10 weeks old!

Little Alex is not so little anymore. He is 10 weeks old now and growing like a weed. He gets heavier and heavier and although he is a long and skinny guy, he is starting to get a little belly and small rolls on his thighs. We had his 2 month well check with the pediatrician and he is developmentally like a 4 month old, length is 90%, weight is 60% and head circumference is 50%. He gets more and more interactive each day and surprising us with new tricks which is so exciting as parents. Last week at 9.5 weeks old, Alex caught us off guard by rolling from his belly to his back. Then right at 11 weeks old rolled both directions. Now that we know he can roll, we have to be extra careful about where we place him. His other new trick is giggling. Only daddy is able to get him to giggle and it is so cute. Alex loves to coo and babble and will go back and forth with you like a conversation. He always has a lot to say. I wonder if he will still talk that much when he learns to say words. His muscles are getting so strong too. He is able to hold his head up really well and loves to stand up. If you hold his hands when he is sitting, he leans forward and pushes off with his legs to stand up and then he likes to do his little squats.

It is hard to believe how quick time has gone and that it is already almost time for me to return to work in a few weeks. I feel really ready to have some adult interaction and some sort of predictable schedule about my day. I love being a mommy, but know I really need a balance between my work as a PT which I love and being a mommy.

I am ready, but only if we could get Alex to be a little more ready to part with me. Not only does he have major separation anxiety (notices immediately when I am gone and fusses), but he also won't take a bottle and we have been working on that for 7 weeks now! I am doubting that this bottle thing is ever going to happen. He is very determined when it comes to what he wants and is willing to hold out for mommy. Four different people (Nana, Grandpa, Chris and Katie) have now attempted the bottle with him and we have tried almost every bottle and nipple combination sold at Babiesrus. At the 2 month appointment, the pediatrician said we will have to go cold turkey with the bottle, but we both feel like denying him breastfeeding is so cruel and I'm just not sure that we can stomach doing this to him. 

In the picture above, he was so excited to sit up in the big chair all by himself and actually got upset with me when I had to take him out of it. 

Halloween

Grandma and Alex

Auntie Katie and Alex

Bones, eyeballs and broomstick celery

A Halloween feast

Mummy pizzas

Greg, Katie, Alex, Chris, Fluffy, Chris and Jordyn

The centerpiece...so creepy!

fingers in the dip

Alex as a pea in the pod...Jordyn's costume from when she was a baby

Jordyn and Jackson

Jordyn in her bumblebee costume...soooo cute!

Our little sailor

It's hard to believe that Halloween has just passed and it is already November. Before we know it will be Thanksgiving and then Christmas. We had a great time celebrating Halloween yesterday at my mom's with Katie, Jordyn, Jackson, Eric, and Greg. The weather turned out great, not too cold and no rain, and in fact, we even sat out front of her house around the fire pit and gave out candy there drinking hot cider.

Mom went way above and beyond with a cute Halloween feast. So much detail into all the things we ate. We had bone bread sticks, mummy pizzas, broomstick celery, eyeballs out of carrots and olives, veggies and dips...the dip even had fingers coming out of it. I still can't get over the centerpiece which was very creepy. When I first got to her house, the mice coming out of it looked so real that it kind of freaked me out for a moment.

Alex wore two costumes. First we tried on the pea in the pod, but he got a little claustrophobic and crying so we took him out and dressed him as a sailor which I thought was so cute. There was a hat too but I didn't get a picture of that. Kind of funny that there is a picture of Uncle Grant in his uniform right behind my mom and Alex.

I absolutely loved Jordyn's costume as a bumblebee. It was so Jordyn. She of course, loved her costume so much I don't think she was going to be taking it off for a while. She was so excited for Halloween and got lots and lots of candy which filled up her honey pot. Katie said that went to people's doors she would say "candy" instead of "trick or treat"...so cute. At the end of the night, she was handing out candy at the door to all the kids.

My mom gets so many kids in her neighborhood that she went through 3 bowls of candy and then Jackson had to give out some of his candy that he didn't like since kids were still coming to the door. I don't get any kids at my house since I live down a long driveway and on a street with older neighbors so there aren't a lot of kids. I didn't even get a pumpkin this year. Bad me I know. I will do one next year.