Last Friday morning our (then) 10 week old rolled over twice!
Unfortunately I was too enthralled with him to catch it on video...and then when I tried that little boy was too tuckered out from all his hard work to do it again. Of course it has not happened since then, but he has gotten VERY VERY close.
He is a strong little monkey and when your holding him against your chest, be careful you might end up getting a head butt from him as he loves to lift his head and hold it up for as long as he can...then bonk-it'll hit your chin, cheek, etc.
Lately he's LOVING bath time...which is awesome because it's still our favorite night. We may sound crazy but there is something so fun about getting that little guy nakey and tag-teaming his bath time. He just lays there while we "ooh" and "awe" over him...and then he pees. Yep, duh! That warm water is bound to get a pee out of him during some point of the bath. Blake and I have a great routine down so it makes it so much fun and we can typically guess the moment he is about to pee and cover up! Plus, we are loving family dance "parties" right now and will often dance around the kitchen before the bath-or any other time for that matter. :) Who doesn't love to dance to some good tunes? Surely not us!
Last week he started sleeping about 6 hour stretches through the night. What a special treat that is for mommy! He eats his last around 10-10:30 goes down after that and then wakes up around 5. I'm still loving our 5am feeds when the world around us is still sleeping. That feeding is such sweet time with him when I can pray over him and just soak in the peacefully silence with our precious angel. Really any feeding time is so sweet, he is eating every 2.5-3hrs during the day, a great eater and I know I am beyond blessed (after talking to other moms and him being a preemie) that breastfeeding has been such a breeze. We also know that it is the BEST medicine for him during this cold and flu season. He is building up any immunity I can pass to him, decreasing his risk for allergies and asthma (or the severity of them-which is good since severe asthma and allergies run on my side of the family).
He loves his play mat and I call all the animals his "friends," they have all been named and have different voices to talk to him in too ;) yep, you'd love to be a fly on the wall in this house during the day...this mama is VERY goofy, making up voices, songs, singing my prayers, etc. We have lots of fun...let's be serious, you have to incorporate some sort of fun in the day when your days seem to be like groundhogs day-feed, play, sleep (for him), change a diaper, feed, play, sleep(for him), change a diaper, feed...well you get the point.
He is officially in size 1 diapers. Wearing some newborn clothes still...most 0-3 month clothes are still too big but work (that just means he'll be able to wear them longer right? ;))
I believe this little guy is going to have the sweetest personality. He isn't a talker like his mom...he is sweet, tender, and ALL boy--more like his dad. He is only loud when it comes to that boy stuff-grunting, pooping, and tooting. But he is just a snuggle bug with the sweetest demeanor. Still VERY rarely crying or fussy. Anyone can hold him and he doesn't fuss. Kenzie can bump into his swing and he doesn't cry. She can also lick his face and it doesn't phase him. He LOOOOOVVVVEEEESSSS music, thus why we started the dance parties. He's already two-stepped, waltzed, junior high sway danced and tango'd with his mama. If he gets fussy during a diaper change-just make up a tune and wa-la, it's magic, he just stops and focuses on your voice. Often I can't think of any tune so we still sing Christmas carols quite often or I rely on Pandora to play him some good ole Texas country (which he really likes...really).
He also does really good with and without his passy. During the day I sometimes use it for naps and car rides but we don't put him to bed with it. When he does have it it's really quite funny how he seems to "hold" onto it. Here is a precious picture of a homemade passy plug-it was a night I was trying to get dinner ready and play with him...he tuckered himself out and every time the passy came out of his mouth he'd wake up...so I decided to use Sophie, the giraffe, to keep his "plug" in.
At our last community group some of our best friends daughter, Annie, saw me burping Hatch and she decided to pick up her baby doll and burp her doll. She is SO smart and even more precious (too bad you can't see her face in this pic). So we decided to have her help me burp Hatch. She is one EXCELLENT burper! Hatch let out a BIG one :) It was one of the most precious moments and will be so fun to show them the picture of it as they get older (they are only 15 months apart)
We have lots of red things he was given for Christmas that didn't fit him then & are still a bit big...but we are making them work!
On another note...Blake is building a shed in our backyard. Yes HE is building it. Super impressive Hubs that I have! He is about halfway done already (he did have a couple of work friends help him out this past weekend) so I'll post some pics next time!
xoxo
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