A Small Delay

So I apologize for the multiple days in a row without a post.  Mason's Safta (my mom) was in town this weekend and we were having so much fun I never took the time to stop and post.  And I apologize because I am missing a couple days worth of pictures, but Safta has some so I will get her to send them to me and post soon.

So remember my previous post regarding Mason's "colic" and fussiness at night? Yeah, as soon as Safta got here, that stopped.  We quickly realized that our little monkey was growing faster than we could keep up with and his fussiness had a lot to do with it being hungry.  According to the American Association of Pediatrics, he should get 2.5 times his body weight in ounces every day. Well, we were still going off his weight at his 2 week appointment when he weighed 8lbs 4oz.  We had rounded up to 8 1/2 lbs and were giving him the equivalent amount of food.  Needless to say, our "little" monkey has been chunking up and with a little unscientific weighing (weigh dad, then put Mason in his arms and subtract) we realized he is actually 9 1/2 lbs!  So we've upped his formula and what do you know...much less crankiness at night. We've also changed his feeding to once every 4 hours instead of every 3. Let me tell you how great this is.  Not only do we use less bottles which means less bottle cleaning, but the little guy has started sleeping much more!  Last night, he went to bed at 10, woke up at 2 and slept until just after 7. We will take that any day!  Actually, on Monday night, we woke him to feed him at 2 because we were worried he'd go too long without food if he slept much more.  We've since learned that isn't necessary and next time he wants to sleep even longer through the night, we won't stop him!

This past weekend while Safta was here, he also started cooing a lot more.  Nothing is cuter and makes everyone around the baby happier than hearing that little sound.  He even surprised himself a couple of times, cooing and then looking around to see where the heck that noise came from!  We've also watched him start to hold his head up for a couple minutes at a time.  He's starting to see a little bit more (still not much) but he loves following lights.  Its so great watching him learn and explore already just by looking around.

Its amazing how much he is changing every day.  We are just taking advantage of these days while he's still so little, because we know one day we'll wake up and he'll be rolling over and crawling and we won't know where the time went!

 October 10 - Big smiles!

 October 6 - Picking Safta up from the airport in my awesome shoes

October 9 - Dressed like a little man for Daddy's birthday