The week in review...Aug 26th thru Sept 3rd, 2010

I can fold my hands now!

We noticed a lot of changes in William this week. For one thing, his eyes are definitely changing color...it's just a question of what color they'll be. I think I see gold specs, meaning perhaps brown, but Chris swears green, while others still think gray or blue. Personally I don't see a lot of blue in them anymore. :-(

Last week he turned five months old! (Adjusted age of three months and two weeks old)


He also attended his first live music experience at The Greene, to Funky G playing jazz music. It was a little warm but sunny and he seemed to enjoy the music.

(Sorry the video is sideways, my bad...)

In other news, William has begun to really concentrate on playing with toys, especially his crawl-ball, which moves, talks and lights up when he touches it. He'll spend up to 20 minutes laying down playing with it, or sitting up with my or Chris's help.

We also noticed he's starting to spread his hands and fingers out instead of always clinching his fists...
He rolls over all the time, sometimes having a little difficulty rolling back to his back, but if I don't watch him, in a second, he'll roll right off that mat! Also Pippin sometimes forgets that he doesn't like William all that much. He still doesn't like to be touched by William, but he did sniff him a bit yesterday and posed for this picture at his own free will!
William also stands up, assisted, all the time now, almost holds his head up without any wobbles, laughs daily and smiles all the time. Another new thing is his ability to hold weight up on his arms, this was something he was really far behind on, but finally started to do this week!

He always has time to make goofy faces and pose for pictures with mom...
I'm also happy to report that his hair is FINALLY growing back in and it appears to be growing in very light blond! Wheew!
And lastly, it was exactly one year ago today, at this time (3:00PM EST), that I discovered that after two and a half years of trying and four years of planning, I was finally pregnant! A year later I find myself offering my son a teething ring, we think he may be cutting his first tooth ;-)

The week in review, Aug 13th thru Aug 23rd, 2010

We had to take William back to Dayton Children's last week to see a GI specialist. He now weighs 11 lb, 10 oz and is 24 inches long. He's also now on Previcid but I think his gas is actually worse. He's only slept through the night two times in the last two weeks. One night he was up all night with horrible gas, poor fella. All I can do is hold him and put him to breast to ease his suffering some, he'll eventually fall asleep but I usually can't.

We had a diaper mishap at 3am. I changed his diaper and he decided to pee and it got in his EYE, his ear, his mouth, and all over what remains of his hair. I had to go clean out the sink and give him a 3am bath, poor little fella...then I watched The Secret Lives of Pippa Lee on the couch while he slowly fell back to sleep. The movie was really good but I'd preferred to not have a 'spa' day during the witching hour.

I baked another cake and did better on the decorating. I'm practicing for his baptism party and thanks to Heather I'm getting a little better. Mom sent William a special bib for his baptism and Chris and I went and got a bunch of Tiffany Blue and Chocolate colored items for the party. We got plastic wine glasses, plates, napkins, table clothes, forks and some decoration items. Still don't have a head count to order the food, but we decided to have a sandwich platter, meat platter, veggie platter and fried chicken platter, along with the baked goods...and I hope they turn out 'good'! LOL!

True, nearly all of his hair fell out but it's growing back in. It appears to be blond still, which is good. Some days his eyes are blue-gray, some days, blue-green.

He now rolls over all the time. I lay him in his crib or pack n' play on his back, a minute later, he's on his side or belly!

He can't sit up but he can be propped up, and is holding his head better.

He also started to put weight on his shoulders while doing tummy time finally!

He now really likes to reach for his toys and can grab them too.




He smiles all the time and has laughed a little in the last week. He loves music! He always smiles and 'talks' when he hears music. This week I took him to The Greene at night for the first time and he loved to see all the pretty lights and listen to the live music. He was great at dinner and actually let me eat!

It was a nice Ladies Night Out...with my wee-one, and we were all happy he was so good, he and I just held hands while I ate and chatted with the other mama's.

In other news, he also stands up all the time, assisted, and even takes steps! (Assisted)

We theorize since his upper body strength is weak that he'll skip crawling perhaps and just go right into walking, his legs are so strong.

We took some 'artsy fartsy' pix this week, and pix to profile the new 'chubs' he's slowly acquiring.

Also took some pix with the pup's, this is NEVER easy to do!



William and I spent a nice morning at the La Leche picnic at a lovely park with a lake! I learned new sling positions and took some great pictures of him out in the sun. Chris and I also went and got some fleece for a new winter sling! JoAnn's had a GREAT sale! 2.5 yards for $10!

There's always time to take and make really goofy pictures with no real purpose other than to laugh...

He's having a bit of a nursing strike this week, but nothing we can't manage. I'm not sure why he's having a strike, could be overactive let down, or my low supply....after he fusses for a while he'll latch back on.

He continues to sleep with his eyes open a lot of the time, and I noticed, he only smiles to me and Chris, not to strangers....I guess that means he likes us huh? ;-)

The week in review...Aug 6 thru Aug 13th, 2010

Big week of firsts! Yeah, he laughed for the first time last week, but this week I caught his laughter on video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghzJiQJlbo

For the first time in over a month, he's sleeping through the night....again! He goes down on his own between 9-10pm and sleeps straight until 5-6am...around that time he gets cranky because of gas, so I breastfeed on my side and we stay in bed until 7 or 8am.

He can almost hold up his head, he's really behind on this. He's 3 months old, adjusted, and should be holding it up...but he's doing so much better.

Today he put weight on his arms for the first time! Of course I had to help, I propped him like that, but he maintained that position for a little while.

On Friday, he just felt like posing for many 'posed' pictures...

We love his eyes! Hope they stay this lovely shade of blue and green!

He now smiles all the time and laughs almost daily! Not sure what's so funny though....he seems to think my singing is funny.....Hmmmf!

He really grabs onto his 'links' now and loves to play with them. This week he started to nap...thank God....and he does so in the pack-n-play or the swing, two places he never dared to rest before.

His baptism outfit arrived! And as I knew it would be, it's way too large, but it's the smallest size they had. He has a month to grow into it some.

He appears to have not grown much in length to me, but is plumping some now. He will see a GI Specialist at Dayton Children's next week and he'll be weighed then. We visited the place he called home for the first month of his life this week for feeding therapy. All is well, and he got to ride in a wagon!

He chit-chats all the time these days. He can sit and play with links or suck on his fingers for longer chunks of time now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9T0yroSD0

My LLL meeting went well, except the AC wasn't working and it was 102929 degrees inside. William and I attended a baptism party for Corinne at Heather's house, William got to be around other babies close to his age. We went to her house again for a play date later in the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5eVwMMb1c

The 'four month old' family photo

On Saturday he and I spent a day together, just us, hanging out. We went to a few shops and then the mall for a few hours. I bought him this hat at Old Navy, it has ears!

He sometimes holds up his own bottle!

He can now roll from his back to his belly! He loves to sleep in this position now