Day 95

We once again had to put Simon on his tummy to take a nap.  He had been awake for more than 2 hours already so was kind of fussy but wouldn’t fall asleep on his back.  There must be something about sleeping on his tummy that makes him feel like he is being held.  We let him fall asleep this way before moving him into the Baby Bjorn so that we could go out for lunch.

We had lunch at Rubio’s in the mall.  Simon’s ready to eat with his bib on and fork in hand!  At least he is having a healthy salad wrap.  He is starting to grip objects but not grab them himself, Ron put the fork in his hand and Simon just held on.

During lunch, Simon fell asleep so Ron had the idea to go see a movie while Simon slept.  He hoped that since Simon just fell asleep that he would sleep through the movie because the last thing we wanted to be were *those* parents that let their baby or kid cry during the movie.  So we walked over to the Metreon to catch Iron Man 2.

Overall, he did pretty well.  Simon slept through about 30 minutes of the movie before he woke up and started to fuss a bit.  Ron ended up having to stand in exit hall and watch the movie from there.  Simon wasn’t crying but every time it got really quiet, he would suddenly try to talk to fill in the emptiness.  Funny baby, huh?

Since it wasn’t opening weekend for the movie, the theater was not packed and we were able to sit near the aisle to make an easy exit.  So now we know it is possible to go to see a movie with Simon but he has to be in a good mood or napping.  Ron said Simon enjoyed watching the movie though, he likes to watch TV so the movie screen was probably just a humongous TV to him.

After the movie, we went to hang out in the mall for a while and Simon enjoyed people watching and a snack.

Don’t you love his little socks?  His feet are growing too big for them already!  Ron weighed Simon a few days ago and estimated he weighs about 16 lbs (7.3kg).  The next official weight will be at his doctor’s appointment in July.  He’s growing up too fast!

Day 94

We try to trim Simon’s nails regularly but sometimes we might miss a sharp edge… so poor little guy scratched his cheek.  This one seemed deeper than previous ones as it didn’t just fade away, you could see broken skin.  He wouldn’t stop squirming for me to take a close-up but it is on his chubby little cheek.

In the late afternoon, we went out again for one of our walks.

He fell asleep again near the end of our walk but woke up a bit harshly as a street sweeper came by.  As it was approaching the corner we were standing on, his whole body tensed and jerked his head up and looked quickly left then quickly right but didn’t cry.  He kept on looking left and right as the street sweeper passed us by.  As we crossed the street, a man standing next to me told me that Simon looked really upset.  Poor little guy did not like being awoken so abruptly.  Although I’m always impressed that he can fall asleep while facing forward.

Day 93

We bought Simon the Fisher Price Hoppy Days Bouncer since we thought he might need some more stimulation.  We interact with him as much as we can but sometimes we run out of ideas.  With the bouncer, he is able to bounce himself by wiggling, he isn’t lying flat on his back, and he has some toys to bat at and can grab to play music.  The bouncer fabric is very comfortable, soft and a bit slippery so he does kind of need to be belted in so that he won’t slip out.  The toys could be improved though, the soft toys are just that, soft toys, no rattles or anything.  The froggy toy in the middle has a ring to pull so that it will play music so that is kind of cool except that it is also kind of loud.  Simon was afraid of the bouncer at first and didn’t really like the toys so close to him.  Although now he is getting to used to it and seems to enjoy batting at the soft toys when we added his wrist rattles around them so that they will rattle when he bats them.  I think he also likes being able to look at us at an incline.

Ron is trying to get Simon to work out his arms more so he found having Simon lie on top of his leg and holding onto his forearms, makes Simon push up with his arms.  Simon is content in this picture because he is watching TV and I think he is in the middle of yawning.  This is sort of modified tummy time with emphasis on his arms.

So an amazing thing happened last night, Simon slept almost 7.5 hours continuously.  He must have been extremely exhausted if he was able to sleep so long.  We put him to bed around 10pm and he fell asleep at 10:20pm and slept until 5:40am!  Even I didn’t get that much continuous sleep last night as I have been getting up at least every 4-5 hours to pump.  I’m sure this is a one time occurrence but at least we know sleeping this long of a duration IS possible… one day.

Day 91

So Simon has become quite the drool-er so now he has to start wearing bibs.  His drool is surprisingly quite viscous, not as watery as I would have thought.  When a large amount of drool escapes his lips, it can stretch more than 12 inches before actually separating from his lips.  Kind of gross sometimes.  But now he has more things to accessorize his outfits with… hee hee…

We had a relatively quiet day other than going for our walk in the late afternoon.  I took him out in the car seat/stroller today since I don’t think my back could have handled carrying him today.  The Baby Bjorn that we purchased does have good lumbar support so that my lower back does not have pain but I feel tightness in my shoulder and neck instead… so I thought I’d give myself a break and use the stroller.  He fell asleep around 6:45pm and stayed sleeping even when I moved him from the car seat into his crib.  He was really out, usually when we try to move him out of the car seat, he will wake up and sometimes start screaming.

He only slept about 4 hours and woke up around 10:30pm because he was hungry.  Ron went to bottle feed him since I was taking a nap.  Ron tried to get my attention from the other room because…

Simon had grabbed onto the bottle and was feeding himself!  Silly baby.  It was mostly by accident that he grabbed onto the bottle but he has been using his hands to push it away to tell us he is done or needs a moment to breathe.