5:30am no longer looks any different than
3am :( Although I was pleasantly suprised that I didn’t see 3am
today. Lately he’s been waking up to eat 2 or 3 times a night,
usually around midnight-1am and then again around 3am. I end up
exhasted, but he’s seriously eating each time, so he must be
hungry. Last night he woke up at 1ish then not until 5:30am.
Never thought I’d be pleasantly suprised about 5:30am, but I
was :)

We visited Jim and Julie last
weekend. Lex’s first trip to their new house. He got to meet
their bunnies, Snowplow and Fathead. Fathead isn’t too
friendly, so she stayed out of the way, but Snowplow came out
to play. He scampered around for a bit while Lex watched. Then
Lex fell on him. But the party didn’t end until Snowplow
started sniffing Lex, ended up in the diaper area and took off!
:)

Otherwise not much going on. Always
have lots of good thoughts to post, but never have much time.
Work is quite busy, which is good. The days go by quickly.

Lex has his 4 month appointment coming
up at the end of this month and we’re going to talk to the
pediatrician about starting solids. He’s definitely showing
some signs of interest. We’ve been reading up on it and started
eating dinners at the table lately with Lex in his seat nearby.
Now we need to get him a highchair. He doesn’t sit up for very
long on his own, but he’s getting better at it. He also tries
to sit up straight in his bouncy seat and car seat – which ends
up just looking funny :)

Anyway, I have
to go get ready for work now. For some odd reason, after eating
really well at 5:30am he fell back asleep. Usually he’s raring
to go. Guess he must be tired. Must still be recovering from a
weekend of travel.

Just a quick hello. We’ve got
a busy weekend ahead of us (visiting MA) so we need to get off
the computer soon.

Lex is getting good
at sitting up… well, better at it anyway. I guess “good” is
stretching it a bit. He likes to sit on the table between my
arms when I type :) He says:
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VUBG B KIYY7STRTRGFFGFFFVC D9I I

and
then he drooled on my laptop :) We’ll work on the typing skills
later – maybe once he gets the hang of sitting.

(Lex was grinning so big and
laughing sitting on Alan’s shoulders. I took several pictures,
but he kept looking away or losing the smile just as I snapped
the picture. Oh well.)

So much for sleeping through the night. We
were up twice last night (12:30 and 3am) and then again at
5:30. So much for my 6am alarm :)

Lex is
definitely in the early stages of teething. And my nipples are
the first victims! He doesn’t bite yet (no teeth yet), but he
does chomp down on them. I need to start paying better
attention while nursing and stop him when he moves from sucking
to chomping. It’s a subtle difference, but definitely there. If
I’m not careful we’ll end up like the early days – and that’s
no good!

Lex rolled over today –
twice!! Alan put him down for a nap today on his belly. A
little while later I heard him babbling to himself (Lex that
is, not Alan) so I went in to pick him up and found him lying
on his back with his arm through the crib bars. He gave me a
big ol’ grin :) Later I put him on his belly on his playmat and
he promptly rolled over onto his back. Alan and I both
applauded him. We grabbed the camera and I rolled him back onto
his belly, but he just got fussy and wouldn’t roll over for the
camera. Oh well. :) He has also been particularly hammy lately.
Lots of big grins and silly, happy faces. And new developments
every day. He now holds on to things pretty good (when he wants
to), picks things up and brings them to his mouth, gets his
head and body up and leans on his elbows, and has pretty good
leg and hand coordination. He’s even starting to sit up a bit
(in fact he’s sitting on the table in front of me right now
while I type around him). He’s still a little unstable with the
sitting though and tends to fall over :) Silly boy. I don’t
have much time to post a lot of pics, but here are a few of my
favorites from the past few days.

I’m not sure what the official definition
of sleeping through the night is, but last night, for the first
time, Lex slept for 8 hours straight (9:30pm-5:30am). I was
psyched! Of course, it would have been even better if he slept
until 8am :) But I guess sleeping late comes later. So he woke
up at 5:30, nursed, and was back asleep by 6am. Yay. I crawled
back in bed, but it was all just a tease because he was back up
at 6:30. So we played for awhile (well, he played, I ate cereal
and read about Chief Justice Renquist’s death) and now he’s
very tired and talking to himself in his crib. I suspect he’ll
be alseep by the time I finish this post. Such a good baby :) I
was reading the Dr. Sears book yesterday (considered to be
the baby manual) and Lex is right on
target with all development milestones, with one exception. The
book says that in the 4th month he should be able to support
his weight for very short periods of time and now is a good
time to start holding him up to help encourage him to hold his
own weight. Lex has been doing that since about 6 weeks. He
also has been talking a lot lately. He’s very good at the
aahhhhs and oohhhhs. :)

Not
alseep yet.

Another early morning. Lex hasn’t been
sleeping well the past few days, and therefore neither have I.
He’s been waking up two or three times a night to nurse – and
the plug just won’t do. On the positive side, at least he’s
nursing well when he wakes up. I hate it when we get up and he
is fussy at the breat. Very frusterating when I’d rather be
sleeping.

So here I am with a happy,
wide-awake baby by my side, eating Lucky Charms (magically
delicious) and watching the sky go from dark to light. Once
again wishing I had an easterly view to watch the sunrise.
During the days I sometimes think of things I should
do/find/research/whatever online “when I have time”. But during
these early morning times, I’m so braindead I can’t even
remember what I wanted to do, let alone do it. So instead I
randomly read email (I’ve got *tons* of messages in my inbox
just waiting for me to do something with) and write here.

Other than the sleeping thing Lex is doing
really well. He’s holding his head up more and more when he’s
on his belly. And he arches his back so much we’re waiting for
him to roll over any day now. He’s also using his legs more and
more – which is funny to watch. He loves his playmat (probably
our best baby item) and now plays with the toys with his feet.
He’s also a master now at kicking the bar, which makes all of
the toys shake and rattle. And he loves talking to himself in
the little mirror that’s attached. He’ll play on the mat for a
long time until he gets overstimulated – then sometimes he’ll
cry and other times he’ll just fall asleep right there on the
mat :)

On an entirely different note…
I feel so sad for everyone hit by the hurricane. I don’t know
what’s wrong with me these days (maybe because it’s closer than
other disasters, or mabye it’s the maternal hormones running
rampant) but I keep getting choked up listening to stories
about people down there – especially stories about infants :)
One that particularly got me is when they interviewed a woman
who is staying in the Superdome with her daughter and 9-day old
grandson. I was just remembering back to when Lex was 9 days
old and how tired we were. I feel so bad for that mother. I
can’t even imagine living in a stadium with hundreds of other
people, trying to keep the baby quiet at night, no toys,
wondering where the next pack of diapers is going to come
from… and on top of all that wondering if your house is still
standing. I think I’d be crying every night. Even though no one
is surprised that the levies broke and the city is underwater,
I still feel bad for the people who live(d) there.

PS -> Happy
September!!