Overall Jake is a very chill kid unless he feels strongly about something in which case he will def share his opinions and make himself heard. A lot of the time he is content to lay in his crib/sit in his bouncy chair or swing on his own, but if he ever gets fussy he's instantly happy again if held.
-He's super good at tracking things with his eyes now. My favorite is standing above his crib and making sure his eyes are locked on me and then walking past him and watching him follow me with his eyes and not only that but tilt his head as far back as he can to keep following me-it's so cute.
-He's definitely socially smiling back at us now. His smile when fully unleashed is ridiculously cute. I like to think that I can be a firm parent when need be but if he hits me with that I'm not so sure anymore...
-he's cooing and making fun lil vocal noises that are so adorable-mostly vowels, but last night he totally said: "oguh" our first consonant, pretty cool :)
-He's been holding his head up really good for a long time now while we hold him without supporting him etc and turns his head back and forth looking around. He's getting better at tummy time but still doesn't like it for longer than 15 min or so
-He started sucking his hands a lot lately and most recently his thumb-it was so cute to see him actually sucking his thumb like a big kid (I was a thumb sucker) tho we'll prolly introduce the pacifier now...as they say "it's easier to ween a kid off of a pacifier than a thumb" plus our pediatrician said he prefers pacifiers to letting kids suck fingers-messes with their teeth less in the future. I've been putting it off since I was trying to get jacob and breast feeding figured out but he's been good for a month now so I figure he'll be fine.
-He sleeps pretty good-hasnt' slept straight through yet, but sleeps a 4 hour stint, then a 3, then a 2 and by then it's 7/8 am haha.
------Ok the dreaded dr appointment:----------
so Jacob is 23 1/4 in (grew 3 in since birth) and is in the 63% in height, 10 lbs 14 oz (the dr said if he had had a BM/wet diaper before coming (which he did) then he's prolly more around 11 lbs haha) and is in the 30%. I was slightly concerned by this but Dr K didn't seem phased in the least so I guess he's just small yet healthy :) and his head is in the 50%. Jacob was so cute and cooed and smiled at the dr etc.
Then the nurse came in...Jacob got three shots in his cute chubby thighs and it was so sad watching the pain register on his face-his eyes got all big and then his face went red and then the screaming started. I felt sooo bad. He sort of calmed down after I held him for a few minutes and once we got rolling in the stroller out to the car he calmed down completely. He's been crabby this evening but nothing that has driven us to tylenol-our dr said we could give him 1/2 a tsp if we need to. We'll see how he does...code and I are both really tired tho so we may not have tons of patience for crabbiness later in the night so we may just turn to the tylenol if he keeps it up.
I just have to say it sucks watching your cute baby who is so content and trusting looking at you with the saddest face...I felt so guilty, it made me want to cry but I stayed strong.
Happy 2 months jaker breaker-don't be too mad at us!
He was moving around so much he eventually touched and smudged the picture on the ipad haha
You can see two of his three bandaids above :(
the blur!
cheese!
Is it just me ...or do his eyes seem darker in these latest pics? Maybe it's just the lighting. Hope he feels better and has a good night.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates! Cute pics!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's just the pics in the lighting- he still has blue eyes :)
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