Our little Pop Tart

Our little Andrew is 4 months old today! These four months has felt like forever. I don’t remember my life without him and having him in my life seems like the most natural thing in the world. He's still not sleeping through the night. He usually wakes up every 3 - 4 hours to feed. On rare occasions, I get a 6 hour stretch and those are awesome!

The poor little guy has been suffering a cold for the last three weeks with a lot of coughing and congestion. But despite the discomfort of not being able to breathe properly, he has been a real trooper and has such a great attitude! He loves to laugh and smile and is really starting to show his personality. Mommy has brought him to my office a few times and gets so much attention from my colleagues.

At his doctor visit today, he weighed 12 pounds and measured 24″ tall. The doctor is a little concerned about his weight and told us to increase the powder in the formula. She also said he could start eating solid food but thinks we should wait a few weeks until his viral infection is gone.

He spits up quite a bit after feedings. I'm not sure if it because he is eating too much or I'm not burping him enough during feedings, but hopefully he will outgrow it soon! The doctor thinks it might be because of the mucus.

We have another doctor’s appointment in a week to check on his cold and his weight. They didn’t give him the scheduled vaccines today so we’ll need to wait until he feels better.

Andrew has started grabbing anything he can get his hands on

His birthmother gave us several Packers clothes

So I haven’t had a whole lot to post about until this week when we went to Andrew’s 8 week well baby visit. Good Lord! I can’t believe Andrew is two months old…and while I’d like to say that it’s gone by really fast, it feels like he’s been here for a long time, which of course I mean that in the best way possible. All in all though, he is a great baby. For being two months old, he gets up about once in the night, twice tops. He doesn’t cry that much except for when he has gas. He’s beginning to lift his head up and get some neck control. He smiles randomly and he adores his mother.

Happy 2 Month Birthday!

At his 8 week checkup he weighed in at a whopping 10 pounds 4 ounces. We are all happy at how he is growing. We have been concerned about H1N1 – for which he is too little be vaccinated against; even scarier still is that a baby just died from H1N1 here at the local hospital. Oh yeah, and the vaccinations – two shots for our little guy that had him in tears for a few seconds, but to my surprise he recovered quite well.

But yes, my little boy is 8 weeks old and SOOOOOO big. God I love him :-)  Happy Two Months Bunny!!