We weighed you on the scale here at home last night and we are sure you between 19 and 20 pounds! We will get the official weight at the doctor later this week, but that is our estimate for now. You are even outpacing your sister, who was a giant baby! That makes you a super-giant baby!
You wear 9 and 12 month clothes, and some 6 month but not too many because those are a little snug. We basically just skipped right over that size! You wear size 3 diaper. You like your pacifier when you are trying to go to sleep or when you are starting to get hungry. You also love to suck on your pointer and middle fingers. You stay in the nursery each week while I go to Bible study and I left you with Nana and Papa for about 10 hours on New Years Eve, but other than that you and I don't get too far apart! You take a bottle just fine (hallelujah!!). You are pretty easy going, but you do seem to give some people, including daddy, fits when you get tired! You will snuggle up with me and not make a peep while drifting to sleep, but you scream bloody murder with him.
You nurse every 3ish hours during the day and either once or not at all during the night. However, there have been some nights (more than I like to admit) where you have woken a few times in the night and you end up in our bed. You like to cuddle with mommy (and me with you!) and its just easier for you to go to sleep next to me rather than me getting up with you again and again. This was NEVER done with your big sister, so please don't tell her! She had a very different baby personality than you and getting in our bed just made her more angry, AND I was to "by the book" to allow such nonsense to happen! :0 Oh, how times have changed.
Speaking of your big sister....she simply adores you! She gives you nearly a hundred kisses a day and still tells me in her shrieky excited voice every single time you smile at her! "Mommmmmy, he smiled at me!!!!!" She is always trying to "help" you and I just know you two will be great play buddies very soon because some of your biggest smiles are for her!
The pink glasses are compliments of her, by the way! She said you "needed" them!
You like to reach up for toys and grab them. Sometimes you try and put them up to your mouth. You have shown a great increase in head and neck control and core body strength over the past week or so. You have even tried to push weight through your legs the past few days! You don't show any interest in rolling over or grabbing your feet, which will probably be awhile considering the large belly you have to work with!
You experienced lots of "firsts" the past month: first Christmas, first 15 hour car ride!, first time to Indiana, first snow, and you met a lot of family members for the first time, including Great Grammy. They were all as smitten with you as we are!
Lastly, as a disclaimer just in case you realize as an adult that you have a complex rooted back to your childhood......we really don't mean all of the fat/tubby/chubby jokes that you hear us make about you ;) Just know that its all because we love you so very very much!
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