This Little Bear

Here's an outfit my mom bought in Guatemala for Ian waaaay back when - sometime last fall when I was preggers. Rrrrow!

Chicken Boy

Here is the stuffed knitted chicken my mom just finished for Ian. I bought her a how-to book about knitted toys and this was her first project. Cute cute!

(more pics on my Flickr account...)

Boogies

I just pulled out the largest booger I've ever seen. It was so hard and big, it wouldn't even fit in my nose! Poor little guy's got ginormous nostrils, apparently. When I washed it down the sink it sank immediately down the drain. Ian cried and fussed as I was aspirating it out with that bulby thing for babies. No wonder! I feel like I pulled out some of his brain...

Lights! Fans! Peter Pan!

Just like that *snap*, the love affair with the diaper changing table seems to have come to an end. Perhaps Ian will have a rendezvous with it from time to time, but now his new love is lights and ceiling fans.

He will lay on the bed and stare, smile, giggle, and "talk" to our new ceiling fan for upwards of 20 minutes. When holding him, he'll crane his neck until he's a perfect arc in order to stare at the ceiling lights, enchanted. His body (head craned back, back arched, feet pointed outward) looks like something out of Cirque du Soleil.

When you hold him up in that arcked position and away from your body, you can make him "fly" through the air like Errol Flynn's Peter Pan (or like the Sandy Duncan version, as well). Wheeeeeee!!!

Introducing Giggles McGee

Got Milks?

The Football Hold - ten hut!

Fat Bald Innocent

Baby Bob Hope

Hands & Feet

One-Sock Ian

Whoa, this blog has gotten stale! Here're a few updates:

He is now on a fairly decent nighttime sleeping schedule. He sleeps around 10pm, and wakes to nurse around 1am, 4am, and 7am. It's gotten so much easier. He feeds for about 15 minutes then falls right back asleep. So efficient!

Also, I've nursed a few times w/o the nipple shields with some success. He still does better with them on - gets more milk in less time, which is good for us both. I have set a goal of exclusively breastfeeding until 3 months at which time I will return to work and my mom will step in as caretaker. I plan tp pump at work but hear that milk supply greatly decreases this way so chances are he will need to be supplemented with formula. If that happens, my next goal is to provide as much breast milk as possible until 6 months. At this time we'll introduce solids so there won't be a big need to milk/formula. I hope to give him my breast milk as a snacky until he's 1 year old. After that, it's whiskey all the way.

He has gotten so big! His hair is coming in reddish-blond, but he still has the dark hair on the top and around the bottom of his head. My mom says he looks like a friar. He smiles a lot, too in reaction to my, Jason's, and my mom's voices. He even laughs a little and talks a ton. Lots of "eh eh eh" and "oooooh." Yesterday, for the first time, he nearly turned himself over in the crib. As I understand it, this is a huge development that happens around this time. And today he's 7 weeks old!

He remains One-Sock Ian - always kicking one off snd leaving the other on. So strange. But, he is wearing some of his 6-month clothing. My! We'll have to start calling him Ian the Gentle Giant. Ho ho ho - gentle giant!