Almost 10 weeks - WOW!

What a happy baby!

Put him in a body bag, Johnny! YEA!!!

First day of school in Grandma MA's outfit!


Reading "Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich" with Mom!

So we have survived the first round of shots. It was brutal for Mom - when he turned purple with the silent scream, I wanted to scream for him. He got 3 shots in the leg and then one they give by mouth. He got some Tylenol before and then when we got home he got more and was fine until about 7pm, when the Tylenol had worn off and his legs were on fire. It took a bath, another dose of Tylenol and a little cereal for him to finally pass out and stop crying, but he did sleep until after 6 the next morning. And yes, I said cereal. The boy weighed in at a hefty 14 lbs, 3oz (pretty much doubling his body weight in 2 months) and has grown 4 inches since birth. No one believes he is only 2 months old to look at him - besides the fact that he is so advanced!! Back to cereal - the doc approved giving cereal at night and then gradually introducing it during the day with his formula. He also gets to have some apple prune juice - yummy... or not - to help with digesting the soy which does tend to back him up a little. The juice only happens about once a week and I think it will be the night before he goes back to daycare, so they have to change those diapers...hahahaha! We are going to stick with the soy, just because when we switched the first time - it was a little rough on his system, so since he is doing just fine with soy and there isn't a price difference - we'll deal with the smell for the duration.

As for daycare, Jake is loving it and they love him! He is the youngest baby right now in the infant class and every time I pop in to check on him, he is cuddled up on someone's chest or cooing at one of the teachers. They love having him and have all remarked on how calm he is. They don't really understand Andy's fashion sense for him (with all the Halloween outfits), but they all get a big grin when he comes in waiting to see what Dad has dressed him in that day! Jake had a lot of curious babies on his first day and when they put him in the bouncy chair, the ones that could, all crawled over to check him out. I think one of the little girls, London, has a little crush on him, so I'll have to keep my eye on her! They already have his foot prints up on the wall and are determined to get his hand prints before long. I have been very impressed with how caring the ladies are to all the children and that has made it a lot easier to leave him every day. The one thing I wasn't ready for was the temptation of having him so close to me. Every time I get a break at work, I want to walk over there and play with him. I have limited myself to only going once a day during lunch, but then its really hard to leave him again.

As for his other progress, Jake has mastered moving his head and follows us as we walk around him. He can hold his head up for minutes at a time and now even has conversations with us! I love when he makes his high pitched squeal - it is the cutest! He smiles almost constantly (if he's not hungry or wet) and really recognizes Andy and I. Andy is working on his hand/eye coordination and depth perception today, trying to get him to grab toys and give him high fives. He is quickly getting the hang of it, too. Next the left handed knuckle ball - according to Andy!!! Pretty soon he'll be all over the place and I'll be longing for the day that I could put him down and walk away, come back and he's in the same spot!!!!