Braden is 9 weeks old and he went in for his 2 month check up at the pediatrician today. The bottom line is that he is growing like a weed!! Chris and I always play a little game where we guess how much he will weigh at each appt. :) We were both WAY off this time! HA!! We were guessing around 11ish lbs...a little over, and Braden topped the scales at 12 lbs 5 oz. :) What a little man! :) He also grew 2 inches..so he is now 24 inches long. That would completely explain why he is almost grown out of all of his 0-3 months clothes already!! Goodness..I cannot keep up with this length unless he wants to wear highwaters! HA! :)
He is a little stinker b.c when we are at home he HATES tummy time. When I say "hate" I mean WAILING when we make him do it. You would think we were poking him with needles or something the way he goes nuts. :) Red face, crying so hard he cannot breathe-you get the picture. :) So yesterday at the doc they were testing his development, and sure enough he made huge liars out of Chris and I. He was a HUGE showoff!! As soon as she flipped him on his stomach he might as well have just started crawling for as good as he did!! :) HA!! He was all propped up showing off his neck and never made one peep. It really was crazy. The doc was laughing for sure. :) Maybe we should have people come to our house all the time when we do tummy time b.c apparently he likes to show off for them! :)
Everything checked out great at the appt...and he got his first round of vaccines. That was really NOT fun for me and I started tearing up when he was crying. That cry just completely breaks my heart. Ugh. :( Cannot stand it. But he did well despite how much I am sure it hurt...and the infant Tylenol kicked into high gear which was nice. He was sound asleep from about 5 pm on. :)
Braden had a little bit of a personality change starting last Sunday night. It was like someone flipped a switch and another baby had taken his place. We could not put our finger on what was wrong but it was safe to say that about 90% of the time that his eyes were open, so was his mouth....meaning Cryfest 2009!! We were shocked and had no idea what in the world was wrong with him!! So we wondered until we took him for his checkup...and it turns out that he just need an increase in his acid reflux medicine! Sheesh!! He has a slight case of it and he takes some medicine to make him feel better. We had not really noticed it affecting him too much since he had been born...until Sunday night!! Whew!! So glad we solved that one!! Turns out that he was on the same dosage at 12 pounds that he was on at 6 pounds, and he needed an increase for sure. Makes complete sense...just never thought of it. That must be why I am not a pediatrician. :) So we have our sweet baby back..and that is all that matters. :)
He has a really good schedule down now which is such a huge relief for Chris and I. He goes down for the night between 8 and 9, and gets out of his crib in the morning between 8 and 9. Heaven! :) He only gets up to eat once between 5 and 6 am and we are working to drop that feeding. :) He has been eating very consistently...as this child does not miss a meal. :) He eats 6 times a day, every 3 hours... basically down to the minute. It is hysterical!! :) We are trying to finalize the daytime nap schedule and then hopefully all the pieces will fall into place. :) The hope is that it all comes together in the next 3 weeks before I head back to work. Here's hoping and praying! :)
Braden did a lot of fun things this past week again. We went to Square One, went and saw another movie, "Law Abiding Citizen", went out to eat a few times, went and ran a lot of errands, went and had lunch with Chris, had friends over to play, went to our Small Group Halloween social, and spent some good time outside. :) He is becoming quite the social butterfly! LOL! :)
Just a couple of pics from the last few days below. I did not take as many this week b.c I took so many when Chris's family was in town last weekend.
Just hanging out in my bouncy seat with my "huggable" shirt on.. :) His hair was going a little crazy in the front. :)
Just in case you were wondering if we love him!! :) We do!! :) HA!! His shirt even says so! :) He has the little pouty face kickin in this pic. :)
There was definitely not any "peace" in our house when this little crying spell was going on. :)
Fun times with Allison and Harrison.... :) Cannot wait until Braden is a little bigger to really play with him! 
Sweet Paula came to visit and love on Braden... :)
I can't wait to meet him. We need to before he gets too much bigger.
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