Clapping and Wrapping

We've learned a new skill: clapping!

He mostly does it while eating, but also did it for a while during our (failed) attempt at a nap this morning. It's very cute, though, and he seems pretty proud of himself. :)

Sleeping

This hasn't been the greatest week for sleep, but far from the worst. He's generally had one MOTN wake-up per night, but it's been lengthy (30-90 minutes). Timing varies - one night it started at 11pm, one night it started at 2:45am. It's typically towards the later end, but there's no rhyme or reason to it.

His daycare naps have been alright, too - usually two naps, anywhere from 30-90 minutes. Occasionally we'll get a 2-hour block from him there, but that's rare.

Today we tried something different for the weekend... when he woke up at 5, I fed him then put him back down. He slept until 7:15 which was great! But it screwed up our nap routine for the day. He flat-out refused his morning nap and finally went down right after lunch. All my plans for today went out the window! :(




Eating

Oh yes, we love eating. Give us all the foods!

Pictured below (top-bottom, L-R):
Eggs for breakfast!
Shoving whole animal crackers in our mouth.
French fries at Mojo's on Thursday night.
Fun with spoons.
Check out my toofers!
Messy lunch - black refried bean quesadillas






Still nursing/pumping, too - nothing changed there so far. I'm still thrilled to bits that my freezer stash is growing. I even organized it last weekend!



I think I'm up to 130oz frozen... enough for 5-6 days. Yay! I think, based on my calculations, I know of 8 days total that I'll need milk for... if I can keep up my current rate of pumping and stashing, I should be ok. Fingers crossed!!

The best part, though, is that nursing means I get my guaranteed Dargan snuggles :)  <3



Movement

Still not crawling, but boy, he wants to go places! He'll push up and pivot around... that's about as far as we've gotten.

I did finally witness a front-to-back rollover last weekend, too!

But he still prefers just sitting and playing...



Wrapping

Aquaria is still visiting (thanks to an understanding and generous owner!) so I've had more chances this weekend to wrap D. We've even had our first try at some back carries, and he really enjoys it! He'll just sit back there quietly while I go about doing dishes, cooking, laundry, and whatever else.

First pics are a Basic Ruck back carry (from several different days), last three pics are a Double Hammock back carry.

9 Month Check-up

Mr. Man is 17lb 8.5oz (13th percentile), and just shy of 28" tall (3.5th percentile). His weight for height ratio is in the 50th percentile, right on target. He's on par with developmental milestones and Dr. Butcher has no concerns at this point!

He did great at the appointment even though it was right during his usual morning nap time. He took a long afternoon nap at daycare, so he was in great spirits when we picked him up. We celebrated with a trip to Barley's for dinner! Dargan enjoyed gnawing on a pizza crust with his now TWO teeth!!

40 Weeks Old

Sleeping

Over the past week we've gotten in a pretty good routine. He napped decently at daycare most days, slept pretty well at night, and we even kept him on a good schedule over the weekend (yay for not screwing things up!). Typical day involves waking up between 5:30/6, first nap around 9, second nap starts around 1/2pm, then bedtime at 7:30. His naps on the weekends are pretty consistently at least one hour, usually two for the morning nap. At daycare it's less consistent, I guess due to noise and general distractions, it's harder to get good sleep. Sometimes I wish they would be more consistent about putting him down to nap at the same time each day, but I guess that is a lot to ask (and of course, I'm sure he wouldn't always cooperate!).

Sweet napping babe

Night time is pretty good, usually just an early-morning wakeup due to poop (oh how I wish we could re-schedule his digestive system) around 4/5am. Sometimes we can get him back to sleep after changing, sometimes (like this morning) not so much. Occasionally we'll have a MOTN (middle of the night) wake-up, but usually it's not too hard to get him back to sleep after just some rocking.

Hanging out on an early weekend morning.

If I hadn't mentioned it before, I'm also ready to say that we've officially night-weaned (i.e. he doesn't eat overnight anymore). This is a huge step! And that brings us to...

Eating

We have no trouble in the eating category! Kid loves his food. This week he's been having peaches and cantaloupe with dinner, along with grilled zucchini. On Saturday he got some fancy dinner (with our Valentine's meal) - parmesan risotto and steak! He loved the risotto.

He's going to be feeding himself with utensils before too long!

Still nursing am/pm on weekdays and 5x/day on weekends. And still getting enough surplus to put away a bag or two of milk in the freezer each week! Hoorah!

Spoons also make good percussion instruments.

Life

We had another snow last week! Thankfully it was enough to look pretty during the day, but it was gone about as quickly as it came down since the temps warmed up in the afternoon.



Still trying to encourage some crawling, but he mostly just supermans and fusses. They say he's starting to scoot around at daycare a little bit, but he's still not getting very far.

Grannie and Grandpa Wetmore came to visit on Saturday (a belated birthday celebration for me), and we went out to lunch at Upstate Craft Beer Co. Dargan was great, and he's now recognized by some of the staff there!

 

Pics from around the house:

 
 



Another visiting wrap... this is Aquaria:
 

And Monday ended with some icy weather... perfect for couch snuggles!
 

Upcoming

• Dargan's 9 Month check-up on Friday

9 Months Old

Three quarters of a year old! How does this happen!?

"Who me??"

Nothing to report, just the usual smattering of photos and outtakes... he wasn't in a great mood this morning.