10/17/12 - Adam at 6 weeks

Adam is now 6 weeks old.  It is incredible how quickly he is changing!  Over the past week, I have started to see how much he is growing, starting with him growing out of his newborn sized clothing!  This was slightly sad for me at first, but I am coming to enjoy the other changes that have accompanied this growth spurt.  First of all, Adam has been much more alert and playful during the days.  He is now laughing and smiling while you are talking to him occasionally, instead of just while he was sleeping like he did before.  Also, his vision has gotten much more clear.  He will now follow you across the room with his eyes, and can much more easily spot his dad when he comes home!  It is nice to know that he sees and hears us without being a foot from his face.  He still does the snort when he cries, but he has perfected the scolding cry!  He very rarely cries producing tears, instead, he finds it much more fruitful to hollar at you.  I will have to video-tape it because it is hard to describe this scolding cry, but it surely makes us laugh!

Yesterday, Auntie Krissy was up to visit so that I could get some stuff done.  This is a wonderful gift that Krissy has given me, as I look forward to a few hours of getting showered, or cleaning the house, or even just sitting down to visit with her!  Since Adam has been much more playful and okay with being on the floor without crying after 5 minutes, we decided to open up his baby einstein play gym.  He LOVED it!  He layed on the floor watching the light-up star above him and staring at himself in the mirror for at least an hour and a half!  I thought maybe he would get bored, but he didn't!  He loved it so much that I put him down on the floor to play several more times during the day.  He was awake most of the day because of this, and slept 7 hours without eating last night!  I am hoping we are on to a new trend!  I loved my extra sleep, and even felt rested enough to get on the computer and blog this morning before 10AM!

Today, Adam had his first set of social smiles.  Derek was talking to him and he just started smiling and laughing at him.  It was so cute!  I hope we get to see more smiles in the coming weeks!  He is so fun!

 

 
I am supposed to be studying for my Step 2 of the medical boards, but it is awfully hard to do when all I really want to do is watch Adam!  It seems like he is doing something new every day!  Now to get ready for Halloween.... we still have no pumpkins and have not got to the orchard yet!  Lots to do!!

Adam is 1 month!

10/5/2012


It is hard to believe that it has been a month since baby Adam was born!  It is also hard to believe that I have not posted on his blog since then!  I guess I have been enjoying cuddling with him as much as possible, which means not having both hands available for typing!  Oh, to recap the past month!

Well, I will just go over some of my favorite things that Adam has been doing.

1.  Adam has decided that he loves bath time.  Derek installed a heat fan in the middle bathroom, which Adam loves! He rarely cries in the tub, and seems to just enjoy being toasty warm!

2.  Adam has this adorable snort when he gets really upset.  As much as we hate seeing him cry, it is hard not to smile at how adorable his tiny cry and snort sound!

3.  He loves being cuddled up to his Dad in the morning.  He seems to know exactly when 7:30 AM rolls around, and he will cry to get out of his basinet, but then will stop crying and go back to sleep the second he is cuddled into the crook of dad's arm.  The two of the will rest together until dad has to get up to go to work.  I love waking up to the two of them all cuddled in!

4.  Adam rolled over from his tummy to his back for the first time on September 29th.  He got himself so frustrated with his little fists all balled up, and pushed himself right over.  He seemed to surprise himself.  He has done in twice since then, which seems to be incredibly early to be rolling on his own.  I guess I should be prepared for this strong little guy to be on the move early!

5.  Adam has found his thumb!  He has not quite gotten the understanding of balling up the rest of of his fingers so that they don't end up in his face yet!  So now,  he sucks his thumb with all of his fingers up in his face near his eyes and nose, and occasionally scratches himself when he tries to move his hand.

As for sleeping, Adam does pretty good, usually 4-6 hours at a time.  Can't complain about that! :-)  He is definitely an easy-going baby!