Got milk?

This little guy cracks me up!!  Yesterday Austin was in the same room where I was pumping and he was playing with a toy while I talked to him.  Byron came in the room and started teasing Austin, saying that the pump was getting all the milk and it was going to be gone.  Austin looked very concerned and upset while Byron was telling him this.  I then told Austin that the milk really was going to be for him and he would just be getting it from a bottle.  Well that kid turned back to Byron with such a completely smug and satisfied face, we both just about died laughing!!  It is amazing (and slightly scary!) how much he is able to understand us.

Videos!

I have definitely been a bit behind with posting videos on here!  I take them on my phone and unfortunately am not able to post directly from there, so I am finally getting around to downloading them on the computer and now posting....

All dressed up for Halloween:

Playing with a rattle on 11/3/12:

Meeting his PraBaka (great-grandmother) for the first time:

 

Playing on his activity mat (11/30/12):

 

 

His cousin, Danny, reading him a story:

 

 

His cousin, Claudia, singing to him (he was SO excited!!):

 

 

 

Playing with his mobile in his crib for the first time (12/12/12):

 

 

Christmas morning:

 

 

 

Talking up a storm! (1/7/13):

 







Austin's Fourth Month

This little baby is growing so fast!!  It's amazing how much his development has improved over the past month.  He continues to surprise us with new things all the time, including rolling over for the first time this month!  He has rolled from front to back several times, and is incredibly strong with holding his head up while on his stomach.  Austin not only grabs for things now, he is able to hold on and is actually starting to play with toys (although they mostly just end up in his mouth!).  EVERYTHING he grabs he immediately tries to put in his mouth and is continually sucking on his fingers.  A few little ridges are forming in his mouth and I think those teeth are not very far away!  Austin has also started becoming a bit of a "helper" lately.  During diaper changes he lifts and lowers his legs on his own and also holds his onesie and shirt out of the way.  He is definitely starting to understand language a lot more and is more and more responsive to what we say.  We are starting to use baby sign language with him, though we have a lot to learn ourselves!  He loves to "talk" though he often gets very serious and just listens when on the phone or Skype.  Austin now sleeps the majority of the time (including nighttime) in his crib in his room instead of sleeping in the pack 'n play in our bedroom.  His nighttime sleep averages about 9-11 hours and he usually takes 2 hour naps during the day (so thankful the hard work is paying off and we are all sleeping well!).  He is such a happy baby and though he's had a slight laugh for a while, he has recently starting doing a full giggle - it is the cutest thing ever!!  I hope to capture it on a video one of these days!

 

Austin's First Months

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This photo book was our gift to our parents for Christmas. 


 

Austin's Third Month

Time is flying by and the little man is 3 months old already!  This past month he has become a bit of a chatterbox!  Austin loves to interact and is really working on trying out different sounds.  He is so responsive when you talk to him and it's hilarious because his responses usually are very appropriate for the conversation!  Austin has been a great traveler when we flew up to WI to visit family and have his baptism.  Several people around us commented they didn't even realize there was a baby on the plane until we were getting off the plane.  Austin has become more skilled at grabbing and holding onto things.  He gets so excited when he hangs onto a toy!  He is putting everything in his mouth all the time and appears to be in the early stages of teething already.  He stares intently at everything we eat, not sure that he will be able to hold out until 6 months for solid food!  Austin is sleeping very well and I am certainly glad to be getting better sleep too!  We have been working a lot on tummy time.  He was really not a fan initially, though he has slowly become more tolerant of it.  He has gotten so strong at lifting his head up, he now tries to almost sit up whenever we have him in an upright position!  We have now switched over to doing "big boy" baths, so he is now being bathed in the tub instead of the sink.  He was definitely getting too big for the sink!  I weighed him on his 3 month birthday and he was 15 pounds, so he has almost doubled his birth weight!

Peepee Teepees

We received a package of peepee teepees as an early Christmas gift and have started using them during diaper changes the past few days.  I thought it was pretty cool to have Austin covered and not worry about him spraying everywhere while being exposed.  He actually does not do this often, though when he does it is a big mess!  So far the teepees had not been tested, until tonight when Austin decided to change that...

I had the teepee on him and was changing him as usual.  Just as I was moving his legs, the peepee teepee came  shooting off and before I knew what was happening my shirt was getting soaked!  As soon as I realized it I put my hand out to stop him, though it was already too late.  I had to change him into a new onesie and pajamas (nevermind that I just put on clean ones less than an hour before after his bath!) and change out the changing table cover.  So apparently the lesson is that you still have to pay attention even with the peepee teepees in place in case he is able to shoot it off! :)

Sleeping Through the Night!

Austin is officially sleeping through the night now!!  Over the past two weeks I've cut out his middle of the night feeding (he is more than big enough to not need it!).  So he has been going to bed around 7-8p.m., then I do a "dream feed" (feeding him in his sleep) around 11ish, and he would last until 4-5a.m.  I would then feed him and he would go back to sleep until 7.  When I first began working on this he was waking around 4a.m. and it slowly went closer to 5a.m.  The idea is that he keeps pushing it back until it's his regular wakeup time (7a.m.).  Well, when I heard that he was up this morning I assumed it was around 5a.m. and I was extremely excited to see that it was 6:51 a.m.!!  He is such an amazing baby and has responded so well to being on a schedule!! :)