11 weeks

So, yesterday my boy turned 11 weeks.

This week he has actually gotten a lot better, he has had much fewer screaming fits of pain, and has slept relatively well during the night which has been such a relief for us. His eating schedule has also stabilized somewhat thanks to the bottle, although he still has times when he refuses the bottle and wants to fall asleep only on the boob. Headstrong, my boy!

His daytime schedule is still quite up and down. One day he will sleep all day and wake only to drink, other days he will refuse to sleep at all. When his sleeping days come we both find ourselves taking turns sleeping all day with him! They say we shouldn't let him sleep during the day because he won't sleep at night, but I can't find a way to regulate his schedule. It seems no matter what I try, when he wants to sleep he sleeps ... even if I'm tickling him, putting him down on his back (two things he dislikes very much--being put down, and being on his back), or anything! And when he doesn't want to sleep, no matter how sleepy his is and no matter how hard we try to make him comfortable, he refuses to sleep. Stubborn boy ... he's going to be such a handful!

Ardit keeps joking that he has ADHD cause he has such a short attention span and can't seem to stay still ... even when he's looking at his mobile, or having playtime with us, or looking at flashcards, he's always moving and twitching his arms and legs like he's trying to shake something off of them! We see other babies happily staring and looking around sitting so still in their carriers or strollers ... and we joke about how something went wrong with ours. :D:D Of course I don't actually think he has ADHD and always tell Ardit to stop when he jokes ... but I do hope that he evens out a little as he gets older ... this constant need for attention and being held will get very tiresome as he gets older and fatter ... which he is doing every day!

Ardit has been home almost every day this week so it's been really fun (for me) having both my boys here. We go out to the lake everyday (in the evening when it's cooler) and baby boy seems to enjoy looking out at the world so much.

We still can't make up our minds about the vaccination ... so until we do we can't take him in to be weighed and measured ... but I'm guessing he's anywhere from 4.7 to 5 kilos now. He's doubled his weight since being born!

His belly-button hernia seems to be doing better ... it's not hard and popped out as much as it used to be ... it's getting softer and sticks out less. You know what the books say, but it's still a relief when you actually see and feel it getting better like it should.

In 2 weeks he'll be 3 months old! Kyaaaaaaaaaa ... soon he'll be rolling and I wont be able to leave him on our bed anymore! And then he'll be sitting, and crawling and I'm gonna have to put a gate on his room! I was looking at a picture of him 3 days old and gosh how yellow, and red, and Japanese, and tiny he was! How much he's grown ... how cute he's gotten ... how much more animated and attentive and aware! He's growing too fast (which is why I take so many pictures and videos ... cause I just KNOW how this works!)

Speaking of pictures ... I mentioned earlier how daddy's been home a lot this week ... baby enjoys daddy being at home as much as mommy does! Here's a picture of them bonding like boys ...

Mama and Papa love you baby boy.