excuse me?! how did we get here so quickly? ugh, slow down time! we have an appointment on the 28th, so i'll update his stats after that. i'm so anxious to find out how big he is! he definitely looks like a monster. we met a 10-month-old the other day and dax looked almost as big as her! yowsa!
nicknames: dax, d, bubbers, munchkin, and tyke.
likes: grabbing at everything in sight, followed by immediately putting it in his mouth. playing on his harry potter blanket on the floor. laughing at his goofball parents. sleeping on his side.
dislikes: taking zantac, being hungry, being overwhelmed.
milestones: oh, man, this month has been fun! daxon is grabbing at everything. if it's in front of him, he will try to grab it. and if he gets it, he will try to put it in his mouth. if it's too big, he will work on it to try to figure out a way to get it in his mouth. like, he really concentrates on it! baby boy is able to sit up, assisted, and has definitely started trying to pull himself up to sit when he's propped up on our legs or in the boppy. i seriously think that all his "workouts" with daddy have something to do with that - his ab muscle are really strong! he is laughing, smiling, and talking a lot! he rolled over - once - from front to back. and lately i'm finding him sleeping on his side when i wake him up in the morning!
clothing size: still wearing 3-month stuff pretty well. they're starting to get a little snug, but i think we've still got a couple weeks in them.
sleep: we had a week of nighttime wake-ups, but seems like we are back on track with sleeping through (*knocks wood*). i do think we need to move bedtime up a bit, cuz he is getting kinda cranky by around 7:30, when it used to be he could go till 8. i think after our 4-month appointment, we will also start changing up the bedtime routine so that he is not being nursed to sleep. nursing him to sleep works so well, but i'd really like to break that sleep association before it becomes too strong. i'm already worried, though, because i'm noticing that when i take him upstairs for bed, as soon as i start his massage/lullaby, he starts smacking his lips. so breaking that association could prove to be a bit difficult. although the other night i was out with friends after work and matt had to put him down. matt put him in his crib after a bottle and he wasn't sleeping, but he didn't cry or fuss too much, and eventually (after kicking himself around 180-degrees) he finally fell asleep on his own. so maybe it won't be too bad? guess we'll find out!
naps: naps are much more regular, now! at daycare, he typically sleeps 8:30-9, 10-11, then 1-3. those times change a bit every day, but for the most part it's fairly consistent. we try to stick to that on the weekends, but it's hard, and so far he doesn't seem to go into full-on meltdown mode if he misses a "naptime." hopefully that continues.
eating: he is still eating well. he gets 3 5oz bottles at daycare. he nurses once in the morning, once when we get home in the evening, and once at bedtime. he is doing this new thing now where every morning he spits up. every.single.morning. i've tried burping him 3 or 4 minutes in, and still - instant puke. we are soaking a burp cloth a day from it. i'm at the point now where i don't get him dressed until after we finish nursing, because i always had to change his clothes! so now i wake him up, change his diaper, nurse him in just his diaper, then clean him up and get him dressed. i think he's probably just eating too much too fast, because it doesn't happen at any other feeding, and daycare says he's not doing it for them. i've tried hand-expressing a bit before nursing him but that doesn't really seem to help. he definitely isn't in any distress from it. he pukes, then looks at me and bursts into a big grin. stinker.
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He's so cute and big already!
happy belated mother's day! daxon is so stinkin' adorable...all that hair! ahh, I love it! I loved reading about all of his milestones. and I loved the assistant onesie you got for him and i'm sure your husband did too!
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