Little guy was four weeks old on Sunday! He started gaining weight
at a week and a half and he keeps on growing :). Thank goodness, I was
really hoping to not have to supplement and it looks like we should be
okay for a while. At around three weeks we started establishing a
routine and little guy finally got his days and nights figured out,
which has helped immensely with me not being as overtired.
Current weight 8 lbs 15 oz
Our current schedule looks something like this:
Wake up around 6:00 AM
Nap 3-4 times during the day, with usually 2 alert awake periods where he isn't nursing (he likes to nurse a lot)
Down for the night around 11:00 PM after eating, although he usually sleeps before then in the living room
He usually gets up to eat between 2 and 3 AM
He's really getting good at holding up his head, likes the bath,
hates the car seat but usually falls asleep when the car starts moving,
and poor guy has horrible diaper rash that we are trying to get under
control.
As for news about peanut, she is doing some wonderful
things! She is a fantastic big sister and tries to help when she can -
giving him a paci, grabbing my cover for breastfeeding when he fusses,
etc. She also had her first gymnastics recital recently and really
amazed me with how well she did. The kids all had to wait upstairs with
the coaches...Ben went with her at the beginning, but was sent
downstairs before the show started, so Peanut was by herself with the
group of kids and a teacher she didn't know. She has never been without
family and I was really nervous when Ben came downstairs and she wasn't
with him, but we had no tears! She walked down with her group looking a
little nervous, but got very excited once she saw us in the stands.
The
group started with a dance together. We've been practicing the
routine a lot at home and Peanut was fantastic. She knew the routine
better than any of the kids around her. I was so thrilled that she did
the dance in front of an audience with no parent help for the first
time! Then her group, group A, went to bars. I was nervous about the
bars because she doesn't always want to do the flip in class, and I was
more nervous after watching the group start. The woman helping the kids
on the bar was an older woman who was fairly quirky and not great with
the kids, plus they had set up a bar to do a new flip that Peanut had
never learned. Fortunately, Peanut's teacher Miss Kristin came over to
help her specifically and things were great - Peanut was so happy and
proud of herself. I was proud too, she did a great job!
After
bars was the beam, and a younger teacher who we've seen before but
Peanut has never had helped Peanut. Thankfully, she had no problem
doing her tricks with the new teacher and did a great job! She was so
proud doing her "ta-da!" at the end of the beam. We hit a snag with the
obstacle course when the older lady who was pretty strange tried to
take her through, Peanut did not want to participate at all. Miss Lina
was called over to help and Peanut finally did the tricks but needed a
lot of prompting and "assistance" with things she can do easily.
The
final event, trampoline, went well though and Peanut did all of the
tricks that the teacher asked her to do! All in all it was a great
success!
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