A Day in the Life of Liam

 Well another week has gone by and really not too much has changed. Liam continues to do very well. He's sleeping through the night about once or twice a week, and by through the night I mean from 10pm - 6 or 7am! We are blessed! The other nights he sleeps from 10pm - 8am but always wakes up around 5am to eat. We're trying to teach him to go back to sleep on his own, so we'll let him cry. Unfortunately, he never stops on his own. We'll let him go for about 20-30 minutes, and then I'll go feed him. But we're still very pleased he does so well.

  We've really gotten into a pretty good routine with Liam. It really does feel like normal life finally. Liam likes to get up around 8 or so and he eats. Then we let him "play" for as long as he likes. He likes to play the most in the mornings. To play we set up his play gym and tummy time mat. We'll have him do some tummy time- which is just spending time on his belly so that his neck and various other muscles strengthen. He really doesn't like this much. He'll do well for about 5 minutes max and then SCREAM! He likes to lay on his play gym and swing at the hanging toys. He's getting more coordinated and hits them a lot now. He's also starting to open his hands more and intentially grasp onto things. He also likes to sit up on the couch. Usually we prop him up between cushons so that they hold him up, but sometimes we sit him up so that he has to hold himself up. He can do this for a short period of time, but he's still not quite ready to sit up on his own. After he tells us he's done playing (by screaming of coarse) we usually put him in the swing for a nap. And generally speaking the rest of the day is a rotation of diaper changing, eating, playing, and napping. He eats about every 3-4 hours. I'm still breastfeeding him, which is still going great. At night he gets a bath (which he loves), one final feeding, and goes to sleep quite easily around 10pm. Its wonderful.

    I added some more pictures to the April 2009 album on the smugmug site. Enjoy! Oh, and we will eventually post more videos. They just take a whole lot more time to do. Shawn is recovering this week from a root canal on Monday. Perhaps next week? We'll see!

Ten weeks old

Shawn taught me (Angie) how to update the blog, so hopefully between the two of us we'll update it more often. Well Liam is doing great. Monday he turned 10 weeks old! It's so hard to believe. Time really does fly by. 

This past weekend was the first Saturday that Liam was with the babysitter. All went very well. She sent home a little "report card" of what he did for the night. Jenny (the babysitter) has two kids, Joshua- 3 and Emma- 15 months. Evidentally Liam loved to sit in the bouncy seat and watch the kids play. He did great with the bottle (which is sometimes a struggle) and he slept 8 hours straight for her! She said he  was such a joy (which is no suprise to me). Shawn and I had good nights at work, but weekends are going to be very tiring now for the both of us. But we're happy to do it so we can have more time together and more time with Liam. 

Today, I went crazy with the camera and took a bunch of photos of Liam (hey I'm a new mom, what do you expect!). I added them to the gallery. Today I decided to sit Liam up on the couch and see how he liked it. He really did! In fact, he started kicking his legs around and "found his feet". He would just sit and stare at them as he kicked his legs- almost like "Wow, look what I can do!" He is a wonderful little guy and we couldn't love him any more!

Roll Over!

Liam has been growing in to such a big boy! He is now 2 months old (almost 10wks) and at the pediatrician on Wednesday he was 10lbs 13oz and 23.75 inches long. This puts him in the 75-90th percentile in length but 25th percentile for weight. The pediatrician said he is a long lean baby! She was happy with how he is doing. While we were at the pediatrician, she placed him on his tummy to see how he is using his neck muscles. While she was doing this he rolled over onto his back for the first time! He is a early starter, normally babies begin to do this at 3 to 5 months. Liam is finally starting to pack on some weight. So his clothes are now fitting. His newborn pants had become too short, but the larger size was way too big around his waist. He looked like he was swimming! But finally some of those larger pants are fitting him.
 

Liam is getting more interactive by the day. He is awake more during the day, smiling, cooing, and playing. He also has found his hands and is sucking on them too. He found the left one first, so hopefully he'll be a lefty! Another big accomplishment was that he slept through the night this last Wednesday night. Hopefully he will do this more and more. This Saturday Angie starts her first normal weekend work schedule. This will be the first night he goes to stay at the babysitter's. Pray this goes well. We do have a video of Liam rolling over. I'll be putting it up after my stretch of days at the hospital is over.