Seth 27 Weeks

Dear Seth,

You were 27 weeks old...yesterday. I'm only a day late! It's been another busy week. Your first tooth's neighbor has made an appearance. It's pretty hard to see since you never sit still long enough for me to get a good look. But sometimes when you are having a fit and crying I can see it just fine. Oh, and getting a picture? Forget about it. Well, here's the best I could do anyway.


You're all wiggly again and must be almost constantly distracted. Yesterday I distracted you with sweet potato, yummm! I also made some zucchini-carrot puree that you gobbled up. Gobble gobble! You seem to like food pretty well, but your attention span for eating it is pretty short. After the first couple tablespoons you start fidgeting and grabbing the spoon. If I manage to wrestle it back from you then you will open your mouth for a bite and then blow "bubbles" and food flies all over both of us. I have to really fight not to laugh because I don't want to encourage that, but trust me, it's hilarious.

You're making slow and steady progress toward mobility. Still aways to go, but crawling is definitely on the radar. Right now you'll sit in cobbler's pose and lean forward onto your hands. You'll get one leg bent back behind you and then you'll just kind of rock back and forth. Eventually your other leg will pop out behind you too but then you'll either just face plant, or both legs will go flat on the ground. Sometimes you'll faceplant with both legs still out in front of you, but you can now push yourself back up into a sitting position from there. Amazing. At any rate, I'm not real comfortable leaving the room now if you're just on the floor by yourself. So instead of baby proofing, I just put you in your cage. That's right. Despite the look on your face in this picture, you don't really seem to mind.


Sleep, sleep, can't neglect sleep. Boy, I tell you, it is ALL in the timing. If I am late getting you down, LOOK OUT. If I've forgotten that it's been 4 hours since you ate, LOOK OUT. If you're fed and haven't been up too long, then you're easy as pie to put to bed. If not, these days I HAVE to just let you cry for a little while so you wear yourself out. Then I go in and pacify you and give you a little jiggle and you'll fall asleep finally. It's hard to get anything done when I have to schedule my day around your naps, but it's totally worth avoiding the battles.



What else? Hmm, quirk of the week - although this has been going on much longer than just this week, I just keep forgetting to mention it - you start to cry every time we lay you down on the changing table. And by cry I mean you let out this high pitched whine and then start to WAIL. My only guess is that you associate getting changed with going to bed or taking a nap... but you get changed other times too, so I'm not sure what the deal is. If I hand you something to play with you will stop, so I guess I'll have to hang some toys near by for you to look at.

Per Dr's orders we put some 1% hydro cortisone on your legs 2x per day and it totally cleared up the redness after like 2 days. Then it came back. So not sure what we're going to do now. Oh and speaking of the doctor, I took you in for your Hep B on Monday expecting to have to witness the vaccination drama and kiss your face and wipe your tears. Well you didn't even seem to notice you got a shot. A momentary "what the??" expression crossed your face and then you were right back to tearing the tissue paper off the exam table. You're such a little mini tough guy, you rock. I love that about you. Although we'll see just how tough you are (and how tough I am) one of these days when I take that pacifier away ;)

Love and kisses,
Mama

P.S. I haven't been hearing a lot of Mamama this week, but you've started saying Gagaga.