December 13, 2007

• [I started this post a month ago...... ]

  

  He's already 4 1/2 months [now 5 1/2 months old]!  He's growing up so fast.  I am so excited to watch my baby grow and learn but its all happening so fast... too fast.  Gone are the days where he just lays there and I can do my schoolwork or clean the apartment or anything.  Now he wants constant attention. 

  

  Yay!  He is just starting to figure out that he can sleep on his belly.  So now instead of waking up 30 times in the middle of the night to roll him back onto his back, we wake up about 27 times!  Hooray! 

  When he gets tired at nap time... he'll fuss a little.  I'll put him in his sleep sack in the crib... turn on the mobile... and 95% of the time, he'll put himself to sleep.  He rocks.  Once I put him down for a nap, if he starts to fuss I won't pick him up cuz I don't want to reinforce bad habits.  I just stroke his hair and hold his hand.  He's usually out within a couple of minutes.  Of course, this isn't to say it's all me... if Colin weren't such a good boy he wouldn't put himself to bed no matter how much I forced him. [at 5 months this totally does NOT work anymore.  He needs to be held to sleep or he won't sleep... He's forgotten how to self-soothe so if I don't pick him up when he starts crying he has a total meltdown.  Dr Evil and I found that out the hard way.  Note to self: a sleepy baby is a cranky baby!]

  

  Ok from here on out ithe post is current... I don't know how I got the pictures so big up there but I can't seem to do it... even when I change the pic from thumbnail size to large it comes out like this. 

  

  He's was big boy.  Probably about 16 lbs and 24 in... whereas now he's 18+ lbs and about 28 in.  This pic is a little old so although he's big now he's not as roly poly since he's much longer.  I miss those days.  I think my baby is too skinny   It's so weird, cuz I used to want a moderately chubby baby, not a fat baby... but now all I want to do is plump him up.

  

  This one is much more recent.  See?  Much skinnier.  I have to go to China in a few months for school.  I'm not looking forward to it at all.  If I leave for 10 days, that's an eternity to a baby.  Will he have life-long trust issues?  Residual feelings of abandonment?  Or worse, will he jus forget me?  I can't do it.  I CAN'T DO IT!  I'm already stressed.  I don't even want to watch movies at the theater cuz I don't want to be apart from him for that long...

  

  This is Colin's Sunday morning bed head.  As he sleeps and rolls from one side to the other he shapes it through the night... it's like cotton candy. 

  

  My memory is worse than ever.  The other day I was telling Dr Evil to remember to do something and I stopped midsentence.  Evil waited patiently for me to gather my thoughts and continue but to his displeasure I kept quiet.  After a couple minutes of silence, he asked me to continue on.  I couldn't remember what I was talking about, and I chose to vehemently deny the conversation even took place!  We argued about whether or not the conversation ever existed.  Finally, I remembered that I had in fact been talking and knew what I wanted to say.  I felt like an idiot!  I'd tell you what our topic of conversation was, but alas, I can't remember...

  
  
  Dear Santa,
  Please bring me lots of toys.  Preferably ones that won't kill me.  My daddy wants lots of tall buildings and my mommy wants new bags and shoes... not the cheap stuff. 

  I am so annoyed cuz the holiday cards haven't arrived yet.  I swore I'd never be one of those parents that put their baby's face on a Christmas card but I get it now.  I want to put his picture on everything!  On  mousepad and a calendar and a t-shirt! 

  Ok enough procrastinating...

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