Joseph does more than poop and pee and it’s about time I wrote about it. He’s growing quickly and can hardly be thought of as a newborn and it’s only been five weeks! He has smiled since birth but for the past week he has been consistently smiling directly at people. Daddy gets the most – he loves playtime with daddy! I get a few, but mostly I have the privilege of seeing him smile when he nods off to sleep. He might fight sleep vigorously since he always wants to watch what’s going on, but once he does start to fade often the first sign is a big, bright, beautiful smile.
He also loves to look at the ceiling no matter where we are. It’s not just a matter of his head falling back. He purposely pushes his head back so he can look up and then stares with big eyes. He insists on doing this even while in the Moby Wrap, so usually I have to have one hand supporting his head and I’m still one-handed unless he’s a sleep and then I can tuck his head away and work with both hands – a rare privilege these days.
He gets better and better about holding his head up when on his tummy. He kicks like crazy and if you put a hand behind his feet he’ll launch forward since he often holds his head up and kicks at the same time.
He still only sleeps 2-3 hour stretches even at night, but at night he’ll go right back to sleep after the eat/change, so that is a great blessing!
It’s fun to watch him grow and change!
He also loves to look at the ceiling no matter where we are. It’s not just a matter of his head falling back. He purposely pushes his head back so he can look up and then stares with big eyes. He insists on doing this even while in the Moby Wrap, so usually I have to have one hand supporting his head and I’m still one-handed unless he’s a sleep and then I can tuck his head away and work with both hands – a rare privilege these days.
He gets better and better about holding his head up when on his tummy. He kicks like crazy and if you put a hand behind his feet he’ll launch forward since he often holds his head up and kicks at the same time.
He still only sleeps 2-3 hour stretches even at night, but at night he’ll go right back to sleep after the eat/change, so that is a great blessing!
It’s fun to watch him grow and change!
Nope, life isn’t much more than “pshsh” and “bthth” right now. After a frustrating evening of doing everything to calm fussy Joseph and not succeeding for three hours (and only surviving because Valda was visiting and could help me out – but so much for girl time) I decided to brave my fears of pee spraying everywhere and poop exploding in inconvenient places and try some diaper-free time this morning. After his morning nap I spread out the mattress protector on the floor and put on grungy clothes and decided not to care what got dirty. I was pretty shocked that we went for over an hour without any misses. I breastfed him and felt like he was working on something so put him on the potty and he peed and pooped. I continued feeding him and was burping him when he got fussy and I put him on the potty again and he peed. It seems crazy that he has such an awareness of his body. We spent some time on the floor looking at bits and some time resting on my shoulder and each time he was calm I didn’t worry and when he got fussy I first tried the potty then went to a new position. The last half of the hour I put him on the potty a lot (I’m still scared!) to no success. At the end he got fussy and wouldn’t take anything. Maybe I should have held him on the potty longer because he did then pee, getting his pants and some of mine, but mostly on the mattress protector. Is that what I was so afraid about? We decided to finish diaper-free time and I put on a diaper and nursed him to happy sleep.
At the very least it’s more entertaining for me . . .
At the very least it’s more entertaining for me . . .
