week 11

A lot has gone on this week. I’m exhausted!

Frustrations:
Had issues a few days this week getting him to sleep at night, at a reasonable hour.
I upped his ounces of formula to 3 but he’s still getting hungry every hour and a half, I’m not supposed to feed him no less then 2 hours, I can’t up it any more and sometimes he does last the 2 hours, but the doctor said to not give him too much, certainly since his little stomach isn’t that big and I don’t want him spitting up all the time, he finally slowed down on that a little. LOL. A little.
Had one night this week where he HAD to sleep with me.

Accomplishments:
He’s discovered his feet!
He’s making different noises now, more vowel sounds then utter gibberish, and one of them sounds like he’s saying yeah. SO CUTE!
Giving him water has helped out a lot, I know he doesn’t like having poopy diapers, but I think it’s so bad to not have a freaking bowel movement in 5 days! So giving him 8 ounces of water a day has gotten him a bowel movement every other day instead of every 5 days, so hopefully it will get even better.
He can play for up to an hour and a half before getting tired.
He’s been sleeping longer at night, instead of sleeping 5-6 hours, then waking up every 2 hours after that, its been pretty consistent with him waking between 2 and 3 am then not waking until 7 or 8 am unless I have to wake him up to take him to my Moms. This is letting me sleep in a little more and it’s making me more and more patient.
Chris bought this cool sling called the Over The Shoulder Baby Holder back when Isaac was a month old but not only could we never figure out how to use it, but Isaac hated the thing, well we finally got it working and Isaac to tolerate it for a little while. I think once the weather cools off and it’s not a freaking furnace in the sling he will like it more.
He likes watching T.V.
He likes looking at pictures from magazines. So far he has taken an interest in babies and Scooby, and a dislike to the Aflack duck LOL.

In other related news:
I think its time for him to start getting used to sleeping with out the help of his swing. For now I am going to see if he will nap during the day with out his swing, probably put him on my bed for now, so that when he sleeps I can be near by. Then eventually I am going to get that baby monitor working and see if he will sleep in his crib during nap time. If this is accomplished pretty easily not only am I going to thank God for it but I am going to eventually try and see if maybe, just maybe, he will sleep in his crib with out the help of the swing at night! One step at a time!
After this is accomplished, hopefully by 4 months, I am going to start to try and get him to not wake up for a midnight snack; I know that one will take a long time. But I have been talking to other mothers, and been reading some tips on how to do it. So just maybe by 6 months he’s in his own bed and sleeping all night long. With him being almost 3 months now, that leaves 3 months to accomplish all this. Sounds fair to me!
I finally got him scheduled to get circumcised. I’m still a little nervous about it though, I know its going to hurt him, but I think it’s going to be for the best. I’m hoping Chris can go with me; I don’t want to go alone!
I’ve been reading to Isaac on and off [pretty much when I feel like it] but we’re on our second book now, I want to make sure he gets a good early start on liking Fantasy novels so the first one I read to him was about dragons and now with the final Harry Potter book in my possession this coming weekend I’m going to read all 7 of those to him [also gives me a chance to remember what was going on once I get to the last book!]. Of course, I am skipping the bad words [they say damn a few times if I remember right] and probably going to silently read some of the more violent stuff, like the fights! I have some really cool young adult fantasy books I am planning on reading him, and then maybe I guess I will get to those trillion baby books I got in the closet!

ME:
I found a website: www.sittercity.com that you put in all these applications and resumes for babysitting jobs in your area. Just in case watching Celicity falls through. No hits yet, but there seems to be a lot of people looking for babysitters on here. You can even sign up for pet sitting as well. Hopefully I get a couple jobs to get some extra cash in my pocket to pay off my credit card, some bills, or something. So if you know any one who needs a baby sitter, or likes to baby sit, it’s a wonderful site.
In the mean time I will be helping my friend Katie’s mom with some house cleaning, with her Mom having a shoulder injury and just out of surgery she can’t do much, and I don’t think her Dad can either. A little extra cash won’t hurt right now!

So yes, it’s been a long exciting week with new discoveries and challenges!