4 months!

getting shots at the docs yesterday :/

Height: 25.5 inches (75th percentile)
Weight: 13.2oz (25th percentile)
Clothing Size: 6months
Favorite Foods: Momas milk & rice cereal
Likes: baths, mirrors, kicking & standing
Dislikes: being hungry, shots
Favorite Toy: His new rainforest jumperoo & the plastic monkey that hangs on his carseat
Is looking forward too: Getting more hair & eating his next meal

This month has been deemed the month of a lil bit of tough love. We're all talk when it comes to letting him cry it out, we've made it 10mins but I don't think either of us have a wall up strong enough to let him cry longer...perhaps as he gets older that will become easier. We're also in process of eliminating the swaddle blanket at night. He doesn't nap with the swaddle but apparently naptime and bedtime are totally different. We've attempted on several occasions to put him down cold turkey no swaddle, with no success. So now plan B, this week one arm out, next week two arms out, the following week -free as a bird. Annnnd to add to the tough love theme...I'm working on doing what I can to get him to sleep through the night. For a while now he's been going to bed at 7pm and consistently getting up to feed at midnight, 3am'ish & sometime between 5am-6:30am. So for the past couple days I've just tried to get him to go back to sleep at 3am instead of feeding him. So far so good. If all goes as planned by months end we will have a baby that can sleep through the night without being swaddled :o Jackpot.

On the parenting front things have definitely been getting easier. Of course I say that this morning - as I'm gulping decaf coffee in hopes to soak in the minuscule amount of caffeine because Logan & I spent the hours between 3am and 5am trying to get him to go back to sleep until we finally got up and watched the news until 7am. He naps now and although Kevin told me to nap with him today, I'm up. In Logans defense he had shots yesterday at the docs and we were told he might be in pain and be a little extra fussy for the next 24hrs...doesn't make being in a zombie state any easier.

If I had to - on a difficulty/stress scale of 1 -11. 1 being easy breezy and 11 being the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest with no food or sleep. Months 0-3 of raising our first newborn baby would be an 8. And while I don't think for the next 18 years we'll ever be at a 1, we are definitely on our way down the scale - I'd be so bold to say we've dropped to a 6 which is similar to running a half marathon everyday ...still tired and still no walk in the park but we've had 3 months to get in shape & now we just enjoy the scenery as we make the run :)