12 Weeks Old


This weekend we went camping up in the Dells and had a blast. My Dad's side family reunion is up there every year for Labor Day. It's so much fun. I can't wait to show you the pictures of us all and that wasn't even half of us. I'll do a post on our normal blog about that. Check back there later.

Here's everything that Lee's been up to:

He is starting to get his bottom 2 teeth. I can see them under his gums. I have no idea how long it will be until he gets them in, but whenever he is fussy if I stick my finger in his mouth and he chomps away on it (along with drooling all over).

He's been very focused on us when we are eating and staring at our mouths. It's like he's studing to learn what to do.

He had a doctors appointment last Friday and he weighed in at 12lb 13oz and was 24 inches long. He was perfectly healthy and the doctor called him muscles because of his head control. He does awesome at holding up his head now.

He changed his schedule again a bit. Here is what we are doing this week, wake up 7-8am, eats usually 5-6oz, naps only half-hour to an hour about 4 times a day and then gets his last bottle at 7:30pm to be in bed by 8pm. He will then sleep to about 4am eat really quickly and right back to sleep again. He sleeps really good now.

He is not really fussy anymore in the evening either. He is doing really good with entertaining himself more. He is also talking like crazy. He coos non-stop.

Lee's been trying to roll over more too. He will get frustrated when he wants to be on his tummy or on his back but doesn't know quite how to get there. He's rolled over from tummy to back 4 times now but we have only seen him do it once. That was today :)

It's amazing how much he changes from week to week, he's growing so fast. It's cute because Steve has always taken care of Lee, but now that Lee is more interactive (smiling, cooing and following your voice) he is always so excited to get home and be with him. It's amazing for me to see. He's such a good Dad!

Almost 11 weeks old

We had Lee's 2 month check up today and he was 12lb 13oz and 24inches in length. He also got 3 shots and a booster drop thingie. He screamed poor guy, it was horrible. If you didn't know, I will do anything to avoid shots all together. So I didn't like him getting them. We came home and he slept some, then was pretty fussy for the rest of the night.



Other than that, he rolled over for the first time yesterday! I think it was a total fluke thing, but hopefully he starts doing it more often soon. I didn't see it, I had my back turned, and when I looked at him again he was on his back (he was laying on his stomach). He's doing really good laying on his tummy. He will only lay there for about 3 minutes at a time, then he starts to hate it. He also started noticing his feet yesterday too. He was sitting on the couch and was playing with his hands and kicked his foot. Well, then his focus was on his one foot. He started kicking and kicking it. His feet were all over the place. He then fell over and it ended :)


He has been smiling SO much more and also cooing more! He has started smiling at strangers now too. When Brooke was here with her 2 year old Aimee, he would smile at them all the time too.

We had a blast having Brooke and Aimee here. Brooke bought me a starter kit to start a scrapbook for Lee. It had everything from stickers, tons of paper, letters, blank pages, and sheet protectors. It is SO cute, and so boy! I think when I get a few more pages done, I will take pictures and post them so you can see. So while Brooke was here we scrapbooked a lot and she helped me start Lee's book. We also went to Brookfield Zoo last Friday. It was really hot and crowded but we had fun!

I keep trying to get a picture of Lee smiling, but everytime I hold up the camera, he is more interested in the camera than smiling. So here are a few attempts at me trying to get him smiling. I hid the camera and then popped it out when he smiled. So they are kinda blurry.

Week 9

Well, Lee is officially 2 months old. He's getting bigger and bigger every day.

This week was the first time I noticed Lee watching his hands. He has this look of "what are those?". It's really cute. The first time I caught him doing it, I took a video.



So funny, he cracks me up!! He's getting to be much better in the evenings and is starting to sooth himself a little bit. He has this cry that's "i'm bored" instead of his normal wailing. I think he's starting to differenciate between bordum/tired and hunger/pain. Otherwise, it's me that noticing a difference in his cries.

Still not feeling that great...
Yesterday Lee was acting very strange. First off, he slept from 9pm to 6am straight through. Not a bad thing, but it was 9 hours so I thought he would be starving. I try and feed him and he would only take 2oz. He's been taking 5-6oz usually. He was also acting like it was hurting him to eat. Now that I think about it, it's more like I think he was too tired to eat. He feel asleep again somewhere between 6:30 - 6:45am and slept til 9:30am. I made another bottle thinking, "Ok, now he's gotta be starving", but nope, he only ate 1oz. He fell asleep again at 10am. He then slept till 1:45pm. He took 3oz. at 2pm but it was a fight with him. I called the pediatrition and she had us come in just to make sure. We went and she couldn't find anything wrong. He didn't have a fever and was acting normal for her. So she said that he probably has a virus and to watch for a fever. We came home and he slept and slept a bunch more. He was really cranky when he was awake too.

Today seems a little better, he's more content and not crabby, but he's still not his normal self. He just ate 3oz. So at least he's taking in more fluid.