Six Months! Seven Months!

Well I said it in my last post, I was the next to get sick.  January was full of the sickies in this house so I never got around to writing a six month post.  Sorry, Felix!  I will just combine six with seven this time.

Felix at 6 months, in my favorite jammies.  There is a reindeer on the butt!

Mr. Seven Months Old (the onesie says "I'm a keeper")

About a week before Felix turned six months, we started feeding him oatmeal.  He liked it!  I had read a lot and the new thinking is that you don't need to start your baby on rice cereal anymore.  Heck, there is an entire movement called "baby led weaning" where you don't feed the baby any cereal or purees at all.  They get table food straight from the beginning.  Everyone said that rice cereal tasted like cardboard so we decided to go wiht oatmeal instead.  It was important to me that Felix was exclusively breastfed for the first six months.  After a couple of weeks on oatmeal alone, we added in some carrots.  He seems to like carrots, too.  Since then, he has had peas (yuck!), sweet potatoes (yum!), butternut squash (meh), apples (yum-o!), and a store bought mix of organic summer veggies (squash, etc.).  All of his food is homemade and I have to say, it's a lot of fun making it.  Sammer even got in on the action and made some zucchini and squash last weekend.  We added a new food every couple of days or so.  He seemed to do just fine with that, but lately he had been really fussy and not sleeping so well.  I could tell his tummy was hurting.  So we recently decided to stop all foods except oatmeal and he has slept wonderfully (for him) ever since.  Tomorrow we will add carrots again and see how that goes for a couple of days.  Sammer and I both think it's the apple.  Apples have a lot of fiber and they are a stronger flavor than the other foods.  I also think that Mr. Felix may have inherited his Daddy's sensitive tummy.

Here I am with peas all over my face.  Don't let my happy face fool you, I didn't like peas one bit.

Speaking of inheriting awesome things from Mom and Dad, it seems that he has gotten all of our bad traits.  Daddy's sensitive tummy, Mommy's ability to function like normal on very little sleep, and also not being able to sleep alone, just like Mommy.  He also is a monster at thrashing about the bed, just like Daddy.  Since Felix was sick in January (ear infection and bronchial crap), he has slept in bed with us every single night.  He was sick and I was worried about him, so I didn't want him away from me for a second.  Well, now that's what I've got!  He goes down for bed just fine, it's actually really, really easy to get him to bed these days (KNOCK ON WOOD!!!), but once he wakes up, it's pretty rare that he goes back down in his own bed.  Now that we've figured out how to make it work, it's really not that bad.  I will just whisper that Sammer and I both actually like it a lot.  shh!  Don't tell Felix I said that!

Oh we tried Ferber.  And by try it, I mean we spent about an hour working up to letting Felix cry for 7 straight minutes and that was enough for us.  More than enough.  We both spent the whole week feeling awful about it.  I still feel awful.  Sammer really wanted to try it though, so we did.  I didn't think it would work for us but I was desperate, too.  Felix goes from half a whine to super pissed off in about 45 seconds, so I just didn't see that working.  He needs to be cuddled to calm down, and I don't blame him.  I could go on for a long time about my feelings on Ferber, but I'll just say that it is not for us at this time.  As sure as I say we won't be doing it again, something will make us try it again.  But for now, Sammer and I are fine, happy really, with him sleeping in our bed.  When he's not there, we both miss the snuggles.  Every once in a while, when Felix has been up a lot or Sammer has a lot going on at work, he will take a night or two and sleep in the guest room when Felix comes to our bed.  He first said that he wanted to give me more room.  Well, I breathe in and Felix takes up that space instantly, so moving to another bed does nothing for me.  But I appreciate the thought.  :-)  And I know that Sammer needs more sleep than I do so I don't mind.

Felix has been sleeping kind of crappy because he has teeth!  Two chompers, to be exact.  He is working on bringing in four more.  Yikes!!!  He recently learned that he can bite Mommy when he's nursing, just like he bites everything else constantly.  Well let me just tell you, Mommy does not like that.  No, I do not like that one bit at all.  How do I stop it?  It just started last night and so far I just say "no" really stearnly and pull him off.  Well now he thinks that is funny.  It is not funny to me.  It hurts like, well it hurts like someone with razor sharp teeth is biting down on your nipple.

Chompers!

The highlight of his six month would have to be a visit by Uncle Drew and Aunt Stephanie.  As is quickly becoming a great tradition, they came to visit from Baton Rouge for New Years.  We didn't party too much, but Felix did wake us up to ring in the new year. He's so thoughtful.  :-)

Happy New Year!

His six month was about the time that he started feeling OK about being in the car seat.  Thank the good Lord!!  This is like heaven to us.  We can now drive across town without a fight.  He has even started falling asleep in there every once in a while.  I'm not particularly fond of that, but it means he's comfy so whatever.  I'll take it.  He also started sleeping in his crib for naps on a regular basis.  We haven't had to hold him for a nap in a very long time.  That's kind of bitter sweet.  One of my favorite moments of the day is when he falls asleep in my arms.  He is just so peaceful and beautiful.  But, it's amazing how much you can get done when you don't have to hold your baby for 2 hours of the day. 

It has been a very mild winter and we take walks almost everyday after work. We recently got a new jogging stroller to navigate the bumpy roads of the neighborhood (NOT to jog, don't worry).  Felix and I both absolutely love it!  We took it to the Kite Festival, which was a highlight of his seventh month.  We had a few friends meet us here (Pat & Milissa, John & Allie, Carolyn & Richard - all with their kiddos) and we walked down.  Of course Kristen and Maija were there, and Lauren, Sam and Quinn met up with us, too.  It was so much fun!  Felix had just started really sitting up on his own and that meant that he could play on his own.  That is so nice!  Just that he can occupy himself for 10 or 15 minutes while I clean pump parts and bottles at night is really a blessing. 

Our little Valentine

OH!  We enrolled Felix in swim lessons at the Y!  How could I forget that?!  He is a Shrimp and he is just precious.  He is the champion kicker of the class, of course.  He seems to really like the water and hasn't freaked out in it yet. 

I promise to write a timely 8th month post so I will leave this as is and give you some links to pictures.
Click here for a link to his sixth month in pictures.
Click here for a link to his seventh month in pictures.

Blessed

Right now I have a sick husband and a sick baby on my hands (and my throat is getting sore, I know I'm next).  It's pretty miserable around here.  But between my moments of, "I don't like my boys being sad, for the love of God, please let Felix sleep in his bed for just an hour tonight, and woe is me," all I can think is how blessed I am. 

Blessed to have a baby.  Not everyone has that, and for a while we weren't sure if we would ever have that. 

Blessed to be able to breastfeed my baby.  I know it's not for everyone, but it was, and is, very important to me to breastfeed Felix.  Not only can I breastfeed him, I have so far been blessed with a wonderful supply of breastmilk.  It was very tough at first, but we persevered and made it.

Blessed that Felix will take a bottle.  There are three girls on a message board that I frequent whose babies will not take a bottle while they are at work.  Naturally, they are worried sick about their babies. 

Blessed that we have a little cuddlebug.  I was so worried that our baby wouldn't want to snuggle.  Ha!  Although sometimes I could really use a decent night's sleep where I can move positions and don't wake up every 10 minutes or so because there is a little cuddlebug next to me. 

Blessed that our son did not have colic.  He does wake during the night still, but he is almost always happy when he does (provided there is food, of course).  I have to admit, it is nice to get those snuggles from him in the middle of the night.  When he sleeps in his crib, that is.

Blessed to have a husband who happily helps with the housework and baby caring.  We give Felix a bath together every single night and it is definitely a highlight of my day. 

Blessed that we have good jobs with understanding bosses.  I will probably be working from home again, as Felix is still sick.

Blessed to have two babysitters who love Felix very much.  Felix got sick on Thursday when Mati was here.  She called on Friday to check on him and make sure he was OK.  I often come home to see Elvia loving on Felix and giving him smooches.  Sammer said he lights up when he sees her in the morning.

So, as much as I would love to be able to sleep with just one other person in the bed all night, and as much as I would love to stay home with Felix, right now I am just thankful to be so blessed.

Felix is 24 weeks, 5 days old (5 1/2 months)

Five Months Old!

Our little bundle is now five months old!  I can't believe it.  The month started out with a trip to Maw Maw and Paw Paw's for Thanksgiving and ended with a trip to Nannie and Paw Paw's for Christmas.  Neither holiday disappointed!  The car rides were just so-so, but at least we made it there and back in one piece (or three).

Felix had been doing so great with sleep, waking only twice per night, for a long while.  Then, we had a glorious few days where he woke only once a night!  We really paid for those because the next 2 1/2 weeks were pure hell.  Well, they could have been worse, but we sure didn't get a whole lot of sleep.  Sleep deprivation is evil.  I see why it is a form of torture.

It all started the night of Sammer's company Christmas party.  Cyndi babysat for us and we had such a great time!  The party was at Antone's with Jesse Dayton and Hayes Carll playing.  I know what you're thinking, must be nice to be able to rent out a bar (or institution in Austin) and have two awesome musicians play.  Yeah, must be.  I'm glad we were able to reap the benefits of Chris's generosity.  Anyway, that night he started his new routine right when I got home at 11:30.  He would sleep 4, 5 hours at the most and then wake every 1 1/2 - 2 hours, beginning at about 11 or so.  Talk about painful. The only way to get him to sleep was to nurse him and sometimes that didn't even work.  There were a few nights where he was up for 2 hours, just smiling and kicking away, wanting to play.  I like to blame teething because he has a couple of chompers ready to come through, but I don't know if that was it.  He has been very fussy and unhappy during the day, drooling like a mad man and chewing on his hands like they had the last traces of breastmilk in the whole world on them.  I see a lot of white on his bottom gums, but no tooth yet.  During this time, I learned to breastfeed him while standing in the dark bathroom with the fan on, bouncing him, swaying back and forth, and singing our bedtime songs all at the same time.  It was hard at first but a breeze now.  He loves that bathroom fan.  I think we've worn out the upstairs one because it is awfully clanky now and just keeps him awake.

The last two nights have been pure bliss.  He usually wakes up an hour or two after he goes down.  I put him to sleep on his side and I think he violently flings himself onto his back and hits his hands on the side of the crib.  Every time I go in there he is on his back and it's like he has forgotten that he is a wiz at rolling from his back to his belly.  BTW, he stopped sleeping on his back right around 3 months.  He wanted to be on his side and he sometimes rolls to his belly.  We don't like it but not much we can do since he can roll there.  He is super strong so we don't worry about him not being able to lift his head from the crib.  Anyway, recent sleep...he's only been waking twice per night for the last two nights.  I know it can go back to crap at any moment, but wow, the last two nights have been so wonderful.  The first night, I was so excited that I stayed awake for 3 hours after his first waking.  Ok, enough sleep talk, let's get to the fun stuff!

Felix has gotten so big and is just a complete joy to be around.  We've moved him to the big boy (umbrella) stroller and he is enjoying daily walks now (it's routinely in the high 60's here right now.  Crazy, I know.).  After the long, excruciating drive home from Tulsa, we immediately put him in the stroller and walked down to Shoal Creek for some oysters and beers.

He got lots and lots of toys for Christmas.  Santa brought him some bibs, books, headphones, and a Laugh and Learn music table.

Yo DJ pump this party!

The table is pretty cool, it has a music or word setting, as well as English and Spanish.  Many times I have gone to work singing the ABC's en Espanol.  It's quite something.  He loves it.  The headphones are noise canceling.  Santa heard that Felix may be making an appearance at some outdoors SXSW shows this Spring and thought these were necessary for his sweet little ears.

Let's see, what else did he get.  Aunt Sammie got him an adorable little pony.  He can't really play with it until he can walk very well, but I can't wait for that.  The pony had to stay in Baton Rouge this time since our car was pretty packed and he can't play with it right now anyway.  Nannie and Paw Paw got him lots of cute clothes, including those awesome baby legs in the picture at the top, books and toys.  Aunt Sissy and Uncle James got him his first pair of  Toms and boy are those things precious!  His cousins Robert and Nathan got him a really cool sports set, it has a basketball goal, a football thing and a bat and ball.  He'll be ready for that in a few months. Mommy and Daddy got him some books and pajamas and a mobile for over his bed.  He hasn't noticed that yet.  Hmm.

His likes right now are kicking (boy, does he LOVE to kick those legs!), his Mozart Music Cube that our friend Shook got him, diaper changes, or anytime when we are standing over him and talking to him really, touching our faces, naked time, the bath (where he also loves to kick and splash), and he's recently found his screeching voice.  It's pretty adorable (of course), we play the repeat game with it a lot.  He screeches and I screech back and on and on.  It's lots of fun for both of us.  He has also started to hold his bottle a little.  I recently bought a bottle with handles that turns into a sippy cup and he's getting the hang of holding it himself.

His only dislike right now is getting dressed.  He loves being nekkie, it's quite precious when he rolls onto his tummy and his cute little butt is up in the air.  So after an enjoyable bathtime of nekkie-ness and a massage, he is none too pleased to be put in pajamas.  We have taken to feeding him a bottle to appease him.  Sammer feeds him while I dress him.  I don't mind doing this because he does seem very hungry, he has always cluster fed at night (eats a lot in a short period of time). 


I don't have any stats for him this month, but I can tell you that two weeks after his 5th month birthday, he weighed 17lb 2oz with fleece PJs and a (not full) diaper.  We had to make an unscheduled visit to the after hours clinic because our little Boo Bear got sick.  Cue sad trombone.  :-(

Click here for a link to his 5th month in pictures.  Some Thanksgiving and Christmas pictures are missing, but I will add them as soon as I find the cord for the camera. Enjoy!

Four Months and a Year Ago

Wow, I cannot believe Mr. Felix is four months old.  This week marks one year since we found out that our lives were going to change forever.  After 16 months, I finally got a positive pregnancy test on the Monday morning after Thanksgiving.  I didn't trust it, of course, so off to Randall's I went at 6:00 in the morning to buy a digital test.  I also bought some mousse, you know, just so I didn't seem totally desperate.  It was like buying tampons when I was 17 all over again.  Anyway, I woke up Sammer, we both cried, and I made a doctor's appointment for later that week.  My regular doctor was out for the rest of the year so I had to see her partner.  Now, my (now previous) doctor wasn't the warmest of women, but I liked her.  Her partner made her look like Miss Warm and Fuzzy.  She didn't know my history so she, rather coldly, blurted out that the test I took at the office was negative.  "Oh, but it's probably just the batch of tests.  Another girl ot a negative last week and turned out she was pregnant."  Yeah, not making me feel better lady.  I immediately went to have my blood drawn and completely broke down on the poor lady who took my blood when she said the doctor didn't order a "stat" so I wouldn't be getting the results until the next day.  She was so sweet, I felt bad.  I started laughing and of course it sounded like I was getting hysterical.  I would see this lady 4 more times over the next couple of weeks, we became semi-friends.  Wow, I remember this all so vividly, like it was yesterday.  Sammer and I wanted a baby so, so badly and it had taken so long for us.  It seemed like everyone else was getting pregnant just by looking at a baby.  Last Fall alone, I had twelve (12!!!) friends who were pregnant at one time.  Anyway, I called Sissy on the way home from work and broke down on her in the HEB parking lot.  Yada, yada, yada....Felix is here, all is happy, enough of this story.  On to the greatness of King Felix!

It seems like the difference between three and four months is the biggest one yet.  Felix smiles so much now.  He babbles a lot.  He grabs for his toys and puts everything (EVERYTHING) into his mouth.  He loves, loves, loves sucking on his little paws.  He is actually kind of on a bit of a schedule.  He goes to bed at 7:15 and gets up between 5:00 and 6:00, much to Sammer's chagrin.  He used to wake up about 6:30, but then Daylight Savings came along.  Curse you DST!  His limit for being awake is two hours.  He will always take a nap two hours after waking up in the morning and is good for 1 1/2 - 2 hours during the day.  I come home from work at 4:00, nurse him and let him nap on me for a bit.  It doesn't matter if he wakes up at 5:00 or 6:30, at 7:15 he is out.  We asked the doctor about his naps and awake time, supposedly he should be awake for 3-4 hours at a time.  Felix naps for only 30-45 minutes, sometimes longer but that rarely happens.  Doc says that's fine and that it sounds like we have a social baby.  He is sleeping about 3-4 hours total during the day and 10 or so at night.  He still wakes up at least twice during the night.  I don't really mind, it's nice to snuggle with him, but I wouldn't turn down extra sleep if it was offered.  :-)  He wakes up anytime between midnight and 2am, then again 3 hours later or at 4:30, whichever comes first, then up again about 5:30.  When he wakes up at night, as soon as he sees me he is all smiles and wants to play.  Between me and Sammer, it makes sense that we would have a snuggling social butterfly on our hands.  :-)

Felix just took his first road trip!  We went to Baton Rouge for Thanksgiving.  The ride there took 11 hours, but a lot of that was because of traffic.  We stopped just past Lafayette and ran into a full on traffic stop.  We took an alternate route, where we again ran into another traffic stop.  Awesome.  Felix slept for the last hour and a half, so we totally could have made it to Baton Rouge, but instead with the runaround he woke up about 20 minutes before reaching our destination.  It was a wonderful holiday, Felix got to be loved on by his Maw Maw and Paw Paw, and met his Aunt Sammie for the first time.  I think he had a great time!  It was fun seeing how much he is loved by his family that doesn't get to see him everyday.

Now for the big four month stats:

15lb 4oz, 50th percentile
25 inches long, 50-75th percentile
75-90th percentile (for his big brain, just like Daddy's!)

Here is another link to Felix's fourth month of life in pictures.

Well, I never got around to finishing this post and Felix is now almost 5 months old.  So we'll call it a day and have another post in a few days. :-)

An update on all things Brammerlix

Did you like how I just updated our name?  Let's see, what's been going on in our world.  Well, after the two glorious days of 7+ hour sleep stretches, there was a major regression.  Mr. Felix refused to be put down.  He would be sleeping for an hour and we'd go to lay him in his crib (or anywhere) and WAH!!!  This lasted for three days.  Three long, grueling, exhausting days.  Being the sweetheart that he is, on Sunday night he finally let us put him down and went back to giving us a good 4 hour or so stretch.  I would love to have our 5+ hour stretches back, but anything is an improvement over the last weekend.  I even scratched another "I'll never" off of my list - I brought him into the bed with me.  We were in the guest room and I just needed to lay down.  I was so afraid of falling asleep while holding him in the glider and he would fall or something.  (My first "I'll never" broken was putting him to sleep in our room.  I was so naive before he was born.)

Monday was Halloween and Felix went as his alternate persona, SuperBaby.  I wasn't going to dress him up b/c I figured everything would be too hot or annoying for him.  But of course, as the day got closer I really just had to have something for him.  I found this "costume" at Old Navy on Friday night after work.  It's a little small for him, but the 3-6 month size was HUGE.  He is right in the middle of the size ranges - 0-3 months is 7-12 lbs and 3-6 months is 12-19 lbs.  He is about 12 lbs.  Anyway, he rocked the costume. 

Suuuper-Baby!

 

 

 Isn't he adorable?  The back of the costume had a little cape painted on it, I will have to find a picture of it.  We went up to my work for the Trail of Treats.  Let's face it, I really just wanted to spend time with him and show him off.  It's not like he was getting any candy or anything.  There was another awesome meltdown on the way home.  I stopped in the parking lot of Chinatown and nursed him for about 20 minutes, until he fell asleep.  As soon as I pull onto the Mopac access road, WAAAAAH!  Poor baby.  Mopac was especially parking lot-like that day, too.  My gosh, it was just awful.  He pretty much passed out as soon as I picked him up out of the car seat.

What else is new...there is a different person who watches him on Thursday, Matilde.  Today she said that he grew a lot since she saw him last.  Maybe this is why his sleep was so whacked out last week.  Felix will smile at me when I come up to him after work and that just makes my whole day.  He will let me hold/play with him for about 5 minutes before he has worked his way down to the breast.  He's never hungry, but he always wants to nurse as soon as I get home.  It's very sweet, he misses Mama and this is how we snuggle.  Oh, I love him so much.  I am doing the "take one look at him and cry because I love him so much" thing again.  He is just the most precious thing in the world to Sammer and me. 

He is smiling a ton and we think he may have found his feet.  He's getting better and reaching for things but still isn't doing it a whole lot first.  We can see the wheels turning but he's just not there yet.  Since we received the big rainfall last month there have been a plethora of mosquitoes around.  Even in our house.  Boo Boo has a lot of mosquito bites and it is breaking my heart.  3 on his face and 3 more on his tiny little foot!  This is where Mommy goes "WAH". 

Felix is 3 months, 1 week old

3 Months

Boo!

Wow.  I can't believe our little Boo Boo Bear is 3 months old already!  Time really does fly.  What to say about Felix....well for starters he slept 7.5 hours straight two nights ago and 7 hours last night. STRAIGHT!  This is amazing.  He went from giving us one 4-5 hour stretch to this wonderful bliss.  I'm afraid it's a fluke, but who knows.  I guess we'll see.  The bad part about him sleeping so much is that he was still asleep when I left for work.  That made me very sad because I didn't get to nurse him before I left.  I try to get to work at 7 so I can leave at 4.  No more OT for me!  I would have stuck around in the morning, but who knew when he was going to wake up.  Of course, he woke up right after I left.  :-(  I really love nursing Felix, I am already dreading the day I have to wean him.  Or he has to wean me, I should say.  It is just so beautiful to watch him and have those snuggles that are all mine.  Growing him in my womb and giving him life was amazing, but I think being able to sustain him and watch him grow from the food that only I can supply is even better.

Felix is just amazing and is really starting to show his personality.  He is happiest in the mornings (he definitely does not get this from his father).  He will give us lots and lots of smiles and coos then.  Sammer gets up with him  during the week, which is a lot earlier than his usual wake up time, and gets to spend some quality Daddy/Felix time.  He says he doesn't mind getting up early.  I have a feeling this is probably the highlight of his day.  :-)  I love that they get this bonding time together.  Sammer loves his little boy so much, and I love watching them together.  They have their own little routine where Sammer feeds and changes him, they play a little, and he "watches" Sammer get ready for work.  It should also be noted that Sammer is an amazing husband and gets up with Felix at least one day on the weekend so that I can sleep in a little.  Have I said lately how much I love that man?

So Felix is smiling a lot, I think his favorite thing is getting his diaper changed.  He will smile, smile, smile during and after.  There is a little jacket hanging above the changing table and he loves looking at it, he even reached for it this morning.  He seems to be getting more comfortable in the bath.  He's always kind of liked it but now he just looks more at ease and less tense.  We have yet to get a smile during bath time, but I know it is coming soon.  I was so close to getting one tonight.  We can tell that he is trying to talk so hard but only gets out a sound every once in a while.  It's adorable, of course.  The same thing can be said for reaching for/grabbing toys.  He is thinking so hard about it but doesn't actually get his hand up there very often.  He did grab the rattle last week when my parents were here though, that was so cool!  He sits in the bumbo every few days but he can't hold his head up for too long so he doesn't stay there much.

Poor Elvia was initiated with not only one but two big poops.  I can't believe he pooped (big!) twice in one week.  Yesterday it was all over both of them, Elvia was cleaning herself off when I came home.  I should have known it was coming, he was letting out some major man sized toots when I left him in the morning.  Good thing he is so cute!

We don't have another doc appointment until 4 months so I don't have any stats to share this month.  Rest assured that he is growing like a weed and getting cuter every day!  Here is a link to his 3rd month in pictures.  I am particularly partial to the pictures in the froggie pajamas.  Seriously cute.  Check out the difference between the first and last pictures. 

Felix's likes are smiling at Mommy and Daddy, diaper changes, the octopus on his play mat, the baby in the mirror (oh yeah!  He is starting to notice himself in the mirror and it is just precious!), snuggling of course, standing on us and stretching his legs, watching the fishies (this is sometimes the only thing that will calm him down - thanks to Nannie for figuring that one out) and sucking on his fists, particularly the left one.  Oh and drooling.  He drools like a champ!  He also likes hanging out with his buddies Quinn, Amelia, and Sophie.  Ok, Mommy likes hanging out with their mommies.  :-)  We all met up with them and their daddies at the NXNW Oktoberfest last weekend, it was a lot of fun and aside from the car ride Felix was a dream!

Carolyn & Amelia, Anne & Sophie, Lauren & Quinn, Mommy & Felix

The car seat is really his only dislike.  There are two very long 8 hour (at least) road trips in our near future so I really hope he starts disliking it a little less soon.  Sammer finally experienced a meltdown of epic proportions the other day and I think he now realizes that I wasn't lying all of this time.  I wish I had been, I hate it when he is sad.  He has even begun arching his back when I start putting him in the seat.  :-(  Elvia took him for a long walk in it the other day so maybe things are looking up!

Felix is 3 months old, and as precious as ever.

Oh, and a big, fat DUH.

Felix is sleeping in his crib at night!  He has been napping in there off and on for a few weeks but Sunday night was the first night in the crib.  It's funny, he looks like Andre the Giant in the bassinet but a little bitty munchkin in the crib.  Even though the crib is exactly 11 steps from our bed, I still use the monitor.  Sammer thinks this is silly but I'm so afraid that I won't hear him cry for some reason.  I'm sure we'll be able to ditch it soon, but I really don't care about being overly cautious right now. 

I miss having him in our room, but at the same time it is really nice to have our space back.  Now we don't have to worry so much about getting ready for bed or leaving the lights on to read, or the loudness of toons on the laptop.  I guess this means he is growing up though.  SOB.  He is really getting big, more on that in a couple of days.  He is almost 3 months old, ya know. 

He took to the crib just fine, I think.  No problems at all on Sunday night.  Last night he was a little difficult to get to sleep.  That started from the beginning of bedtime though, so not sure it is crib related.  It could be separation related since yesterday was the first day with the nanny.  Who knows.  He finally went down at 9:00, which really isn't too unusual, then up at 9:30, we thought down at 10:00 but really he didn't go down for real until 11:00.  The silver lining?  He only woke up once, at 3am, then he was up for the day at 6:45. 

I am working from home today and Thursday.  It's so hard to hear him cry in another room without going in there.  He wasn't even really crying, just fussing because he was hungry.  But, Elvia is great.  He seems to really like her so that is good.  I notice that she doesn't have to hold him all of the time like we sometimes do.  Hmm. 

I can't say goodbye without a picture.  Here he is in the awesome outfit that our friend Katie made for him.

Pacman!

 

 Felix is 12 weeks, 6 days old.