4 Months Old!!!

4 Month Checkup = 4 shots for the little man :(

Weight- 15lbs 13oz. He is in the 56th percentile for weight                                                      

Height- 26 3/4 inches. He is in the 95th percentile for height

Sleeping- Through the night (for the most part)

Eating- 7 oz of formula every 4 hrs. We also start cereal and baby food this month, I will let you know how that goes.

This Month's Milestones

• He is holding his head up all by himself.
• He can now play with some toys.
• He is laughing and babbling like crazy. I believe he invents a new sound everyday.
• If propped up against a pillow he can pull himself all the way up.
• He is starting to try to hold his bottle, although he still needs mommy's help :)

Not so fun moments:

• He is grabbing at everything, which mainly consist of my hair, jewelry, and skin (and he can pinch hard).
• Fighting sleep. He usually only does this during the day time for naps but it is so frustrating, if your sleepy just go to sleep. He will scream at the top of his lungs for like 3min and then he is out, which leads to.......
• Nap times are almost nonexistent in the Faile household. My child will only sleep for 30 to 45 min at a time. I know I shouldn't complain since he is sleeping through the night, but I believe most kids take naps that last hours??? Easton probably naps about an hour to an hour and half a day and this is usually in 30 min increments.
• He is no longer content sitting in his car seat while we are eating out. I hate to be the person with a screaming kid in a restaurant but I also do not plan to stop going out to eat. He has been good the past couple of time though, I have learned to pack several toys.

We are also trying to get him to go to bed at night on his own, instead of us rocking him to sleep. Most of the time he falls asleep during his last bottle anyways but there are nights that he will stay up forever. Thanks to his Grandma he got a toy for Christmas that plays music and has lights that goes in his crib. Hope this will help.

I am trying to teach Easton sign language. I have always wanted to do this when I had a kid, so I hope it works. Everything I have read says they should start around 6 months but I figured that I needed to learn the signs and incorporate them into our daily routine first. I am beginning with these- dad, mom, milk, eat, more, bath, and sleep. I can't wait until he can start manipulating his hands more and see if he is learning them.

We also had two holiday's since I wrote last, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I will post pics. Santa was very good to E. I never want to wish time away and I enjoy every moment of this age but one thing I really look forward to is Christmas when he is a little older and understands more.

The leave I was filling is over and that means I get to spend the next 7 months with my sweet baby!!! There are going to be so many big changes coming up with him, I am so glad I get to be here to see them. I felt like he didn't even know who I was when I was working. After all I was away from him more than I was with him, but don't get me wrong I am praying hard for a job next year!!

                                                        Santa brought E a Jumperoo.
                                          He doesn't love it but I am sure he will grow too.

                                                                    Thanksgiving

                                                                   Christmas pics

                                        @ Bass Pro Shop after getting pics made with Santa

First Iron Bowl

                                                

3 Months Old!!

                                                  We are now 1/4 of a year old :)

Feeding- He is eating 6oz every 3-4hrs (mostly every three, which leads me to ask when do they start going longer in between feedings?)

Sleeping- THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!! ( with the exception of a couple nights of course).

• We have started a night time routine with him which is bath, bottle, and then bed. It really helps, the couple of times he did wake up during the nights were the times we skipped bath time.

Milestones:

• Of course sleeping through the night is the biggest milestone for me.
• He has now found his hands. He gets his left hand and puts it right in front of his face and stares at it for the longest time. He also sucks on his right hand all the time and he is slobbering alot(I know those are signs of teething but I can't tell if he is or not).
• He has started laughing out loud. Which is the only thing that could melt my heart as much as seeing him smile.
• He is able to hold his head up for longer periods of time but he hasn't completely mastered this, I know it is coming soon.
• He rolled over for the first time, from his stomach to his back. It just so happens that I am the only one who seen it and I can not get him to do it again. He is very good about making a liar out of me ;)

• We celebrated Easton's first Halloween/first big holiday. He was the cutest frog ever!!! We went to our Church's Trunk or Treat but no one had milk so we opted for Milk Dud's instead.

Here is Daddy and Easton at a family reunion. This is the first time we have used the carrier. Josh got a little taste of what it felt like to carry him around for 9 months. It was hilarious watching him sit down and get up with that thing on, he looked just like a pregnant woman.

This is  Easton during some tummy time. He hates laying on his stomach.

2 Months

Wow I can't believe my little man is already 2 months (actually closer to 2 1/2 months it has just taken some time to sit down and write this). So much has happened in this past month, he is learning and doing new things everyday. He is also getting bigger every second, it is hard to look back at pics from a month ago and see how much he is already grown. I wish I could just freeze time, it is going by too fast!!

Feeding- He is eating around 5-6oz about every 3-4hrs (except during the night)

Sleeping- He sleeps anywhere from 5-9hrs

** My dear husband took him to his 2 month checkup and forgot to get his height and forgot the ounces on his weight so when I go back I plan to get those. I must say that I sent him with a list of questions to ask and he did get everyone of those answered so I can't be to mad at him.

Weight 11lbs ___oz

Milestones: At six weeks old he smiled at me for the first time. He has always done a little grin in his sleep since the day he was born but this was an actual wide awake, mommy said something funny smile. I cannot believe how much just seeing him smile makes my heart melt. It really is the little things.

At 2 months he slept through the night for the first time. He slept from about 9:00-6:00. Of course when I woke up and realized that he did not wake up I shot out of bed to make sure he was still breathing. After I got over my panic attack I was ecstatic about getting a full nights rest.

At a month and a half he spent the night away from home for the first time. We went to the Auburn game and spent the night so Easton stayed with his granna and grandad. It was hard leaving him but at the same time it was nice to get away and spend time with my hubby and friends.

Other News: I went back to work about 3 weeks ago. I am filling in for someone on maternity leave until Christmas break. I hate being away from Easton for so long but I sooo enjoy being back in the classroom. It also will make me appreciate more the time that I will get to spend with him once this is over. I really hope I get a job next year but being away for a couple months makes me realize how lucky I am to get to spend the first year at home with my son.

     Easton went to the ENT doctor Thursday to get his tongue checked out. He is what they call "tongue tied". The little part under our tongue that connects out tongue to the bottom of our mouth, well Easton's is at the tip of his tongue so they will have to cut it so that he won't have speech problems. We were hoping they could do it in the office when we went but the Dr. decided that it was to thick. So we will have to do it in an outpatient center and he will be put under anesthesia. It is the most minor procedure they do so we are just going to wait until after Christmas to get it done.

2 Months Old!!

Waiting at the doctor

Smiling :)

5 Weeks old

Week 5

Feeding- 4oz of formula and one 5 oz bottle before bedtime.

Sleeping- At the beginning of  the week he was sleeping 4-5 hrs during the night. By the end of the night he slept 6hrs!!!

He is starting to notice things more and follow me with his eyes. His toys are becoming more appealing to him this week.

He had a fever this week and felt awful. On Monday he was really fussy and burning up, he sweat through 2 of his outfits, I felt so bad for him but the Dr. said that I could not give him anything so I felt helpless. By Tuesday he was just kind of out of it. I held him all day and he just laid there. By Wednesday he started feeling a bit better. I think his fever was brought on by his shots at his 1 month checkup.

Weeks 3 and 4

Week 3

Feeding- This week I started weaning off breastfeeding. He was only getting about 1/2 oz to an 1oz. I breastfeed about once or twice a day and feed him 3 oz of formula every 3 hrs.

Sleeping- Still waking up every 3 hrs to eat during the night. He is starting to wake up more during the day, he is staying awake for 3 to 4 hrs at a time now.

This week we went to Boaz and watched the football game.

Daddy and Easton napping

He hasn't figured out he can just look up, he thinks he has to turn his head to see.

Week 4

Weight- 8 lbs 6 oz. He is in the 12th percentile for weight. He finally gained 2lbs since I quit starving him with trying to breastfeed.

Height- 21 and 3/4 inch. He is in the 70th percentile for heigth.

Sleeping- During the night he sleeps one 4 hr strectch and then wakes up every three hours. He is staying awake alot more during the day.

Feeding- 4 oz of formula every 3 hrs.

Went for his 1 month check up and got 1 shot and his foot pricked. He did good, he only cried for a minute.

He also started sleeping in his crib the day he turned a month old. He sleeps much better in his crib than he did in his bassinet.

1st nap in his crib

1 month old

2 Weeks old

Weight- 6lbs 6oz (he lost another oz)         Feeding- Breastfeeding and feeding 2 oz of formula every 3 hrs.
Sleeping- Still sleeping most of the day and waking up every 3 hrs during the night.

This week we made another trip to the pediatricians office. He had big lumps under his nipples, the doctor checked them and said that they were from hormones and it was normal. They went away by the end of week 3. His circumcision healed up this week and he was able to take his first real bath. His umbilical cord also fell off when he was 8 days old.

Two days before he turned 3 weeks old I left him for the first time to go to the Auburn game. I missed him sooo much but it was good to get out of the house and have some time alone with Josh.

1st trip to church

1st Week Home

Aug 24, 3 Days Old- First car ride, on the way home from the hospital.

1st day home

Watching Sleeping through first Auburn game.

August 25, 4 days old- 1st visit to the pediatrician.

Weight-6lbs 7oz ( he lost 5 oz)

Feeding- Breast feeding and supplementing with 1/2oz to an 1oz of formula.

Sleeping- Sleeps most of the day. The first night home I had to wake him up every 3 hrs to eat, by the second night home he was waking up by himself every 3 hrs.

Aug 26, 5 days old- we went to Boaz and had his newborn pictures made. He was a very good boy, he slept through most of it. After pictures he made his first trip to Mill Street and we ate lunch and then visited my family. By the time we got home I was worn out and hurting from going nonstop.  The next three days we stayed at home and rested. He pretty much slept through the entire first week.