Week 24
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Nate has been kind of wild fun in the last week. His favorite game right now is 'bounce-a-baby', where he gets bounced on the bed. Rob can make him cackle by eating his belly (and this kid is weird - he likes to almost literally be bitten, it cracks him up). He loves to shake noisy rattles. He's really into his jumperoo and loves to make it swing and bounce, and last night was the first time I watched him play with the spinny toys. Every day he is more and more aware of what's going on.
This week he started stretching out his arms for people he wants. Mostly for my dad! He loves my dad's mustache and that he sings to him and makes funny faces and noises. My father has basically no dignity when it comes to this kid, and it's hilarious to watch. My mom is also a goof, but far more reserved compared to him. He also LOVES my parents' dog, and will reach for her and start grinning and cackling when she comes near. Fortunately, Maddie is patient and doesn't mind having her hair tugged. This is a great difference from our cats, who Nate is really into watching, but who only tolerate being near him if Rob forces them (and he does force them).
Nate is definitely mobile now. He's been rolling around for a while, but now he'll lift up on his hands and reach for what he wants, sometimes quite a ways away. If he can't get it, he'll inchworm his way across the room. The entire room. Sometimes it's an amusing inchworm/rolling combination. He's starting to show real preferences and choices, which kind of blows my mind. There's a real live human being with things he likes and doesn't like in there!
We're trying to cut back on pacifier use because he'd gotten a little too used to it, and I think it is helping his sleep a little. Sleep is largely the same - I'm out of bed about three times a night, twice for a pacifier and once to feed. For a while the pacifier trips were taking longer as he was still fussing and losing it again, etc, which is why I want to try less pacifier during the day. He's generally happy with it, it's just a huge DROOL issue.
I packed away his 3-6 month clothing and got out his 9-12 months. Which is the last size I have completely bought ahead. He's still in 6-9 months, so we have probably 2-3 months before I'm in trouble, and I'm hitting a clothing swap and a consignment sale before then. I'm going to have to start planning some for-real Once Upon a Child trips, though.
I seriously don't know how people afford to clothe babies in new clothing. He grows so fast and is often in two outfits a day! He's hovering at somewhere between 20.5 and 21 lbs now and I'm pretty sure he's put on several inches. We'll get weighed and measured for real in two weeks.
We finally stopped with the open-bottomed sleepy gowns last week as the evenings started to get cooler, so now he's in footie pajamas at night (and often during the day), as well as his sleep blanket. I need to get some larger sleep blankets, too. His sleeping gear when it gets really cold in the winter and we keep the bedrooms closed while we heat with the fireplace and it's 62 in there is a thing I haven't figured out yet. We may just buy a space heater, IDK.
Nate turns 6 months a week from today, which is impossible to believe. We have his 6 month appointment a week after that, and then we'll be starting solid foods. That high chair that's packed away because 'we won't need it for forever'... we need.
CRAZY.
Nate has been kind of wild fun in the last week. His favorite game right now is 'bounce-a-baby', where he gets bounced on the bed. Rob can make him cackle by eating his belly (and this kid is weird - he likes to almost literally be bitten, it cracks him up). He loves to shake noisy rattles. He's really into his jumperoo and loves to make it swing and bounce, and last night was the first time I watched him play with the spinny toys. Every day he is more and more aware of what's going on.
This week he started stretching out his arms for people he wants. Mostly for my dad! He loves my dad's mustache and that he sings to him and makes funny faces and noises. My father has basically no dignity when it comes to this kid, and it's hilarious to watch. My mom is also a goof, but far more reserved compared to him. He also LOVES my parents' dog, and will reach for her and start grinning and cackling when she comes near. Fortunately, Maddie is patient and doesn't mind having her hair tugged. This is a great difference from our cats, who Nate is really into watching, but who only tolerate being near him if Rob forces them (and he does force them).
Nate is definitely mobile now. He's been rolling around for a while, but now he'll lift up on his hands and reach for what he wants, sometimes quite a ways away. If he can't get it, he'll inchworm his way across the room. The entire room. Sometimes it's an amusing inchworm/rolling combination. He's starting to show real preferences and choices, which kind of blows my mind. There's a real live human being with things he likes and doesn't like in there!
We're trying to cut back on pacifier use because he'd gotten a little too used to it, and I think it is helping his sleep a little. Sleep is largely the same - I'm out of bed about three times a night, twice for a pacifier and once to feed. For a while the pacifier trips were taking longer as he was still fussing and losing it again, etc, which is why I want to try less pacifier during the day. He's generally happy with it, it's just a huge DROOL issue.
I packed away his 3-6 month clothing and got out his 9-12 months. Which is the last size I have completely bought ahead. He's still in 6-9 months, so we have probably 2-3 months before I'm in trouble, and I'm hitting a clothing swap and a consignment sale before then. I'm going to have to start planning some for-real Once Upon a Child trips, though.
I seriously don't know how people afford to clothe babies in new clothing. He grows so fast and is often in two outfits a day! He's hovering at somewhere between 20.5 and 21 lbs now and I'm pretty sure he's put on several inches. We'll get weighed and measured for real in two weeks.
We finally stopped with the open-bottomed sleepy gowns last week as the evenings started to get cooler, so now he's in footie pajamas at night (and often during the day), as well as his sleep blanket. I need to get some larger sleep blankets, too. His sleeping gear when it gets really cold in the winter and we keep the bedrooms closed while we heat with the fireplace and it's 62 in there is a thing I haven't figured out yet. We may just buy a space heater, IDK.
Nate turns 6 months a week from today, which is impossible to believe. We have his 6 month appointment a week after that, and then we'll be starting solid foods. That high chair that's packed away because 'we won't need it for forever'... we need.
CRAZY.