Tummel Times: May 2014

This baby boy is such a joy, I had no idea I'd be this in love with him. He is all smiles and cooing and giggles and so easy going. He rarely fusses and cries for 2 main reasons- if he's tired or hungry. He is still going strong with his nursing and eats about 6 times in a 24 hour period, going every 2-3 hours. My only frustration is his day time naps. He seems to only take 45 minute naps during the day. Sometimes he's hungry after that 45 minutes but other times he just is done napping and wants to be picked up. I've tried letting him cry to see if he will put himself back to sleep but it doesn't really work and often times it coincides with me having to leave the house anyways to go pick up Colin from school or something else. The saving grace is that if I time it right, Dylan will take a 3 hour nap in the early afternoon in his swing at the same time Colin is napping, which is glorious as I can then nap too. So I haven't stressed too much over the shorter naps in the morning because I figure he'll outgrow it as he gets older and starts consolidating his naps. Right now he can only stay awake about 1 1/2 hours so he takes about 5 naps a day..1 long one and the others are the 45 minute ones.

His night time sleep is predictable in that he wakes up once at night, eats and then goes back to sleep without any problem, which is great. Sometimes he'll do a 9 hour stretch before he wakes up, but occasionally he'll do a 6 hour stretch. So I'd say it averages about 7 hours, wakes up and eats then sleeps another 3-4 before he's up for the morning. Right now we are still swaddling him and he seems to still like it. We swaddled Colin until he was 5 months so I'll see if Dylan will follow the same.

Another funny thing is that Dylan hardly ever poops, just one poop every 5-7 days which is nice because I'm rarely changing poopy diapers but gets a little worrisome when he goes 7 days. The pediatrician says it's fine as long as it's not hard when he does finally go and it's definitely not, so I don't worry, but he does pass some mighty smelly farts pretty regularly,ha!!

He will take his paci way more than when he was a newborn but he doesn't seem nearly as interested as Colin was. He seems to like to chew on his hands/fingers a lot and I wonder if he'll find his thumb soon and use that as his soothing mechanism.

So that's the update on Dylan. I'm glad I did these updates for Colin as it's nice to remember what they are doing/like at different ages and look back. So hopefully I'll keep it up with Dylan.

Here is a BIG photo dump from the last month: