I admit that life has gotten quite crazy in the last few weeks son. I feel as if I'm neglecting this blog and losing precious memories of you in this crazy, chaotic, sleepless life. You've been awfully clingly and cranky lately so much of my time has been spent sitting on the couch rocking you or pacing the floor to calm you down. Although it's stressful for me to not be able to get much housework or play time in with your sissy during the day, I know I won't regret the time I spend cuddling you. The nursery is halfway finished, I have bows laying half completed in every nook and crannie of the house and laundry piling sky high, but I love that you need me so much right now. I just wish it wasn't at the expense of your happiness. You've changed so much in the few weeks since I wrote. You're changing everyday and becoming such a handsome little man.
Feeding: We have officially made the switch to soy. You've been on it for a couple weeks now. Your tummy seems to be thanking us. You no longer spit up with every feeding and you seem to be less gassy. I dreaded the switch to soy because I know with your sisters the soy made them very constipated. Week after week I would try to weigh the pros and the cons of making the switch until finally your tummy troubles outweighed the problems we would have with constipation. You were fine for the first two days, keeping very regular. By the third day you were having a hard time going and were having to push super hard. It breaks my heart to watch you turn super red, latch onto my shirt as you bare down and scream out in pain and struggle to go. At your two month check up the doctor suggested we add one ounce of water to your 4 oz 2 scoop bottles. The idea is to just add extra liquid to your stools. Exciting right? Our other option was to try giving you one ounce of prunce juice mixed with one ounce of water. Neither seems to be working exceptionally well but you are going now without the screaming and tears so we'll take what little relief it seems to be offering. At your appointment on the 23rd (9 weeks old) you weighed 14lbs 4 oz and were 25 inches long. All those late night feedings are doing you good. You are a BIG boy!
Sleeping/Awake Time: You have finally started sleeping thru the night! Tuesday the 24th was the first time I had slept longer then 4 hours in months. I awoke feeling like a new woman and a better Mommy. You seem to sleep better when I have all the lights out in the room. No TV. No nightlight. Just darkness. Oh, and you still love to be swaddled. Add onto that a full belly and a dry diaper we've got a baby who will sleep 6-8 hours straight. Sleeping during the day seems to be a totally different story. You have started only napping for 10-15 minutes at a time. And most times you'll only fall asleep on Mommy or Daddy's chest. I'm worried we're starting bad habits with you and now that you're almost 2.5 months I'm going to work on establishing some sort of routine for naps. Our house is always quite noisey so I may start laying you down for naps upstairs in your room. Lately we've been thinking that you may have colic. It has been quite stressful on the whole family. I hate to see you cry, but those cranky times make your happy times all the more exciting. Your happy now means smiling, cooing and laughing. You're becoming quite social. If anyone talks and smiles at you you smile right back at them. You are however quite stingy with the smiles when I take out the camera. You're very intrigued by it and everytime I try to take a picture of you smiling you stop smiling and concentrate on the camera. It drives Mommy crazy! I go nuts trying to get your attention and make you smile again. We've started using your bumbo. At your two month check up your doctor noticed a flat spot on the right side of your head. He suggested we do things to avoid having you lay on that side. I figure some time in the bumbo will help strengthen your neck muscles and give that flat spot a break. You've also been doing some tummy time to work your neck muscles too. Generally you will happily lay on your tummy for about 3 minutes. Any longer then that and you fuss. Several times you've gotten so annoyed being on your tummy that you've pushed and rolled yourself over onto your back.
Diapering: My chubba wubba! You are now almost 11 weeks and wearing size 2 diapers. When you were in the hospital at 6 weeks they gave me a pack of size 2 Pampers. At the time you were still fitting nicely in size 1's but we were running close to the end of the pack. Once those ran out I didn't want to chance buying another pack of size 1's and have them be too small before we could use them all so up a size you went.
Clothing: You are officially out of size 0-3 months clothes. I look at them and you look huge in comparison. Are you really growing that quickly?! I returned a few sleepers that Nana bought you and bought a couple Carter's size 6 months onesies and matching pants sets. They fit you perfectly. You now only have 5 spring outfits to wear. I refuse to buy another whole winter/spring wardrobe for you with this crazy weather. In no time you'll be out of 3-6 months clothes and into 6-9 months. In fact I worry that I'll be buying another summer wardrobe before the summer heat leaves PA.
Bathtime: Up until you're very last bath I would've said you hated it. Everytime I lay you down in the tub you cry. I usually spend about 2 minutes trying to calm you with no luck and then I give up, scrub you up quickly and take you out. This past bath I calmed you down and you smiled. You actually smiled. Then you actually started playing. You were using your legs to push up off the bottom of tub and slide yourself around. It was so cute.
Jackson, my Mommy guilt is at an all time high right now. Even though I'm enjoying your new little personality I'm struggling with your bouts of crying. I'm not afraid to admit that I have once had to swaddle you and lay you in your crib upstairs. I turned down the volume on the monitor and watched to make sure you were ok. You only cried for 1-2 minutes and then fell asleep. It killed my spirit to admit defeat and lay you there but we both needed a break. These days you and your sister are enjoying tag teaming me. I find myself telling you both more and more often that I only have two hands. I just can't be with both babies at once. I hope that this is teaching you patience but it breaks my heart to not be able to jump to your every want and need. Your sister has become a handful in the past few weeks. She needs me to discipline her as soon as she does something naughty and this sometimes means having to stop in the middle of feeding you to put her into time out or correct her. I know someday this hard work and consistency will pay off but it's hard. One day when you're a Daddy to two you will understand. I love you baby boy.
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