First Roll!

Parker is 10 weeks old now and growing up to be such a handsome boy! With the cool snap, he got to wear his snuggly outfit...

He is doing really great sleeping through the night now too. He goes to bed right after his 7pm feeding. Then we do a "dreamfeed" at about 11pm (he doesn't wake up, just eats with his eyes closed) then he sleeps until about 6 am. At that point he usually wakes up but will put himself back to sleep or hang out contently until I go get him at 7am to start the day. Then he is on a 3 hr schedule for the day of eat~play~sleep. It's been great having the consistent schedule to get some predictability to our days!

Tummy time is still going really great! He has been consistently pushing up on his hands and getting his head up to look at you.

He had also been getting this leaning thing going on like he was trying to look up at the ceiling. Then on Saturday he leaned so far he rolled over to his back! I thought it might be a fluke, so I put him back on his tummy and sure enough he did it again! Kyle was at work so I texted him. Of course, he didn't believe me and thought I had helped push him over. Then the more we talked about it, I started to think maybe it was just a freak thing. But yesterday and today he has done it multiple times - so we officially have a roller on our hands!!! I caught it on tape this morning!

Other things going on right now... He officially found his thumb! He is good about using it to self-soothe but doesn't just suck all the time. It makes me want to quit swaddling his arms when he goes to sleep so if he wakes up he can get it if he wants. But then again, his random arm movements will wake him up, so I think I am going to keep them in a bit longer and just rely on the pacifier to help him get himself back to sleep if needed.

He is so smiley and giddy now - it's just precious. He particularly likes getting his diaper changed! It's hilarious... you put him down on the changing pad and he just starts smiling and kicking and making all kinds of sounds! I'll have to try to get a picture of how happy he is!

His cradle cap is also back and worse than before - YUCK! It's definitely no fun, but I'm trying to keep it under control with oil treatments. They help, but don't get rid of it entirely...

On Saturday we took Parker to Mina and Justin's engagement party! We are so excited for them and can't wait for the wedding. Lots of our friends that hadn't met Parker yet were there, so that was an added bonus!

My first Mother's Day yesterday was great! We went to the lake with my Mom's side of the family (us, Mom/Dad, Ems/Marcus, Muffy, Aunt Cindy, Allison/Joe). It was great to have everyone together. We didn't get the best weather on Sunday, but it was nice to kinda lounge around together! That's it for now - until next time...

Traumatic Events

Today brought many dramatic events for the little Parkster... First of all, we had his 8 wk appointment with the pediatrician this morning. Everything went well! He is 10 lb, 4 oz now and 23 inches long - that puts him in the 22nd percentile for weight and the 58th percentile for height (both are up from the last visit). He is pretty skinny though because for his weight to height ratio he is in the 2nd percentile! We might have to beef him up a little ;) But the doctor said he is eating good and is right on track.

He also got 3 shots and one oral vaccine today - as you can guess, he didn't like that very much. He took them pretty well though. They did 2 at once then the third so it was like he only got pricked twice. She was pleased to hear he is smiling now, so that was a big check off his development list! His assignment for the next appt at 4 months is to be able to roll over and laugh. I can't wait until the laughing comes! So, to get him rolling over we will have to be diligent with our tummy time. He does good with it right now and has mastered switching his head from side to side. He also lifts his head up sometimes too just to look around.

We just opened up his play pen this last weekend for the first time and put him in it. Man does he get giddy in that thing! He just smiles and coos for a good 15 minutes straight! He loves it!

So I had a suspicion coming into this appointment that Parker might be tongue-tied (tongue attached too tight to the bottom of his mouth). Kyle thought I was crazy and just getting freaked out by things I read on the internet, but turns out I was right! My first inclination was the fact that he was taking awhile to latch on when breast-feeding, or he would just lose the latch and have to re-do several times in one feeding. So I started my investigation and found that one reason could be because he was tongue-tied. Then I realized Parker was experiencing a couple other symptoms... when he had a big open mouth cry, his tongue was in a V-shape (like the middle was tacked down). I also noticed as we were starting to wean over to bottle feeding, that certain nipples were not working. He would suck happily for 20-30 minutes and not even get a whole ounce out. I realized that those particular nipples require him to depress the part closer to the base, and I figured Parker couldn't stick his tongue out far enough to make that happen, so he wasn't getting a regular flow of formula. Anyway - we went to an ENT today and got it snipped, so he his A-OK now! He definitely didn't like it (no anesthetic), but it was quick and he was over it in a couple minutes. He got a little bit on the bottle and then his paci right afterward (apparently the sucking makes the bleeding stop!). I'm glad we went ahead and got it taken care of now to avoid any speech problems later down the road.

So needless to say, he had quite a traumatic day with the shots and the frenulum snip, but all is well now. Sorry for the lengthy post!