-Sleeps 10 hours at night: 8p – 6a. More often than not, he wakes up anywhere from 1-3 times a night (usually towards the end of his night, it tends to start around 4 a.m. or so) needing his pacifier so Cody and I take turns pretending we don't hear him to see if the other one will get up first, er, I mean, we enthusiastically jump out of bed to help our child.
-Speaking of sleep, he's always fought it fairly hard, but this past week or two has been almost a struggle at times to get him to give in to sleep. He'll arch his back super hard and thrash himself around in your arms, then he'll relax for 15 seconds, then just as he seems to be drifting off, he starts himself awake and we repeat the thrashing/fussing/arching business.
-Along those lines, diaper changes are becoming more of a challenge, he just doesn't want to lay still. There are so many interesting things he wants to roll towards, that laying on his back for a 30 second diaper change is just too boring.
-Got first tooth on Sunday January 29th . It was a fussy couple days, but so glad our sweet boy is back to his smiley, happy self now. The tooth has most definitely broken through the skin, but it's tough to get a picture of it at this point.
-Bought shampoo for Daniel for the first time last week – he finally has enough hair to actually lather up with shampoo! Up until now we’d just been using the baby body wash:
-No crawling yet, really still not seeing any interest at all.
-He’s standing at his music table with a little help so he doesn’t topple over. He isn’t cruising along furniture or anything yet, but he is able to stand at this little table for longer and longer periods of time (note, we are missing our pants b/c many of his pants are getting too tight in the waist, so after daycare we let our belly hang out a little more comfortably):
-LOVES to eat and LOVES his bottles. Gets real mad when both are all gone. But, give him his pacifier and he’s good again. (I wonder when we need to wean him off the pacifier….eeks, doesn’t sound like fun)
-Daniel's absolute favorite thing to do right now is bounce. His jumparoo keeps him entertained much longer than anything we try to sit him on the floor to play with.
-Daniel's leave favorite thing is getting his face wiped - whether it's to wipe the mess off after he's done eating, wipe the snot from his nose (or elsewhere on his face....he tends to get it smeared all over...my kid is the kid with snot all over, great), wipe the crusties from his eyes, etc.
-In the last few weeks, he’s started lifting his arms to be held or reaching out to us when he knows we’re coming to pick him up. LOVE THAT!
-Per our PAT educator, the next thing to work on is object permanence. So far, when an object is removed from his sight, he forgets about it. We’re working on taking a toy and putting it under a blanket and helping him find it again so that he starts realizing that the object still exists. Here we are practicing, looks like he found it!
