Happy Boys

I love this picture that I took the other day of Ayden and Cael...

Ayden loves to make Cael laugh. When we were at Wal-Mart yesterday getting groceries I had Ayden sitting in the cart and I was wearing Cael facing outwards in the Baby Bjorn. Ayden was making funny faces and tickling Cael to try to get him to laugh and squeal. When Ayden got Cael laughing he would join in too, and that ended up making me laugh as well. I'm glad they could entertain each other (and other shoppers, too) while I got my shopping done :)

5 months old!

Cael turned 5 months old last Wednesday! Hard to believe that each month goes faster than the one before it. He's such a happy baby and very content. He loves Ayden and keeps his eyes on him at all times. I know he really wants to be able to keep up with him because he is such a mover. He loves to be on his tummy now, and if you put him on his back he flips over onto his tummy right away. He's always rolling around and I usually find that he has rolled and wiggled around from where I originally put him. His favorite thing to do is jump in his jumperoo. When we first moved that kept him entertained while I packed and unpacked things. He jumped so much he got a blister on both of his big toes. Poor guy... He also likes to go on walks in the stroller, and being carried around in the Baby Bjorn. The past few weeks he has decided he wants to sleep on his tummy, which made me nervous at first, but he actually sleeps better on his tummy than on his back. He's slept all night long on his tummy a few times. Cael has been going to sleep between 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm, wakes up around 4:30 am to eat and goes back to sleep until around 7:00 am. He loves eating his cereal in the morning and evening. He's branched out from just rice to barley and oatmeal too.

Cael would still rather chew and suck on his hands instead of toys, but he does very good at grabbing toys and holding onto them. He also likes to play in the excersaucer thing we have too. He still spits up a lot, but hopefully it will slowly improve as he gets older. I think he will love to eat solids at 6 months since he does so well gobbling up his cereal.

I love how happy and content Cael is. He doesn't require constant attention, and he is starting to be able to put himself back to sleep on his own when he wakes up during the night and during naps. What I love most is that he has the best laugh and smile, and luckily he shows them to us very often! :)

We're Moving!

We finally sold our house and are in the process of getting ready to move to Ames. We'll be loading up a moving truck and moving over the weekend. Right now I'm in the midst of packing boxes so I probably won't be able to post anything for the next few weeks while we get packed up and then unpacked. Plus we won't have internet until later next week...

Happy Baby!

Cael loves jumping in his jumperoo!

My Boys

Rice Cereal

Cael is now 4 months old so he can start eating rice cereal. Yesterday, we gave it to him for the first time. I mixed a tablespoon of the cereal with an ounce of breast milk and he loved it! He would suck on the spoon and then put his hands in his mouth and suck on them too. He also would hold onto the spoon and bring it to his mouth while I was feeding him. He got mad and would start to cry when I took the spoon out of his mouth to get more cereal.

Yummy!

Just gimme the spoon mommy!

4 Months Old!

4 months old!

Cael turned 4 months old on Sunday. Each month seems to go by faster and faster. He had his four month checkup this morning and did great. He got two shots and some liquid stuff in the mouth. He weighed 13 pounds, 6 ounces and was 25 1/4 inches tall. I think they said he was in the 18th percentile for weight and 50th for height. I don't pay much attention to the percentiles since breastfed babies generally weigh less than the formula babies. At least he was about 1 1/2 pounds and 1/2 inch bigger than Ayden at 4 months. Cael has become much more social and loves to watch what's going on around him. He doesn't want to miss out on anything. He is so happy and smiley, and coos and gurgles a lot. I love how he can be fussy one minute and if I go talk to him and smile he gives me a great big smile back :) He can go longer periods of time between nursing sessions, which is nice for me! He has started to go to sleep earlier at night (around 7 pm) and sleeps until 7-8 am. Most nights he will get up once, but in the past week there were a few nights he got up 2-3 times. I'm not used to that! He has been drooling a ton and his hands are always in his mouth. I think some teeth will be here soon. A few days after he turned 3 months old we went to get him in the middle of the night when he was crying and found him on his tummy, and he was swaddled. Somehow he rolled over, so we had to stop swaddling him since he can roll over both ways. I thought we were in for many sleepless nights ahead, but we put him in a sleep sack and he seemed to enjoy having his hands and arms loose. He still slept great. In the daytime he still wants to be swaddled though so he ends up napping in his swing. We are going to start working on napping in the crib, unswaddled, of course, very soon! Cael also had his longest night of sleeping ever....12 hours! He slept one night from 6:30pm-6:30am!

Cael loves to watch Ayden and he is always paying attention to what his big brother is doing. Ayden also can get him to laugh when we can't! Ayden also adores Cael and gives him lots of kisses and "pets" him on the head. He loves to play with him and hang out with him on the floor. I love that they get along so well. Ayden always wants to know where baby Cael is if he can't see him, and he makes sure Cael is coming along with us wherever we go.

Cael loves to play on the floor under the baby gym and grab and bat at all the toys hanging off of it. He's getting better at tummy time and likes to hang out in the jumperoo. He especially likes to be held or walked around so he can look at everything. He is very observant.

It's hard to get a picture of him anymore without his hands in his mouth!

Cael loves chewing and playing with Freddy the Firefly.

Playing in the jumperoo!