Friday, April 18, 2008

4 week update: Hunter's a chunkachunk

We had our one-month appointment today and Hunter weighed in at 11 lbs., 11.5 oz. That's a weight gain of 1 lb., 10 oz. in two weeks.

Uhh, note to self: You can officially stop worrying about whether this child is getting enough to eat.

Other than that, he's completely healthy and fine. We had to cauterize the lower part of his belly button with silver nitrate. The doc said it would hurt him, but he hardly cried a bit. That's my tough little dude!

Not much else to report. Jerry's had this week off and so the four of us have been able to spend lots of great time together. Next week my sister Tara arrives on Thursday for an almost week-long visit. I'm really looking forward to her being here; she loves to take long walks so I'm hoping we can do a couple of those a day ... our new neighborhood is great for walking.

We've also fired up the hot tub the last three nights. Soaking in it makes for very relaxing evenings and helps me get to sleep faster. Oh, and the last two nights Hunter's eliminated one middle-of-the-night feeding, so hopefully this is a trend that continues. I'm GREATLY looking forward to eventually sleeping for longer stretches at a time.

Enough babbling. Here's some pics from this week:

Hunter's first tub bath.

Snuggling with Pop

Jer works at the community garden.

There's those peepers.

Thirsty from not gardening, Wilder drains a juice box in record time.

Hunter shows off that frenulum that his Mama's been blathering on about.

1 comment:

The Scotts said...

man, I look all buff and industrious and stuff...must be the photographers skill.
;)
ly darlin'

Jer