gave him before bed that was leftover from earlier. It did calm him down if nothing else so he could enjoy our bedtime routine a little bit more.

Either way, it was a good day.

He's been a good boy today, he's allowed me to get some work done, do some cooking. Boi got me a giant cooked ham, so I made pea soup. I need to think of other things, other than like, a sandwich. I also need to cook that pumpkin somehow. There we go, time to go think/research and get some more work done before he wakes up.

Holy Growth Batman

So yeah, I'm tired, but I wanted to share this. The day we brought him home (1 week) to the other day at 6 weeks. He's bursting out! He didn't even fit that great the first week so we had to pad the straps a bit!

Aww look at that cute orange pacifier... Jed ate it.

Peanut met his other Grandpa today, and proceeded to sleep most of the day. I got ... well it didn't feel like much done. Maybe I just got a lot of 'soaking in the peace' done. 

36ish more hours until my last appointment. And also Boi's day off. Maybe we can make it a date night! Oooo I'm gonna start planning this! Speaking of Boi, here's some daddy son bonding time!

4-6 Week Growth Spurt!

Looks like Peanut had his growth spurt, hoping that's why he was so inconsolable for me this week. I had him on my lap on a pillow, suspected he was longer than he ought to be since his feet weren't on the pillow, so we stretched him out best we could, and came up with 22 inches :) So he's grown about an inch, give or take, in the last week. I'd be fussy too! I guess that means that the two tiniest newborn outfits that barely fit him last week are now down for the count (striped monkey and the light blue sweet little boy). I'll put him in the other newborn one today and see how that one still fits.

After the couple super awful nights of sleep for me, I went ahead and took a Tylenol PM. Bad Mom! I know, but the interwebs indicated that the main problem with the sleepy part of it was it decreased supply, so it was one of those ok in moderation things. So taking it one night isn't the end of the world. And it totally sucked getting up to feed him that night, but so worth it in the end. I slept like a champ, I've slept great (for me at least) since. I typically sleep like crap when I haven't slept, so I guess for me just like Peanut, sleep begets sleep. And he's slept ok, 4, 1, 2, 3 the night after the last post, then like 3, 1, 2, 3 or something the night after.

Not sure why both nights he only managed one hour after the first stretch. And the last few times I swaddled him for bed, he had his swaddle half off and uncomfortably close to covering up his face. And with the one I was using he basically can not move his right arm at all so it was impressive of him to manage it. So I've decided to just stop swaddling him. I was on the fence about whether it was really helping him sleep better/longer anyways. Plus if he can move his hands, he could possibly manage to get a hand in his mouth and comfort himself back to sleep. 

LAST NIGHT THOUGH, I so wish there was an easy way to just know. I had my first glass of milk last night since I cut out dairy a few weeks ago. And he was up EVERY HOUR last night with gas. Was it random? Was it the milk? And he couldn't get himself to sleep after 6 so I gave Boi the big eyes and he got up to try to calm him down. As long as he doesn't work early I don't feel too bad giving him the big eyes. He can sleep whenever however, and once I'm up, naps are near impossible, so it's better for me to stay in bed and keep sleeping, and send him to bed once minimum sleep has been achieved by me. Speaking of which, I need to go wake him up and start his lunch.

Done! So yeah, sleep. It's all about sleep. If I just drink mainly water, it'll be cheaper at least, and cutting out dairy in might make weight loss easier. And then in general, making sure he sleeps in different positions, making sure he isn't always falling asleep while nursing so he learns he can also just fall asleep in his rock 'n play... hoping he doesn't become too dependent on just me singing/rocking/nursing him. Mainly for my own sanity. Because that was the only way he'd sleep for me, aside from a car ride, those couple super fussy days this week. When he would sleep that is.

Oh yeah, and enjoy the halloween pics. Managed to get a couple cute/interesting ones out of him yesterday!

Operation No Crib!

Ok, so, crib is going to have to wait. His grunting syndrome is much much worse when he's flat on his back, so the plan has been altered to him sleeping in his own room, but in his rock 'n play. He's elevated in it. So I'm trying to put him down for naps laying down flat on his back so he doesn't become too dependent on the elevated position... but alas today that backfired on me. Every time I'd put him down, he'd slip into a light sleep, but wake up 5 minutes later. After being awake for 3.5 hours and now being completely inconsolable, I packed him in the car for a drive to grandma's, taking all back roads so he'd be sure to be asleep upon arrival. Then after they kindly fed me, I woke him up, nursed him, packed him back in the car to sleep. He's still sleeping actually, heh. I finally got to that pile of laundry, got some work done, played with the cats, and other random things I've been ignoring.

No nap though :/ While last night was better, he slept... ignoring feedings, 10-1, 1-3, 3-4, 4-7. I slept... well, tiny chunks. Itty bitty bits. Actually I slept the best around 8 when I came upstairs from trying to nap on the couch and curled up with Boi. Of course if I had tried that earlier it likely wouldn't have worked. Or so I'm telling myself. 

We didn't really get any good Halloween shots. So tomorrow or Friday (depending on my energy) I'll likely try to reproduce it. What's a few days, right? Unless Mom and Dad managed to get some good ones, we tried some different poses, but all mine turned out blah.

So I declared on Saturday he could hold his head up properly. Nice and steady, not forever, but if he's resting comfortably on my chest he can raise his head up to gaze at me for quite a while now, without his head bobbing around. Of course then the next time he picks it up it falls towards my shoulder :D but I have to imagine it's pretty tired from impressing me at that point. He's also trying to hold his head up when he's awake during burpings. That is quite annoying because unless he burps quickly, at some point I know it's going to crash in some direction so I have to multitask to keep him safe. But I let him anyways, to become nice and strong! (Video evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Wv_S0Wcts )

Ok, so I mentioned something about monthly pics. These were my two ideas - for the life of me I couldn't get him to FACE THE CAMERA but the face one is cute anyways. So we'll have a years worth of pics of his head. Then a monthly one with him on the chair. We'll see how long I can keep up with these :)

https://picasaweb.google.com/112061147386819194738/MonthlyPics

Oh, other milestones! So yeah, clearly he's rocking the head thing, and he's been tracking things since we brought him home. He has no problem looking me in the eye. Hand-eye coordination is awesome, I'm still working on getting a good video of him on his mat, but he's now a pro at grabbing onto hair and shirts. I think that's all the milestones. He has no desire to try to roll over or anything, but that'd be waaay advanced.

Oh also, I think he's growing more hair :) his upper forehead is feeling rougher, and I see little hairs. I hope it's hair and not like cradle cap or something that's making it rough. Let's stay positive!

I think that's it with the updates.