11 weeks and Counting

I can't believe he's almost 3 months old! Where did the time go? He's 12 lb 4 oz this week and boy my wrists sure know it....seems i have a case of the "mommy-tendinitis". My wrists are so sore in the mornings that I have a hard time picking him up. I'm going to have to stop carrying him around in his car seat and start using the sling or the stroller more when we go into stores.

Not much very new this week other than we went to Nanaimo last Tuesday. Tyler had a consultation with a specialist dentist and it was really nice to get out of Courtenay for the day. We bought him a soft toy that sort of looks like a dashboard and steering wheel that flashes colorful lights and plays music and sits on his lap...the best thing is that it has a remote that I can press in the front seat to turn it on. Emmett hates the car seat and usually is screaming at the top of his lungs in the car until he tires out (which could be a while) or I sit in the back in an effort to calm him... so we are hoping that the singing flashing toy would distract him a bit and it does...some of the time. I would love to find a mobile that is meant to hang over his change table. Now that he's getting so squirmy, it would be nice to have something for him to just look at while I change him.... let me know if anyone finds something like this.

Next week is Halloween and there will be a little Halloween party at the Moms group i go to so there will be lots of pics of Emmett dressed up in the super cute Halloween costume his Auntie Corey sent from Vancouver.

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Hi Everyone,

Emmett is doing great. He's cooing a lot more now and can be content to just sit and hang out with Dad (finally!) for more than 5 min. The smiling is great, even if it is at 3 am when I'm trying to convince him to go back to sleep. He figured out how to get his fists in his mouth and now that's his favorite thing to do if he's not eating. He weighs 12 lbs now, is 23 inches long (19 at birth) and is 2 1/2 months old now....time is flying.

This past week was not my favorite in the parenting department because I had to take Emmett in for his first round of immunizations last Tuesday. They gave him two shots in each leg and all the while i had to hold his legs still while he looked up at me in total betrayal. It was awful to hear that kind scream come out of your baby and by the end of it we were both crying. He has to go back for a second round in 2 months and I'm not looking forward to it at all but I know he needs them and it's for the best.

Here are some fresh pictures for you, enjoy : )

Emmett Videos

More pics from this past week.

Here is a few more photos , thanks to Corey for the great shots of Emmett and his Grandpa and the other pics in this post : )

What a busy but great week and a half! Friday the 26th was our second wedding anniversary. On the same night, my friend Karen flew in from Calgary for a few days which was so fun and much needed and then this past weekend, Tyler's Dad Gert and sister Corey came out for two days. The weather wasn't great but we all managed to find stuff to do anyway. Gert also brought us his old sectional couch which we were anxiously awaiting as we'd only had a love seat up until then.

Emmett is 8 weeks old now and as of last Thursday weighed 10 lbs 11 oz. so he is gaining well. It also helps that he and I are a lot better at this breast feeding thing too. I will have to measure his length on my own now but just haven't gotten to that yet. His smiles are more and more each day as are his hours of wakefulness. He especially loves to get cute and start smiling at 3am after he change when i want him to go to sleep!

A couple of things are new now, he has started to coo, mostly while having his diaper changed. I am planning to get this on video and then post it here sometime this week so you can all hear it too. I love it , it's just the best little noise ever! He has discovered that those hands are attached to him and just started trying to put his fingers or thumb in his mouth. This should be interesting because he absolutely hates his soother. He started looking at the mirror on his bouncer chair and even enjoying it a little. His awake time is increasing daily and now he is content to sit in my lap or in his chair and just quietly look around.

I finally gave up on the G Diapers for now after several failed attempts and might try them again when Emmett starts eating solids, they just don't absorb fast enough for breast feeding. So instead we are now using Bummis prefold cotton diapers and so far they're pretty good. As I have also started using wet baby face clothes as wipes, this now saves us about 145.00 a month. It also will save some 3800 disposables from sitting in our land fills for the next 400 to 500 years which makes me feel better too. I know a lot of moms here successfully using cloth diapers so I'm optimistic that we can make that work too.