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.
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.
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