Dear Justice,
You turned 5 months old on Easter Sunday! Kind of a cool way to celebrate having 5 full months with you in our lives. That said, to be perfectly honest, I was not celebrating this particular milestone because 5 months just seems so old. And I don't know if its because you're the third child or because you're so chill and undemanding or what-but I just don't feel like I haven't gotten quite enough snuggles out of you.
Yup, snuggling you is by far the BEST thing of a lot of my days this month. You brought me a lot of joy in an otherwise very stressful month. This month your cousin Olivet took up the baby-drama torch and she carried it even higher than you did, spending much of the first month of her life in hospital after hospital. Even ending up here in San Antonio! Thankfully the Lord continues to show us how much He loves you sweet babies ( and the rest of us!) and He has done some wonderful prayer-answering which means we got to have a pretty fun photo shoot with Olivet before she went back home ( hopefully for the very last time!). Nothing like a picture with a 1 month old to make you look huge and grown up!
You're thighs continue to be mega squeeze worthy as are your cheeks. You still laugh pretty much any time someone sings to you, or "tosses" you up into the air. This month you graduated into the very same exersaucer that your brother and sister both loved. At first I wasn't sure if you were quite ready for it, you kept getting your arms trapped down in the leg holes-dont ask me how-and then would be sadly resting your chin on the edge of the exersaucer just calmly waiting for someone to come in and rescue you! But now you're a pro and can spin around and play with all the different toys at your whim. You eye hand coordination has really excelled and your love for chewing on everything you can get your hands on has only increased. Current favorite chewing things are Sophie the Giraffe and plastic rings as well as the little mirrored flower that hangs on your play chair.
This month you did very little day time sleeping. In fact, I started to wonder if we'd some how broken you with all of our day time outings ( honestly it isn't that many, its just we have to leave the house SOMETIME, ya know!?) but I think you were just learning and growing and sure enough by the last week of the month you were back to sleeping like a champ during the day and at night.
Your current ( on a good day) schedule is:
Wake up around 8 and coo in your bed till I finally take pity on you and feed you around 8:30 ( awesome mom award, right here!)
You usually take a 45-1 hr nap around 10 ( sometimes its as short as 15 minutes because this is usually the nap you have to take on the "go")
you eat around 12 and then take another hopefully longer nap around 1pm.
You eat again at 3 and have another nap around 4:30/5 ( depending on how long your other naps last this one gets pushed around a bit) and you wake up and eat around 5:45/6pm...exactly when Mommy is usually sitting down to eat dinner.
You then "go to bed" at 7pm and we wake you up for a "late feeding" around 10 or 11 so that you'll sleep until 5:30 or 6am. This feeding is probably your Daddy's favorite because he gets quality time getting to look at you before we put you back down. You're always uber sleepy ( since we just woke you up and all!) and want to go back to bed, but you're still willing to get lots of smiles and coos if we ask you.
You're pretty much the best, sweetest baby ever and when you actually got legitimately fussy this month I was at a total loss of what to do with you! I had forgotten all my soothing skills because you have just not needed them! hahah!
So thanks for getting out of that particular little season quickly! Also thank you for being such a joy in our lives!
We love you so much!
Mommy
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
4 Months
Dear Justice,
What a month you've had! First off, you did finally get to see the same radiologist again for your follow up upper GI and swallow test- it showed, what we already knew: God had healed you! It was truly exciting to see just HOW much!! While the first time you'd had the upper GI you're little body was CONTINUALLY refluxing...now, it showed only one time of reflux the whole study! Pretty incredible! And what a testimony of the Lord's mercy and love for us!
Of course, as irony would have it this month was by far your fussiest month-I wondered if all the gassy/colicy business was because you were now 100% breastfed and you just weren't use to that? But really you had already been pretty much breastfed other than the nighttime feedings and your fussy times didn't coincide with that...see? I clearly put a lot of time and thought into what was going on. But bottomline you've had some serious unhappy times this month!! But, thankfully that's what it is to be a baby and you deserve some uninterrupted scream time. Let's just let it be done, ok?! ;-)
Now, don't get me wrong 90% of the time you're still the happiest most giggly laid-back baby ever! You even did some rolling over and enjoyed time in the Bumpo seat and of course were sweet and cool about life in general.
You went to Nacogdoches with Mommy this month-just the two of us-to see your newest cousin Olivet. You were a dream baby on both trips-only crying at the very end -as in like the last 20 minutes of a 6 hour trip! DREAM BABY!
And spent our time in Nacogdoches being passed from one grandparent to the next with equal coos and smiles for all! In fact, the one full day in Nacogdoches we spent the majority of it up at the hospital waiting for Olivet to be born- because of one thing or another all three of your daily naps equalled about 30 minutes each and yet did you fuss and cry? Nope. Not once.
You would even wait patiently for me to come feed you if I was tied up with your Aunt Anna or some other distraction.
One nap, I literally swaddled you, stuck the paci in your mouth, put your noise maker lamb next to you on the couch and just diverted my eyes for about 5 minutes and you went right to sleep! Who does that?!
Yes, we love your laid-back ways and are grateful for the joy that you bring to our lives. You're perfectly happy to chew on your fist and drool enough to fill up swimming pools and watch the world go by!
We can't wait to see what you decide to do next, and we love all that you bring to our family!
All my love,
Mommy
What a month you've had! First off, you did finally get to see the same radiologist again for your follow up upper GI and swallow test- it showed, what we already knew: God had healed you! It was truly exciting to see just HOW much!! While the first time you'd had the upper GI you're little body was CONTINUALLY refluxing...now, it showed only one time of reflux the whole study! Pretty incredible! And what a testimony of the Lord's mercy and love for us!
Of course, as irony would have it this month was by far your fussiest month-I wondered if all the gassy/colicy business was because you were now 100% breastfed and you just weren't use to that? But really you had already been pretty much breastfed other than the nighttime feedings and your fussy times didn't coincide with that...see? I clearly put a lot of time and thought into what was going on. But bottomline you've had some serious unhappy times this month!! But, thankfully that's what it is to be a baby and you deserve some uninterrupted scream time. Let's just let it be done, ok?! ;-)
Now, don't get me wrong 90% of the time you're still the happiest most giggly laid-back baby ever! You even did some rolling over and enjoyed time in the Bumpo seat and of course were sweet and cool about life in general.
You went to Nacogdoches with Mommy this month-just the two of us-to see your newest cousin Olivet. You were a dream baby on both trips-only crying at the very end -as in like the last 20 minutes of a 6 hour trip! DREAM BABY!
And spent our time in Nacogdoches being passed from one grandparent to the next with equal coos and smiles for all! In fact, the one full day in Nacogdoches we spent the majority of it up at the hospital waiting for Olivet to be born- because of one thing or another all three of your daily naps equalled about 30 minutes each and yet did you fuss and cry? Nope. Not once.
You would even wait patiently for me to come feed you if I was tied up with your Aunt Anna or some other distraction.
One nap, I literally swaddled you, stuck the paci in your mouth, put your noise maker lamb next to you on the couch and just diverted my eyes for about 5 minutes and you went right to sleep! Who does that?!
Yes, we love your laid-back ways and are grateful for the joy that you bring to our lives. You're perfectly happy to chew on your fist and drool enough to fill up swimming pools and watch the world go by!
We can't wait to see what you decide to do next, and we love all that you bring to our family!
All my love,
Mommy
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