Filling the House

Thursday, September 16, 2010

22 Weeks

A day early but I decided to combine the growth picture with the monthly picture. Since I’m not doing so good at a “weekly” picture maybe I’ll just switch to monthly.

Cason was not very interested in stretching his legs out so this is the best picture I could get…

And the rest of the pictures with Pooh Bear.

This week we started to realize that maybe it was time to say goodbye to the swaddle. I had not planned to do this anytime soon but we faced a challenge. We have used two kinds of swaddle blankets that we’ve loved. We started with the size small SwaddleMe and LOVED it. It worked great and was easy to use.
But then Cason started to grow, grow, grow and he out grew it. I bought the large size and they were HUGE so they wouldn’t keep him wrapped up.

We already had two of the Halo SleepSacks Swaddlers so we gave those a try. They were bigger than the small SwaddleMe but smaller than the large. It worked great for the past couple of months. For the past two weeks, we’ve noticed that it was just too short for our tall boy. He couldn’t stretch his legs out -- which isn’t a big deal when he’s asleep since he sleeps with his legs bent, but you could tell it bothered him when we put him down for the night and he was still awake.

We decided to try the Large SwaddleMe again and though it fits a little better, it’s still too big and Cason was escaping most mornings. He was woken up by his barking brother once this week at 5:00am and I watched him wiggle around and make a 180 in his crib until he was wide awake and I finally got up and reswaddled him and got him back to sleep… only to learn that Ryan found him like this after I left for work. (He was so proud of himself, can’t you tell?)

I finally decided that it was time to break the habit, or at least give it a try. I was so scared he’d be up after a couple of hours because he’s still got a little bit of a “startle reflex” and can easily wake himself up. I’ve REALLY gotten used to sleeping all night again and the thought of a 3am wake up makes me tired.

But, I can’t swaddle him forever. So last night, we only wrapped his body, not his arms. He definitely didn’t sleep as sound as he normally does. We heard him wake up a few times but I guess he found his thumb and sucked himself back to sleep. He woke up “talking” at his normal 7:45ish time this morning.

Night two and so far so good. I guess its time to buy some more PJ’s!

5 Months Old

It really can’t be possible, but it is. Cason is 5 months old today.

2 Months

5 Months

Cason’s favorite thing to do is to stand! I think I said this last month. He can be fussy laying on his play mat or your lap and as soon as you stand him up, he’s all smiles.

He’s just a generally happy baby that smiles and laughs at his daddy all the time.

No major milestones in the past month… I have a feeling lots of fun things are going to be hitting us in the next month!

Monday, September 13, 2010

First Trip to the Park

We did a quick trip to the park on Saturday. It was way too hot but Cason enjoyed being outside. The park is such a short walk from our house… I love it!

Cason loved the swing.

And thought Daddy’s shoulders were super fun!

Brotherly Love

It is VERY hard to get pictures of our two boys together... you can imagine. I don't even try to get Cason to smile because all attempts result in Admiral running off to get a toy because he thinks we want to play.

After I took the pictures I gave Sophie the Giraffe to Cason… Admiral was very interested but you can see that Cason knew better than to share with his brother…