Thanks Auntie Shari & Uncle Jack!

" Can you see my buds?"

Auntie Shari & Uncle Jack got Robbie this adorable little outfit when he was first born and now it finally fits him!

Thanks guys!

Come on out teeth.... stop hurting him!

The little guy has NOT been sleeping well for me. Sunday night he was up over 6 times and at 3am he was wide awake & crying. Colin had to go sleep downstairs because it was too much! Last night started off good but when he woke up at 9 for his dream feed he was wide awake & screaming his lungs off. He wouldn't eat, I tried to hug him and he kept on arching his back and pulling on my hair (grr).... walking was the only thing that calmed him down, so I ended up feeding him while walking. Usually after a night time feed he falls back asleep... not this time =( He kept crying & screaming, nothing that I did seemed to help him. So I put him in his crib and let him deal with it on his own. He did end up putting himself to sleep. After he woke up for his next feeding I took him into bed with me & kept him there, this way if he woke up I could pop a boob in there before he got too fussy and woke himself up. I have been giving him Tylenol when he needs it (which seems to be almost every 4hrs) and that helps a little bit the first couple of hours but it seems that I'm always counting down to until the next time I can give it to him again.

His days have changed as well, he has a 2 sec attention span! He would prefer standing than sitting and playing with toys. Ooooo yesterday he did an army crawl! He was trying to get one of the dogs chew toys (he never seems to want his toys) so I laid him on the ground and he started kicking his feet like crazy but because he was on hardwood he had no traction. So I put my hands behind his feet and he kicked off of them & crawled with his arms! I stopped him before he had time to get to the toy.

The boys are both sleeping

It's 1:30 pm and both my boys are quietly tucked away in their respective beds... for one of them, this is their nap time... the other, well I chalk it up to old age =P

I forgot to mention in last post that we introduced Robbie to butternut squash yesterday, he did the same thing as he's done with all his solids... he gives a sour face for a split second and then he opens his mouth panting for more food. hahaha! This morning I looked in the freezer & saw all these veggies I have frozen and decided that I'll do a veg in the morning & lunch so that we can speed up this process and get into the good stuff (fruit!) So this morning, shortly after he nursed, he had 2Tbsp of cereal and 2Tbsp of green beans. I let the veggies thaw in the sunlight and they were cool to the touch when I fed them to Robbie & he didn't mind it at all.

This morning I had him in bed with me while I was feeding him after he was done he rolled over and gently put his hand on Colin's arm. He kept doing the same tapping motion over and over until Colin opened up his eyes.... it was so precious. Once Colin opened up his eyes Robbie gave him the biggest gummy smile. It was a definite Kodak moment! So the three of us were up and were laying in bed playing with the monster when he started doing his latest discovery. He doesn't blow his raspberries anymore.. he spits them! And he seems to have mastered the trick to get it on my face! It's pretty cute though, so I don't mind =P

I got the opportunity to pick up some summer clothes for Kailey at Old Navy.... HOLLY HANNAH, did I have a blast! I was giggling to myself while looking at all the cute dresses and I kept asking Robbie if he'd like to see a girl wearing something like this.

Afternoon w/ Grampy & Swimming!

Friday afternoon Robbie & I went to visit Grampy (Grammy was working) he had so much fun squealing at every toy Grampy showed him. Grampy took Robbie around the house & showed him all the cool things in the house, Robbie was very quiet and content as he studied everything around him.

Today we took our little guy swimming...FINALLY! YAY! I was definitely more excited than Robbie & Colin put together.. hahaha! We got to the pool & checked it out and then I took Robbie into the changing room to get dressed. One major problem - his trunks didn't fit him any more!!!! The mesh lining in the swim trunks were so tight around his chunky legs, so Colin & I borrowed some scissors from the kiosk & we cut the lining out. They fit him better after our mini alteration but it was still a fairly tight squeeze. So of we went into the pool & waited for our instructor. Robbie was jerking around in my arms & squealing away... we waited about 5 mins until our instructor called our class into the water. The water was sooo warm, it was the same temp as my showers (I like 'em hot)! As soon as the water touched Robbie he went quiet, I think the whole thing was a little overwhelming for a baby that's never been in a big pool where mom's throwing you, putting your face in the water and splashing you. Regardless, he was pretty content through the whole thing (45 mins class) They gave us 2x 5min breaks to do whatever we wanted... during the first break I took him into the washroom and fed him, he was getting a little fussy and some food is all that he wanted. We sang songs and practiced different ways to float... then came the big one, submerging. Colin had prepped me before hand that he wasn't ready to see Robbie go underwater, so when the instructor was telling us how to do it I kept on looking at Colin for the okay. After a couple of minutes of watching all the other babies go underwater Colin gave me the nod to do it. "1 - 2- 3 - DUNK" The first time I went underwater with him so that he could see me & my reaction when he came up. Total and utter shock is the only way to describe his reaction, he didn't cry... he had no idea what to make of the situation. I did it a couple more times and got the same reaction each time. We left the class a little bit earlier so that we could get a shower & get some of the salt off of us. Once we got to the lockers that's when he started to cry and it got a little frustrating for me, his swimming diapers were so hard to get off of him because they were wet and sticking to his skin. I quickly got him dressed and went to the lobby so that Colin could hold him while I get myself dressed. Once we got into the car he went completely silent and fell asleep, when we got home I was able to unbuckle him and take him inside without waking him up (that's how tired he was!) I popped him into his crib and he was still sound asleep!

I think I'm going to try taking Robbie to the pool during the day on my own. Once he warms up to the idea of the pool I think he'll love it and it's great for me. He falls asleep quickly and without a peep! There are a ton of pictures on the website

Pictures, pictures and more pictures

So I got "inspired" while I was putting away some laundry today (yes... I do laundry... some times) and I subjected my model to some more torture for your viewing pleasure.

Enjoy!

Nut Update

Well... it seems as though it hasn't made any progress =( It's still really high up (between belly button & hips) On a good note, they were able to see it a lot better & were confident that what they were seeing was the actual nut. They said it's bigger than what they had originally thought, so it's proportionate to the right one!

Yesterday Grammy & Grampy came by to play with Robbie so that I could have a break. Grammy & I cooked up more veggies for Robbie! We made carrots and butternut squash. We had left overs so I thought we'd give carrots a whirl, he really liked them! So then I started thinking.... I wonder if he'll go back to drinking formula again?! So I whipped up a 6oz bottle for his dream feed & hoped for the best. He latched on to the bottle and started drinking, but after a couple of gulps realized it's not mama's milk! He proceeded to arching his back and freaking out because I tricked him into drinking formula. I need him to drink formula if I ever plan on leaving him for a day/night! So I'm going today I'm going to try formula in a sippy cup. He can't hate the taste of formula, that's what's in his cereal that he eats twice a day!!

Last night was a better night. I went to bed at 9, after a dream feed and Colin brought Robbie into bed for a feeding around 11pm. At 2 I woke up and realized I had fallen asleep with him nestled up to me! So I woke him up for a feeding and then put him back to bed, he was bright eyed when I put him to sleep but he didn't fuss at all (woohoo!) He was up at 6am to start his day! So I've had a great nights sleep!!

This morning when Robbie woke up Colin pointed out that he (Robbie) had bed head! It aw so cute, my little man had a rooster tail! So his hair must be growing, it's hard to for me to notice it because I'm around him 24/7.

I tried to take a picture of his buds. I had him bite down on a ring so that his tongue wasn't in the way... with the flash on all you see is the light of the flash because of all the saliva in that mouth! So I tried it without a flash... hence why the picture is so blurry. I can see it because I've seen them before & know where they are & what they look like... but I don't know if everyone else can see the buds.

OUCH! Who taught you how to do that?!

He's biting my nipple!! ACK!

It's almost like he's doing it to get a reaction out of me. Last night he was up at 12:00 for a feeding, when he wakes during the night I don't like to look at him while he nurses (unless it's a dream feed and he's already asleep) because I don't want to get him happy, excited, etc so that he won't go back to sleep. Last night he was WIDE awake (AGAIN!) while I was nursing him, I could see him out of the corner of my eye, as he's smiling and trying to get my attention. I kept on looking forward so he started to slap me in the chest & face, and would pinch me with those sharp little nails! I stood firm and kept looking away while I grabbed his hand & held it... so what does the little bugger do?! Bites me! Let me tell you... I'm sure it hurts during the day when you're wide awake but I was half asleep and was fairly relaxed... it hurt like hell! I looked straight at him and said "no" and took him off the boob... well that's exactly what he wanted, he got my attention, so he started laughing & smiling at me (it's funny now but I was so livid at the time) After a couple minutes I offered him the boob again & went back to staring off into space... he did it again. (This is a little graphic) It's not like he's biting the entire nipple... he's biting the tip! OWIE

After I realized he was awake I gave him some Tylenol & put him back to bed. He freaked... he thought we could play like the night before. Sorry kid, no way am I going to encourage this habit! So he cried & cried, Colin ended up sleeping downstairs because he was making such a fuss. I waited a while and when I realized he wasn't going to put himself to sleep I went in there & nursed him until he was calm enough to put himself to sleep.

I am exhausted! I hope these teeth get here soon! He's such a needy baby right now, he's happy playing by himself for the first 30-45mins after he wakes up from a nap but then he wants to be held and wants things a certain way, if he doesn't get his way he whips out "the lip" and starts crying (I'll admit... he gets the lip from me)

Sleeping Paterns

Well he seems to have converted from 2-3 naps/day to 2 naps/day. Here's the new time line:

up at aprox 6am
nap at 10-12
up 12-3pm
nap 3-5pm

I've got to say.. I'm pretty lucky that he naps as long as he does, I guess it's normal for babies to nap for only 45mins at this age. His evenings are very wishy washy and most of it is due to these damn teeth that are starting to bother him. He sucks on his thumb so much that he's starting to get sores/dry skin at the base of his thumb! Some night he's only up twice a night and other nights (like last night) he's up 3-4 times a night (last night when he woke up at 4am for a feeding he wanted to have a party.... for an hour and a half!)

He still isn't taking from a bottle & I've cut out all solids (excluding cereal) for the time being. I tried introducing him to potatoes but cried... so I went back to something I knew he liked, green beans. The next day I defrosted 2 cubes (2Tbsp) and offered it to him... he say "no" by crying and whining to get out of his high chair. I'm not sure when I'll start back up with the veggies, I just don't want to waste all this food that I put so much time into making.

This past weekend I went into the closet & unpacked the pack 'n play! He's got so many toys that sit on our couches because I don't want them sitting on the floor w/ all the dogs, so now they're in his play pen! It's pretty cute actually. I brought the nursing pillow ( a "C" shape) into the pen so that he has some support when he's sitting (when he looses focus on his balancing he falls over) so now he can reach and play with whatever toy he wants! It gives me a little freedom too.

On the agenda this week:
Wednesday - nut hunt (aka ultrasound) @ 2:45
Thursday - Stars & Strollers
Saturday - the day I've been waiting for..... SWIMMING LESSONS! woohoo! We went out and got myself a bathing suit... not a pretty sight, let me tell you!

Oh... baby's up... gotta run, I'll keep you updated on the ultrasound results!

Baby get together

I just received a couple of pictures of the get together Robbie & I went to last week.

Changing.. yet again

Well, he doesn't take from the bottle at the moment. He'll have 2 sucks and then he's done! I've tried it with warmer milk, colder milk even tried it with a #3 nipple (he usually has a #2) His nursing habits have changed too, during the day he "snacks", he only latches on for 2mins max but yet he has no problem chowing down on solids. During the evenings/night he eats like a champ and drains both sides all the time (sometimes I don't have enough for him!). It's got to be his teeth that are bothering him... if not, I'm completely stumped as to why he's acting this way.

This morning Robbie was up for his normal 4AM feeding, I brought him to bed and nursed him on both sides but once he was done he was WIDE awake! So I brought him back to his room and tucked him into bed, he's entertained himself in the crib until he's fallen asleep before so I thought maybe he'd do it again.... well he did, but it was different this time. All I could hear was him yelling at the top of his lungs "BABABABA" (it sounds funny now but it definitely wasn't at the time!) So I went into his room and sat with him in the rocking chair and tried to settle him down... he had other plans! He was smiling at me, talking to me, laughing at the dogs, etc. Seeing as though he was wide awake I put him in his Jumperoo to let him burn off some energy. I tell ya.... his smile is contagious, I felt like a zombie dragging my behind out of bed at 4 in the morning to care for this little guy, as soon as I get to his crib his legs start kicking and he gives me this monster size smile and tons of giggles... all the sudden life doesn't seem so bad and I don't feel as tired as I did a second ago!

Yesterday we (Robbie and I) met up with 6 of the ladies and their babies that were in our Birth and Babies class (prenatal) it as so nice to see them again and to see how big their little ones are getting. Robbie was probably one of the most vocal ones in the group, he sat there playing with the toys while yelling "BABABABA". While talking with some of the ladies it seems like we weren't the only ones that had sleeping issues, 2 other moms were telling me that they had to let their babies cry it out (what we did with Robie) because nothing else worked for them. It's nice to hear from other parents that what I'm experiencing is normal and that what we did for a solution is what others have done.

On to solids.... well, we came across the first veggie he doesn't like... broccoli! He had a spoon full of it this morning and after that was tight lipped and didn't want any more. We didn't want to force the food, so we put broccoli in the freezer and went with potatoes today. He seemed a little bit more willing to eat it... my plan is that after the 3 days of potatoes I'll mix in 1Tbsp of potato with 1Tbsp of broccoli to make it more appealing (my baby cookbook suggested it) Keep your fingers crossed!

His first "word"

"BABA" !!!

Yesterday he seemed obsessed with opening & closing his mouth like a fish... today he combined those lip movements with a sound, thus making the sound "baba". I'm sure he'll be saying "dada" before "mama". Regardless, it's really cool to watch him develop and I'm so excited to see what other kinds of "words" he makes up.

I'm downloading videos of him "speaking"

Valentines Day

Well Robbie & I had several photo sessions today to celebrate the day of love. He is developing into quite the model! All the pictures have been uploaded to the 'bucket website for your viewing pleasure. What's on the agenda for us? We didn't want to ask anyone to watch Robbie while we went out for dinner so we did the next best thing... delivery! In Calgary they have "waiters en route" where they work with selected restaurants, you order the food from one of the restaurants on their list & they'll deliver it to you! Col & I ordered Greek food... mmmmm!

Today Robbie & I whipped up some green beans for him to try. He was taken back by the sound of the blender, as soon as I turned it on he dropped his toy & looked like a deer in headlights! It was too funny. Green beans were a hit! I was able to freeze a full tray of green beans for future use! (1Tbsp in each cube) Afterwards I left Robbie in his highchair while I went & got a face cloth... well the monster grabbed a hold of his dish & spoon and just-like-that they were both on the floor! Green goop everywhere! Thankfully the dogs were hungry... saved me from doing some emergency cleaning!

More Robbie developments: he's figured out how to spin objects! He started whacking (raises his arm & then lets it fall down) certain things and has realized you get a reaction. He whacks my wooden spoons together and gets a cool sound (speaking of which... this is his #1 toy at the moment... wooden spoons), if he whacks his hand on certain objects, they'll spin! He whacks everything & it all ends up on the floor. I had him facing the coffee table & he was playing with the coasters... one by one he'd whack them & then throw them onto the floor. I was silly enough to keep picking them up because they'd go right back on the floor 2 secs later! Oh well... he had fun!

Green Goblin

As promised... here he is trying peas for the first time!

(thank you Grampy!)

All smiles for this little guy

Don't you just love this picture?!?!

I now have an angel on my hands. He's been such a good boy these past 2-3 days!! Last night & tonight he didn't make a peep at bed time. Both times he nursed for a good amount of time and was easy to transition over to bed. He would just lay there & smile at Daddy while he sang his bed time song. He's getting up once during the night to feed (which is not a big deal) I'm bringing him back to bed with me so that he can fill himself up as much as he wants and once he decides he's done then I bring him back to his crib. I'm slowly starting to FINALLY catch up on my lost sleep... today I felt great! I was baking oatmeal pecan chocolate chip cookies, I made Colin his "Olive Garden" salad dressing, I did laundry, cleaned the house, and of course.... took care of my son.

On to the food topic. I set up the camcorder to record his feeding this time, he didn't eat as much as he did yesterday (possibly because I had just nursed him) He almost had me laughing in tears today. You HAVE to watch this video.. it starts around the 5th or 6th clip http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k186/babyrobbie/Video/02-12-07/

I thought he was making all those sounds/faces because he was pooping and afterwards I checked his diaper & there was nothing there! Looking at the video clips you can see that sometimes he's looking at my reaction... I wonder if he was doing it to entertain me? Who knows?!

Day 1 of Veggies

So we started with pea's today.

We were visiting Grammy & Grampy and they mentioned that they had some frozen pea's sitting in their freezer, so Grammy offered to make up some pea puree. He did really well & seemed to really enjoy it! We made about 2 Tbsp and he pretty much ate the whole thing. After the first spoonful he took a second to taste it and then realized it's pretty good and quickly opened his mouth for more. I originally was going to put formula in it to make it more appealing to him, but I didn't bring any to Gram & Gramps house so we thought we'd try it "au naturel"... it worked.

At the end he had a nice green goopy face, I will post pics once Grampy sends them to me.

So I will continue giving him a couple of Tbsp's of pea's for the next 2 days and then I'll move on to another veggie... probably green beans. This is so much fun! Ooooo I'll try and set up the camcorder tomorrow as well so you can see him in action.

Grampy pointed something out that I've never really noticed until today... he bangs his right hand. Doesn't matter if he's got a toy or just a fist full of nothing, he'll raise his hand above his head and then let it come crashing down & will repeat it over and over and over! Grampy counted 20 times once! He's doing it in the bath now and making splashes everywhere.

Today he was back to his normal self, he had 2 x 1hr naps and was very happy and content baby, even this evening he went to bed without a peep!

A walk through memory lane

1 Day Old

1 Month Old

2 Months Old

3 Months Old

4 Months Old

5 Months Old

6 Months Old

6 months ago today...

I was laying in a hospital bed and going through the motions of giving birth. Can you believe it?!

Today has been a great day, those shots have been a saviour this time around! I know for his 2 & 4 month shots he was very "needy" and was very hard to keep happy. This time it's a COMPLETELY different story! Last night I gave him a dream feed around 11ish, at 6:00am I woke up and ran into the nursery as my mind goes through all these horrible scenario's as to why he didn't wake up to eat. I slowly peek into his nursery and there he is with his Pooh on top of his face and his little chest is rising and falling. I think I woke him up when I closed his door to go back to bed, so I fed him in the rocking chair in his nursery and then we started our day, while Daddy slept 'til 9!

He was SO happy today! it was probably because he had 2 naps that were 3hrs long! I gave him Tylenol once yesterday because his forehead was fairly warm... aside from that, you'd never know that he had his shots yesterday =)

A couple things that I forgot to update you guys on:
- we raised his Jumperoo up another notch, he's now bouncing on the 3rd level out of 4
- we've cut down his cereal intake. I'll admit, I got carried away with the cereal. Milk (breast of formula) is suppose to be the main source of nutrition until they're a year old. Now he gets 2Tbsp on oatmeal in the morning & 2Tbsp of rice in the evening.
- we've picked up a bunch of veggies (some neither of us have had before) and we're going to start testing it out tomorrow! We're going to start with green beans....mmmmmm.
- he now knows that high chair = yummy foods. Before I had to coax him to stay in there with toys while I mixed up his cereal, but now he sits there with his mouth open and arms reached out.
- Robbie doesn't need his bottles heated up! He's quite content drinking it at room temperature.
- I'm starting to toss around the idea of weaning him, I'm not too sure when though.

Because he's reached this big "land mark" I started thinking ahead to his first birthday. What kind of a party are we going to have? Should we get him a cake? What kind of cake? I really don't want Robbie to be exposed to that kind of sugar at such a young age... so what's an alternative? Ice cream cake? (I realize it has sugar too but at least it's got dairy in it) I'll have to look into this one.

I don't get it

Sometimes I don't understand what bothers him. Wednesday night he was up every hour until 12:00 and after that was up every 2hrs! He ate for a little bit and then went back to sleep. Is he scared? Is something hurting him? Gas? My B.O. ?(haha) Seriously though, I just don't understand.

Last night was odd. We did our night time ritual and put him to bed... he fussed and cried for a little bit, after a bit, the tired cries turned to cries of pain =( It's a very helpless felling when your child cries and you can't take away the pain immediately. I ended up picking him up and rocking him in the Lazy Boy, he nestled his head into my shoulder and would suddenly jerk it back. He started at Daddy for the longest time and just when we thought he had dozed off he started to fuss again. I ended up nursing him to sleep. I was up fairly late last night so I did a dream feed at 11:45, I made a 6oz bottle for him (I chose to go formula so that a)there's less possibility of him getting a tummy ache from something I ate b)I can tell how much he eats) So the little guy guzzled down 5oz! (The most he's ever eaten of formula in one sitting) He was up at 2:00 and I nursed him and took him off the boob when I thought he was falling asleep, 4:00 rolls around and he's asking for food again! I brought him into our bed and I fed him there, I want him to eat as much as he can for as long as he wants without me cutting him short because I can't keep my eyes open...lol! Once he was done I brought him back to his crib and he slept until 7:45.

What I don't' understand is, why does it take him 5 mins during the day to fill his belly up... but at night he can eat for 20-30mins?!

Today he went for his 6 month shots! Daddy got to come with us because he had the day off... I think he's regretting it now (he had flashbacks of when Robbie got circumcised) =( Robbie was a trooper through it all, he had the same 3 shots that they've given him at his 2 & 4 month appt. I think this time around was the worst reaction out of him. He was REALLY upset, he was crying hysterically as I held his arms and legs still. Once it was all done he calmed down a little. I fed him after we left the nurse's office and he fell asleep on the boob (he was overdue for a nap! He had been up since 7:45 and didn't end up sleeping until 11!) So far he's been good, he's been napping for almost 2 hrs (and so has daddy) I'm not going to disturb his sleeping, it's been a long day for him already.

Yep.... He's Growing

I think his teeth are bothering him... either that or I jinxed myself again =(

Last week he went 3 straight nights with only getting up once! So I thought I was in the clear to report about his newest development... I was wrong. The past two nights he's been up at least 3 times and last night when he woke up at 4:00am it was party time! He didn't want to nurse so I thought I'd whip him up a bottle to see if that would work... nope. He'd rather sit on my lap in the dark and have a conversation with me. I'll tell ya, good thing he doesn't care about bad breath... woowee! He got to wear big boy PJ's last night (size: 12 months!), they are the cutest things ever! They're long john's & a long sleeved shirt with a baby elmo print on it.

Robbies naps are all over the map & I'm having some difficulty with them. He has one nap in the morning and a nap in the afternoon, he really needs to take another one around 4 or 5 but for some reason he refuses when it's obvious that he needs one. Take yesterday for example, he slept from 9am - 12pm! 3 hrs!! Around 2:30 he was showing all the signs he was ready for a nap, so I did our routine to prep him for bed but he pretty much refused the idea by shrieking at the top of his lungs. I did let him cry for a little bit until he zonked out... but 30mins later, he was up. So needless to say he was SUPER tired when 6:00pm rolled around.

Tonight is turning out to be another odd night. We put him to bed @ 6:45ish and he was up at 8 and at 9! Why?! He did nurse at 8 and @ 9 I gave him a bottle where he only drank 2oz. We gave him gripe water the first time & gave him Tylenol the second time he woke up.... Lets hope he doesn't carry this into the night!

Today we went for a little outing in the snow, we went downtown to go visit Daddy and Auntie Alison at work (they work just a couple blocks away from each other) It was nice to get out and about. Everyone was happy to see Robbie, for the most part he studied all the new faces around him. He didn't play shy... he just had a big staring problem. hehehe

I'm in the process of uploading new videos... so enjoy!

Hungry Boy!

Auntie Alison & Ashley came over to visit Robbie last night! Alison got to feed Robbie his cereal, we gave him 2Tbsp worth of food (normal amount). Once the food was all done he kept opening his mouth saying he wanted more, so I whipped up another Tbsp (which he gobbled down) and then gave him a 4oz bottle. Shortly thereafter Auntie and Ashley left and Robbie and I went through our night time ritual (Daddy worked late last night) I woke him up around 9pm for a dream feed and then it was bed time for the both of us. He woke up at 11:45 to eat and then was up at 2:00.... that's definitely not like him so I whipped up a bottle. He drank 4oz of formula and then nursed for another 10 minutes!!! HOLLY HANNA. I think the formula worked, he didn't wake up until 7 o'clock! Maybe he's starting his 6 month growth spurt? Time will tell.

6 month check up & more

Well I'll start with his stats:

...............2 Months...................4 Months.................6 Months
Weight: ... 14lbs 1oz............... 17lbs 8oz ............... 20lbs 1oz
Height: .... 22 in ...................... 25 1/4 in .............. 27.25 in
Head: ....... 41.5 cm ................ 43 cm ................... 45.2 cm

He is in between the 90-95 percentile for his height and weight. I guess we're doing something good because this kid is thriving.
Robbie was really good during the entire visit. He was sitting up and playing with the table paper and was able to make a huge mess (hmmm imagine that!) by wrinkling the paper and trying to stuff it in his mouth. I told her about my past issues with him sleeping and how we've already introduced cereal to him and she said there was not a problem with that. She says that we can start veggies anytime, we're to start with the green veggies, then yellow, then red (the sweetest) after veggies we can move into fruit. I picked up a book that tells me to start with fruit because it's sweeter than veggies & he'll be more interested in eating solids because of the sweetness. But, like Colin says, we're going to go with the Dr's advice on this one. I can add breast milk/formula into the veggies to make it more appealing to him. On another note, the nut still hasn't descended. I've got to book him for another u/s to see where it is, she said that if it's still not there by his 1yr appt then he should go for surgery to fix it =(

I think I can officially say that he wakes up once a night! You have no idea how excited I am to say this. He seems to get up around 3 or 4 and is back asleep until 7! YAHOO! Thank you Robbie!

Nan came to visit us this past weekend, we had so much fun. For the first couple of minutes Robbie just sat on her lap and studied her with a serious look on his face but it wasn't too long until Robbie back to his normal self giving her tones of smiles, giggles and screams! She says he's definitely gotten bigger but is facial characteristics haven't changed. He's still the Grandson she remembers! On Saturday night we all went over to Grammy & Grampy's house for an AWESOME dinner and ice cream cake. Mmmmmm! Robbie was a little hard to put to sleep while we were over there & woke up so we had to cut our visit short. That night was a little odd, he woke up at 12:00 to eat and was up again at 12:30! Seeing as though he had drained a boob there was no way that he was hungry again, I gave him some gripe water and he didn't even want the whole 5mL, he probably drank about 3mL and then turned his head into his Pooh and went back to sleep. He woke up around 4 for another feeding and then woke up around 6:30 to start his day.

Yesterday, after Nan left, we went to go visit Jenn & Bryan and stayed to watch the Superbowl. Robbie was so good! He fell asleep on my lap (without crying!) and I was able to put him down on their bed and he slept for about an hour. Once he woke up he was pretty poopy and wanted to be in his own crib, so we left. I stayed up late last night... I had a serious tummy ache and wasn't able to sleep until it passed, so I ended up giving him a dream feed at 11:45! He woke up at 12:15!! What?! Noooo. I walked in there and gave him some gripe water and he was quite happy falling back asleep. BUT... he was up at 12:30! ACK! There's no way that he was still hungry so I decided to just wait and see if he starts crying or if he just babbles himself to sleep. Thankfully, he fell back asleep. He woke up around 4 to eat and was up again at 5. I'm teaching myself to wait until he calls for me (a distinct "I'm hungry" cry) instead of running in at the first noise he makes. It's good to know that he can entertain himself and is able to go back sleep on his own.

He is definitely a different baby compared to a couple of months ago. He's a lot happier, more alert and more sociable! He's not clingy and doesn't seem to be "making strange" with people.

I'm dreading this Friday.... his 6 month shots. I hope it doesn't throw him off of his sleeping schedule. Keep your fingers crossed.

Balloons, Party Hats and Cake... OH MY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

Yesterday Robbie & I put on a mini birthday party for Colin. We were going to do it on his original birthday (the 30th), but unfortunately he got home around 8pm so Robbie & I postponed it to the day after so that Robbie could take part in the festivities!

It was a really nice night, Colin was able to get off of work @ 3 because of all the time/effort he had put in the previous day. So he was welcomed home with a wife and son wearing party hats and Superman balloons floating around the house. I made him his favorite dinner (chicken curry & rice) Then it was time for cake... mmmmm cake, I got it from the same place that the girls got my baby shower cake from (Cakeworks). Good lord, did it taste good! It was a marble cake with a picture of Colin in net with Oilers gear on... I was VERY impressed.

Robbie was nice to mommy last night. He went to bed around 8.... I woke him up for a feeding @ 9. He got up ONCE at 3 and then fell back asleep until he was ready to start his day at 6am! WOOHOO! Thank you Robbie! He was in such a good mood last night, he kept on giggling and flirting with us.... Colin and I just sat around him for a good 30mins and just looked with him in awe. We say it all the time... we are so blessed to have such a happy, healthy and smart baby!

Robbie's newest thing is sticking out his tongue. Whenever he's trying to figure something out or try to reach at something he'll stick his tongue out a little bit. It's so cute. He is still squeaking, but not as much as he use to... I guess the novelty has worn off. He's back to babbling and drooling through his conversations.

He's doing really well with sitting and I've realized that I haven't been putting much effort into his crawling. I tried to put him on his belly yesterday & he started crying hysterically.... so this is my new focus, crawling.

Nan arrives on Saturday, via bus, to help us celebrate Colins birthday with the rest of my family. Robbie can't wait to see her again!